Prose: Non-Fiction

Breakfast Served Any Time All Day collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume by master of American letters Donald Hall. Pra...

For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport wi...

Was it possible for an eighteenth-century woman to become a celebrity and remain respectable? Could women’s commercial success in literature be rec...

Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corne...

First Published in 2000. This text is a compliation of essays on the Kocch, Bobo and Dhimal Tribes and Himalayan Ethnology, includes vocabulary and...

Edwin S. Shneidman is recognized as the central figure in the field of suicidology. His writings have taught countless psychologists and other heal...

The turn of the twentieth and twenty-first century brought about sweeping technological changes which impacted our way of functioning in society. O...

Reclaims public speaking as a central cultural form of the nineteenth centuryPlaces famous speeches by Emmeline Pankhurst, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Tw...

Within the past decades, nostalgia has become a misleadingly familiar concept. Whereas popular nostalgia connotes an idealised memory of the past,...

First published in 2000. This is Volume II of seven of a series on Southeast Asia. Written in 1886, this is a collection of ancient proverbs and ma...

Stories of success, happiness and hope from the LGBT communityStories that comprise the best of LGBT history: Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons a...

The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600-41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern s...

Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptati...

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly th...

In this narrative rooted in autoethnography, the author juxtaposes her personal story with that of international stories of resistance to oppressio...

This is the third volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Published over several years, the series presents all of the surviving speeches...

In this narrative rooted in autoethnography, the author juxtaposes her personal story with that of international stories of resistance to oppressio...

As a young artist and musician Wesley Wehr became a friend and often a confidant of many of the painters, poets, and musicians who lived or worked ...

Last Artist Standing shares the essays of the lives of 31 artists over the age of 50, how they have sustained their creative lives, what paths they...

Agnes of Harcourt is an important though little known thirteenth-century author. Born into a leading Norman noble family, she became an abbess at t...

In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew ...