Category Archives: Globes
A-Z of Hell: Ross Kemp`s Worst Places in the World
Ross Kemp`s fascinating guide of the worst places in the world. Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia, or one of the world`s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps? Well this is not the book for you. But if you want to know
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
It is short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. It is a constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication,
The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War
Hasek`s most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army — dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops). A mischief-maker, bohemian and drunk, Hasek demonstrated his wit in
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well? In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived
Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice
From Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, “Making Globalization Work” gives real, concrete ways to deal with third world debt, make trade fair and tackle global warming. In “Globalization and its Discontents” Joseph Stiglitz changed the views of the public and world leaders alike by showing why globalization doesn`t work for the world`s poor. In this
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II
Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas`s great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and
Enigma
Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma
Empires of Food
For thousands of years we have grown, cooked and traded food, and over that time much has changed. Where once we subsisted on gritty, bland grains, we now enjoy culinary creations and epicurean delights made with vegetables from the New World, fish trawled from the deep sea, and flavoured with spices from the Orient. But
Lady Chatterley`s Lover
This title features an introduction by Blake Motrrision. Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses him and tries to be the dutiful wife. However, childless and listless she feels oppressed by their marriage and their isolated life. Partly encouraged by Clifford to seek a lover, she embarks on a
The Northmen`s Fury: A History of the Viking World
The Northmen`s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America
Steaming to Victory: How Britain`s Railways Won the War
In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history. But there is a story that has hitherto been largely overlooked. It is a tale of quiet heroism, a
The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War`s Most Audacious Double Agent
He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist – and 24 other names.
The Trigger: The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip – the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. A hundred years later, Tim Butcher undertakes an extraordinary journey to uncover the story of this unknown
Haroun and Luka
Haroun: What`s the use of stories that aren`t even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can`t tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it`s up to me to put things right. If the water genie
The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas` three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve
The New World
The End Of The World Or The Beginning…On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island. The Nightingale sunk, their silver gone, captured, weak and afraid, the pair steal a treasure they should have left well alone. The adventure of
Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World
Taking his inspiration from Dylan Thomas` Under Milk Wood, Louis de Bernieres chose to celebrate his ten years of life in the south London suburb, living above a small shop that had been by turns an outlet for oversized naughty clothes for transvestites, a West Indian hairdressers and a junk shop, by writing of the
Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
A narrative particle-accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami`s international following. Tracking
A Very Long Engagement
During the First World War five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no man`s land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered; the families are notified that the men died in the line of duty…After the war Mathilde, the fiancee of one of the men, receives a
And Now on Radio 4: A Celebration of the World`s Best Radio Station
Who is Radio 4`s `fourteen-stone budgie`? How did Phyllis Willis and Mavis Davis make announcer Charlotte Green lose her cool? What does `Ruth` really think about The Archers? When did Today stop having a keep-fit spot? And who was the Spam Fritter Man, and what became of him? This wonderful history-cum-guide answers these and many
