Author: Carl von Clausewitz Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound influence on subsequent thinking on warfare. This...
Author: John Cavanagh An authoritative portrait of the global corporations as they have evolved--replacing national power; controlling the world's money, assets, goods, and information; and dominating the fate of the...
Author: Aristotle A vigorous polemicist as well as a rational philosopher, Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) has the task in his ethics of demonstrating how men become good and why...
Author: William C. Dietz For the poor, hardworking citizens of the Confederacy's fringe worlds, the Guild Wars have exacted a huge toll. Swayed by the promise of financial rewards, a...
Author: Persius The Satires of Horace (65 8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to...
Author: Peter Chippindale The SUN is more than a newspaper. It is, in its own words, a phenomenon - the biggest-selling daily paper in the English language, fascinating 12 million...
Author: Peter Mayle A personal description of Provencal life as seen through the eyes of the author and his wife when they move into an old farmhouse at the foot...
Author: John Le Carré Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known....
Author: Zachary Mason In the plain outside the walls of Troy, Agamemnon demands a fortress. With no materials except a few trees and unlimited sand, the Greeks dig a negative...
Author: Ivan Turgenev Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first...
Author: Confucius 'The Master said, "If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil"' The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by...
Author: Italo Calvino In this book, each second is an age, every cell a universe. Through a series of stories, the author illustrates the paradoxes of space and time. Estranged...
Author: Apollonius Rhodes Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece. It describes the thrilling...
Author: Philip Jones Griffiths First published in 1989, this book features seven travellers who write about different journeys: Colin Thubron on China's Silk Road, Naomi Jones on the Polynesian Islands,...
Author: John Scalzi The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the dazzling follow-up to The Collapsing Empire - a space opera in a universe on the brink of destruction. The...
Author: Saint Thomas More Sir Thomas More's entertaining description of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people, was a best-seller when it first appeared in Latin in...
Author: Rene Descartes Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental...
Author: Yuri Modin
In this volume, Yuri Modin reveals the extraordinary characters and intrigues of the legendary Cambridge spies, and the full extent of their treachery.
Author: Stanley Joel Reiser Based chiefly on material from primary sources, this book describes some technological advances made in the art and practice of medicine during the past three centuries...
Author: Timothy Tackett On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were...
Author: Emily Giffin Marian's biological clock is ticking. She has a dream job as the producer of a hugely successful TV show, a stunning Manhattan apartment and a wonderful relationship...
Author: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorbike. The journey lasted six months and...
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to...
Author: Jon Land Detroit police officer Kamal''s training is u seful to the new Palestinian police force on the West Bank, but he doesn''t expect to have to hook up...
Author: J. W. Burrow This elegant and skilful book explores the history of ideas in Europe from the revolutions of 1848 to the beginning of the First World War. Broader...
Author: Stendhal A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight...
Author: Francois Voltaire Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture....
Author: Richard Hakluyt Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the...
Author: B. Hart When Erwin Rommel died,by forced suicide at Hitler's command,he left behind in various ingenious hiding places the papers that recorded the story of his dramatic career and...
Author: Woody Guthrie First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all. Woody...
Author: Arrian The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to...
Author: Bernard Leach Examines the standards of and the various clays, pigments, and glazes used in Japanese raku, English slipware, stoneware, and Oriental porcelain, showing students how to adapt designs...
Author: Michael Lewis In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit...
Author: Greil Marcus Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound, outrageous styles,...
Author: Ivan Turgenev When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful...
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia's mother is busy saving other people's lives. Her father...
Author: Blair S. Walker Tracing Lewis's rise from an east Baltimore working-class neighborhood to Harvard Law School and ultimately into the elite circle of Wall Street deal-makers, journalist Blair Walker...
Author: David Baldacci When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York...
