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Timothy Snyder has written a nuanced, original and penetrating analysis of Europe’s twentieth century killing fields between Russia and Germany, drawing on many little-known sources. History of a high order, Bloodlands may also point us towards lessons for our own time
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, and author of The File Combining formidable linguistic and detective skills with a fine sense of impartiality, he tackles vital questions which have deterred less courageous historians: Where and when were the largest casualties inflicted' Who were the perpetrators, and which ethnic and national groups were victimized' How can one calculate and verify the numbers' This is a book which will force its readers to rethink history
Norman Davies, F.B.A, and author of Europe: A History The stunning contribution of Tim Snyder’s book is to present a synthetic account by an East European historian in which the focus is on the geographic zone where the lethal policies of Hitler and Stalin interacted, overlapped, and mutually escalated one another. As Snyder vividly demonstrates, their combined impact on the people living in the 'bloodlands' was quite simply the greatest man-made demographic catastrophe and human tragedy in European history
Christopher R. Browning, author of 'Ordinary Men' and 'The Origins of the Final Solution' In his path-breaking and often courageous study of Europe’s ‘bloodlands,’ Snyder shows how very much more complicated the story was. His account of the methods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the recent past. Bloodlands – impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material – is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the reference in its field
Tony Judt
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, and author of The File Combining formidable linguistic and detective skills with a fine sense of impartiality, he tackles vital questions which have deterred less courageous historians: Where and when were the largest casualties inflicted' Who were the perpetrators, and which ethnic and national groups were victimized' How can one calculate and verify the numbers' This is a book which will force its readers to rethink history
Norman Davies, F.B.A, and author of Europe: A History The stunning contribution of Tim Snyder’s book is to present a synthetic account by an East European historian in which the focus is on the geographic zone where the lethal policies of Hitler and Stalin interacted, overlapped, and mutually escalated one another. As Snyder vividly demonstrates, their combined impact on the people living in the 'bloodlands' was quite simply the greatest man-made demographic catastrophe and human tragedy in European history
Christopher R. Browning, author of 'Ordinary Men' and 'The Origins of the Final Solution' In his path-breaking and often courageous study of Europe’s ‘bloodlands,’ Snyder shows how very much more complicated the story was. His account of the methods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the recent past. Bloodlands – impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material – is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the reference in its field
Tony Judt
Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony ‘encyclopedia’ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research
Al Kooper, musician, record producer and Bob Dylan collaborator Wilentz is at his best…From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other…are the ones to read. This is also one to look at…
Bryan Appleyard (Sunday Times Culture Magazine)
All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylan’s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong – the book is dense and strong everywhere you look
Philip Roth Writing about Bob Dylan's music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan's music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours
Jay Cocks, screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylan’s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholar’s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylan’s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylan’s canon that most move him, Wilentz getsstraight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylan’s impact on America, this book will make you think twice
Bill Flanagan, Editorial Director: MTV Networks Sean Wilentz’s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America
Leon Wieseltier A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz’ Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song
Martin Scorsese
Al Kooper, musician, record producer and Bob Dylan collaborator Wilentz is at his best…From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other…are the ones to read. This is also one to look at…
Bryan Appleyard (Sunday Times Culture Magazine)
All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylan’s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong – the book is dense and strong everywhere you look
Philip Roth Writing about Bob Dylan's music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan's music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours
Jay Cocks, screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylan’s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholar’s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylan’s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylan’s canon that most move him, Wilentz getsstraight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylan’s impact on America, this book will make you think twice
Bill Flanagan, Editorial Director: MTV Networks Sean Wilentz’s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America
Leon Wieseltier A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz’ Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song
Martin Scorsese
A succinct stylist, Schama is a master of metaphor, the apt, adjectival phrase, rhetoric and irony, even Joycean parody…This sparkling, effervescent collection bridges the gap between scholarly and popular writing…It is excellent holiday reading: dip into this between the sea and the bar and you will find a subtle and amusing companion.
Richard Ormrod (The Spectator)
An enticing collection of pieces old and new, a bedside book of rich insights.
Peter Preston (The Observer)
It really is very good…witty, learned, informative and clarifying.
Nicholas Lezard (Evening Standard)
His eloquence is on magnificent display in this new book: a delightful collection of journalistic essays…The length of his book, overflowing with purple prose (though very rarely at the cost of substance), demonstrates that, often, Schama does not know when to stop. But in this case, maybe that is not such a bad thing
James Grant (Independent on Sunday)
Richard Ormrod (The Spectator)
An enticing collection of pieces old and new, a bedside book of rich insights.
Peter Preston (The Observer)
It really is very good…witty, learned, informative and clarifying.
Nicholas Lezard (Evening Standard)
His eloquence is on magnificent display in this new book: a delightful collection of journalistic essays…The length of his book, overflowing with purple prose (though very rarely at the cost of substance), demonstrates that, often, Schama does not know when to stop. But in this case, maybe that is not such a bad thing
James Grant (Independent on Sunday)
A well-researched, fluently-written and utterly absorbing account of what life (and, so very often) death was like for ordinary Germans in the capital of Hitler’s Reich during the Second World War. The Berliners’ capacity for suffering, for sacrifice, for self-delusion, but also astonishingly for love - and even on occasion humour - is superbly evoked by Moorhouse’s cornucopia of new information.
Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war…Moorhouse’s meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail
C J Schuler (Independent)
Berlin at War is a well-researched and beautifully composed account, vividly recreating those years of Nazi arrogance, oppression, and corruption, that ended in such terrible destruction and civilian suffering
Antony Beevor
Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war…Moorhouse’s meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail
C J Schuler (Independent)
Berlin at War is a well-researched and beautifully composed account, vividly recreating those years of Nazi arrogance, oppression, and corruption, that ended in such terrible destruction and civilian suffering
Antony Beevor
He has written a provocative, stimulating, infuriating and readable history.
Hugh MacDonald (The Herald)
[An] engaging book. American Caesars is a commanding study on the nature of personal authority and the presidency. It is also a poignant one...
Richard Aldous (The Irish Times)
Rogues and (a few) heroes - they are all here in this impressive gallop through eighty years of US history.
Robert Chesshyre (Literary Review)
This is a delight of a summer book: history for the beach, politics for the deckchair, and waspish entertainment come rain or shine
Peter Preston (The Guardian)
Hugh MacDonald (The Herald)
[An] engaging book. American Caesars is a commanding study on the nature of personal authority and the presidency. It is also a poignant one...
Richard Aldous (The Irish Times)
Rogues and (a few) heroes - they are all here in this impressive gallop through eighty years of US history.
Robert Chesshyre (Literary Review)
This is a delight of a summer book: history for the beach, politics for the deckchair, and waspish entertainment come rain or shine
Peter Preston (The Guardian)
Paul Bloom is among the deepest thinkers and clearest writers in the science of mind today. He has a knack for coming up with genuinely new insights about mental life — ones that you haven't already read about or thought of — and making them seem second nature through vivid examples and lucid explanations
Steven Pinker How Pleasure Works has one of the best discussions I’ve read of why art is pleasurable, why it matters to us, and why it moves us so
Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music This book is not just a pleasure, but a revelation, by one of psychology’s deepest thinkers and best writers. Lucid and fascinating, you’ll want to read it slowly and savor the experience.
Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness In this eloquent and provocative book, Paul Bloom takes us inside the paradoxes of pleasure, exploring everything from cannibalism to Picasso to IKEA furniture. The quirks of delight, it turns out, are a delightful way to learn about the human mind
Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide Following the path of pleasure, Bloom leads us through a menagerie of human strangeness. By the end of the trip, the ‘magic inside us' begins to make sense. This book is a pearl, a work of great beauty and value, built up around a simple truth: that we are essentialists, tuned in to unseen order
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Happiness Hypothesis
Steven Pinker How Pleasure Works has one of the best discussions I’ve read of why art is pleasurable, why it matters to us, and why it moves us so
Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music This book is not just a pleasure, but a revelation, by one of psychology’s deepest thinkers and best writers. Lucid and fascinating, you’ll want to read it slowly and savor the experience.
Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness In this eloquent and provocative book, Paul Bloom takes us inside the paradoxes of pleasure, exploring everything from cannibalism to Picasso to IKEA furniture. The quirks of delight, it turns out, are a delightful way to learn about the human mind
Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide Following the path of pleasure, Bloom leads us through a menagerie of human strangeness. By the end of the trip, the ‘magic inside us' begins to make sense. This book is a pearl, a work of great beauty and value, built up around a simple truth: that we are essentialists, tuned in to unseen order
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Happiness Hypothesis
Philbrick humanizes history, not only putting a recognizable face on the players in one of America's most notorious events but also providing insight into their hearts and minds
(American Library Journal)
Philbrick writes a lively narrative that brushes away the cobwebs of mythology to reveal the context and realities of Custer's unexpected 1876 defeat at the hands of his Indian enemies under Sitting Bull... compelling
(Publishers' Weekly)
As brilliant an example of combat reconstruction as one is likely to find in any history of this scope and ambition
Trevor Royle (Sunday Herald)
A stirring, perceptive retelling of an endlessly fascinating battle.
