History and Biography General

'One of today's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers' Nature 'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's life could be so full of adventures?'

Living with disability is not easy. Staying alive with hope and joy as well as the pain is possible. A harsh life is yet beautiful as the prose, poems and pictures show in this little volume.

'Kings and Queens of England and Britain' takes its readers on a journey from the Saxons in 802, through William The Conqueror, right up to the current day monarch Queen Elizabeth II and the three heirs apparent.

A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.

This book takes the reader through London and its spiritual history - what its inhabitants believed, what they worshipped, where, when and how; the landmarks, the names, the issues and the arguments.

After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited what became France, another Germany and...

Behind every punctuation mark lie a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities.

The story of the Dundee mill girl who, inspired by David Livingstone, became a missionary herself in Calabar, a part of Africa known as 'the White Man's Grave'.