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...

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...

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 Baader-Meinhof Complex
by Stefan Aust

* This fascinating book tells the story of how a small group of young middle-class people, out of moral indignation about the Vietnam War and the inju...

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 American Future: A History
by Simon Schama

In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the countr...

The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror
by Dexter Filkins

* Many books have already been written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about the War on Terror – how they happened and why, how they’ve su...

Attila The Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire
by Christopher Kelly

* Attila the Hun – godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king – has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through th...

Handel: The Man & His Music
by Jonathan Keates

* Though unquestionably one of the greatest and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) had received little attention from bio...