Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond...

Marina Benjamin

From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this unusual and intriguing book takes a provocative look at our fascination with space. "Rocket Dreams" is a fast-moving, fact-filled study of how all the dreams that went in to moonflight in the '60s have found new homes and ...

The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts

Edmund De Waal

 "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de W...