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The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment through History

by Mark P P Donnelly & Daniel Diehl

For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deporable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation....


A Grim Almanac of Glasgow

by Lynne Wilson

A Grim Almanac of Glasgow is a day-to-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the city. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side...


The Mount Stewart Murder: A Re-Examination of the UK's Oldest Unsolved Murder Case

by Chris Paton

In March 1866, Janet Rogers travelled to the Perthshire-based farm of her brother, William Henderson, to help with chores while he looked for a new domestic servant. Three days later she was found dead in the...


Haunted Huddersfield

by Kai Roberts

From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits, this collection contains both new and well-known spooky tales...


Management Secrets from History: Historical Wisdom for Modern Business

by Mark P P Donnelly & Daniel Diehl

If you could go back in time and ask any historical figure for advice on how best to manage your business or staff, who would it be? Benjamin Franklin, Niccolo Machiavelli, Elizabeth I or Helen Rubinstein? Well,...


Battle Story: Waterloo 1815

by Gregory Fremont-Barnes

The Battle of Waterloo is one of the most important moments in military history. As the might of the French Empire under the leadership of the Emperor Napoleon faced the Coalition army under Duke of Wellington...


Battle Story: Rorke's Drift

by Edmund Yorke

The small garrison based at Rorke's Drift in South Africa is forever immortalised in British history as one of the Army's most glorious moments. The garrison was defended by 139 British soldiers with c.300 African...


Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile

by Julia Fox

The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress,...


Tristes Tropiques

by Claude Levi-Strauss & John Weightman

A milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology.

This watershed work records Claude Lévi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." From the...


The Nuremberg Trials - The Complete Proceedings Vol 5: The Concentration Camps

by Bob Carruthers

This is the fifth volume in the complete proceedings of the Nuremberg trial of the German major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg, Germany.
Taken from the original...


Amazing Aviators: Inspirational Stories

by Charles Margerison

As the world becomes smaller and air travel more commonplace, do we always remember those amazing people whose bravery and vision has made it possible for us to travel around to the far ends of the earth? In...


Amazing People of England: Inspirational Stories

by Charles Margerison

England, throughout its history, has been the birthplace of countless inspirational people. Some have become household names around the world. Many more deserve to be, but are as yet unsung heroes. In this unique...


Amazing Engineers: Inspirational Stories

by Charles Margerison

When problems crop up, we need solutions. When something needs to be improved, or made more efficient, we need innovative ideas and positive action. Take inspiration from some of the world's most celebrated...


Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality

by Hanne Blank

It's surprising that the term "heterosexuality" is less than 150 years old and that heterosexuality's history has never before been written, given how obsessed we are with it. In Straight, independent scholar...


They Say the Wind Is Red: The Alabama Choctaw - Lost in Their Own Land

by Jacqueline Matte

They Say the Wind Is Red is the moving story of the Choctaw Indians who managed to stay behind when their tribe was relocated in the 1830s. Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, they had to resist the efforts of unscrupulous...


Militant and Migrant

by Radhika Chopra

This book is a study of the transformations in Punjab created by biotechnological revolutions, economic restructuring, persistent migrations, and political upheaval in the late 20th century. The sacred centre...


Wronging Rights? Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights

by Aakash Singh Rathore & Alex Cistelecan

This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian, its balanced internal structure not just throwing these...


Interrogating International Relations

by Jayashree Vivekanandan

The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that inform mainstream international relations today, and problematises the several tropes that have come to typify the strategic histories of post-colonial...


The CIA's Greatest Hits

by Mark Zepezauer & Arthur Naiman

The CIA’s Greatest Hits details how the CIA:

• hired top Nazi war criminals, shielded them from justice and learned—and used—their techniques

• has been involved in assassinations, bombings, massacres, wars,...


Brighton, A Very Peculiar History

by David Arscott

Brighton: that curious master of reinvention - whether it's considered 'London-by-the-Sea' or 'England's San Francisco', it's certainly a city with a reputation for being on the edge. Delve deep into the weird...