The Illustrated History of Vietnam paints a comprehensive portrait of the nation-building and defense process, spanning from the appearance of the first ancient inhabitants of...View more

A 30-day masterclass in the art of using watercolor to tell your own stories.  Unlike most watercolor instruction books based on rote copying of classic watercolor...View more

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent,...View more

In Vietnamese culture, to be dac biet is to be special and luxurious, or, as chef and cooking instructor Nini Nguyen puts it, it means adding something...View more

Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it underpins all modern sciences. Without...View more

Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the...View more

In what remains after more than a century the greatest study of American political life, Tocqueville describes American society and accounts for its nature and...View more

This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that...View more

Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as “the new Leonardo.” Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional...View more

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told,...View more

TED Talks have become the gold standard for public speaking around the world. And yet the techniques that top TED speakers use are the same...View more

How did everything start? And how did we come to exist? In one book Oxford Professor Tim Coulson seeks to simply explain what science tells us about...View more