Nebojša PopovThe first serious assessment to thoroughly explore the roots of conflict inside former Yugoslavia. The authors highlight major issues which to date had remained neglected.

Gilles NeretDuring the Renaissance, the great artists, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Rapheal, transformed the history of art, achieving an even closer imitation of nature whilst...

Caron HaasA few quirky questions about politics are: Which first lady fainted at her husband's inaugural ball? When and where did the term smoke-filled room originate?

Melanie Phillips   When London was hit by suicide bombers in July 2005, the dirty little secret was finally out. Great Britain had been the European hub of Islamist extremism...

RW Hutchinson1962 paperback edition. Penguin, 373 pages. Attractive drawings, maps, illustrations throughout. Extremely well done, thorough coverage of subject. The author has conducted many digs and was once the curator...

Ruiyan XuA dazzling debut novel about the power of love and language...Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion...

Erik Larson   The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning...

Bernard LewisIn his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed...

Naomi KleinWith a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful...

Thomas L Friedman   "The World Is Flat" is Thomas L. Friedman's account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put...

Paula BennettThis internationally acclaimed study is now republished with a substantial new introduction by the author.It is a work of extraordinary finesse which offers a full-length study which integrates the...

Joan KirkbyDrawing on letters and poems, this book examines the life and major work of Emily Dickinson with special emphasis on the poet's fascination with language, gender, the limit states...