In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing

In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing'Gardening, then, is a practice of sustained noticing . . .' Outdoor space is something everyone should have access to. But you don't need a garden to become a gardener. Growing plants and vegetables forces us to pause, pay attention and look more closely. From the vantage point of even the smallest windowsill garden we can observe the passing of time through the shifting of the seasons, as well as the environmental changes the planet is undergoing.

Max Havelaar tells the story of a renegade Dutch colonial administrator’s ultimately unavailing struggle to end the exploitation of the Indonesian peasantry

as was once widely believed

Selected Non-Fictions presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers

before returning to Gaza in his early twenties

Not a research paradigm

Any appraisal of future energy technology depends on two important parameters: cost and time

the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of Bengal

Its proponents argue we already have the technology of the future and that it only needs perfection and deployment

in the flame as purely as in the flower

cities in the nineteenth century were transformed by mass migration and industrialization that tore apart their physical and social fabric

It has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy

The Genealogy of Kings was listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme International Register