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The Home Bar Guide to Tropical Cocktails

COME AND EXPLORE suburbias hidden tiki temples with Kelly and Tom. Sample over 150 of their origi...

Mary in the Qur’an

An entire surah of the Qurʾan bears her name. She is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qurʾ...

West-Eastern Divan

In 1814, Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly publ...

Day of the Dead

American artist Sylvia Jis haunting, seductive and psychedelically tinged portrayals of women off...

Typography in Wood

The first wooden letters were craft-produced in the 18th century. Their use spread with the expan...

Understanding Media

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view o...

Albert Camus: A Biography

When Albert Camus died in a car crash in January 1960 he was only 46 years old - already a winner...

Making the Modern Middle East

Desperately Seeking Warhol

For someone who traveled as much as he did, it is a marvel that Andy Warhol had time to make art....

Pagan Christmas

This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir val...

New Thinking in Islam

In Rethinking Islam, Katajun Amirpur argues that the West's impression of Islam as a backward-loo...

Christmas and the Qur’an

The familiar and heartwarming story of Christmas is one of hope, encapsulated by the birth of the...