Non-Fiction Books

About the Author Jon E. Lewis is a writer and historian. His many previous books include bestsellers The Mammoth Book of the West, The Mammoth Boo...

From the seasoned infantryman of the 1700s to the hi-tech warrior of today, this book makes an intriguing journey through 300 years of military ser...

This superb illustrated series books charts the rise and fall of the German Air Force from 1939 to 1945. Each volume makes use of over a hundred ra...

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What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elboroug...

'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity ...

By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a ne...

Product Description For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society: from Plato to HG Wells, ...

"A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective" --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of Geophysic...

During this time of conflict and suspicion, it is perhaps more important than ever to understand the beliefs and philosophies of other cultures. A ...

In the Dalai Lama's own words: 'It is my hope that the reader of this small book will take away a basic understanding of Buddhism and some of the k...

An era, beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, that saw the British Empire - the largest ever seen - dominate ...

Why did the country which produced Goethe, Beethoven, Bach, Schiller, Einstein, Kant and Hegel allow itself to be led to the precipice of self-dest...

182 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next ...

Review "Explosive revelations...shocking." "Globe"" "Morton offers a nuanced, intimate, and psychologically incisive understanding of a troubling...

Once the Second World War had broken out, it soon became clear that morale would be crucial in the military effectiveness of our armed forces. And ...

Produced in association with Imperial War Museums, 1918: How the First World War Was Won gives a detailed account of the final year of the war. It ...

A day-by-day collection of over 6000 events, trivia, quotations, news items, anniversaries and birthdays for every day of the year. Presented a...

London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual lif...

The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry cate...

The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller 'A fabulous story, superbly told ... cannot be bettered' Max Hastings ...

The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning ...

Was there ever a real Robin Hood? Nick Rennison looks at the candidates who have been proposed over the years, from petty thieves to Knights Templa...

Product Description The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 wi...

This collection of letters from survivors of the Waterloo Campaign was gathered in the 1830s and 1840s when Captain William Siborne was trying to v...

Christopher Hampton's play is drawn from the testimony Pomsel gave when she finally broke her silence shortly before she died to a group of Austria...

For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, ...

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936...

**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Mi...

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen - a writer of rare vision and flair. The world she creates...

An enchanting celebration of life's small pleasures, this little book captures the French imagination and art of living a good life. Each chapt...

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. H...

Product Description Twelve posters, one for each unit, accompany English World 1. The posters play a central role in the teaching of new vocabular...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly recognised as playing a significant role in the health sector in developing countries. This ...

This ambitious volume, newly available in paperback, explores the rich history of the book, one of the most efficient, influential and enduring tec...

This book explores teachers' understanding of the personal and professional experiences that have informed their language teaching. The intent of ...

This text is a highly accessible and authoritative approach to the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of English. This book is an...

Originally published in 1995, The Cambridge Gazetteer of the United States and Canada contains more than 12,000 entries of places of all kinds. It ...

"Some people leave a deeper footprint in the sands of time than others. In these pages we have access to their particular stories and identities." ...

This original study examines Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature....

Words to Live By is a gorgeous book of 50 illustrated quotes by 50 inspiring women. Discover intelligent and powerful quotes such as: "Optimism...

This practical, down-to-earth guide is for researchers, students, community groups, charities or employees - in fact anyone who needs to put togeth...