The Great Leveler - Violence and the History of Inequal...
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced...
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Tw...
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-...
The Rise of Rome - From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars ...
In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts ar...
Tales of a Grandfather: Being the History of Scotland f...
Tales of a Grandfather: Being the History of Scotland from t...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to t...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Tw...
Rethinking Transitional Justice for the Twenty-First Ce...
Rethinking Transitional Justice for the Twenty-First Century...
The World Is Flat 3.0 - A Brief History of the Twenty-F...
In this brilliant book, an award-winning New York Times ...
The Archaeology of Britain: An Introduction from Earlie...
The Archaeology of Britain: An Introduction from Earliest Ti...
Girlish - An Empowering Journal for the Twenty-First Ce...
Being a girl freakin rocks! But despite all the opportunit...
Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concept...
Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, an...
Electronic Marketing: Theory and Practice for the Twent...
Electronic Marketing: Theory and Practice for the Twenty-Fir...
Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases for the Twenty-F...
Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases for the Twenty-First ...
American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the ...
American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twent...
The Great Leveler - Violence And The History Of Inequality From T
The Key - The heartwrenching new pageturner from the #1 bestselling author of The Letter
From the #1 bestselling author of The Letter Kathryn Hughes comes The Key, an unforgettable story of a heartbreaking secret that will stay with you for ever. Riveting Lesley Pearse on The Letter. Gripping Good Housekeeping on The Secret. 1956 Its Ellen Crosbys first day at work as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young girl committed by her father,...
The Day She Disappeared - From the bestselling author of The Loving Husband
The gripping, unputdownable new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loving Husband Your best friend will always be there for you
wont she? Have you ever had that sense that youre being watched? And you turn, suddenly, but its just a curtain, blowing in the wind? Or the dress hanging in the doorway? Nat knows somethings wrong. Her best friend, Beth, would never hav...
A History of the Crusades II - The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
The second volume of Steven Runcimans classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams
Steven Runcimans unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of ...
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - A Study of the Chilling Criminal Phenomenon from the Angels of Death to the Zodiac ...
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Second Edition provides accurate, unglamorized information on hundreds of serial murder cases from early history to the present. It includes new major serial killers who have come to light since the first edition was published, as well as many older cases that have been solved, such as the Green River Killer, or further investigated like Jack the Ripper a...
The Near and the Far - new stories from the Asia-Pacific region
From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them. Its a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. Its post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. Its contemporary Bangkok, and a writers encount...
Asterix: Omnibus 11 - Asterix and The Actress, Asterix and the Class Act, Asterix and the Falling Sky
In this special collectors edition, three great Asterix albums are collected in one fabulous volume for the first time ever. In ASTERIX AND THE ACTRESS, Asterix and Obelix celebrate their joint birthday party and some surprise guests have been invitied! ASTERIX AND THE CLASS ACT contains 14 stories, including tales of the day Asterix and Obelix were born (in the middle of a village fist fight...
The Great Spiritual Migration - How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the moveoutgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of life. Its time to move again. Brian McLaren, a leading voice in contemporary religion, argues that notwithstanding the dire headlines about the demise of faith and drop in church attendanceChristian faith is not dying. R...
Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africas first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby te...
The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
The New York Times bestseller Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it Eric Schmidt What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of imagining the world. Most history is hierarchical: its about popes, presidents, and prime...
Looking for the Stranger - Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camuss novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. Its the rare novel thats as at likely to be found in a teens backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. If the twentieth century produced a novel that could be called ubiquitous, The Stranger...
The Churchills - A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill
There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles, so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set of men ...
The New Rules of Work - The ultimate career guide for the modern workplace
The modern playbook to finding the perfect career path, landing the right job, and waking up excited for work every day, from founders of online network TheMuse.com.In todays digital age, finding job listings and endless data about those jobs is easy. Whats difficult is making sense of it all. With The New Rules of Work, Muse founders Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew give us the tool...
A History of the Crusades III - The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades
The third volume of Steven Runcimans classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion Steven Runcimans triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades remains an unsurpassed account of the events that changed the world and continue to resonate today. This final volume of the trilogy be...
Barak vs The Black Hats of Melbourne - The untold story of how the Black Hats destroyed Coranderrk
Most Victorians would agree that, yes, European settlement had indeed removed the Wurundjeri from their hunting grounds in the Yarra Valley in the first instance, but surely not from their very last acre later on in 1924.In 1863, after twenty-eight years of dispossession and the death of most of the Colonys first people, a repentant government had returned 4,860 acres of land to its Wurundje...
The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
The most brilliant British historian of his generation The Times What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of imagining the world. Most history is hierarchical: its about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if thats simply because ...
The Cupcake Diaries - Katie and the Cupcake Cure
Sometimes starting from scratch turns out to be the icing on the cupcake. Its Katie Browns first day at her new school and shes already feeling miserable. Her best friend Callie has been invited to join the Popular Girls Club and Katies been left out in the cold. Is their an Unpopular Girls Club she can join? The only thing that makes Katie feel better is the special cupcake her mum pack...
A History of Western Philosophy - And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to ...
Hailed as lucid and magisterial by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy. Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant philosophers throughout the agesfrom Plato and Aristotle th...
The Dark Is Rising Sequence - Over Sea, Under Stone/The Dark Is Rising/Greenwitch/The Grey King/Silver on the Tree
Epic. Bestselling. Award-winning. The complete Dark Is Rising Sequence is now available as one keepsake collection. Will Stantons ordinary life is shattered with the dreadful revelation that the Darkthe source of all evilis rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. He finds that he is no ordinary boy, but the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping mankind f...
The First Casualty: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global W
In a world where the first casualty of war is truth; journalism has become the new battleground.Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the worldâs most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Charged with threatening national security; and enduring a sham trial; solitary confinement and detention for 4...
On Intelligence - The History of Espionage and the Secret World
This book is a professional military-intelligence officers and a controversial insiders view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war with Iraq. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses not just the events that conspire to cause disaster, but why crucial intelligence is so often ignor...
Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice - Working with the Chakras, Divine Archetypes, and the Five Great Elements
The tattvas, the Five Great Elementsearth, water, fire, air/wind, and ether/spacecreate and sustain not only the universe but also all of its inhabitants. Each of us has a unique combination of these elemental energies behind our personal characteristicseverything from the color of our eyes to our behaviors and emotional temperament. What tattvas are dominant in your make-up can also be infl...