Nonfiction

'A fascinating, and often surprising, study of Fifties Ireland'Dermot Bolger, Sunday Independent'Another revealing and insightful book by one of our best historians-and a timely reminder that the past is not...

The Rough Guide to New York City is the most comprehensive and useful full-length guide to the greatest city in the world and a necessity for any traveller. Packed with...

Packed with information useful to tourists on every conceivable budget, this guide advises on where to stay, the best places to eat and drink (with comments on over 100 cafes,...

This complete, long-awaited update meets the needs of today's MRP users, and is specially designed to reflect the newest certification requirements. Plossl thoroughly covers important post-MRP developments, including MRPII, Just-in-Time...

Quality is a subjective term, but while we may struggle defining it, experts recognize that bad quality can derail a software project or tarnish the reputation of a development organization....

For over 45 years, McKinsey & Company's Gene Zelazny has been showing McKinsey consultants and professionals around the world how to plan, design, and deliver effective business presentations_and how to...

Sarah Bradford's Lucrezia Bogia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy is the first biography of Lucrezia Borgia for over sixty years.Lucrezia Borgia - an infamous murderess or simply the...

Whether you're looking for world-class heritage, cosmopolitan cities or beautiful beaches, this DK Eyewitness Top 10 guide will lead you straight to the very best of Devon & Cornwall. With...

This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material on developments in the German-speaking countries and in...

'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE...

An essentially private person, Siegfried Sassoon's work nevertheless constitutes a chorus of self-revelation. John Stuart Roberts has written the first full length biography of this complex man. A quintessential Edwardian...

1992 and 1993 will be remembered as the years in which a European country was destroyed. It was a land with a political and cultural history unlike any other, where...

Mary Cummins's "About Women" column in the "The Irish Times" first appeared in September 1993. The column has surprised, provoked, delighted and infuriated readers, and stimulated discussion of many aspects...

From a filthy flat in Tufnell Park to the starship Enterprise, it's fair to say that Simon Pegg's career didn't go quite the way he expected. Zombies in North London,...

"The A-Z of Garden Flowers" is an easy-to-use reference for novice and expert gardeners alike, with every reference you could possibly need. This easy-to-use growing guide has one plant per...

Ireland's bestselling popular historian tells the story of contemporary Ireland - controversial, authoritative and highly readable. Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and DeValera and his studies of the...

Poetess, fallen woman and wit, Laetitia Pilkington spent her life as close to fame as she was near to ruin. Favoured by, among others, the newly celebrated Jonathan Swift in...

The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.; This study...

Last year, the telly-watching public was gripped by Downton Abbey - the most successful British period drama in years and the number-one most-watched new drama programme of 2010. Captivated by...

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and the women's movement. Feminist Review is produced by a London...