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We Look Like This
We Look Like This anatomizes how history, violence, power, lust and mortality work on us. Read more...
Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC: Athens to London 1894-2012
The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC is a dramatic account of the history of the world’s foremost sporting spectacle. Read more...
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait, called the Mona Lisa, is without doubt the world’s most famous painting. Read more...
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: the True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
From the author of the bestselling novel The Art Thief, this gripping true-crime thriller traces the gripping, six-century history of the world's most-stolen masterpiece. Read more...
What Are Universities For?
Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and skepticism about their value. Read more...
Deadly Consignment
Gripping, realistic terrorist thriller from a man who knows the countries involved. Read more...
More Please No More
More Please No More is a novel of voices circling like a cyclone in a traumatic event in the life of a child. Read more...
Bits and Pieces of My Life
Bits and Pieces of My Life is the autobiographical acount of a Cambridge educated Englishman whose captivating life has spanned several continents. Read more...
Certain Prose of The English Intelligencer
This book brings together a selection of prose works from the legendary poetry circular The English Intelligencer (1966–68), one of the definitive documents of later twentieth-century British poetry. Read more...
Alan M. Turing Centenary Edition
'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' Read more...
Learning to be a Publisher
The Cambridge University Press which Michael Black joined in 1951 as Assistant Secretary to the Syndics was tiny, traditional, gentlemanly and almost unchanged since the Second World War. Read more...
Love in the Holy Quran
The author treats, in a simple and accessible style with reader-friendly and teaching-friendly features, not only of love of God and love of the neighbour, but also much more, all based entirely on the Holy Qur’an. Read more...
Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack Read more...
Rule and Ruin
As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party is rocketing rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threaten to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Read more...
Sex and Drugs and Squash’n’Roll
Teenager Jolyon Jacks comes of age on the PSA tour. A chance game of squash against a girl at school leads fifteen year old Jacks to Manchester, and the iron-hard coach, ‘Sailor’ McCann. Read more...
A View from the Lodge
These are the reminiscences of a Cambridge College Porter, all the more remarkable for being true, with only some of the names and places changed in the tradition of discretion. Read more...
The Right Kind of History
A ground-breaking account of the teaching of history in England's state schools from the early 1900s to the present day, this accessible study is a major contribution to the current debates about the place of history in the classroom and the national curriculum. Read more...
Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia
The autocratic rule of both tsar and church in imperial Russia gave rise not only to a revolutionary movement in the nineteenth century but also to a crisis of meaning among members of the intelligentsia. Read more...
Wicked Autumn
Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold’s in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. Read more...
The Treachery at Nether Stowey
Autumn 1797. Britain stands alone after the capitulation of its last ally. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion force lies encamped just across the English Channel. An embattled government resolves to do whatever it takes to protect the nation's shoreline. Read more...
John Brown Still Lives!
From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Read more...
Charles Simeon: An ordinary pastor of extraordinary influence
Pastor of but one church all his working life in a small university town, Charles Simeon sowed seeds that continue to reproduce themselves throughout the world. Read more...
Banjo Method
Ride with Mark Twain and his fellow Masonic travellers on the Panama Railroad in July 1868 as a precursor to the present adventures of Sam Stone, a banjo playing Assistant U.S. Attorney from Alabama, who goes back to the Republic of Panama for a reconciliation with his Brazilian ex-wife, Regina Jones Oliveria. Read more...
A Sense of Shock
What did modern British and Irish literature have to do with French impressionist painting? Read more...
Grace
Nominated for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. What happens if, when the angel arrives with his message, no one's at home? Read more...
After Adam Smith
Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. Read more...
Herculaneum: Past and Future
In AD 79, the volcano Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and rock, and leaving them remarkably well preserved for centuries. Read more...
Reading the Ruins
From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. Read more...
Colonizing Southampton
This book concerns the emergence and impact of the summer colony in the village of Southampton, New York, between the years 1870 and 1900, particularly the often fraught relations between the area’s wealthy resort population and its year-round residents. Read more...
