Nonfiction

The Rough Guide to Canada is the ultimate travel guide to this immense country. In full colour throughout, with clear maps, detailed coverage, suggested itineraries and regional highlights, there are...

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this wild and fascinating island.Amire the clifftop setting...

This is the story of the Second World War as told for the first time by survivors of Germany's armed forces. Like old soldiers everywhere, they are fading away. But...

From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through...

The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows and in...

It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future...

Political Philosophy

This volume of the "Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia" covers world history from the early civilizations, ancient Egypt, biblical times and the Greek and Roman empires, to 1800. With over 2400 alphabetically...

A survey of the events of the Thatcher era of government in Britain, updated to include developments since the 1987 election victory. The commentary is both historical and political, concentrating...

This third volume of "A New History of Ireland" opens with a character study of early modern Ireland and a panoramic survey of Ireland in 1534, followed by 12 chapters...

The amount of "virtual money" circling the globe each day is huge: the Federal Reserve's Fedwire and the New York-based CHIPS alone send out well over $2 trillion in virtual...

F.C. Redlich, a psychiatrist and formerly Dean of Medicine at Yale Medical School, attempts to plumb the psychological depths of Adolph Hitler.

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to...

Herodotus is not only known as the "father of history", as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography. As well as charting the historical background to the Persian...

OTHER WRITINGS INCLUDE: A RECEIPT TO MAKE A NEW ENGLAND FUNERAL ELEGY; ADVICE TO A FRIEND ON CHOOSING A MISTRESS; THE SPEECH OF MISS POLLY BAKER; HOW TO SECURE HOUSES,...

A popular history of the Middle Ages. It looks at key events such as the birth of Gothic, the growth of unorthodox sects (the Cathars of Southern France and Bernard...

In the vein of Thomas Bass or Ed Regis, this book looks at the business of computing in the US, at computer science, as a business, and as a collection...

First published in 1952, this book has since become recognized as a classic survey of Dublin's social and architectural history in the period of its greatest growth and variety. The...

In 1985, Granta published James Fenton's extraordinary - and now legendary - account of the fall of Saigon. Twenty years after the first tank entered the city, four writers examine...

A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and...

Over 30 million foreigners travel to Spain every year - more than any other country, yet all but a handful see little of the country besides the holiday costas. This...

IN A GROUND BREAKING APPROACH TO STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS KENICHI OHMAE GOES BEYOND THE STANDARD FORMULA FOR SUCCESS INTO THE MIND OF THE CREATIVE CORPORATE THINKER....