Amexica: War Along the Borderline
by Ed Vulliamy

Amexica provides the first full account of the terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border. An area of land more than 2,000 miles long and 100 miles w...

Amexica: War Along the Borderline
by Ed Vulliamy

'As dawn broke over the vast desert, the body was still hanging beneath the overpass, having been suspended from it - decapitated and dangling by a ro...

The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World
by Jonathan Powell

* 'Niccolò Machiavelli is misunderstood,' argues Jonathan Powell in his twenty-first-century reworking of the Italian philosopher's influential m...

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
by Nicholas Shaxson

* Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs.* Tax have...

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
by Karen Armstrong

Drawing on a wide range of material - ranging from the spiritual character of the world religions to the findings of contemporary neuroscience - Karen...

The Book of Universes
by John D. Barrow

This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity ...

Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People
by Philip Ball

* Can we make a human being?* That question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the homunculus of the medieval al...

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...

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...