The Pakistan Cauldron
Pakistan's stability is key to regional peace, to the future of Afghanistan, and to the global struggle against violent extremism. Understanding Pakistani politics is crucial to working with this challenging American ally. Read more...
A Revolution of the Mind
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights Read more...
Diagnosis and Risk Management in Primary Care
Diagnosis and Risk Management in Primary Care teaches that adopting an evidence-based approach to primary care improves patient care and treatment outcomes. Read more...
Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England
This groundbreaking study of coinage in early medieval England is the first to take account of the very significant additions to the corpus of southern English coins discovered in recent years and to situate this evidence within the wider historical context of Anglo-Saxon England and its continental neighbours Read more...
Shi'a Islam in Colonial India
Interest in Shi'ism Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Read more...
Locke on Personal Identity
John Locke's theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves - yet it is widely thought to be wrong. In his new book, Galen Strawson argues that in fact it is Locke's critics who are wrong, and that the famous objections to his theory are invalid. Read more...
Female Breadwinners
Never before have female breadwinners - women who are the main earners at home - faced such a unique opportunity. Read more...
Risk
Recent events from the economic downturn to climate change mean that there has never been a better time to be thinking about and trying to better understand the concept of risk. Read more...
The French Idea of History
"A fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat . . . the champion of the hardest, narrowest, and most inflexible dogmatism . . . part learned doctor, part inquisitor, part executioner." Thus did Émile Faguet describe Joseph-Marie de Maistre (1753–1821) in his 1899 history of nineteenth-century thought. This Read more...
Corporate Governance: Financial Times Briefing
Good corporate governance practices are a crucial part of any successful business. Financial Times Briefing: Corporate Governance is a practical and accessible guide to everything you need to know about corporate governance. Read more...
Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition
Raphael Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful and ambitious speeches? Read more...
The Cambridge Book of Days
Taking you through the year day by day, "The Cambridge Book of Days" contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of England as a whole. Read more...
Echoes of Ingen Housz
Jan Ingen Housz (1730 –1799) was a remarkable physician and scientist who lived in a circle of very famous names and through tempestuous times. His reputation has slid into obscurity and deserves new prominence, especially his discovery of the primacy of light in photosynthesis. Read more...
Military Laser Technology for Defense
Military Laser Technology for Defense, includes only unclassified or declassified information. Read more...
Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science
In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Read more...
Histories of Scientific Observation
Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Read more...
The Closed Commercial State
This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Read more...
Short Introduction to Accounting
An introduction to the fundamentals of accounting and how it is used that will help students apply accounting as a usable, everyday business tool. Read more...
States of Credit
States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. Read more...
Jean Sibelius and His World
Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. Read more...
Codes of the Underworld
How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. Read more...
St John's College, Cambridge: A History
Within a generation of its foundation on the site of a decayed hospital at the behest of Lady Margaret Beaufort, England's queen mother, the College of St John the Evangelist had established itself as one of the kingdom's foremost educational establishments: in the words of one notable contemporary, as 'an university within it selfe' indeed. Read more...
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Read more...
Tommy this an’ Tommy that
There is nothing new about the military covenant, a freshly minted term for something that’s been around for as long as soldiering itself. Read more...
Fizz
Fizz is a novel telling the story of the history of physics—mankind unraveling the universe—from the perspective of a young woman. Read more...
Tea: A history of the drink that changed the world
Tea is a phenomenon that has changed the attitudes of one nation to another, exposed divisions of class and race, ossified social behaviour, shaped the ethics of business, influenced relations between management and labour and led to significant advances in medicine. Read more...
Afghanistan: Land of Conflict and Beauty
John Griffiths delves into the history, culture, social fabric, internal politics and economy of this intriguing and backward country. Read more...
Out of Sight
Patrick Hinde is a loving husband and caring father, but when his parents come to stay for a few fateful days one July he simply wants to flee from the difficult memories they provoke. Read more...
