William Blake William Blake's innovations in engraving techniques brought about his brilliant synthesis of visual and poetic art and signaled the beginning of his famous "Illuminated Books," of which the Songs...

Rozina Visram This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the...

Max Dimont Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through...

Richard Price The celebrated author of Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date.A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and...

Conrad Russell What were the causes of the English Civil War? The traditional explanations involving the struggle for sovereignty and the bourgeois revolution have been questioned in recent years. In...

Adam Zamoyski Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in...

Jim Sleeper A political journalist reflects on the liberal policies that deal with race, arguing that the liberal view of race is outdated and that these views promote a country...

Carol Ann Lee The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months...

Nick Stafford I want you to do yourself proud, Joey. You go and drive those Germans back where they've come from, and then come home to me.At the outbreak of...

Kim Chernin The title of this book is a phrase often used to describe the fate of the Jewish people in the world and invokes one of the central arguments...

James Ciment “Vivid . . . An engaging and accessible account.” —Publishers WeeklyIn 1820, a small group of African Americans reversed the course of centuries and sailed to Africa, to...

Isaac Deutscher Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible...