The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world's attention towards the island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point. The author provides this with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959.

This is the tale of how Hollywood, inspired by the success of Easy Rider, sold a cycle of films as the new dirty real.

An introduction to the history, art and religion of ancient Egypt.

An original and superbly entertaining appraisal of the uniquely English approach to stagecraft.

A magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the last 1,400 years.

A thoroughly researched, balanced new biography of author, journalist and adventurer Ernest Hemingway.

This is the first work in English to tell the full story of Claude Cahun's art and life. It both recounts her life and analyzes her complex writings and images, making them available to a wide audience.

Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, erudition and tenderness.