All reviews by Wil Hanson

 Cultivating Delight
  Diane Ackerman, author of the acclaimed bestseller,The Natural
History of the Senses, has given us in Cultivating Delight a
celebration of the sensory delights found in her garden, with
strange and wonderful asides and digressions.

Cities & People
 A social and architectural history of great vitality, wonderfully
written with wit and perception and brilliantly illustrated with
over 300 paintings and photographs, selected with skill and
relevance.

The Four Wise Men
 An off-the-wall biblical recreation by a writer whose mythic
histories, filled with paradox, become penetrating commentaries on
contemporary life.

Art and Faith in Mexico
Nineteenth-century Mexico was a period of unprecedented political
turmoil and caused the movement of many religious practices from the
church to the home where the retablo art form - sacred paintings on
tin - flourished. New Mexico State University holds the largest
collection of retablos of any museum in the United Stated and in
this fascinating volume the collection is studied by eleven eminent
Latin Americanists and placed in a broad cultural context. 

  Courtesans and Fishcakes
A fascinating, witty and irreverent contribution to classical
studies in which fish and sex - the consuming passions of classical
Athens - are examined with scholarly thoroughness.

 Invisible Forms
 A witty, wonderful book for everyone interested in the
eccentricities of language.

 Jews
A controversial and fascinating book attempting to define the
essential character of a people by exploring the complexities of
Jewishness.

The City As A Work Of Art
Three great Imperial capitals of Europe are explored through
architectural and social history as deliberately created works of
art.

The Secret Life of Words
An idiosyncratic and often entrancing study of some 400 off-beat
word origins brought to a surprising life of their own by one of the
master stylists writing today.