(Kirkus)
A mesmerising portrait of two extraordinary individuals and a thrilling blow-by-blow account of a landmark battle, it is a terrific achievement
Dominic Sandbrook (The Sunday Times)
Philbrick recounts this story wth the clarity, colour and pace of a first-rate movie
Raymond Seitz (Literary Review)
(American Library Journal)
Philbrick writes a lively narrative that brushes away the cobwebs of mythology to reveal the context and realities of Custer's unexpected 1876 defeat at the hands of his Indian enemies under Sitting Bull... compelling
(Publishers' Weekly)
As brilliant an example of combat reconstruction as one is likely to find in any history of this scope and ambition
Trevor Royle (Sunday Herald)
A stirring, perceptive retelling of an endlessly fascinating battle.
(Kirkus)
A mesmerising portrait of two extraordinary individuals and a thrilling blow-by-blow account of a landmark battle, it is a terrific achievement
Dominic Sandbrook (The Sunday Times)
Philbrick recounts this story wth the clarity, colour and pace of a first-rate movie
Raymond Seitz (Literary Review)
Comprehensive and engrossing
Brian MacArthur (Literary Review)
Brian MacArthur (Literary Review)
This invaluable book brings us history in real time. with its echo of voices of civilians now on the front line, Listening to Britain provides a matchless insight into the contradictory, confused and complex experience of living through Britain's 'finest hour'
Juliet Gardiner (Financial Times)
The historical value of this evidence is enormous
Noel Malcolm (The Sunday Telegraph)
Juliet Gardiner (Financial Times)
The historical value of this evidence is enormous
Noel Malcolm (The Sunday Telegraph)
An extraordinary account... fascinating and inspiring
Stephen Robinson (The Sunday Times)
Stephen Robinson (The Sunday Times)
Uncommonly brilliant and deeply stimulating... almost cinematically satisfying. Harman has a rare gift for bringing ideas and thinkers to life
Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic I stayed up a good part of the night reading... fascinating! ... Harman proves that the lives of some modern scientists are as ecstatic, tormented and filled with strange visions as those of medieval saints
Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind A terrific book, at once scholarly and impossible to put down
Peter Godfrey-Smith, professor of philosophy at Harvard University Oren Harman’s compelling new book explores one of the key questions of our era — what are the origins of altruism' A little known mathematician lies at the heart of the story. George Price recognised that acts of kindness and self-sacrifice stood blatantly opposed to most of the principles of modern Darwinism. Harman’s wide-ranging intellectual quest brings this shy, anguished, and fascinating man alive with style and passion, and reminds us of the powerful emotions that can fuel great scientific achievement.
Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin One of the great mysteries of nature is how evolution, as it selects for survival of the fittest, could possibly leave any room for altruism. In this remarkable book, Oren Harman tracks George Price, an awkward, disturbed, and profoundly, almost saintly scientist as he cracked this fundamental biological problem. It is an astonishing story at every level, from the destitute wanderings and genial interventions of Price to a revealing account of how modern evolutionary biology took its contemporary form.
Professor Peter Galison striking and original
John Carey (The Sunday Times)
a challenging book…full of complex and deeply interesting ideas
Sam Leith (Spectator)
Beautifully written, Harman's book does justice both to its sensitive subject matter and to the life of a very special, complex and ultimately tragic man.
(Waterstone's Books Quarterly)
A masterfully told story that edifies while it engages, this book is in the same class as Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind and could be as popular.
(American Library Journal)
Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic I stayed up a good part of the night reading... fascinating! ... Harman proves that the lives of some modern scientists are as ecstatic, tormented and filled with strange visions as those of medieval saints
Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind A terrific book, at once scholarly and impossible to put down
Peter Godfrey-Smith, professor of philosophy at Harvard University Oren Harman’s compelling new book explores one of the key questions of our era — what are the origins of altruism' A little known mathematician lies at the heart of the story. George Price recognised that acts of kindness and self-sacrifice stood blatantly opposed to most of the principles of modern Darwinism. Harman’s wide-ranging intellectual quest brings this shy, anguished, and fascinating man alive with style and passion, and reminds us of the powerful emotions that can fuel great scientific achievement.
Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin One of the great mysteries of nature is how evolution, as it selects for survival of the fittest, could possibly leave any room for altruism. In this remarkable book, Oren Harman tracks George Price, an awkward, disturbed, and profoundly, almost saintly scientist as he cracked this fundamental biological problem. It is an astonishing story at every level, from the destitute wanderings and genial interventions of Price to a revealing account of how modern evolutionary biology took its contemporary form.
Professor Peter Galison striking and original
John Carey (The Sunday Times)
a challenging book…full of complex and deeply interesting ideas
Sam Leith (Spectator)
Beautifully written, Harman's book does justice both to its sensitive subject matter and to the life of a very special, complex and ultimately tragic man.
(Waterstone's Books Quarterly)
A masterfully told story that edifies while it engages, this book is in the same class as Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind and could be as popular.
(American Library Journal)
An imaginative and archivally rich evocation of the Mayflower pilgrims and of the lands they invaded
Linda Colley In this beautifully written and imagined book, impeccably researched, and full of so many fresh insights and discoveries, Nick Bunker has given us the most grounded and convincing portrait yet achieved of what drove the Pilgrim Fathers to seek their faith and fortune in the New World
Michael Wood I have rarely read a book which combines such a breadth of canvas...with such penetrating and detailed research
Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University A lively, indeed passionate, retelling of the ‘Pilgrim’ story, full of surprises as Nick Bunker delves into the byways of how the voyage of 1620 came to be and how the pilgrims managed to survive. A terrific read
David D. Hall, Harvard University His spirit, zeal and flair put most historians of his subject to shame’
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Times)
Linda Colley In this beautifully written and imagined book, impeccably researched, and full of so many fresh insights and discoveries, Nick Bunker has given us the most grounded and convincing portrait yet achieved of what drove the Pilgrim Fathers to seek their faith and fortune in the New World
Michael Wood I have rarely read a book which combines such a breadth of canvas...with such penetrating and detailed research
Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University A lively, indeed passionate, retelling of the ‘Pilgrim’ story, full of surprises as Nick Bunker delves into the byways of how the voyage of 1620 came to be and how the pilgrims managed to survive. A terrific read
David D. Hall, Harvard University His spirit, zeal and flair put most historians of his subject to shame’
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Times)
It's amazing, a really fine achievement and has a wonderful balance between argument and narration, where the individual stories draw the reader in to the moral and emotional complexities, while the sense of structure and proportion gives it a very strong sense of being in safe hands
Nick Stargardt, author of 'Witnesses of War' Shephard does not seek to draw pat lessons or modern conclusions from any of this. He is content to tell us what happened next, in detail, and often vividly…a riveting and often entirely fresh story, shrewdly assembled, very well told.
Peter Preston (Guardian Review)
Ben Shephard’s account of his demanding and important subject is a triumph, his has unearthed new and moving testimony by former DPs and has burrowed into official and personal papers without ever letting his deep scholarship get in the way of the riveting story he has to tell…With a sureness of touch he interweaves the personal stories of those who were involved in the allied relief effort at all levels …For anyone who is curious about the coalition of interests and beliefs which slide across this particularly American see-saw, reading Shepherd’s brilliant book is a must
Nicholas Stargardt (History Today)
Nick Stargardt, author of 'Witnesses of War' Shephard does not seek to draw pat lessons or modern conclusions from any of this. He is content to tell us what happened next, in detail, and often vividly…a riveting and often entirely fresh story, shrewdly assembled, very well told.
Peter Preston (Guardian Review)
Ben Shephard’s account of his demanding and important subject is a triumph, his has unearthed new and moving testimony by former DPs and has burrowed into official and personal papers without ever letting his deep scholarship get in the way of the riveting story he has to tell…With a sureness of touch he interweaves the personal stories of those who were involved in the allied relief effort at all levels …For anyone who is curious about the coalition of interests and beliefs which slide across this particularly American see-saw, reading Shepherd’s brilliant book is a must
Nicholas Stargardt (History Today)
Intriguing, provocative and written with a novelist's eye for detail, this book is an engrossing journey into a murky, subterranean world.
