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Simone Veil, the former French lawyer and politician who became the first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In A Life...

Reducere. Palermo's heart lies hidden under its many outer layers. In this unusual guide to the beautiful Sicilian capital, Roberto Alajmo uncovers each stra...

When Patricia Clough, a former foreign correspondent, bought a house in Umbria, she knew that buying her dream home did not mean that life would be...

A vivid first-hand account of movement across a contested nation from }Der Tagesspiegel{ contributor.

Klaus Wagenbach's account of Kafka's life in the city is a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, his education and e...

Based on five walks in central London, Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens's London, his life, his journalism and his fiction. He also ...

Birgit Haustedt guides readers through the city of Venice in poet's footsteps, showing us the sights through Rilke's eyes. A literary travel compan...

Personal memoir by former German diplomat Joachim Sartorius who lived in Cyprus for three years.

Much writing on Chaucer depicts a misleadingly parochial figure, but as Owen's enlightening short study of Chaucer's Italian years makes clear, the...

Our global climate is changing--in more ways than one. As technology rapidly improves and the world becomes ever more interconnected, it seems that...

This book, the first full-length study on the subject, explores Hemingway's visits throughout his life to such places as Sicily, Genoa, Rapallo, Co...

As Neil Barnett shows in this short but engaging biography, The charismatic, near-mythological figure of Josip Broz Tito was many things: an inspir...

A fascinating chronicle of the unique city of Kathmandu in Nepal, the greatest city of the Himalaya. Looks at how it's been affected by the destabi...

Hubert Nowak, who lived and worked in Salzburg for many years, sets out to find the lesser-known side of the city. Through the stories of those who...

It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. There is a ...

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved world fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this detailed bio...

Integrity in Public Life provides a critique of and an essential guide to integrity, leaving the reader with some hope for its continued place in p...

Ron Ramdin tells the remarkable story of a woman celebrated today as a pioneering nurse. A short and readable biography aiming at students and the ...

Moorey has written an engaging and lively account of Crete from the Stone Age to the present day.

The Power of Whitehall is an accessible introduction to the life of the Civil Servant as well as the Civil Service itself.Publisher: Haus Publishin...

In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must firs...

The Responsibilities of Democracy explores the overall health of UK democracy, giving a balanced analysis of its values and flaws. It is also a cla...

In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dic...

A parable of American society today, Land of Cockaigne is by turns furious, funny, subversive, tragic, and horrifying. What is to be done in the di...

Covers the India of the everyday - the life of the author's rural childhood. This book features photographs, which talk about the simple people, th...

A leading historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history Volker Ullrich has written a very accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck.Publis...

Set in Belgrade, a city of flux between East and West, Lily White is a complex and riveting new case for Milena Lukin that once again will take her...

A unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich which is an appraisal of both the composer and his music, and the tumultuous and dangerous...

Black Earth is a vivid first-hand account of an extensive journey through a contested nation.Publisher: Haus PublishingAuthor(s): Jens MuhlingIllus...

Art, Imagination and Public Service consists of three dialogues. The conversations offer a unique way into thinking about imaginative, compassionat...

This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in prison thought ...

The Words of My Father is a story of coexistence, survival and the unpredictable impacts and consequences of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Truth in Public Life explores the difficulty in defining truth, its critical importance in civilised society and the challenges and threats to tell...

Through his timely and intimate portrait of the world's most populous capital city, Jonathan Clements reveals the history of China itself. This fir...

DescriptionWhen Alejandro Luque receives a book of photographs taken in Sicily by the Argentinian writer, essayist, and poet Luis Borges, he decide...

World War I sounded the death knell of empires. The last Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin thought he could salvage the Ottoman state in something like it...

Beckett compelling shows Attlee's relevance to a new political generation in this new edition of his acclaimed biography of the man he argues was B...

Stripping away the many lays of Nazi and Allied propaganda, Reuth argues that Rommel's life symbolises the German tragedy: to have followed Hitler ...

Bealport is a portrait of a place, at once sympathetic, mordant, unsparing, comic, tragic and universal, and of a way of life that is passing. It i...

Published on the eve of the delayed mayoral elections and in the wake of the greatest financial downturn in generations, London and the UK asks whe...

When a chance encounter between Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill reveals that they both suffer from depression an unlikely friendship ensues. ...

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The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.Publisher: Haus PublishingAuthor(s): Sandy GallNumber of pages: 380P...

Unwritten Rule calls for a radical realignment, embracing a federal approach that would accommodate devolution as the best way of bringing about a ...

The book takes the reader the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland to lesser-known places associated with Churchill's life.Illustrations: Illu...

A new collection of walks from one of Britain's best-known walking journalists and currently Walking Correspondent for The Times.Publisher: Haus Pu...

Partition tells us how the idea of dividing Ireland came about, how it gained acceptance and popular support, about its complex and controversial i...

The functions and urgent contemporary importance of aspects of the British establishment are reflected on in these compact, informative and expert-...

James Elles explains how the EU functions, emphasising the emerging role of the European Parliament in the process.

Reducere. Are you tired of selfishness contaminating your team? Are you looking for strategies to help those on your team become better teammates?Would you l...

Secret Service is a fascinating insight into the world of the security services and a reminder of the importance of actively attending to the moral...

Managing a major remodel of your home involves learning various aspects of a construction project: permitting; hiring contractors; clarifying what ...

Published on the 20th anniversary of Massoud's assassination, two days before the 9/11 attack, this is the first biography of Massoud published in ...

This is a fascinating account of unexplored corners of one of the nation's best-known buildings, from the minutiae of decoration and diplomacy to t...

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Publisher: Haus PublishingAuthor(s): Stephen LandriganNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 227 x 146 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedes...

In Contested Lands, T. G. Fraser untangles the threads of history in the Middle East and, in doing so, weaves a detailed and insightful picture of ...

Interned in a remote country house by MI6 after the war, the German physicists who worked to make a Nazi atomic bomb were secretly recorded. This b...

Bringing together the winning and shortlisted essays from the 2020 Hubert Butler Essay Prize, Self and Society gives five fresh perspectives on the...

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Published here for the fi rst time, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's historically unique photographs show the Archivo General de Indias in Seville before i...

Through the lens of his own family's history, Peter Gumbel explores issues of identity, nationality and belonging after Brexit.

Letters from Lockdown comprises 12 weekly letters written by the Director of Westminster Abbey Institute during the Coronavirus lockdown, and three...

By telling the story of the arguments and divisions within the Conservative Party, The Worm in the Apple explains why Britain voted to leave in 201...

This book examines the history of Labour's civil wars and the underlying causes of the party's schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by...