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Riding the Ice Wind
By Kite and Sledge across Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
I was desperate to haul myself out of the rut and put my face to the wind, to lose myself in endeavour. And in the cold, the snow and the silence of a great immensity to shrug off the restlessness I felt.'
Adrift in a life without risk or surprise and with a burning desire to make some sense...
The English Civil War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July 1644 Parliament had won an emphatic victory...
The Fall of the House of Speyer
The Story of a Banking Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the twentieth century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It...
by D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for the first time and travelled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon groves and surrounded by the fading life of traditional Italy. This is a travel book unlike any other,...
The Unknown Lloyd George
A Statesman in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
David Lloyd George is widely regarded as one of the most effective British prime ministers of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and committed social reformer, he led Britain successfully through the devastation of World War I and had a powerful impact on international politics. In the post-war...
America's Political Inventors
The Lost Art of Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Recent American political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, reveal profound disquiet with the highly centralized political regime based on discretionary allocation of funds and powers to interest groups that has developed since the creation of emergency institutions after America's...
Political Animals
The New Feminist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Female filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last five years have witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Paraguay, Uruguay, Burkina Faso and Kenya; the first stirrings of a 'trans cinema',...
The King's Jester
The Life of Dan Leno, Victorian Comic Genius
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
Who was Dan Leno? In 1901 everyone in Britain knew who he was. They had seen him live on the music hall stage, listened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny antics in some of the earliest moving pictures. Even King Edward VII was a fan and the popular press dubbed Dan Leno “The...
Zoroastrianism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. In present-day Iran, significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith, the remarkable religious reformer Zoroaster) still practise the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once undergirded...
From Gabriel to Lucifer
A Cultural History of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Fiery the angels fell; slow thunder rolled around their shores, burning with the fires of Orc.' Whether in recent popular culture, or back across countless centuries, angels have perpetually enthralled, mystified and even terrified us. 'Every single angel is terrible,' wrote the German Romantic poet...
Sasanian Persia
The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He examines the Sasanians' complex and colourful narrative...
Iran and Pakistan
Security, Diplomacy and American Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The respective policies of the governments of Iran and Pakistan pose serious challenges to US interests in the Middle East, Asia and beyond. These two regional powers, with a combined population of around 300 million, have been historically intertwined in various cultural, religious and political...
Cradle of Islam
The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
In 1932 the Al Saud family incorporated the Kingdom of the Hijaz into the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Hijazis became a people without a country of their own, who nonetheless have since retained a separate cultural consciousness. Cradle of Islam focuses on contemporary Hijazi life and culture,...
The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy
War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
In 1814 the five reigning dynasties of Europe, Alexander I of Russia and ministers such Metternich and Talleyrand, descended upon Vienna. The Vienna Congress marked one of the great turning points in diplomatic history; the first attempt to create an 'international order' to secure peace for the nineteenth...