Key Business Solutions
This book explains how to resolve every challenge faced on a day-to-day basis in your business by presenting an unbeatable inventory of proven problem solving tools and techniques to help you tackle your toughest business dilemmas effectively. Read more...
Madingley Rise and Early Geophysics at Cambridge
This fine illustrated hardback volume, written by Carol Williams, traces the fascinating story of Geophysics at Madingley Rise. Read more...
Sworn Sword
January 1069. Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson. In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. Read more...
Energy and carbon emissions: the way we live today
This is a sourcebook of facts and figures about carbon emissions and energy use in the UK. Read more...
Shakespeare on Love
Dr Ronald Gray, Fellow of Emmanuel College, lectured at Cambridge University on German Literature and Philosophy for 33 years, and now expands his article, “Will in the Universe: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy and Renaissance Neo-Platonism,” published in Shakespeare Survey 59 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Read more...
Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis)
Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can do to the moral health of young readers. Read more...
Cambridge Then and Now
Cambridge Then and Now is the latest in the long-running series that uncovers archive photos of the landmark sites of a city and re-photographs them from exactly the same viewpoint today. Read more...
The Love of a Woman
This new collection of poetry The Love of a Woman has been described as a book about hopefulness and the avoidability of decadence. Read more...
The Mays XIX
Each year, the Mays publishes a selection of the best and most exciting new writing from students at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, ever since it first appeared in 1993. Read more...
Higgy: Matches, Microphones and MS
Alastair Hignell is renowned as a rugby international for England, a county cricketer and a much-loved broadcaster. Read more...
The Human Rights Act and the Assault on Liberty: Rights and Asylum in the UK
A major objective of the Human Rights Act (HRA) was to bring about a culture of rights in the UK. Read more...
Journal of Modern Wisdom
It’s time to put wisdom back on the agenda – so says a radical new collection of essays from leading public thinkers, including Lord Richard Layard, Theodore Dalrymple and Judith Rich Harris. Read more...
Man Ray Lee Miller
Bringing together unique and rarely seen photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exquisite book tells the story of the tumultuous relationship between the artists Man Ray (1890–1976) and Lee Miller (1907–1977). Read more...
Nova Cantabrigiensis
Nova Cantabrigiensis is a utopian island in the middle of the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia. Read more...
A Social History of England, 900-1200
The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. Read more...
The Inner Life of Empires
They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. Read more...
Angel's Fury
One fallen angel walks the earth to bring mankind to its destruction... Turning love into hate, forgiveness into blame, hope into despair. Read more...
Western Illuminated Manuscripts
Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Read more...
Irish Essays
Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. Read more...
The Carolingian World
At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe – from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. Read more...
Familes and States in Western Europe
This collection of essays traces the relationship between families and states in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945, examining the power of states to shape family life and the capacity of families to influence states. Read more...
Meaning in Mathematics
Is mathematics a highly sophisticated intellectual game in which the adepts display their skill by tackling invented problems, or are mathematicians engaged in acts of discovery as they explore an independent realm of mathematical reality? Read more...
Eruptions that Shook the World
What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Read more...
The Chief Sea Lion's Inheritance: Eugenics and the Darwins
Charles Galton Darwin was the grandson of the great Charles Darwin and was born into the liberal and independent-minded intellectual family in 1887. Read more...
Socrates Vs. Jesus: The Struggle for the Meaning of Life
In this intellectual broadside, iconoclastic popular sociologist Steve Fuller reclaims Jesus as a philosophical thinker – and one who really puts his money where his mouth is. Read more...
Of Faith and Fidelity
As the papal wars of the Western Schism rage across Europe, a young man takes his first step on the journey of a lifetime. Read more...
Seasonal Awareness and Wellbeing
Feeling and looking better can be a struggle for people needing to balance the demands of a busy modern lifestyle. Read more...
Tweets from Tahrir
The Twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time. Read more...