Mike Rapport (BBC History Magazine)
Historian Butterworth makes a first-rate addition to the growing list of books dealing with terrorism's origins and history... Delivering a virtuoso performance, Butterworth adds the hope that history will not repeat itself and that a successful new bloody ideology will not create the next scourge
(Publisher's Weekly - starred review)
Sweeping, extensively researched
Leo McKinstry (Express)
Compelling and insightful… The World That Never Was is a compelling narrative history both of a generation of demonised and battered – but optimistic – revolutionaries…and of the political police forces ranged against them
Stuart Christie (Guardian)
This is an amazing book full of incredible people all of whom turn out to be real and unbelievable stories, all of which turn out be true. Against a backdrop of late nineteenth century Europe and America in which staggering industrial progress went hand-in-hand with mass poverty and class struggle, Butterworth brilliantly teases out the paths and plots of the dedicated revolutionaries, deadly dilettantes, spies, informants, agents provocateurs, false counts and femmes fatales who made up the international anarchist movement, and its enemies. A genuine tour de force
David Aaronovitch A narrative taut with intrigue and freighted with contemporarysignificance
Bryce Christensen (Booklist)
One of the most absorbing depictions of the dark underside of radical politics in many years. … Butterworth has opted to present the anarchists in a mode that emphasises narrative over analysis. The result is a riveting account, teeming with intrigue and adventure and packed with the most astonishing characters. One cannot help wishing there were more extended analysis, however, for when Butterworth does offer broader observations, they are exceptionally astute.
John Gray (New Statesman)
In this rich and passionate account of the world’s first international terrorist campaign ... the disquieting echoes of our own times are impossible to ignore ...In a brilliant move, Butterworth also pursues the counterplotters and agents provocateurs behind what he calls the “first international ‘war on terror’' ” ... underpinned by impressive research and a genuine argument ... this is a thrilling and important book — not least for its unmasking of the forces of reaction.
(Sunday Times)
Mike Rapport (BBC History Magazine)
Historian Butterworth makes a first-rate addition to the growing list of books dealing with terrorism's origins and history... Delivering a virtuoso performance, Butterworth adds the hope that history will not repeat itself and that a successful new bloody ideology will not create the next scourge
(Publisher's Weekly - starred review)
Sweeping, extensively researched
Leo McKinstry (Express)
Compelling and insightful… The World That Never Was is a compelling narrative history both of a generation of demonised and battered – but optimistic – revolutionaries…and of the political police forces ranged against them
Stuart Christie (Guardian)
This is an amazing book full of incredible people all of whom turn out to be real and unbelievable stories, all of which turn out be true. Against a backdrop of late nineteenth century Europe and America in which staggering industrial progress went hand-in-hand with mass poverty and class struggle, Butterworth brilliantly teases out the paths and plots of the dedicated revolutionaries, deadly dilettantes, spies, informants, agents provocateurs, false counts and femmes fatales who made up the international anarchist movement, and its enemies. A genuine tour de force
David Aaronovitch A narrative taut with intrigue and freighted with contemporarysignificance
Bryce Christensen (Booklist)
One of the most absorbing depictions of the dark underside of radical politics in many years. … Butterworth has opted to present the anarchists in a mode that emphasises narrative over analysis. The result is a riveting account, teeming with intrigue and adventure and packed with the most astonishing characters. One cannot help wishing there were more extended analysis, however, for when Butterworth does offer broader observations, they are exceptionally astute.
John Gray (New Statesman)
In this rich and passionate account of the world’s first international terrorist campaign ... the disquieting echoes of our own times are impossible to ignore ...In a brilliant move, Butterworth also pursues the counterplotters and agents provocateurs behind what he calls the “first international ‘war on terror’' ” ... underpinned by impressive research and a genuine argument ... this is a thrilling and important book — not least for its unmasking of the forces of reaction.
(Sunday Times)
Overall the book is… spliced with incisive arguments and interspersed with challenging verdicts on Labour’s evolution…This ambitious Labour history could well become compulsory reading for future party leaders
John Shepherd (History Today)
In many ways Speak for Britain! offers an admirable model of how political history should be written. Whatever your politics, you will enjoy grappling with Pugh's vigorous, original and robustly argued opinions.
Jonathan Rose (Times Literary Supplement)
excellent and provocative new history
John Campbell (Mail on Sunday)
John Shepherd (History Today)
In many ways Speak for Britain! offers an admirable model of how political history should be written. Whatever your politics, you will enjoy grappling with Pugh's vigorous, original and robustly argued opinions.
Jonathan Rose (Times Literary Supplement)
excellent and provocative new history
John Campbell (Mail on Sunday)
This engrossing book will fascinate would-be explorers, foreign policy buffs and all those who care about our global environment. Charles Emmerson shows why the world’s ice cap is where much of our world’s future history will be written
Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the International Crisis Group; Former European Union Commissioner for External Affairs Deeply insightful...His account is always clear-headed and elegant, weaving an extraordinary range of subjects into a compelling narrative
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum A fascinating, personal and visionary book. Splendid
Lord Nicholas Stern
Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the International Crisis Group; Former European Union Commissioner for External Affairs Deeply insightful...His account is always clear-headed and elegant, weaving an extraordinary range of subjects into a compelling narrative
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum A fascinating, personal and visionary book. Splendid
Lord Nicholas Stern
A superbly exciting work of popular scientific writing
AN Wilson (The Financial Times)
A very well written book about geology and geological history
(Sir David Attenborough, The Times)
We have a new classic... this is popular science at its best; it's beautifully written, constantly witty and excellently illustrated.
(Financial Times)
Imbued with its author's deep sensitivity to shifting atmospheres, his overwhelming passion for England, Wales and Scotland as living bodies pulsing, breathing, twitching beneath our feet, and his contagiously personal view of his subject.
Jonathan Keates (Observer)
AN Wilson (The Financial Times)
A very well written book about geology and geological history
(Sir David Attenborough, The Times)
We have a new classic... this is popular science at its best; it's beautifully written, constantly witty and excellently illustrated.
(Financial Times)
Imbued with its author's deep sensitivity to shifting atmospheres, his overwhelming passion for England, Wales and Scotland as living bodies pulsing, breathing, twitching beneath our feet, and his contagiously personal view of his subject.
Jonathan Keates (Observer)
A truly fascinating and eye-opening account of a phenomenon so commonplace we barely think about it, yet one which is also mind-bogglingly complicated. Once you’ve read The Music Instinct, you’ll never listed to music the same way again
Doug Johnstone (Independent)
Remarkable capacity to use words to open our ears
Damian Thompson (Sunday Telegraph, Book of the Week)
If you try listening to music after reading this book, you’ll probably hear it differently – more knowingly, even
Tom Payne (Telegraph)
This book surveys current thinking and tells you why music rocks
rev’d Iain Finlayson (Times)
I defy anyone to read this book without coming away better informed about why music affects us in such a profound way... His passion for music is evident on every page, and his enthusiasms are infectious.
Bee Wilson (The Sunday Times)
Doug Johnstone (Independent)
Remarkable capacity to use words to open our ears
Damian Thompson (Sunday Telegraph, Book of the Week)
If you try listening to music after reading this book, you’ll probably hear it differently – more knowingly, even
Tom Payne (Telegraph)
This book surveys current thinking and tells you why music rocks
rev’d Iain Finlayson (Times)
I defy anyone to read this book without coming away better informed about why music affects us in such a profound way... His passion for music is evident on every page, and his enthusiasms are infectious.
Bee Wilson (The Sunday Times)
He [Phillips] has a real gift for highlighting the picturesque and for bringing the past alive... with its crisp management, accessible style and deft characterisation, this book stakes a strong claim to be the most appealing narrative account of the Crusades for a general audience
(BBC History Magazine)
Holy Warriors is not only very readable, its skilful and detailed use of source material serves as a showcase of what is being done in this, the most intensively studied area of medieval historiography
Robert Irwin (Literary Review)
A superb book, one written with an elegant blend of clarity and zest. Its author demonstrates his mastery of all the relevant scholarship, from the oldest to the most recent, but he may be most successful in his ability to capture the spirit of the various crusades through word portraits of some of their most memorable human characters. Readers will find it difficult to put this gripping book down.
William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University Original, engaging, fast-paced, this is history at its best. Phillips lays bare the complex history of the period, both past and its long-term consequences. Poets, knights, politicians, schemers, queens, celebrated and forgotten, all are brought to life in this wonderful A - Z of the Crusades.
(Kate Mosse)
(BBC History Magazine)
Holy Warriors is not only very readable, its skilful and detailed use of source material serves as a showcase of what is being done in this, the most intensively studied area of medieval historiography
Robert Irwin (Literary Review)
A superb book, one written with an elegant blend of clarity and zest. Its author demonstrates his mastery of all the relevant scholarship, from the oldest to the most recent, but he may be most successful in his ability to capture the spirit of the various crusades through word portraits of some of their most memorable human characters. Readers will find it difficult to put this gripping book down.
William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University Original, engaging, fast-paced, this is history at its best. Phillips lays bare the complex history of the period, both past and its long-term consequences. Poets, knights, politicians, schemers, queens, celebrated and forgotten, all are brought to life in this wonderful A - Z of the Crusades.
(Kate Mosse)
The most thorough taxonomy of sexual motivation ever compiled.
