Shoot for the Moon

From Eton Manor to the Olympics : More Lea Valley Secrets Revealed

With a wealth of information regarding the Lea Valley's history, this guide provides a special emphasis on the regions past, and forthcoming 2012, Olympic connecti...

Madeira: Women, History, Books and Places

The history of Madeira's women and the writing of women travellers about the island are less well known than they should be. This livret combines

Deepfakes

Everything you need to know about 'deep fake' image manipulation and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history. In a

Reader's Digest and The Royals : A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family

The Reader’s Digest Magazine has a long and close association with the Royal Family. This book, reproduced from the magazine archives, features the best of

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation

Archibald Wavell

Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied commanders of the early phases of World War II. In fact, between June 1940 and June 1941,

Lusitania : The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including

American Bible-Whose America Is This?

The New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One presents a provocative crash course in the great 'American scriptures'--those texts

FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCHES

How much can you really find out about the Trenches of the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpass

FIRST WORLD WAR WEAPONS

How much can you really find out about the Weapons of the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpass

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

# 1 NOW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nu trebuia să fie niciodată atât de mică diferența. Și bineînțeles că trebuia să câștige. Modul în care Hillary

English Voices

Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by ...

Playing with fire : the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics

From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the

Be Your Own Politician

Countless articles decry our apathy, our lack of motivation, our disinterest in political affairs. Yet the recent Scottish referendum showed the essential falsehood at t...

Tommies The British Army in the Trenches

British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the name is particularly associated with the British soldier in World War I. In 1914,

Little Book of Trumpisms

A hilarious and horrific collection of Donald Trump’s no-holds-barred opinions, brought together in one handy volume. It contains the rug-haired one’s charming and intell...

Critical Times

Critical Times is the brilliant new collection of acerbic sketches of contemporary political life by The Times's master of satire, Peter Brookes. Brookes, multiple winn...

Ça va arriver en 2021

De la santé à l’économie en passant par la mode, les sports, les technologies, l’environnement et les habitudes de consommation, le journaliste Alain McKenna a

Cox's Fragmenta II: Further Folios from History

A presumptuous bear who surprised a group of ladies in a coach, an accident involving an actor pretending to be an orangutan, and an aristocrat

The Encyclopedia of Mass Murderers

This is a remarkable, revelatory exploration of the world's most extreme cases of mass murder by two of the UK's most respected true-crime experts. From

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology

August 1914 : France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever

A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought

All the Countries the Americans Have Ever Invaded : Making Friends and Influencing People?

Since its creation, the United States seems to have pushed the accelerator in the invasion category. This book sets out to find the facts. How

GANGS

Gangs have been a way of life for decades, and while the culture may be different today, living on the edge of society is still

Testament of War

Testament of War compares the English-language poetry and fiction of the First World War with that written in German, French, Italian and - to a

BANK RAIDS

Does crime pay? Well not according to a survey in 2012 carried out by university economists using data held by the British Bankers' Association that

The Little History of Britain

Lots of pomp and circumstance have gone on since Julius Caesar first came, saw and conquered, but this doughty little book heroically captures the true

From the Western Front to Salonika

Editorul cărții, Catherine Labaume-Howard, a găsit 300 de scrisori ale bunicului său într-un sac vechi de cartofi, în momentul vânzării casei familiei. Autorul scrisoril...

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

Compares and contrasts the different ways individual human beings cope (or fail to cope) with the curves that the uncaring universe throws at us. This

The Last Victorians: A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics

From Victoria herself to the writers, philanthropists, and politicians of the day, the Victorians have been dismissed as hypocrites and frauds. To a handful of

The Celts (Sacred Symbols)

Explains the designs and symbols used by Europe's last significant tribal culture to interpret the nature of life, including the boar, bull, ram, boat, eagle,

Government: The Reflections Series

Reflections: Government encircles the globe on a journey that places new states alongside antique empires and contrasts palatial parliaments with modern, sustainable mun...

