This exploration of America through its history of art is a companion volume to the eight-part BBC-Television series. The book begins where American art itself began: five centuries ago, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest through to the present.

This book is intended as an introduction and guide to palliative care, and more broadly, the medical care of the seriously ill.

Francesca, a disgruntled nineteen-year-old lesbian, tries desperately to pull together the pieces of her scattered life. This hilarioius, heartfelt novel opens with Francesca newly arrived in San Francisco. She has fled her hometown, where she rented her childhood room from the new family who moved in when her parents moved out. The new tenants happened to be her childhood babysitter and her ..

The paperback edition of Robert Hughes's return to Barcelona. The renowned author and art critic revisits to be married, and reconsiders the history and culture of this most fascinating and unique of cities.

Mixing memoir, history, adventure, folklore and descriptions of the deep, this is a meditation on the excitement and pleasures of fishing. Robert Hughes traces his love of fishing back to his boyhood on Sydney Harbour, and recounts the high and low points of his career with rod and reel.