100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
by John Barrow

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.'John von NeumannMathematics can ...

The Baader-Meinhof Complex
by Stefan Aust

The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. A group of young people, most of th...

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S Herman & Noam Chomsky

We normally think that the press are cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth. In Manufacturing Consent Edward Herman and Noam ...

The Essential Chomsky
by Noam Chomsky

For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the m...

The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
by Michael Wolff

In a career spanning four decades Rupert Murdoch has built News International into a $70 billion corporation. Through a series of breathtaking gambles...

The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
by Michael Wolff

In a career spanning four decades Rupert Murdoch has built News International into a $70 billion corporation. Through a series of breathtaking gambles...

Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: History's Greatest Naval Disaster
by James Delgado

*After finally achieving what eluded even his grandfather Ghengis Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Kha...

Hitler's Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life
by Timothy W. Ryback

* He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 1...

Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
by Paul Collier

* In Wars, Guns and Votes, award-winning author Paul Collier investigates the violence and poverty in the countries at the bottom of the world economy...

'A Senseless, Squalid War': Voices from Palestine 1945 - 1948
by Norman Rose

* The troubles in Palestine between the end of the Second World War and the declaration of the state of Israel on 14 May 1948 ruptured Middle Eastern ...