John Tierney (The New York Times)
Why Women Have Sex is an endlessly well informed and irresistibly readable book...the most fascinating and illuminating look at female sexuality since Kinsey’s Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female.
(Mary Roach, author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex)
Why Women Have Sex is a fascinating tour of what psychology and biology can tell us about women’s sexual motivation. Meston and Buss are first-rate scientists and skilled writers who actually answer the question that everyone was afraid to ask.
(Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness)
John Tierney (The New York Times)
Why Women Have Sex is an endlessly well informed and irresistibly readable book...the most fascinating and illuminating look at female sexuality since Kinsey’s Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female.
(Mary Roach, author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex)
Why Women Have Sex is a fascinating tour of what psychology and biology can tell us about women’s sexual motivation. Meston and Buss are first-rate scientists and skilled writers who actually answer the question that everyone was afraid to ask.
(Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness)
Ian Mortimer… has virtually single-handedly put medieval history back in the hands of ordinary readers, combining scrupulous research with a wonderfully iconoclastic approach to storytelling
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)
Mortimer writes biographical history with formidable energy and panache... His method is an enthralling experiment in time-travel: this book takes the year of Agincourt a day at a time, building an in-depth picture of how those who lived through it experienced events. At times it reads like a novel, at times it offers subtly nuanced back story. This is the most illuminating exploration of the reality of 15th-century life that I have ever read.
Christina Hardyment (Independent)
Mortimer is a good historian, and his account of Henry V and of Agincourt is well worth having
Richard Barber (Literary Review)
Ian Mortimer's 1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory is compelling, exuberant and erudite – combining the vivid drama of medieval character and battle with the vigour of revisionist history
(Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin)
Mortimer creates a new and convincing likeness of medievals England’s most iconic king
Nick Rennison (Sunday Times)
Bold…new and unexpected
Ann Wroe (The Economist)
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)
Mortimer writes biographical history with formidable energy and panache... His method is an enthralling experiment in time-travel: this book takes the year of Agincourt a day at a time, building an in-depth picture of how those who lived through it experienced events. At times it reads like a novel, at times it offers subtly nuanced back story. This is the most illuminating exploration of the reality of 15th-century life that I have ever read.
Christina Hardyment (Independent)
Mortimer is a good historian, and his account of Henry V and of Agincourt is well worth having
Richard Barber (Literary Review)
Ian Mortimer's 1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory is compelling, exuberant and erudite – combining the vivid drama of medieval character and battle with the vigour of revisionist history
(Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin)
Mortimer creates a new and convincing likeness of medievals England’s most iconic king
Nick Rennison (Sunday Times)
Bold…new and unexpected
Ann Wroe (The Economist)
An admirably unstarry-eyed path through the breakup of the band and beyond
(Metro)
Dropping like a howitzer shell amid a rare ceasefire between Capm Yoko and Macca HQ, there’s something mischievous in the timing of Peter Doggett’s latest decostructino of ‘60s mythoculture
Danny Eccleston (Mojo)
An enthralling new book on the group
David Lister (Independent)
A breath-taking record of uncontrolled fame’s grotesque side-affects
Victoria Segal (Q Magazine)
[a] balanced account of the band’s journey from reckless idealists to astute, weary businessmen
(Record Collector)
Doggett's book... is a real page turner
Annie Lennox (Harper's Bazaar)
A page-turner, and for its genre and uncharacteristically literate one. The shelf of Beatles reads is short, but You Never Give Me Your Money belongs on it
Christopher Bray (Literary Review)
(Metro)
Dropping like a howitzer shell amid a rare ceasefire between Capm Yoko and Macca HQ, there’s something mischievous in the timing of Peter Doggett’s latest decostructino of ‘60s mythoculture
Danny Eccleston (Mojo)
An enthralling new book on the group
David Lister (Independent)
A breath-taking record of uncontrolled fame’s grotesque side-affects
Victoria Segal (Q Magazine)
[a] balanced account of the band’s journey from reckless idealists to astute, weary businessmen
(Record Collector)
Doggett's book... is a real page turner
Annie Lennox (Harper's Bazaar)
A page-turner, and for its genre and uncharacteristically literate one. The shelf of Beatles reads is short, but You Never Give Me Your Money belongs on it
Christopher Bray (Literary Review)
Wide scope, smooth delivery, and mastery of the data
(www.popularscience.co.uk)
Since it’s publication The Emperor’s New Drugs has helped to usher in sweeping changes in the way prescriptions are handled by those that practice ethically
Kaye Bewley (Human Givens Journal)
Kirsch's account of the background and assumptions of the 'chemical imbalance' theory of depression is helpfully clear, and his damning critique convincing. Similarly, his explanation of placebos and how they work allows the reader to get to grips with some fascinating possibilities.
David Smail (Times Higher Education Supplement)
A fascinating and disturbing book
(Literary Review)
A beautifully written, profoundly important book that is sure to shake up the psychiatric establishment and pharmaceutical industry. Many readers will be excited, and probably disturbed, by this brilliant and shocking expose of the lack of efficacy and dangers of the most popular antidepressant medications. The author also reveals the astonishing lack of evidence for the widely believed but poorly validated theory that depression and anxiety result from a chemical imbalance in the brain. This book is long overdue and I hope that people will pay attention. Kudos to Dr. Kirsch!
David D. Burns M.D., author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Irving Kirsch brilliantly documents a grim scandal of regulatory and clinical failures concerning antidepressants but also holds out hope in one of the most profound meditations for 50 years on the nature and role of the placebo effect in clinical care
David Healy, author of Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression A terrific account of how optimism, greed and scientific incompetence have misled us about the nature of depression and the drugs we throw at it
Druin Burch, author of Taking the Medicine
(www.popularscience.co.uk)
Since it’s publication The Emperor’s New Drugs has helped to usher in sweeping changes in the way prescriptions are handled by those that practice ethically
Kaye Bewley (Human Givens Journal)
Kirsch's account of the background and assumptions of the 'chemical imbalance' theory of depression is helpfully clear, and his damning critique convincing. Similarly, his explanation of placebos and how they work allows the reader to get to grips with some fascinating possibilities.
David Smail (Times Higher Education Supplement)
A fascinating and disturbing book
(Literary Review)
A beautifully written, profoundly important book that is sure to shake up the psychiatric establishment and pharmaceutical industry. Many readers will be excited, and probably disturbed, by this brilliant and shocking expose of the lack of efficacy and dangers of the most popular antidepressant medications. The author also reveals the astonishing lack of evidence for the widely believed but poorly validated theory that depression and anxiety result from a chemical imbalance in the brain. This book is long overdue and I hope that people will pay attention. Kudos to Dr. Kirsch!
David D. Burns M.D., author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Irving Kirsch brilliantly documents a grim scandal of regulatory and clinical failures concerning antidepressants but also holds out hope in one of the most profound meditations for 50 years on the nature and role of the placebo effect in clinical care
David Healy, author of Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression A terrific account of how optimism, greed and scientific incompetence have misled us about the nature of depression and the drugs we throw at it
Druin Burch, author of Taking the Medicine
Fruitful reading that will make it difficult to look at the world through quite the same eyes as in one’s virginal, pre–game theory days
(Kirkus Reviews)
Organized thought applied to problems can illuminate and help solve them. This easy and enjoyable read is, in many ways, a how-to book for that very purpose
George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has demonstrated the power of using game theory and related assumptions of rational and self-seeking behavior in predicting the outcome of important political and legal processes. No one will fail to appreciate and learn from this well-written and always interesting account of his procedures
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Predictioneer teaches us that we can predict how a conflict may be resolved if we carefully consider the incentives for all parties in the conflict. In an extraordinary range of applications, from ancient history to tomorrow's headlines, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita demonstrates the power of the game-theoretic approach
Roger B. Myerson, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Professor, University of Chicago A fascinating new book
Daniel Finkelstein (Times)
Mesquita offers zingily provocative contemporary policy ideas
(Guardian)
(Kirkus Reviews)
Organized thought applied to problems can illuminate and help solve them. This easy and enjoyable read is, in many ways, a how-to book for that very purpose
George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has demonstrated the power of using game theory and related assumptions of rational and self-seeking behavior in predicting the outcome of important political and legal processes. No one will fail to appreciate and learn from this well-written and always interesting account of his procedures
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Predictioneer teaches us that we can predict how a conflict may be resolved if we carefully consider the incentives for all parties in the conflict. In an extraordinary range of applications, from ancient history to tomorrow's headlines, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita demonstrates the power of the game-theoretic approach
Roger B. Myerson, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Professor, University of Chicago A fascinating new book
Daniel Finkelstein (Times)
Mesquita offers zingily provocative contemporary policy ideas
(Guardian)
This comprehensive indictment of the Vietnam war was published first in Germany in 2007. One wonders how long it will be before a similar book can be written about the dehumanising effect on a new generation of American soldiers of the Iraq war, also fought against a guerrilla enemy in a foreign land.