The Book of Universes
The Book of Universes tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein’s famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Read more...
The Art of the Body
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Read more...
The Making of the British Landscape
This is the changing story of Britain from prehistory to the present day, as it has been preserved in our fields, farms, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. Read more...
Sparrow Tree
Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive Sparrow Tree puts nature writing in a spin, presenting a huge variety of birds, both British and American: blue tits, blackbirds, egrets, juncos, starlings, herons and hummingbirds as well as the sparrows of the title. Read more...
Gemini Four
Art Groups usually last less than a couple of years then fall out. Gemini Poets are publishing their fourth collection of poetry, nearly 40 years after the first one. Read more...
The Barbed-Wire University
The conventional picture of life in an Allied POW camp conjures up images of daring escapes (Colditz and The Great Escape) or the terrible brutality of the Far East (Bridge on the River Kwai). Read more...
Reiteration
'Henry Disney's is, to borrow a phrase, a beautiful mind, and also a tough mind.' So wrote Kitty Ferguson in her review of his sixth collection. Read more...
The Production of Books in England 1350–1500
Between roughly 1350 and 1500, the English vernacular became established as a language of literary, bureaucratic, devotional and controversial writing. Read more...
Music Made Me
Raymond Leppard is one of the most respected international conductors of our time, having appeared with nearly all of the world’s leading orchestras in his five decades on the podium and with more than 200 recordings to his credit. Read more...
Inflight Science
There are few times that science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Read more...
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. Read more...
Changes of State
This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Read more...
Pashmina: The Kashmir Shawl and Beyond
The classic Kashmir shawl is among the most exquisite textile woven, the product of consummate skill and artistry applied to one of the world's most delicate fibres. Read more...
The Short, the Long, and the Tall
The Short, the Long, and the Tall is a collection of 34 stories published during the last 10 years, many of the stories sections that follow on from one another to constitute single narratives. Read more...
Fatal Colours
The Battle of Towton 1461 was unique in its ferocity and brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude the first War of the Roses. Read more...
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. Read more...
The Partridge and the Pelican
In the summer of 1983, Olivia and Eve find a baby abandoned in a phone box. Read more...
How to Crack an Egg with One Hand
Within these pages you will find everything you need to know (and a few things you don’t) in order to embark on the mindboggling journey that is modern motherhood. Read more...
Fred Hoyle: A Life of Science
The scientific life of Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) was truly unparalleled. Read more...
The Artful Universe Expanded
In the The Artful Universe (OUP, 1995) John D. Barrow explored the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. Read more...
Two For Sorrow
London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. Read more...
The Road from Frijoles Canyon
In 1936, eight-year-old William Adams made his first visit to the Southwest and the Puebloan ruins of Frijoles Canyon—better known as Bandelier National Monument. Read more...
Anatomy of Ghosts
1786, Jerusalem College Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumoured to be haunting Jerusalem since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds. Read more...
Rome Across Time and Space
Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the triumph of Christian faith. Read more...
Bismarck: A Life
This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. Read more...
Love, Gudrun Ensslin
One banker will be assassinated each month unless the government takes practical steps to reduce the gap between rich and poor… Read more...
Ely: Bishops and Diocese, 1109-2009
The diocese of Ely, formed out of the huge diocese of Lincoln, was established in 1109 in St Etheldreda's Isle of Ely, and the ancient Abbey became Ely Cathedral Priory. Read more...
Children of the Sun
1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes seduced by the skinhead movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre ritual. Read more...
The Mystery of the Last Supper
For hundreds of years, we thought we knew what happened during Jesus' last days. Read more...
The Quiet Twin
A tale of political paranoia, dangerous liaisons and defiant compassion, The Quiet Twin is an unforgettable journey into a cityscape of totalitarian dread and deception. Read more...
Russia's Cold War
The phrase 'Cold War' was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: 'We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.' Read more...
