There are works of art that have the virtue of arousing our curiosity, excite our imagination and make us pursue a hidden meaning. They are paintings that have an aura of mystery, sometimes terrifying and cruel, but equally attractive and irresistible, not suitable for naive or superficial viewers, but for observers of intense emotions who wonder about the beyond of things.

Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Haruki Murakami, Ursula K. Le Guin — this volume celebrates 45 famous authors who have shared their homes and hearts with furry feline friends. The photographs and stories in Writers and Their Cats capture the special bond between wordsmith and mouser. From the six-toed kitties who still inhabit the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Florida to the mewling muses of mystery writer Lilian Jackson Braun, cats are clearly, in the words of Gloria Steinem, "a writer's most logical and agreeable companion."

Home Extended presents in more than 300 images the variety of extended residential architecture.

This is one of the issues that tend to polarize opinions. Either it is decidedly against ecclesiastical celibacy, considering it unnatural and even cruel, or it is supported with fervor, recognizing the right of the church to impose its own discipline.