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...

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...

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 - Kar...

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens: The Darkest Chapter in Economic History Since the Slave Trade
by Nicholas Shaxson

* Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system - this secretive world is far bigger, and more central to the world economy, than almost anyone real...

Tiepolo Pink
by Roberto Calasso

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vas...

The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents
by Alex Butterworth

* The last third of the nineteenth century saw the world in flux. Science vied with religion to represent the soul of man, and technological advances ...

The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles
by Benedict Gummer

* Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions ...