Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. This book seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories.
Paperback edition of the book about a Venetian family whose inability to sleep led to their deaths, and how their obscure disorder may hold the secret of Mad Cow Disease. 'One of the best works of pop-sci of the past decade... Max is a terrific storyteller and has the rare knack of making complex... science accessible.' "Evening Standard
Subtitled, "The Delusions Of Global Capitalism". New edition, with a new chapter on the events of the past 5 years. Sharply criticises the greed and unsustainable economic practices that have led to the world-wide recession, and argues against extreme freemarket capitalism.
Sloane Crosley's essays talk about the experience of being young and living in New York. Sparkling, witty, urbane, her book soared straight to the top of the US best-seller lists. Prepare to be amused and delighted and to laugh out loud.
The Director is Ingmar Bergman, the time is 1961, and the setting is the shooting of "Winter Light, " a film about how his life would have been, had he followed his father's wishes and become a priest. As actors and crew gather to film this alternative destiny, Bergman tries to draw his father into the process, but quickly finds himself plunged back into the emotions of his childhood--both terrorized by his brutal and dominating father, and de...
Telling the history of Asians in Britain, their arrival in 1614 to the extremists in 2006. Sardar travels across the country, experiencing the diversity in communities and questioning whether multiculturalism is an impossible dream.
Tells the story of how scientists are using the modern techniques to draw information out of the oldest rocks on Earth. This title also reveals the human story of the Altantis-seeking visionaries and madmen, who have been imagining lost or undiscovered continents for centuries.
Niccolo Machiavelli is one of the most influential modern political thinkers. This work argues that, far from being a justifier of political immorality, Machiavaelli was concerned instead with the best way to attain glory through political action and that his works were inspired by love of republican liberty.
David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist and a central figure of the Enlightenment. This book describes how Hume can be considered one of the earliest, and most successful, evolutionary psychologists.
Plato is the foundational thinker of European speculative thought. His writings range over ethics, politics, religion, art, the structure of the natural world, mathematics, the human mind, love, sex and friendship. Richard Kraut argues here for the vital importance of his work.
Charts Bunting's exploration of her father's attachment to a small plot of land in North Yorkshire. After his death, she delved deep into the history of this acre, and sheds a fascinating light on what a contested, layered place England is. Bunting is a "Guardian" columnist. 'A startling, willed, one-off book...' "Observer
Madame Verona and her husband lived in isolation on a hill above a small village. When Mr Verona died, the locals expected that the legendary beauty would return to the village, but Madame Verona had enough wood to keep her warm during the years it would take to make a cello - the instrument her husband loved. When the last log has burned, Madame Verona sets off down the path, with her cello and her memories, knowing that she will not return.
The plans are drawn up, a site is chosen, foundations are dug: a building comes into being with the expectation that it will stay put and stay for ever. But a building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation. In this radical re-imagination of architectural history, Edward Hollis tells the stories of thirteen buildings, beginning with the once upon a time when they f...
This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. Ehrenreich conceived of the book when she became ill with breast cancer, and found herself surrounded by pink ribbons and platitudes. She balked at the way her anger about having the disease was seen as unhealthy and dangerous by health professionals a...
In MIRRORS, Galeano smashes aside the narrative of conventional history and arranges the shards into a new pattern, to reveal the past in radically altered form. From the Garden of Eden to twenty-first century cityscapes, we glimpse fragments in the lives of those who have been overlooked by traditional histories: the artists, the servants, the gods and the visionaries, the black slaves who built the White House, and the women who were bartere...
The paperback edition of Athill's collected memoirs, including "Yesterday Morning", "Instead Of A Letter", "Stet" and "Somewhere Towards The End", which won the 2008 Costa Biography Prize. Spans the four stages of her life, her childhood, her university years, her publishing career and her old age. 'Athill tells her own story lightly and delightfully' "Daily Mail
