10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.

"A fully illustrated pop history of Earthlings' long relationship with Mars"--

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) is, with William Morris, one of the most popular designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. A practicing architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics, and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles, and fabrics. His pattern designs, created from the 1880s to the early 1930s, are among his best-known works today. His wallpaper and textile designs are characterized...

Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed through the first major analytical treatment of papal elections in English. Papal elections, with their ceremonial pomp and high drama, are compelling theatre, but, until now, no one has analysed them on the basis of the problems they created for cardinals: how were they to agree rules and enforce them? How should they...