From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.

Luyuan is the hometown of Confucius, the source of the Lu Water, and the origin of Confucianism and the Chinese civilization. It is located in the core area of Nishan Cultural Tourism Resort, 25 ...

Ancient civilisations developed more complex writing systems combining pictograms, ideograms ... Gutenberg's revolutionary movable type printing press enabled the mass production of books and ...

You can pick up hardcover copies of each book for anywhere between 40% and 45% off, with prices ranging from $11.69 to $15.99 per book. A box set of the first three books is also on sale for $43. ...

Coming — so unexpectedly — another Bill O’Reilly book. His 900th. It’s “Confronting Evil.” Cover is Hitler, Putin, and other nogoodniks. Subtitle: “Assessing the Worst of the Worst.” ...

Students at the Walter Stillman School in Tenafly are trying to solve a real-life mystery: who mailed the book “Jumanji” back to the school library last week, 43 years after it was checked out?

Not everything on this alphabetical list is likely to still be on my list the best of books of the year once 2025 draws to a close, but all of them are worth a read if you’re looking for a new ...

The first book on the list is the most critical one. Christian Appy, a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, meticulously brings together participants of almost every ...

At the New York Public Library’s annual Library Lunch, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown said there’s an obvious best seller waiting to be bestowed on one lucky biographer: the book on Queen ...

In his new book Hollywood toughman Jeremy Renner details his fight to survive after being crushed by a 7-ton snow plough, what happens when we die - and why we are here. Stefanie Green assists ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their varying stances toward abolition Gardiner Harris’s investigation of ...