Italian explorer and scientist Elio Modigliani literally took his life in his hands as he ventured to the southern part of the island of Nias from April to September 1886. In a feat worthy of Indiana Jones, the Florentine braved the headhunting tribes of the area and managed to keep his head during the expedition, which was commissioned by the National Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum in Florence.

Indonesia’s largest media and publishing company, Kompas Gramedia, has acquired e-book and digital newsstand start-up Scoop.

Sarah Tiffin, through her new book with the National University of Singapore Press, Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century, enumerates the importance of Raffles’ text during a period of history when colonialism was justified through art and its interpretation.

Pitt’s memoir, My Brain on Fire is his fifth book, after Paris Postcards, Paris: A Journey Through Time, Small Moment of Great Illuminations, Walks through Lost Paris plus countless presentations. His memoir only skims the surface of riveting experiences in the United States, Paris and Bali.

Imagine a new picture book based on a famous song.

When it comes to Jane Austen’s rich tapestry of work, Northanger Abbey is one of her most underrated novels.

Murakami is the kind of writer who hardly ever surprises. Someone — something — s always missing in his stories.

In #GIRLBOSS, Sophia Amoruso, now the CEO of popular fashion retailer Nasty Gal (which she founded), recounts everything from her rebellious younger years to the pivotal moments that changed her life, combined with honest advice on entrepreneurship.

It may have been published 56 years ago, but it’s easy to see why To Kill a Mockingbird has been so widely acclaimed. 

In a world so rife with denial, especially when it comes to lifestyle choices, the combination of sheer honesty and sincerity of Stop Making Excuses and Start Living with Energy might just be what you need.

If ever a book conspired to challenge conventional wisdom, draw patterns between seemingly disparate data sets, and denigrate the very fabric of what we hold to be true, then that book is none other than Freakonomics.

In this book, mind mapping specialist Florian Rustler explains how the process works and why it's so successful, before exploring the many different ways it can be applied.

Herrera shows us a place where the Anglo and Latino worlds collide; as seen through the eyes of a young Mexican woman, Makina, en route to find her brother who has migrated north to the USA, armed with two secret messages: one from their mother and another from a notorious drug baron.

New York Times sports reporter and cycling correspondent, Juliet Macur, has no hesitation in illustrating the significance of the professional cyclist’s spectacular downfall in her book, Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong.

This anthology of essays, stories and drawings by a group of highly prominent women explore the complexity of sex; unfiltered, unfettered and unapologetic.

Indonesia’s book industry may be struggling to find financial support to translate more titles into foreign languages and reach a wider audience, but interest from foreign publishers is out there and growing.

Love itself is a mercurial beast that’s as unique as those under its influence; as is protagonist Hector’s case in David Foenkinos’ The Erotic Potential of My Wife.

If there was ever a perfect example of a hero’s journey from fall to redemption, then this may well be it.

For those less acquainted with his wide body of work, the question remains: who was David Bowie?

The 68th Frankfurt Book Fair will open in a matter of hours, with an Indonesian delegation of writers, publishers and creatives joining more than 7,100 exhibitors from some 100 countries at the world's oldest book fair.

Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore's Dilemma tells us one thing: our food choices don’t just affect us, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories is no paper tiger; it’s the first work of fiction, of any length, to win the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy awards in the same year.

Think Elon Musk and a whole bunch of things comes to mind: self-driving cars, Hyperloop, SpaceX, commercial space travel. Constantly pushing the boundaries of technology, Musk might be as close as we can get to a real-life Tony Stark.

He won his Nobel for writing songs, but Bob Dylan's unexpected honor also is providing a boost for his books.

How frequently have we teenage readers been nagged to “read something of higher quality?” How often have classic literature books been shoved in our faces, while the “pop books” in our book basket been returned to the counter? “Don’t waste your time reading fiction; you should be reading the classics,” they say.

If you follow the news, you might have a skewed perspective of modern cities. They are painted as places under constant threat of all manner of social ills, polluted to the core and filled with malevolent psychopaths hell-bent on causing chaos.

When Bob Dylan took to the stage at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, folk music was changed forever. To understand why his performance was such a big deal and so controversial, one must delve deep into the historical and cultural context of music at the time.

Josh Davis’s Two Awesome Hours shows us how we can create conditions for two hours of effective mental performance.

Can you believe it’s been ten years since Freakonomics first hit the bookstands? This enfant terrible of economic insight quickly blazed a trail for a slew of similarly eye-opening titles that dared to challenge and confront age-old social woes with a frighteningly refreshing academic perspective.

Recent research by health institutions also conveys a similar message: eating habits are related to people’s lifestyle and are important for our health. This fact has awakened people regarding the importance of eating healthily.