Colin Powell, one of America's most admired public figures, reveals the principles that have shaped his life and career in this inspiring and engrossing memoir. A beautiful companion to his previous memoir, the #1 New York Times bestseller My American Journey, Powell's It Worked...

Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey.On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into...

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Command and Controland interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans...

Companion to the BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon SchamaThe idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the...

Compelling perspectives, deep insights Putting Pakistan Right is set out simply and concisely • What ails Pakistan • What is taking it so long to fix its ailments • What matters and what doesn't • Is the future better than the past? This is...

Complemented by family photographs and a brief biography by Dr Alka Pande, this book traces the journey of Hemi Bawa, a Delhi-based artist. It chronicles Bawa's life in terms of the art she nurtures - from a young painter without formal training to her...

Completely redesigned in an attractive new format, this popular manual provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive guide to human anatomy and a dissection guide recognized throughout the world. For the new edition, the dissection guide has been separated from the text and remodeled...

Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi,and The TimesA century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home' in Palestine, veteranand Guardianand journalist Ian Black has produced a major...

Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders profiles leaders from all walks of life - kings, queens, and political leaders; military leaders; religious icons, revolutionaries, and business leaders.Combining accessible text with specially-commissioned illustrated portraitsand in a range of bold artwork styles,...

Comprising facts, figures, statistics and trivia, this indispensable reference book is ideal for schools, libraries and trivia junkies.

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Confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House's war on the press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity of the press itself. Norman Pearlstine takes us behind the scenes of one of the most controversial courtroom dramas of our time. When Pearlstine-as...

Confucius failed in his lifetime to rescue a crumbling civilization with his teachings, but he was to become the most influential sage in human history. His thought, still remarkably current, survives here in The Analects --a collection of brief aphoristic sayings that has had...

Conquests and Dynasties 476 CE 1500 Follow the rise of the Byzantine empire in Asia Minor, the unification of China and the arrival of Christianity to the voyages of Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Zheng He. In between, the Muslim empire covers swathes of...

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed "rise of the robots" really...

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Control the sea, and you control everything...aand gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, fromand the author of the classic workand Genghis Khanand and the Making of the Modern World.Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the...

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Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power. Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in...

Crack the case with the InvestiGators! Join Mango and Brash inand InvestiGators Braver and Boulderand for another wacky adventure in the laugh-out-loud full colour comic book series by John Patrick Green, perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey.'Fast, fabulous, and fantastically funny, the InvestiGators...

Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down.and Women sent cables, made dead drops, and maintained the agency's secrets. Despite discrimination - even because of...

Cuba's number 2 official today - Commander Juan Almeida - was secretly working with JFK in November 1963 to overthrow and Fidel. and The US government recently revealed Almeida's work for JFK, allowing the updated trade paperback of Ultimate Sacrifice to tell the full...

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David Gardner examines the facts and theories surrounding the infamous 9/11 attacks, seeking truth in hidden - or officially suppressed - information. The time is right to learn what really happened on 9/11. The time is right to unearth what has been deliberately withheld...

David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been' - Dominic Sandbrook,and Sunday TimesIn the twenty-first century football is first. First among sports themselves, but it now commands the allegiance, interest and engagement...

Days before his country signed a deal to normalise ties with Israel, the Emirati Ambassador to the US penned an article in Hebrew, directly addressing Israelis. Israel, he argued, faced a choice between engagement with the rest of the region, or isolation. His words...

Dazzled by Indias meteoric economic rise, we hesitate to acknowledge its costs to the people and the environment. Churning the Earth engages in a timely inquiry and presents incontrovertible evidence on how the nature of this recent growth has been predatory. Unfettered development has...

Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed to be a simple support mission to investigate the death of an operative who had been looking into suspicious banking activities at a Swiss bank....

Deep underground, hidden from view, some of humanity s earliest artistic endeavours have lain buried for thousands of years. The most ancient artworks were portable objects, left on cave floors. Shell beads signal that 100,000 years ago humans had developed a sense of self...

Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winningand CopenhagenIn 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by...

Defy gravity with an access-all-areas pass to the spectacular International Space Station with this behind-the-scenes guide to life in space.Have you ever wondered what life is like in the International Space Station? Or whether plants can grow in space? Or how astronauts go to...

Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth? and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype. In 2004, Jared Cohen embarked on the first of a series of incredible journeys...

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