A title that looks at how people from the world's poorest societies struggle to migrate to the rich West: the effects on those left behind and on the host societies, and explores the impulses and thin
Written by the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, this title shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system set the United States, and
For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in
The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. This title allows us to understand the personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi. Drawing on many sources loca
Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These are questions that have sporadically interested people since the dawn of time. From applications for genetic reconstitution by aliens to t
Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as
An account of the last months of the life of President John F. Kennedy weaves together his public and private life and addresses the tantalizing mystery of all - not who killed him but who he was when
Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energ
Takes us across all the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands - from St Kilda to Easter Island and from Tristan da Cunha to Disappointment Island.
An atlas that takes us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. It features rare animals and lost explorers, marooned slaves and lonely scientists, mutinous sailors and forgotten castaw
From the award-winning author of The Dictators, Richard Overy's The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality is the best introduction available to a defining moment in British history. The extraordinary st
Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: they left behind almost no objects, images, ruins. They created no empires. This title explores t
One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts blocking the path. She is raped just yards from her front door
Get Shit Done. Less Meetings, More Doing. Passion Never Fails. These mantras have bred the likes of Twitter and Instagram. Now the essence of the startup world has been captured in book form. There's
Helps you teach how to make billions by scaling back, expanding less and betting bigger. This book crosses the usual boundaries of strategy, execution, people, and organization. It shows how you can d
Here, for the first time, is complete collection of actor and entertainer Stanley Holloway’s incomparable comic monologues, which he performed between 1929 and 1941. All the much-loved characters such
Shows how to play and produce professional keyboard sounds and rhythms from day one. This book explains the essentials with advice on those from fingering techniques and effective practice, to reading
