Most books celebrate the exceptions rather than the rule. They focus on the over-achievers, the unique and strange success stories. They don’t provide a fair...View more

With our unpredictable weather, there's never been a better time to cultivate vegetables under shelter. An experienced grower, Klaus Laitenberger shows how to use the...View more

Ruby Wax has an extraordinary mind, and she has brought it to bear with trademark wit and searing honesty on the subject of that mind,...View more

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory...View more

'Fate is the Hunter' is a thrilling account of some of the more memorable experiences Ernest K. Gann had in the air. He flew in...View more

A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of The First...View more

In a sweeping panorama, Weatherland allows us to witness England’s cultural climates across the centuries. Before the Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons living in a wintry world wrote about...View more

The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How...View more

Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of devastation...View more

A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania From the end of the Middle Ages to the...View more

Drawing on first-hand accounts of crusaders, sea captains and merchants, as well as the state records, renowned historian Roger Crowley's City of Fortune is a...View more

Author: Oakley Graham  Publisher: Imagine That Released Date: 2014 ISBN: 9781787008632View more