Adrienne Kaeppler and Robert Fleck's James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific examines the story of the both sailor's adventures and their effects on both explorers and explored, finds Philip Hoare

Marty Crump's Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers is a gleeful account of Nature's nasty side and it fascinates Tom Fort

Ian Thomson relishes Mary-Kay Wilmers's The Eitingons, a family memoir of hitmen, Freudians and fur traders

David Robson praises John Irving's epic but odd Last Night in Twisted River

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver has a sweetness of tone but not of plot, says Jane Shilling

Los Angeles-based perfumer - My DNA Fragrance - that makes exclusive fragrances based in part on the DNA of deceased famous people, is now offering just that: Michael Jackson's signature DNA scent in a bottle!

In February 2010, Beyonce Knowles, a movie star, fashion designer, and talented singer, is launching her own scent, a fragrance called 'Beyonc Heat.' After many years of appearing in perfume ads for other designers, such as Giorgio Armani's

The new paradigm for investing and building wealth in the twenty-first century. The Future for Investors reveals new strategies that take advantage of the dramatic changes and opportunities that will appear in world markets.

Julia Child has given us answers to these and other questions in the ten masterful volumes she has publishedover the past 40 years. But which book do you go to for which solution? Now, in this little volume, you can

In this gripping and deeply touching book, bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his lifetime dog, Orson: a beautiful border collie - intense, smart, crazy, and unforgettable. A Good Dog is a book to savor. Just as Orson

Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about

Don't look up. It won't help. You can't get out of the way, you can't dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there's nothing you can do about it. So why read this book? Because

When Jeffrey Steingarten was appointed food critic for Vogue, he systematically set out to overcome his distaste for such things as kimchi, lard, Greek cuisine, and blue food. He succeeded at all but the last: Steingarten is fairly sure that

The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.

hlo offer an English translation of K bányai János' interview with Nobel laureate (originally published in Múlt és Jöv ), .

There are surprisingly few best-of-the-year lists to be found in the foreign press (at least at this before-the-actual-end-of-the-year time) -- certainly nowhere near as many as in the US and UK, where this exercise is so widely practiced. Among the

The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ogawa Yoko's , due out in English in a few months.

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