For this comprehensive guide, House Beautiful offers 500 of top designers' best ideas for quick (and beautiful) changes in your home decor. There are sections on colour, walls and floors, storage, appliances, sinks and tubs, windows and lighting, and accessories. A wealth of inspiring colour photogr[...]

A battle royal between two warring sisters...Upon the death of King Henry VIII, Queen Mary assumes the Tudor throne. Her first order of business is to wed the Catholic King Philip of Spain, creating a powerful alliance that will transform Mary's fanatical dream of ridding England of Protestantism in[...]

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begu[...]

Mother and infant negotiate over food; two high-status males jockey for power; female kin band together to get their way. It happens among humans and it happens among our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, the great apes of Africa. In this eye-opening book, we see precisely how such eve[...]