Richard Barnett Knihy

The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the worlds rarest medical books, forms an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankinds struggle with disease. Incorporating historic maps, pioneering charts and contemporary case notes, Richard Barnetts evocative overview reveals the fears and obsessions of an era gripped by epidemics.

Wherever We Are When We Come to the End digs into the form and the language of the Tractatus, following Wittgenstein through the war and his own conflicts with words and silence, violence and grief, time and eternity. The result is a highly original formal experiment and a poetic fantasia on logic, love and war.

Published in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection and the Wellcome Library, this book explores themes related to health, medicine, and the intersection of science and culture. It offers unique insights and perspectives, drawing on the extensive resources of the Wellcome Trust to enrich the reader's understanding of these important topics.

The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. This book follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the examples of surgical textbooks with a focus on the extraordinary visual materials of the mid-nineteenth century.

Previously published as: Schaum's outline of review of elementary mathematics. c1997.

Beginning in 17-century Holland, with the creation of medicinal 'genievre', this book follows the global adventures of gin over four dark, decadent centuries of consumption and excess

The super-condensed guide to geometry combines the authority of Schaum's with quick-study approach to help busy students achieve better grades.

Seahouses is the first collection of poetry from cultural historian Richard Barnett. Those familiar with Barnett's non-fiction - recently described as 'superbly erudite and lucid' by Will Self - will be unsurprised to discover he is also a formidable poet, with a distinctly English approach that is at once fluid, precise, cynical and tender. Not a single word in this volume is wasted; least of all in the award-winning title sequence, where the sea sifts and rolls through the dreams of an old man asleep in a deckchair, conjuring a vision of history and our human crossings. Elsewhere, fragments of first love are glimpsed, pursued, and interrogated; fathers sit down to eat with the sons they have killed; two textbooks sing three songs of suppressed longing; bees are kept for all the wrong reasons. This is low modernism of the highest order, cranky, eloquent and broken-hearted - a terrific addition to the UK's poetry landscape.