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The Friar of Carcassonne
Stephen O'Shea
Secret tribunals, illegal rendition, torture, trumped up charges ... all in a society controlled by ...
Nearly a century had passed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril. But repression bred resentment and it was in Carcassonne ...
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Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense
Jules Goddard, Tony Eccles
The aim of the book is to encourage managers to reject the fashion for business panaceas and theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and to turn away from slavishly focussing on'best'practice and so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists.It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense - thinking, doing or behaving differently from other organisations in ...
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Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense
Jules Goddard, Tony Eccles
The winning difference daring to be different can make - insights into how organisations can stand ...
This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists.It puts forward the notion that the ...
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan
The'other'decimated twin Wonders of the World and the tragic country of Afghanistan
The Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, carved in the sixth century AD, represented two aspects of the Buddha, universal and historical. In March 2001 the Taliban destroyed them. They were massive, 55m and 38m tall, hewn out of the solid rock face and it took weeks to ...
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The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
Natalie Haynes
How modern are our lives? Or are we still living the lives our ancestors lived?
It's time for us to re-examine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and education, and to learn how people really lived in Athens, Rome, Sparta and Alexandria...
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Bred of Heaven
Jasper Rees
A year in pursuit of Welshness
Jasper Rees has always wanted to be Welsh. But despite Welsh grandparents (and a Welsh surname) he is an Englishman: by birth, upbringing and temperament.In this singular, hilarious love letter to a glorious country so often misunderstood, Rees sets out to achieve his goal of becoming a Welshman by learning to sing, play, work, worship, think - and above all, speak - ...
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The Sleeping Army
Francesca Simon
An exciting new novel for children 8+ from one of the bestselling children's authors in the world, ...
Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods. One evening, stuck with her dad on his night shift at the British Museum, she is drawn to the Lewis Chessmen and Heimdall's Horn. Unable to ...
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The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama's most important book since the pathbreakingEnd of History
Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins.Francis Fukuyama ...
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On The Eve
Bernard Wasserstein
A major new history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World...
This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and ...
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The Uncommon Reader
The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story.The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean...
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How to Watch the Olympics
David Goldblatt, Johnny Acton
The games are finally here! This is the one book on the Olympics you really do need
The Olympics is the world's biggest sporting event - and it moves centre stage for London 2012. Yet the sports the world is familiar with - football, cricket, rugby, baseball, motor sports - are either missing or have a token presence. In their place are games that most of us have not a clue how to play or to ...
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Underground, Overground
Andrew Martin
An entertaining and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railway
Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings Cross on the Circle line?The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs ...
