Ved Mehta 
Fly and the Fly-Bottle [PDF ebook] 
Encounters With British Intellectuals

"If I May" by A. A. Milne is a collection of witty essays offering humorous observations and insightful reflections on everyday life. As a master of British wit and literary criticism, …

An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern hi …

First Published in 1968. Sir Richard Steele»s plays and major periodicals have been reprinted in modern times. But the miscellaneous tracts and pamphlets, which in his own day in the eighteenth …

Galen, the personal physician of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, wrote what was long regarded as the definitive guide to a healthy diet, and profoundly influenced medical thought for centuries. Based on …

From the forbidden fruit of the Old Testament to the numerous laws broken at Francois Mitterand»s final meal, In the Devil»s Garden is a mouth-watering history of food taboos from around the world …

Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a …

»Put a new pan down. Season the bass. Always from a height. The bass goes in. A monk looks done. Give it the cake tester. It»s barely warm. Another minute. To the pass with it. A pan is too hot. …

This volume contains nearly all the criticism that Alexander Coleman wrote for The New Criterion between 1994 and 2003. A specialist in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literature, Coleman was …

From the beginning of the seventeenth century, English society started to become preoccupied with education and how people acquired it. It is all the more surprising, then, that there should be …