Conor O’Clery (Irish Times)
Professor Greiner, in this admirable translation by Anne Wyburd and Victoria Fern, scrupulously argued and carefully referenced, explains the failure of what is now known as the moral component of warfare, and therefore exactly how it was that the US lost
Allan Mallinson (The Times)
A well-documented essay…an astonishing final section
Richard Gott (New Statesman)
Conor O’Clery (Irish Times)
Professor Greiner, in this admirable translation by Anne Wyburd and Victoria Fern, scrupulously argued and carefully referenced, explains the failure of what is now known as the moral component of warfare, and therefore exactly how it was that the US lost
Allan Mallinson (The Times)
A well-documented essay…an astonishing final section
Richard Gott (New Statesman)
Her pages are packed with provocative observations and cunning insights. I’d highly recommend this fascinating book to any parent of a young child – and, indeed anyone who has ever been a baby
Josh Lacey (Guardian)
Josh Lacey (Guardian)
This excellent book- beautifully written and well researched - recalls a man who ought not to be forgotten
(Contemporary Review)
O’Keeffe has done an exhilarating job
Emma Crichton-Miller (Evening Standard)
Haydon’s story is essentially tragic but it has many elements of comedy, even high farce, and Paul O’Keeffe’s biography brings the comedy to the fore with an enviable lightness of touch
Peter Burton (Daily Express)
Haydon’s story is one of the great cautionary tales in art history, and it still has the power to shock, even after 150 years: there is barely a page in Paul O’Keeffe’s new biography on which this reviewer has not written in the margin either “oh no” or “Oh God”…O’Keeffe’s book largely refrains from psychological speculation, and I can’t decide whether that’s a good thing. What is definitely a good thing, though, is the way Haydon’s tragedy is presented as a human story, with many down-to-earth facts
Lynne Truss (Sunday Times)
tactful and unobtrusive … Hayden steps forth, as full of colour and bluster as ever, but with dignity as well as absurdity, and a perspicacious, as well as biting, tongue
Gregory Dart (TLS)
O’Keeffe has produced a fascinating study of a forgotten life that is rich in detail for fans of period drama
Mark Williamson (The Herald)
(Contemporary Review)
O’Keeffe has done an exhilarating job
Emma Crichton-Miller (Evening Standard)
Haydon’s story is essentially tragic but it has many elements of comedy, even high farce, and Paul O’Keeffe’s biography brings the comedy to the fore with an enviable lightness of touch
Peter Burton (Daily Express)
Haydon’s story is one of the great cautionary tales in art history, and it still has the power to shock, even after 150 years: there is barely a page in Paul O’Keeffe’s new biography on which this reviewer has not written in the margin either “oh no” or “Oh God”…O’Keeffe’s book largely refrains from psychological speculation, and I can’t decide whether that’s a good thing. What is definitely a good thing, though, is the way Haydon’s tragedy is presented as a human story, with many down-to-earth facts
Lynne Truss (Sunday Times)
tactful and unobtrusive … Hayden steps forth, as full of colour and bluster as ever, but with dignity as well as absurdity, and a perspicacious, as well as biting, tongue
Gregory Dart (TLS)
O’Keeffe has produced a fascinating study of a forgotten life that is rich in detail for fans of period drama
Mark Williamson (The Herald)
Packed with noisy enthusiasm, punchy arguments and verbal agility... An excessively gifted communicator, [Schama] knows how to sweep facts and argument into a powerful, fluent narrative
(The Independent)
Power of Art feels as if it has been written in one breathless burst of enthusiasm, in a prose style that crackles like electricity
(Sydney Morning Herald)
A stunning work, resounding with profound insights which rivet the attention... A beautifully conceived and presented book from the professor of art history at Columbia University, New York. There must be few others in the world who could equal it
(Western Daily Press)
Powerfully vivid story-telling... Schama is a powerful communicator, and it is a joy to witness him explore the extraordinary evolution of eight world-class works of art
(Good Book Guide)
Politics, religion, war, sex and love are the inspirations behind the paintings chosen, and each takes on a new life under Schama's gaze
(First magazine)
The author's powerful storytelling technique in this book... makes both the artist and his art spring to life
(The Lady)
(The Independent)
Power of Art feels as if it has been written in one breathless burst of enthusiasm, in a prose style that crackles like electricity
(Sydney Morning Herald)
A stunning work, resounding with profound insights which rivet the attention... A beautifully conceived and presented book from the professor of art history at Columbia University, New York. There must be few others in the world who could equal it
(Western Daily Press)
Powerfully vivid story-telling... Schama is a powerful communicator, and it is a joy to witness him explore the extraordinary evolution of eight world-class works of art
(Good Book Guide)
Politics, religion, war, sex and love are the inspirations behind the paintings chosen, and each takes on a new life under Schama's gaze
(First magazine)
The author's powerful storytelling technique in this book... makes both the artist and his art spring to life
(The Lady)
One of our best living writers on religion….prodigiously sourced, passionately written
John Cornwell (FT)
Karen Armstrong invites us on a journey through religion that helps us to rescue what remains wise from so much that to many in Britain today no longer seems true….Armstrong is one of the the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion
Alain de Botton (Observer)
Comprehensive and measured
Paul Vallely (The Independent)
This is a stunned appreciation of an ‘otherness’ beyond the reach of language, and for Armstrong, constitutes the heart of every religion
Sholto Byrnes (New Statesmen)
It isn’t an easy read – why should it be' – and at times her expertise in theology and its technical terms get in the way of layman’s understanding. But at her best, she is wonderfully clear and insightful – and not out to convert anyone
Peter Lewis (Daily Mail)
Impressive new book…great eloquence
Richard Holloway (The Scotsman)
The Case for God is a tour de force of learning. A hefty history of theology, philosophy and science, and how they converge, it knocks Dawkins and Hitchens into an intellectual cocked hat.
Chris Dolan (The Sunday Herald)
Dense and brilliant, chastening and consoling. Whether or not it sells as well as the latest Hitchens or Dawkins will be a measure of us, not the book
Christopher Hart (Sunday Times)
John Cornwell (FT)
Karen Armstrong invites us on a journey through religion that helps us to rescue what remains wise from so much that to many in Britain today no longer seems true….Armstrong is one of the the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion
Alain de Botton (Observer)
Comprehensive and measured
Paul Vallely (The Independent)
This is a stunned appreciation of an ‘otherness’ beyond the reach of language, and for Armstrong, constitutes the heart of every religion
Sholto Byrnes (New Statesmen)
It isn’t an easy read – why should it be' – and at times her expertise in theology and its technical terms get in the way of layman’s understanding. But at her best, she is wonderfully clear and insightful – and not out to convert anyone
Peter Lewis (Daily Mail)
Impressive new book…great eloquence
Richard Holloway (The Scotsman)
The Case for God is a tour de force of learning. A hefty history of theology, philosophy and science, and how they converge, it knocks Dawkins and Hitchens into an intellectual cocked hat.
Chris Dolan (The Sunday Herald)
Dense and brilliant, chastening and consoling. Whether or not it sells as well as the latest Hitchens or Dawkins will be a measure of us, not the book
Christopher Hart (Sunday Times)
A tour de force: a witty, profound, and powerful successor to her breakthrough book, Evil in Modern Thought.
Tom Gitlin With passion, wit, and high intelligence, Susan Neiman invites us to be moral grown-ups. Morally and politically compelling - and a delight to read.
Michael Walzer Susan Neiman's profound wisdom and courage give us a public conception of goodness and a reinvigorated progressive vision....She is a beacon of light and hope in our morally debased times.
Cornel West The Enlightenment project of constructing a rational morality--pronounced dead by commentators on the left and right--has found a champion determined to resurrect it for the twenty-first century.
(Booklist)
Susan Neiman is a masterly storyteller; her new book Moral Clarity offers retellings of the Odyssey and the Book of Job that are themselves worth the price of admission. But she also has stories about the origins of her own position that place her in both larger intellectual narratives and more local political ones...Her project can be seen as a progressive alternative to (Allan Bloom's) The Closing of the American Mind.
Anthony Appiah Astonishing and essential...It is truly a guide to save us from our times, elegantly destroying the host of intellectual errors that have beset progressive as well as reactionary thought and led us to where we are
Alain de Botton In Moral Clarity Susan Neilman criticises the philosophical ideas that dominate contemporary culture and politics on a grand scale. She is well equipped to do this.
Onora O’Neill (FT)
Forget the Man Booker long list. Susan Neiman's superb new book should be at the top of beach reads this summer. For what Neiman beautifully chronicles is how in all sorts of policy areas the left has let slip its Enlightenment bearings and is no longer able to act on moral impulses…. Now is the time to turn to Neiman and re-inject some morality into progressive politics – for the good of everyone.