Wild Coast
In this compelling and elegant travel memoir, John Gimlette returns to Guyana, the Wild Coast in South America, to discover his ancestral colonial history – one of brutal, cruel and often uncomfortable truths. Read more...
Europe United
The construction of the European Community (EC) has widely been understood as the product of either economic self-interest or dissatisfaction with the nation-state system. Read more...
Most Secret: The Hidden History of Orford Ness
Orford Ness was so secret a place that most people have never even heard of it. Read more...
The Modern Middle East
Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Read more...
Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel
Discoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of William's sister, Caroline, who assisted him in his observations of the night sky and became an accomplished astronomer in her own right. Read more...
Cambridge's West Side Story
The transformation of the landscape of west Cambridge began with the enclosure in 1802/5 of the 1,300-acre Parish of St Giles, one of the two great open fields of the medieval Borough. Read more...
The Company of Shadows
Flicking through her friends' holiday snaps, Kate Benson receives a sudden shock. Read more...
Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science
After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. Read more...
Cambridge Student Pranks: A History of Mischief & Mayhem
Cambridge University is famed for the resourcefulness and innovation of its students. Read more...
The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn
Joseph Haydn was one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers. Read more...
Elegguas
Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Read more...
Genetic Twists of Fate
News stories report almost daily that scientists have linked a certain gene to a disease like Alzheimer’s or macular degeneration, or to a condition like depression or autism, or to a trait like aggressiveness or anxiety. Read more...
From a Clear Blue Sky
On the August bank holiday Monday in 1979, 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went out on a holiday boat trip in Co Sligo. Read more...
Archaeologies of Colonialism
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Read more...
Oberammergau in the Nazi Era
The Bavarian mountain village of Oberammergau is famous for its decennial passion play. The play began as an articulation of the villagers' strong Catholic piety, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries developed into a considerable commercial enterprise. Read more...
Washington Square
Washington Square is one of the most instantly appealing of Henry James's early masterpieces, a tale of a trapped daughter and domineering father that has to do with money and love and innocence betrayed. Read more...
Practical Tortoise Raising and other philosophical essays
Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. Read more...
Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe
Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. Read more...
Iraq and the Use of Force in International Law
The prohibition of the use of force is one of the most crucial elements of the international legal order. Read more...
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. Read more...
Britain and the Olympic Games
Britain and the Olympic Games traces the history of Britain’s love affair with the Olympic Games and shows exactly why the Olympic movement was re-born here. Read more...
Diversity and Pluralism in Islam
For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. Read more...
Do Llamas Fall in Love?
In this stunning sequel to his bestselling philosophy books, Can a Robot be Human? and What's Wrong with Eating People, Peter Cave once again engages the reader in a romp through the best bits of philosophical thought. Read more...
A Scientist's Survival Guide
Dr Gerhard Haas’s life in science has spanned six decades--as biochemist, enzymologist and microbiologist, working with some of science's foremost researchers and some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, brewing and food concerns. Read more...
Chasing the Sun
In Chasing the Sun, Richard Cohen distils the fruits of eight years research and visits to 18 different countries to create the most complete and readable account of the Sun yet published. Read more...
Dismantling Democracy In Venezuela
This book examines the process of dismantling the democratic institutions and protections in Venezuela under the Hugo Chávez regime. Read more...
The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis
A distinguished academic, influential Christian apologist, and best-selling author of children's literature, C. S. Lewis is a controversial and enigmatic figure who continues to fascinate, fifty years after his death. Read more...
Vanished Ocean
This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Read more...
Coleridge's Play of Mind
Eminent Coleridgean scholar John Beer presents a series of biographical investigations exploring Coleridge's life, stage by stage, and reconsidering the intellectual quality of his thinking and poetry through an emphasis on the notion of 'play'. Read more...
The Way of the Panda
Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. Read more...
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan
Great-grandson of a crofter and son-in-law of a Duke, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was both complex as a person and influential as a politician. Read more...
