Approximately how many languages compose the Bantu language group of central and southern Africa? What is the name of the language spoken in Hawaii by an estimated two thousand people? What Western European language is not known to be related to any other language family in the world -- and is consi[...]

Bacchus is best remembered for his gift to humanity of wine. With it he brought pleasure, but also savagery and death. Intriguing episodes drawn from an astonising range of sources, including obscure and fragmentary records detailing the songs chanted by initiates at their secret rites, this book [...]

How We Are Editing Reality. Wikipedia has emerged as the reference source that most of us turn to most of the time. But how much do we know about it? And is it good enough to rule the world of knowledge? This book examines what our dependence on this unprecedented phenomenon means - now and in the [...]

For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Andrew Dalby's "Tastes of Byzantium" now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first time, what[...]

Offering a detailed history on Slovakian architecture, this analysis covers the social, economic, and urban contexts of housing estate construction within the city of Bratislava. The book focuses upon the second half of the 20th century, individually analyzing each prefabricated residential estate i[...]