You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle For The Soul Of The Beatles
by Peter Doggett

* When Paul McCartney told the world in 1970 that he had no plans to work with the Beatles again, it was widely viewed as a cultural tragedy by the me...

Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918
by Emily Mayhew

Wounded traces a journey made by a casualty from the battlefield of the Western Front to a hospital in Britain. It is a story told through the testimo...

Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
by Cindy Meston & David Buss

* Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss j...

We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars
by Martin Pugh

* Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war era boasts a coherent identity en...

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...

War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam
by Bernd Greiner

* Shortly before 8 a.m. on 16 March 1968, C-Company, First Battalion, Twentieth Infantry, Eleventh Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy...

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...

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...

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...

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...