We live in an era dominated by terrorism but struggle to understand its meaning and the real nature of the threat. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed survey of the topic, Randall Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining...

We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality?For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops and smart cities. And why not?...

We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us we could not experiment, learn, and co-operate. But why did...

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures...

We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes, are social ones, shared with countless others. Our sense of self is shaped by our family, but also by affiliations that spread out from there, like...

We pay a great deal of attention to pursuit of knowledge, but overlook its constant companion: ignorance. Where our world is inundated with information, from 24-hour news and social media and the internet of things, what we do not know can be just as...

We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'In the...

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. In the near future, most of us will not own automobiles, but will travel instead in driverless electric vehicles summoned at the touch of an app. We will be liberated from driving, so that the...

We think of Ancient Greece as the birthplace of democracy and a breeding ground for pioneering philosophers, but what was life really like in a Greek city-state? Who could vote in an election in Athens? What kind of plays did people see at the...

We Want Freedom: A Life In The Black Panther Party

We would like to acknowledge our field researchers who painstakingly worked on the “meat of this compilation, travelling throughout Pakistan conducting interviews. Most of anonymous except the brave Salma Butt.

Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is sold in the sprawling bazaars; a place where ordinary...

Welcome to the art gallery! On display you'll discover 12 famous paintings by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat and more. Put together the 300-piece jigsaw, then find out about each painting and artist in the accompanying book - with internet links to...

We're offering a high discount on this book as it is slightly damaged"One of the few journalists to penetrate the new counterterror initiative, Matthew Brzezinski offers an insider's look at the new technology, laws, tactics, and persistent vulnerabilities of the post-9/11 era. The result...

We're Offering A High Discount On This Book As It Is Slightly DamagedA first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmatesand As a twenty-year-old exchange...

We're offering a high discount on this book as it is slightly damagedDescribes the recruitment of Nobel Prize winners and other accomplished men as donors to a sperm bank, whose mission was to breed brilliant scientists and leaders, profiling both the donors and the...

We're offering a high discount on this book as it is slightly damagedFrom about 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded to unprecedented size. Through astute diplomacy, economic investment, and a series of ambitious military campaigns into the heart of Central Eurasia,...

We're offering a high discount on this book as it is slightly damagedFrom one of the world's premier architecture critics, a groundbreaking dissection of how the colossal egos of the powerful and wealthy determine what actually gets built--of the real reasons why we build.Architecture...

We're Offering A High Discount On This Book As It Is Slightly DamagedRichard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799. When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo of Mysore's forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue, which in...

We're offering a high discount on this book as it is slightly damagedThe distinguished author of "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" returns with a searing examination of a new generation of evangelical leaders who have hijacked the Christian faith on behalf of the...

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WE'RE OFFREING DISCOUNT IN THIS BOOKS DUE TO ITS SLIHTLY DAMAGE CONDITIONIn his book Mr. Iqbal ismail writes about the history of Bantva Community and the role of his family members in strengthening the economy of Pakistan. Between the segments of history there lies...

We're told that the Bible is beautiful, uplifting and a joy to read - but, while we know this is how we're supposed to feel about it, in reality many of us find the very opposite. On opening the Bible, we are faced with...

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We've spent £500 million on an abandoned project to centralise 999 calls, £3.5 billion on privatising the Work Programme, £700 million on implementing Universal Credit (used by 18,000 people), £20 billion on medical negligence claims, £70 billion (and counting) dealing with nuclear waste at...

What ails the Indo-Pakistani relationship? Rivalry between the two states has persisted since the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947 and despite negotiations, four wars and multiple crises, India and Pakistan remain locked in a long-standing dispute. Evaluating relations from 1999 through...

What caused the Russian Revolution?Did it succeed or fail?Do we still live with its consequences?Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London and is the author of many acclaimed books on Russian history, includingand A People's Tragedy, whichand The Times Literary Supplementand named...

What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How does the bag of crisps you hold in your hand help tell the story of humanity itself?In his brilliant...

What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would...

What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders for example - and the decisions that they make?...

What do George W. Bush, Wal-Mart, Halliburton, gangsta rap, and SUVs have in common? They're all among the hundred ways in which America is screwing up the world. The country that was responsible for many, if not most, of the twentieth century's most important...

What do we really need in order to live a happy life?An Epicurean antidote to anxietyOver two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple all we really want is pleasure.Today we tend to associate the word 'Epicurean' with the enjoyment...

What happened to Generation X? Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers - but what about us? The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool?Generation X? Remember them? The kids who...

What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carta so important? What led to the First World War?and Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions - and many more - in 200 simple and...

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell'sand 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever."It's unlikely that Trump has ever readand Amusing Ourselves to...

What happens when one's ability no longer decides one's position in the social hierarchy? What happens when our Constitution, which de jure professes to be secular, fails to live up to it at the de facto level? The history of the largest democracy in...

What has really changed since Bush left the White House? Very little, argues Tariq Ali, apart from the mood music. The hopes aroused during Obama's election campaign have rapidly receded the honeymoon has been short. Following the financial crisis, the reform president bailed out...