Offers a survey of the buildings of Tyneside, from the medieval castle and cathedral at Newcastle to the spectacular buildings spearheading the renaissance of Gateshead on the river's south bank. This book explores both urban centres in a series of walks, including the magnificent 1830s replanning of Newcastle.

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser was published in Vienna. This book presents his history to English-language readers.

Discusses social structure and the way of life behind Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, the ferment of excitement aroused in English patrons and craftsmen as they learnt about the classic Five Orders and the buildings of Ancient Rome from publications and engravings, and architectural drawings which survive from the period.

A biography that reveals Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, it explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity.

Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world - including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes - have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. This title tells the story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world.

Tells the story of Czechoslovakia from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992 - from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, invasion by the Soviet Union to - at last - democracy again. This book reveals Alexander Dubcek, held to be a national hero and standard-bearer for democracy, as an unprincipled apparatchik.

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution - bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. This book refutes this traditional view.

Reveals the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious 'Cambridge Five' spy ring - Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

Offers a tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. This book traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon.

The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. This book argues that Mary's regime was neither inept nor backward-looking.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. This book offers an account on various aspects of Ingres' achievement.

Contemporary Korean art has garnered significant international recognition, in part for the work of photographers Atta Kim and Bae Bien-U. This illustrated book brings their work together with that of nearly forty other Korean artists, each working to stretch the bounds of the photographic medium.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior art form ('of lesser genius than painting').

Presents two seminal works by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth-century: Character and Opinion in the United States , and The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy , a text of both philosophical analysis and cultural criticism.

Offers a commentary on politics, current events, mathematics, love, ethics, music, philosophy, and nature.

Presents an account of Ukraine and its people. This title looks forward to the key election in 2010, which revisits many of the issues that were thought settled in 2004.

When Margrieta came to New York in 1686 with her husband and set up a shop, she brought an astonishing array of Eastern goods, many of which were documented in an inventory made after her death in 1695. This book explores the life and times of the fascinating woman, her family, and her things.

Examines case studies of major legal developments in contemporary American law pertaining to domestic violence, self-defence, privacy, sexual autonomy, and property in order to illuminate the changing relation between home and the law.

Presents 15 medical detective stories. This book is suitable for a those who wish to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms that they often encounter.

Offers a look at one of the important trends in government and global politics: the privatization of American foreign policy and its consequences. This title shows how contractors became an integral part of American foreign policy, often in scandalous ways - but also maintains that contractors aren't the problem; the absence of good government is.