Tristram Hunt (Guardian online)
A lucid new tome on why politics is a moral pursuit, and why we need a second Enlightenment. Where was the voice of academia in our political and financial crisis' This firebrand turned head of the Einstein Forum brings a refreshing conviction of the possibility of a deliberative public life.
Hugh Roberts (Guardian online)
Tom Gitlin With passion, wit, and high intelligence, Susan Neiman invites us to be moral grown-ups. Morally and politically compelling - and a delight to read.
Michael Walzer Susan Neiman's profound wisdom and courage give us a public conception of goodness and a reinvigorated progressive vision....She is a beacon of light and hope in our morally debased times.
Cornel West The Enlightenment project of constructing a rational morality--pronounced dead by commentators on the left and right--has found a champion determined to resurrect it for the twenty-first century.
(Booklist)
Susan Neiman is a masterly storyteller; her new book Moral Clarity offers retellings of the Odyssey and the Book of Job that are themselves worth the price of admission. But she also has stories about the origins of her own position that place her in both larger intellectual narratives and more local political ones...Her project can be seen as a progressive alternative to (Allan Bloom's) The Closing of the American Mind.
Anthony Appiah Astonishing and essential...It is truly a guide to save us from our times, elegantly destroying the host of intellectual errors that have beset progressive as well as reactionary thought and led us to where we are
Alain de Botton In Moral Clarity Susan Neilman criticises the philosophical ideas that dominate contemporary culture and politics on a grand scale. She is well equipped to do this.
Onora O’Neill (FT)
Forget the Man Booker long list. Susan Neiman's superb new book should be at the top of beach reads this summer. For what Neiman beautifully chronicles is how in all sorts of policy areas the left has let slip its Enlightenment bearings and is no longer able to act on moral impulses…. Now is the time to turn to Neiman and re-inject some morality into progressive politics – for the good of everyone.
Tristram Hunt (Guardian online)
A lucid new tome on why politics is a moral pursuit, and why we need a second Enlightenment. Where was the voice of academia in our political and financial crisis' This firebrand turned head of the Einstein Forum brings a refreshing conviction of the possibility of a deliberative public life.
Hugh Roberts (Guardian online)
Douglas Rushkoff is one of the great thinkers, and writers, of our time.
Dr. Timothy Leary Douglas Rushkoff is damn smart. He understood the digital revolution faster and better than almost anyone.
Walter Isaacson The brilliant heir to Marshall McLuhan.
(New Perspectives Quarterly)
There are few more important subjects in the West today than the corporaticization of public and personal space and few writers as well-suited to the subject as the always insightful and provocative Doug Rushkoff. A terrific contribution to an urgent debate.
Naomi Wolf This is an urgent book, essential reading about an important topic you've probably never considered before. Like all great books, it will open your eyes to a whole new way of thinking. I hope that everyone gets a chance to read it, before it's too late.
Seth Godin, author of Tribes Read this book if you want to understand how the current economic meltdown started 400 years ago, how so much of what you consider to be a natural evolution of daily life was carefully designed to profit a few, and how corporatism has so colonised every part of life that most of us don't even recognise how our lives and fortunes are channeled and manipulated by it. Rushkoff is going to be attacked as a communist, but that gets his point wrong. Look at his references - he has meticulously documented his argument. I love that Rushkoff isn't afraid to think big - very big. He took on the media more than a decade ago. Then he took on Judaism. But now he's chosen a larger target - the corporation.
Howard Rheingold author of Smart Mobs
Dr. Timothy Leary Douglas Rushkoff is damn smart. He understood the digital revolution faster and better than almost anyone.
Walter Isaacson The brilliant heir to Marshall McLuhan.
(New Perspectives Quarterly)
There are few more important subjects in the West today than the corporaticization of public and personal space and few writers as well-suited to the subject as the always insightful and provocative Doug Rushkoff. A terrific contribution to an urgent debate.
Naomi Wolf This is an urgent book, essential reading about an important topic you've probably never considered before. Like all great books, it will open your eyes to a whole new way of thinking. I hope that everyone gets a chance to read it, before it's too late.
Seth Godin, author of Tribes Read this book if you want to understand how the current economic meltdown started 400 years ago, how so much of what you consider to be a natural evolution of daily life was carefully designed to profit a few, and how corporatism has so colonised every part of life that most of us don't even recognise how our lives and fortunes are channeled and manipulated by it. Rushkoff is going to be attacked as a communist, but that gets his point wrong. Look at his references - he has meticulously documented his argument. I love that Rushkoff isn't afraid to think big - very big. He took on the media more than a decade ago. Then he took on Judaism. But now he's chosen a larger target - the corporation.
Howard Rheingold author of Smart Mobs
[A] glorious picture of 14th-century England...a work of self-evident scholarship...this truly impressive work of narrative and interpretative history. In Mr Gummer’s elegant prose, with its ultra-precise vocabulary, Britain in the mid 14th century comes alive: you see it, hear it, smell it
(Country Life)
An engaging if somewhat eccentric book… rarely fails to hold the reader’s attention
Richard Barber (Literary Review)
Benedict Gummer’s highly impressive book charts the subsequent spread of the disease in meticulous and terrible detail
Noel Malcolm (Sunday Telegraph Seven)
Not only is Gummer’s book a treasure chest of detail...it is also full of shrewd observations. The Scourging Angel is an elegant and self-assured debut.
Dominic Sandbrook (Telegraph)
A terrific debut, brimming with life and detail. Read it, and then check your armpits for swellings, just to be sure...
Dominic Sandbrook (Prospect)
Benedict Gummer’s study…establishes the facts more thoroughly than any of his predecessors, and uses a wider range of sources than most of them…Benedict Gummer is a Parliamentary candidate for Ipswich. Some reviewers have suggested that it would be a loss to literature if he were to be elected. But I should prefer to say that it would be a gain to the House of Commons.
Jonathan Sumption (TLS)
(Country Life)
An engaging if somewhat eccentric book… rarely fails to hold the reader’s attention
Richard Barber (Literary Review)
Benedict Gummer’s highly impressive book charts the subsequent spread of the disease in meticulous and terrible detail
Noel Malcolm (Sunday Telegraph Seven)
Not only is Gummer’s book a treasure chest of detail...it is also full of shrewd observations. The Scourging Angel is an elegant and self-assured debut.
Dominic Sandbrook (Telegraph)
A terrific debut, brimming with life and detail. Read it, and then check your armpits for swellings, just to be sure...
Dominic Sandbrook (Prospect)
Benedict Gummer’s study…establishes the facts more thoroughly than any of his predecessors, and uses a wider range of sources than most of them…Benedict Gummer is a Parliamentary candidate for Ipswich. Some reviewers have suggested that it would be a loss to literature if he were to be elected. But I should prefer to say that it would be a gain to the House of Commons.
Jonathan Sumption (TLS)
A clear and expert account of the rise and fall of communism
Marcus Earl (Weekend Review)
Archie Brown tells the history of these 70-odd years…with poise, a sense of balance and a judicious understanding of the differences between the varieties of communisms
Donald Sassoon (Guardian)
Archie Brown has become possibly Britain’s leading expert on communism… superb book, which in just over 700 pages gives not only the history of communism, but also the background to it and the reasons for its decline
Simon Heffer (Daily Telegraph)
Magisterial
Chris Patten
Marcus Earl (Weekend Review)
Archie Brown tells the history of these 70-odd years…with poise, a sense of balance and a judicious understanding of the differences between the varieties of communisms
Donald Sassoon (Guardian)
Archie Brown has become possibly Britain’s leading expert on communism… superb book, which in just over 700 pages gives not only the history of communism, but also the background to it and the reasons for its decline
Simon Heffer (Daily Telegraph)
Magisterial
Chris Patten
Shows how excel is the inevitably consequence of the structure of the City.
Anthony Hilton (Evening Standard)
A compelling and readable history that will enable the reader to make sense of the collapse of confidence that started in 2007 and became the Credit Crunch
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Anthony Hilton (Evening Standard)
A compelling and readable history that will enable the reader to make sense of the collapse of confidence that started in 2007 and became the Credit Crunch
N/A (www.suite101.com)
The book is written for a wider audience than the official report and incorporates some more recent (and worrying) findings from climate science.
Economist (Economist)
Despite his gloomy predictions Lord Stern’s overall argument is one of optimism
Louise Gray (Telegraph)
If this year’s climate crucial climate change negotiations are successful, this book will be required reading … Lord Stern, like Al Gore, could be seen as one of the rock stars of global warming.
Fiona Harvey (Financial Times)
The planet owes Nicholas Stern a big thank you…valuable and combative stuff.
Fred Pearce (Guardian)
The Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next December will be one of the most important international gatherings since the Second World War. Nicholas Stern gives a compelling account of why the meeting matters so much to the world, and outlines a global deal that would provide the ground rules for a safer planet. His book reinforces the arguments of the original Stern Review, and provides a forceful response to its critics
Richard Lambert, head of CBI and Chancellor of Warwick University The Stern Review led the way in explaining the economic theory of climate change. His Blueprint sets out in practical terms why the world needs to act, what we need to do, and how, if we take action, we can build a new era of prosperity and growth.
