With such coverage and interest in The Beatles, how can there be anything new to say about the band? This book manages to do so thanks to the remarkable collection of photographs...

This is the first major illustrated book to examine the life of this complex figure and this equally complex battle.  Besides being lavishly illustrated and the first true photographic history of Custer,...

The elite group of women who have ruled as queens or empresses or governed as presidents or prime ministers includes some of the most inflectional and charismatic figures in world history.  Queen,...

 The first comprehensive exhibition of Wain’s work was held at the Victoria and Albert museum in London in 1972 and since then Louis Wain has steadily become more fashionable, and collected worldwide....

It's nearly 50 years since Marilyn Monroe's untimely death and no one has been able to step into her shoes. Included with this book is a CD of songs that accompany...

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known simply as Elvis and is often referred to as "the...

 This revelatory volume tells for the first time Earp’s entire astonishing story....

Plato is among the most influential philosophers of all time. Along with his teacher Socrates and his pupil Aristotle, he can be said to have laid the foundations for Western philosophy, science...

He has been called a brilliant thinker, strikingly original, subversive, evil, creative, brazen, intellectually passionate, challenging, and the Anti-Christ ("God is a crude answer, a piece of indelicacy against us thinkers"). Reading...

This book explores the variety of symbolic, moral and religious meanings that are embodied in this contradictory figure....

Through dazzling illustrations, specially created maps, and compelling photographs, The Elvis Atlas locates our greatest musical icon in his world and his times. It gives us a rare glimpse at the landscape...

Hitler An Illustrated Life is a definitive and concise biography of the most famous dictator of the twentieth century....

Separating fact from myth, the author resurrects the remarkable Andrew Jackson and his rise to American hero., bringing to life the thrilling details of frontier warfare and of Jackson’s exploits as an...

A portrait of George Washington’s formative years provides context to the story we all know....

A diverting account by Churchill’s granddaughter....

“Movie Makers” traces the evolution of cinema from the silent era to the present through lives and works of the greatest directors. ...

Dylan: His Life in Pictures does exactly what the title says. In 256 pages with over 300 images it provides a timeline to this amazing career, showing highlights and more mundane moments...

Genius is a thing of mystery. We call it a gift, and yet we have never been able to identify the giver, and often the beneficiary would rather be without it. It...