David Gibbins1351 BC:Akhenaten the Sun-Pharaoh rules supreme in Egypt... until the day he casts off his crown and mysteriously disappears into the desert, his legacy seemingly swallowed up by the...

Dirk WittenbornFrom the author of Fierce People comes a blistering, haunting, aching novel about what you do when the unthinkable happens - and when the memory of it refuses to...

Phil Gordon Phil Gordon plays poker with the best players in the world. He has won -- and lost -- in tournaments and cash games around the globe, all the...

Richaed OsborneWhy does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive & dangerous? Why do a lot of people...

Anthony Trollope 'since the day on which he had accepted place and retired from London, his very soul had sighed for the lost glories of Westminster and Douning Street'.After the...

George A Akerlof and Robert J Shiller Why the free-market system encourages so much trickery even as it creates so much goodEver since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics...

Michael Bar-Zohar "The Jewish people doesn’t know what it owes to Shimon Peres.” Said David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father. Indeed, the young Peres, operating in secrecy, was the builder of Israel’s...

Hans-Michael Koetzle Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs.From the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up...

Steve SzilagyiIt all begins in the 1920s, when a blustering country policeman, Constable Michael Walsmear, literally punches his way into American photographer Charles Castle's London studio. Walsmear has what he...

Werner HeisenbergNobel Prize winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) is known for the development of quantum mechanics and the principle of indeterminacy. In Physics and Philosophy he explains how modern...

Werner HeisenbergThe seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg's concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern...

Muriel Mandell What better way is there to learn than by doing? This unusual book enables children to carry out more than 103 different experiments and demonstrations, carefully planned to...