Una declaración de amor al correo postal«Repleto de maravillosas anécdotas, fascinantes chismes históricos y citas. La pasión epistolar de Garfield resulta contagiosa.»The New York Times Book ReviewTodos...

Un apasionante recorrido desde los primeros bocetos de filósofos y exploradores hasta Google Maps.Los mapas nos fascinan. Plasman lo que conocemos del mundo y registran nuestros progresos pero, sobre...

Un libro delicioso para cualquiera que haya querido alguna vez a un perro.«Refrescante y reparador como un buen paseo».The Nation«Será felizmente devorado por cualquier lector que ame a los perros».BooklistLos...

Cronometrados es una brillante exploración de las formas en que hemos percibido, contenido y ahorrado el tiempo a lo largo de los últimos 250 años, narrado en el estilo ingenioso y entretenido del maravilloso...

¿Cuál es tu tipo? Una desenfadada introducción al mundo de la tipografía.Desde que las tipografías se mudaron a la barra de herramientas del ordenador todos comenzamos a tener una opinión sobre ellas....

Mauve is the beguiling story of a man who invented a colour, and in the process transformed the world around him. Before 1856, artificial colour was derived with difficulty and at enormous expense from...

'Witty and geekily eclectic' The TimesAn erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday'Remarkable . . . engrossing' Sunday Times'A pleasure' Spectator'An infectiously...

** With a new introduction by Russell T Davies **A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain. 'Masterful.' Jonathan Dean, Sunday Times 'A remarkable...

'A brilliant oral history of the golden age of British wrestling and magnificent wider social history.' Richard Osman The classic account of the men and women who used to fight each other for pride...

'DOG'S BEST FRIEND is as fascinating, funny and wise as we've come to expect from Simon Garfield. More than that, it's a book that asks profound questions about what it means to be canine' ANDY MILLER,...

The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles,...

Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does its...

One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of thousands of book jackets, and the chosen look for David Bowie, Coldplay, Star Wars...