History

How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
Paperback
The strange story of the twentieth-century artists who sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life

The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
Paperback
The renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design

Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City
Hardback
From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community.

The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Paperback
Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers

The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
Hardback
Graham Robb takes readers on a time-traveling adventure around the “spindly, sea–wracked island” he calls home.