Adair Turner, Chairman of the FSA and Chairman of the Climate Change Committee
Economist (Economist)
Despite his gloomy predictions Lord Stern’s overall argument is one of optimism
Louise Gray (Telegraph)
If this year’s climate crucial climate change negotiations are successful, this book will be required reading … Lord Stern, like Al Gore, could be seen as one of the rock stars of global warming.
Fiona Harvey (Financial Times)
The planet owes Nicholas Stern a big thank you…valuable and combative stuff.
Fred Pearce (Guardian)
The Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next December will be one of the most important international gatherings since the Second World War. Nicholas Stern gives a compelling account of why the meeting matters so much to the world, and outlines a global deal that would provide the ground rules for a safer planet. His book reinforces the arguments of the original Stern Review, and provides a forceful response to its critics
Richard Lambert, head of CBI and Chancellor of Warwick University The Stern Review led the way in explaining the economic theory of climate change. His Blueprint sets out in practical terms why the world needs to act, what we need to do, and how, if we take action, we can build a new era of prosperity and growth.
Adair Turner, Chairman of the FSA and Chairman of the Climate Change Committee
The most complete and detailed account of the British and Zionists during the era of the mandate... All in all, a masterpiece
(Wm Roger Louis, Editor in Chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire)
Norman Rose’s excellent new history of the Mandate of Palestine offers a detailed account of the final years of British rule... Rose’s history should be read by anyone interested in the history of Palestine
(Times Literary Supplement)
A fascinating book
Stephen Halliday (Daily Telegraph)
Norman Rose's A Senseless Squalid War is the best account yet of the end of the British Mandate
Simon Sebag Montefiore (Evening Standard)
An eloquent, comprehensive and even-handed book
Jonathan Mirsky (Spectator)
(Wm Roger Louis, Editor in Chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire)
Norman Rose’s excellent new history of the Mandate of Palestine offers a detailed account of the final years of British rule... Rose’s history should be read by anyone interested in the history of Palestine
(Times Literary Supplement)
A fascinating book
Stephen Halliday (Daily Telegraph)
Norman Rose's A Senseless Squalid War is the best account yet of the end of the British Mandate
Simon Sebag Montefiore (Evening Standard)
An eloquent, comprehensive and even-handed book
Jonathan Mirsky (Spectator)
His recent Book Wars, Guns and Votes, is all the more remarkable in that it is based on impeccable scholarship and statistical analysis but remains highly readable and accessible.
Bruno Tertrais (Survival)
It is always a pleasure to discover Paul Collier’s latest thoughts…always illuminating and grounded in rigorous social science...it’s gripping stuff
Allister Heath (Literary Review)
Collier knows Africa intimately… It is hard to be unmoved by his anger about the world’s blindness to realities, and his passion to do things better
Max Hastings (Sunday Times)
Bruno Tertrais (Survival)
It is always a pleasure to discover Paul Collier’s latest thoughts…always illuminating and grounded in rigorous social science...it’s gripping stuff
Allister Heath (Literary Review)
Collier knows Africa intimately… It is hard to be unmoved by his anger about the world’s blindness to realities, and his passion to do things better
Max Hastings (Sunday Times)
Elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating
Ian Kershaw Lively and entertaining survey of the dictator’s reading … a wealth of fascinating detail
Rev. Richard Overy (Sunday Telegraph)
Ian Kershaw Lively and entertaining survey of the dictator’s reading … a wealth of fascinating detail
Rev. Richard Overy (Sunday Telegraph)
This is history at its best - the world's greatest naval disaster brought to vivid life by a rare combination of personal experience and rigorous scholarship.
John Man Terrific ... a fascinating adventure tale packed with insights into a maritime empire about which most Westerners know almost nothing.
Nathaniel Philbrick Through brilliant and painstaking research Delgado has brought Khubilai Khan's lost fleet to the surface, showing for the first time the true nature of the doomed adventure.
Stephen Turnbull One finishes the book ready to strap on mask and tanks to dive for the buried remains of the shops that still hold more Mongol secrets
rev’d Carol Gluck (TLS)
James Delgado does a splendid job as a cultural historian in showing how the legend of a brave but doomed defence, supported by the intervention of the gods, shaped national identity over seven centuries.
Adrian Brewer (Tablet)
Delgado’s knowledge of water and his archaeological passion for retrieving what history has scattered across sea beds from San Francisco to Vietnam.
Timothy Brook (Literary Review)
John Man Terrific ... a fascinating adventure tale packed with insights into a maritime empire about which most Westerners know almost nothing.
Nathaniel Philbrick Through brilliant and painstaking research Delgado has brought Khubilai Khan's lost fleet to the surface, showing for the first time the true nature of the doomed adventure.
Stephen Turnbull One finishes the book ready to strap on mask and tanks to dive for the buried remains of the shops that still hold more Mongol secrets
rev’d Carol Gluck (TLS)
James Delgado does a splendid job as a cultural historian in showing how the legend of a brave but doomed defence, supported by the intervention of the gods, shaped national identity over seven centuries.
Adrian Brewer (Tablet)
Delgado’s knowledge of water and his archaeological passion for retrieving what history has scattered across sea beds from San Francisco to Vietnam.
Timothy Brook (Literary Review)
Wolff does one of those things that journalists can still do. He speaks truth to power.
Kim Fletcher (Prospect Magazine)
Kim Fletcher (Prospect Magazine)
Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.
Edward Said Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive.
(Guardian)
Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.
(New York Times)
Not to have read [Chomsky] is to court genuine ignorance.
(Nation)
A rebel without a pause.
Bono
Edward Said Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive.
(Guardian)
Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.
(New York Times)
Not to have read [Chomsky] is to court genuine ignorance.
(Nation)
A rebel without a pause.
Bono
Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive.
(Guardian)
Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.
(New York Times)
Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.
Edward Said Not to have read [Chomsky] is to court genuine ignorance.
(Nation)
A rebel without a pause.
Bono
(Guardian)
Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.
(New York Times)
Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.
Edward Said Not to have read [Chomsky] is to court genuine ignorance.
(Nation)
A rebel without a pause.
Bono
tautly written, gripping and suspenseful.
(Guardian)
Filled with fascinating information and piquant details
(Literary Review)
Stefan Aust is well placed to write the history of the most notorious of several terrorist groups
Michael Burleigh (Sunday Telegraph)
Stephen Aust’s meticulously researched chronicle of German left-wing terrorism.
Philip Oltermann (Guardian)
Meticulous history of the most famous German terrorist group.
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)
Stefan Aust is well placed to write the history of the most notorious of several terrorist groups.
Michael Burleigh (Sunday Telegraph)
(Guardian)
Filled with fascinating information and piquant details
(Literary Review)
Stefan Aust is well placed to write the history of the most notorious of several terrorist groups
Michael Burleigh (Sunday Telegraph)
Stephen Aust’s meticulously researched chronicle of German left-wing terrorism.
Philip Oltermann (Guardian)
Meticulous history of the most famous German terrorist group.
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)
Stefan Aust is well placed to write the history of the most notorious of several terrorist groups.
Michael Burleigh (Sunday Telegraph)
Need a Christmas present for someone who likes interesting facts, with a mathematical flavour' Then this is the book.’… a pot pourri of intriguing things
(Standpoint)
it would be hard to imagine an easier, friendlier, more entertaining introduction (to maths) than John Barrow's 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know… There are even belly laughs
(Daily Telegraph)
Fascinating
(Scotsman)
(Standpoint)
it would be hard to imagine an easier, friendlier, more entertaining introduction (to maths) than John Barrow's 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know… There are even belly laughs
(Daily Telegraph)
Fascinating
(Scotsman)
Schama has a masterly ability to conjure up character and vivify conflict.
Ben Rogers (Financial Times)
He remains a master storyteller, admirably and sceptically well read in current revisionist histories.
(The Times)
Simon Schama is many things: widely ranging historian, art critic, public intellectual, television don… This ragged, brilliant, hopscotching volume of vaguely connected essays is largely about America’s myth of its own exceptionalism
(The Guardian)
The master storyteller takes on the greatest story of our time, America … Britain’s foremost historian comes to a greater understanding of its present and future. Essential reading
Sebastian Shakespeare (Tatler)
Schama remains the subtlest of story-tellers… fans of Schama will wish the book were twice as long… What makes this book so bracing is the way Schama shows how unlike itself America has become
Tom Payne (Daily Telegraph)
A superb achievement…Schama has a gift for fluid prose that allows one to breeze through the book at a remarkable clip…engaging and informative
Civilian Reader (Civilian Reader)
Subtle and richly textured.
