Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Ruthlessly Targets Children
by Joel Bakan

'There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.' Nelson MandelaJoel Bakan, author of the internat...

Free Ride: How the Internet Is Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
by Robert Levine

'On the one hand information wants to be expensive because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the o...

Undercover Muslim: A Journey into Yemen
by Theo Padnos

In December 2009 the US government launched an air strike against the tiny Yemeni village of al-Majalah where al-Qaeda militants were believed to be i...

Visions of England
by Roy Strong

What does it mean to be English?* For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the political dominance of the English...

Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox And The Creation Of A Myth
by Katherine Frank

January, 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and 'the stone', burdened with a large family and debt...

For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, 1066-1500
by Nigel Saul

* The world of medieval chivalry is at once glamorous and violent, alluring yet alien. Our popular views of the period are largely inherited from the ...

Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq
by Greg Muttitt

Oil lies at the heart of Iraqi politics. Yet in the eight years since the bombs began to fall on Baghdad it has been a taboo subject. In Greg Muttitt'...

Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943-1945
by David Stafford

* In May 1945 Italy was liberated from Nazism and Fascism by the British Eighth and American Fifth Armies. By that time the Italian resistance movemen...

Beyond the Corporation: Humanity Working
by David Erdal

* Beyond the Corporation is a book for our times. Offering inspiration and vision in the wake of financial Armageddon, it is the story of ordinary peo...

Beyond the Corporation: Humanity Working
by David Erdal

* Beyond the Corporation is a book for our times. Offering inspiration and vision in the wake of financial Armageddon, it is the story of ordinary peo...