Victoria's Cross

This controversial text reveals the squalid truth about Britain's highest military honour, exposing a shameful history of racism, misogyny, and political expediency.

Post Wall, Post Square

The Post-Wall world, Spohr argues, was brought about in significant measure through the determined diplomacy of a small cohort of international leaders. They engaged in

D-Day: The Campaign Across France

This title tackles the largest amphibian invasion ever attempted until that time, the historic D-Day landings from the 6th of June 1944.

30-Second Evolution

'Adapt or die' este legea care guvernează natura, iar cine nu s-a adaptat de-a lungul secolelor, a fost lăsat în urmă. Dar cum are loc,

GANGSTERS

Gangsters takes a compelling look at the dark underbelly of society where bootlegging, robbery, crime sprees, threats and corruption were part of everyday life....

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

În anii 1790, Marea Britanie a suferit ceea ce politicianul Edmund Burke a numit „cea mai importantă dintre toate revoluțiile ... o revoluție în sentimente”.

Saboteur

Tony Brooks was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to

D-Day to Berlin

The Second World War is the bloodiest and deadliest conflict in history: more than 60 million people killed in six years of bitter fighting. For

Somewhere in England

World War II represented the height of the close relationship between America and Britain, as they banded together to defend the British Isles and attempt

RETURN OF THE MAYA

Latin America's longest civil war ended in 1996. The peace accord between Guatemala's conservative government and the Marxist guerrilla group the URNG brought an end

Retrospect of Western Travel

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was a British writer and scholar who can be described as one of the first British sociologists. She was one of the

Retrospect of Western Travel

A of the 1838 edition of Martineau's famed travel account of the United States in the Jacksonian era. Despite the hostile reception accorded some of

No Stopping Us Now

'Gail Collins inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope' in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women

Hijo Americano

Pocos políticos han alcanzado una preeminencia a nivel nacional tan rápidamente como Marco Rubio. Esta es la historia de su ascenso inesperado. Una vez que

An American in Victorian Cambridge

Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874) was the favourite grandson of John Jacob Astor (the first American multi-millionaire, and the Astor of the Waldorf-Astoria). After gain...

Fight the Good Fight

People interpreted this faith in many different ways. Soldiers marched off to war with ringing endorsements from bishops that they were fighting a Godly crusade,

War Stories

From the time of the Crimean War in 1853 to the Second Gulf War, Evans tells the stories of war correspondents who served as the

The Gamble

Draws on extensive interviews with top officers in Iraq to document the war as it has unfolded in recent years, placing a focus on the

Tibet, Turning the Wheel of Life

Numele Tibet evocă în mod tradițional un caleidoscop de imagini atemporale: peisaje extraordinare și spectaculoase, munți cu zăpadă, călugări budiști și mănăstiri. Dar...

The Welfare State We're In

Winner of the Institute of Economic Affairs' Arthur Seldon Award and the Atlas Foundation's Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award The welfare state is one of

History's Greatest Deceptions

Human history is positively shrouded in the dark arts of deceit and subterfuge. According to the Bible, the story of mankind began with the Serpent's

Prickly Pears of Palestine

An account providing a human face to the realities of life in Palestine The Palestinian–Israeli conflict is one of the most widely reported and long

Sixties

'Historical highlights of the 1960s are accompanied by photographs and organized by year from 1960 to 1969. The book focuses on struggles for freedom and

Little Book of Politics

Worried about the world and want to make a difference? Inspired by a new political voice or enraged by an old one? Whether you're taking

How to Be a Fascist : A Manual

The first and only guide to turning your 21st century democracy into a fascist paradise. Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishabl...

How to Be an Activist

This practical, inspirational book covers topics ranging from identifying your central issue and setting meaningful milestones and goals, to learning how to use the medi...

Paul Dukes - Red Dusk and the Morrow

Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. His role was to keep the British spy networks in place during

The First World War

A fascinating introduction to the British involvement in the First World War Covering some of the most important aspects of the War, Usborne History of