Peter Wilby (New Statesman)
The history book that gave me the most pleasure this year…this extraordinary essay also set the scene better than anything else published for Barack Obama’s election as president.
Christian Tyler (FT)
Ben Rogers (Financial Times)
He remains a master storyteller, admirably and sceptically well read in current revisionist histories.
(The Times)
Simon Schama is many things: widely ranging historian, art critic, public intellectual, television don… This ragged, brilliant, hopscotching volume of vaguely connected essays is largely about America’s myth of its own exceptionalism
(The Guardian)
The master storyteller takes on the greatest story of our time, America … Britain’s foremost historian comes to a greater understanding of its present and future. Essential reading
Sebastian Shakespeare (Tatler)
Schama remains the subtlest of story-tellers… fans of Schama will wish the book were twice as long… What makes this book so bracing is the way Schama shows how unlike itself America has become
Tom Payne (Daily Telegraph)
A superb achievement…Schama has a gift for fluid prose that allows one to breeze through the book at a remarkable clip…engaging and informative
Civilian Reader (Civilian Reader)
Subtle and richly textured.
Peter Wilby (New Statesman)
The history book that gave me the most pleasure this year…this extraordinary essay also set the scene better than anything else published for Barack Obama’s election as president.
Christian Tyler (FT)
The Forever War has rightly been compared to Michael Herr’s Dispatches, the definining front line account of the Vietnam War. It should become a classic of the 'war on terror'’
Rupert Edis (The Sunday Telegraph)
Rupert Edis (The Sunday Telegraph)
His tale has often be retold, but rarely as well as by Christopher Kelly here. Full of intrigue and local colour
Michael Kulikowski (London Review of Books)
Kelly’s well-told and reliable account is the best to have come along in years, showing a judicious approach to archaeological evidence that one could wish more widely imitated
London Review of Books (London Review of Books)
A cracking portrait of the “Scourge of God”
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)
Michael Kulikowski (London Review of Books)
Kelly’s well-told and reliable account is the best to have come along in years, showing a judicious approach to archaeological evidence that one could wish more widely imitated
London Review of Books (London Review of Books)
A cracking portrait of the “Scourge of God”
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)
Will still be valued in a hundred years' time...the book as a whole is an event
Peter Phillips (Spectator)
Full of extremely penetrating, well-judged observations on both man and music.
Nicholas Kenyon (The Times)
His creative engagement sympathetically draws out Handel's motivation as a composer.
Tom Sutcliffe (Guardian)
Peter Phillips (Spectator)
Full of extremely penetrating, well-judged observations on both man and music.
Nicholas Kenyon (The Times)
His creative engagement sympathetically draws out Handel's motivation as a composer.
Tom Sutcliffe (Guardian)
Pugh is one of the most well-respected, diligent and honest scholars working in British history today.This book deserves to be read.
Gerard DeGroot (Scotland on Sunday)
The link between a distinct wing of Conservatism and the Italian form of fascism is substantiated in this outstandingly revelatory book.
Edward Pearce (Glasgow Herald)
This book demonstrates for the first time the true spread and depth of fascist beliefs- and the extent to which they were distinctly British.
David Graham (Manchester Evening News)
buoyant and brilliant
Bettaby Hughes (The Times)
A fascinating detailed look at how we lived during the interwar years.
The Daily Mail Christmas Books (The Daily Mail Christmas Books)
Gerard DeGroot (Scotland on Sunday)
The link between a distinct wing of Conservatism and the Italian form of fascism is substantiated in this outstandingly revelatory book.
Edward Pearce (Glasgow Herald)
This book demonstrates for the first time the true spread and depth of fascist beliefs- and the extent to which they were distinctly British.
David Graham (Manchester Evening News)
buoyant and brilliant
Bettaby Hughes (The Times)
A fascinating detailed look at how we lived during the interwar years.
The Daily Mail Christmas Books (The Daily Mail Christmas Books)
Timothy Snyder is one of the most remarkable and original historians of Eastern Europe in his generation. His work commands our attention.
Timothy Garton Ash He is one of this country's most talented and innovative historians of Central and Eastern Europe... I hugely admired The Reconstruction of Nations and eagerly look forward to The Red Prince.
Niall Ferguson Timothy Snyder is not only one of the leading authorities on Central European history writing today, he is also an elegant stylist, with a talent for storytelling - a wonderful combination.
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash He is one of this country's most talented and innovative historians of Central and Eastern Europe... I hugely admired The Reconstruction of Nations and eagerly look forward to The Red Prince.
Niall Ferguson Timothy Snyder is not only one of the leading authorities on Central European history writing today, he is also an elegant stylist, with a talent for storytelling - a wonderful combination.
Anne Applebaum
A rollicking, acerbic account of the bubble and its collapse.
Edmund Conway (Daily Telegraph)
.....…The content of this book is unimpeachable: superb timing, trenchant analysis and richly deserved criticism of an Anglo-American political culture that has turned the sober profession of banking into a supercasino where the house always wins.
Misha Glenny (Irish Times)
Edmund Conway (Daily Telegraph)
.....…The content of this book is unimpeachable: superb timing, trenchant analysis and richly deserved criticism of an Anglo-American political culture that has turned the sober profession of banking into a supercasino where the house always wins.
Misha Glenny (Irish Times)
Jones's book is thoughtful, comprehensive . . . the best in the bunch.
(Boston Globe)
Chávez's rise has a made-for-Hollywood quality ... Jones provides a superb description of the economic inequities that helped create the conditions for a populist such as Chávez to come to power … Where [he] truly excels is in his observations of Venezuelan society and the outsized role oil has played in molding the national character.
(Washington Post)
(Boston Globe)
Chávez's rise has a made-for-Hollywood quality ... Jones provides a superb description of the economic inequities that helped create the conditions for a populist such as Chávez to come to power … Where [he] truly excels is in his observations of Venezuelan society and the outsized role oil has played in molding the national character.
(Washington Post)
In this well-researched and riveting account, Glenny does for crime what he did for the Balkans. He dissects the international criminal organizations that run much of the world’s economy and explains ho the criminal underworld has both benefitted from and contributed to globalization.
Joseph Stiglitz For anyone who wants to understand the 21st century, this illuminating and page-turning book is essential reading.
(Emma Thompson)
‘Behind every great fortune,', said Balzac, 'there lies a great crime'. Misha Glenny has updated this apercu for our own time.’
(Christopher Hitchens)
One of the essential non-fiction works of our time... terrific.
(GQ)
Thrilling
(Esquire)
Required reading.
(The Times)
Compelling
(Observer)
Organised crime's version of Fast Food Nation
(Mail on Sunday)
McMafia sets a debate in which we all need to join
(Daily Mail)
The most important non-fiction book of the year.
(Mail on Sunday)
Joseph Stiglitz For anyone who wants to understand the 21st century, this illuminating and page-turning book is essential reading.
(Emma Thompson)
‘Behind every great fortune,', said Balzac, 'there lies a great crime'. Misha Glenny has updated this apercu for our own time.’
(Christopher Hitchens)
One of the essential non-fiction works of our time... terrific.
(GQ)
Thrilling
(Esquire)
Required reading.
(The Times)
Compelling
(Observer)
Organised crime's version of Fast Food Nation
(Mail on Sunday)
McMafia sets a debate in which we all need to join
(Daily Mail)
The most important non-fiction book of the year.
(Mail on Sunday)
A captivating pictorial and literary journey through the history of science… a must for every home. It is a book that will repay constant visits, and Bodley Head is to be congratulated on its lavish, robust production.
(Sunday Times)
Fantastic brain-food.
Andrew Graham Dixon Barrow has found a vivid way to focus our attention on cutting-edge science, and there is an awful lot to learn already from this lusciously produced and captivating book.
(The Times)
Barrow highlights the power of pictures in discovering and understanding our universe… [and] true to his reputation for excellence in communicating science… this book is sure to provide enjoyable summer-time reading
Carlos Lourenço (CERN Courier)
(Sunday Times)
Fantastic brain-food.
Andrew Graham Dixon Barrow has found a vivid way to focus our attention on cutting-edge science, and there is an awful lot to learn already from this lusciously produced and captivating book.
(The Times)
Barrow highlights the power of pictures in discovering and understanding our universe… [and] true to his reputation for excellence in communicating science… this book is sure to provide enjoyable summer-time reading
Carlos Lourenço (CERN Courier)
Highly informative account
Nicholas Bagnall (The Sunday Telegraph)
Fascinating and fast-moving… an extraordinary book
(Observer)
Fascinating... No-one else could provide such an insider’s account, for he was the only one to be involved in the detail of every tortuous step.’
(Sunday Telegraph)
Nicholas Bagnall (The Sunday Telegraph)
Fascinating and fast-moving… an extraordinary book
(Observer)
Fascinating... No-one else could provide such an insider’s account, for he was the only one to be involved in the detail of every tortuous step.’
(Sunday Telegraph)
Seriously good non-fiction
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