Salman Rushdie: Second Edition
This updated and expanded new edition reviews Rushdie's novels in the light of recent critical developments. Read more...
Michael Falcon: Norfolk's Gentleman Cricketer
Six men who began their careers with Norfolk went on to play Test cricket for England - but many who watched or played against Michael Falcon believe he too should have been granted the ultimate honour of representing his country. Read more...
The 1972 Munich Olympics
The 1972 Munich Olympics, remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team, were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. Read more...
Sex, Spies and Rock and Roll
The year is 1972; British Empire assets and Israel are threatened by a new and deadly weapon of mass destruction. Read more...
The Mays 18 - 2010
The Best New Writing, Art and Photography from Oxford and Cambridge. Read more...
Digital Business Security Development: Management Technologies
Security is an increasingly important area of study for businesses as failure to address company protection can have severe ramifications for the long-term viability of any e-commerce enterprise. Read more...
The Fan Tan Players
The Fan Tan Players opens in 1928 in Macao on a cyclone-drenched Quasimodo Sunday. Read more...
The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media
A few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Read more...
The Owl and his Boy
Imagine you’re the headmaster of an idyllic prep school in rural England when you notice one day the school cat is behaving rather strangely, and then you start receiving telephone calls from an owl. Read more...
A European Life
Distinguished economist, historian and linguist Michael Tracy publishes his memoirs, revealing a life spent at the forefront of political and economic development in both Western and Eastern Europe. Read more...
Rude Boy
Expelled from boarding school, Punk Rock rebel Kenny Silvers returns to early 1980s London to renew his friendship with former `partner in crime', Eddie. Read more...
Cloud Road
In every atlas there is a country missing from the maps of South America: the Andean nation. Read more...
The Yorkshire Mary Rose
The ship 'General Carleton' was built in Whitby in 1777 and sank off the coast of Poland in 1785. Read more...
A Fine and Private Place
As Sandro gets to grips with the dispiriting realities of life as a private detective, touting for business among old contacts and following errant teenagers, an old case comes back to haunt him... Read more...
A Time of Mourning
When a young English girl goes missing from among Florence's hard-drinking, high-living community of foreign art students, at first ex-policeman, good husband and newly private detective Sandro Cellini is unwilling to see any connection with his investigation of the suicide of an elderly Jewish architect. Read more...
Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History
Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. Read more...
The Buzzards of Zinn
As Jason approaches the city of Zinn he is aware that something very strange lies ahead, though in the end just another adventure in his restless travels around the globe. Read more...
Blood Lily
Scott is facing bankruptcy amid the turmoil that grips the financial markets of 2008. Read more...
Achieving Excellence in Management
Most books on management principles focus on particular rules of thumb and best management practices. Read more...
My Friend the Mercenary
In a fly-blown bar in West Africa, British war reporter James Brabazon found himself being briefed on covert military plans to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea by one of Africa's most notorious mercenaries - his friend Nick du Toit. Read more...
Off Duty!
An illustrated account by Ex-Wren Anne Lewis-Smith of the fun had whilst 'off-duty' by the Wrens who worked behind the scenes at Bletchley Park during World War II. Read more...
Rise and Shine
When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. Read more...
Young Romantics
In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. Read more...
The Christian West and its Singers
The tradition of Western music has become the most influential in the world. Read more...
Bolt Action
Since 9/11, the door between the pilots and the passengers on an airliner must be locked and impossible to break down. Read more...
Pevsner - The Early Life: Germany and Art
Nikolaus Pevsner was the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth century, admired for dedicating his career to areas of English architecture that had never been considered before. Read more...
The Adventure of the Real
Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Read more...
Teenage Tata: Voices of Young Fathers in South Africa
Teenage Tata: Voices of young fathers in South Africa provides a fresh and in-depth portrait of impoverished young South African men who became fathers while teenagers. Read more...
The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth
The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth offers an engaging account of the moral lives of young black South Africans once the struggle against apartheid ended and took away their object of political resistance. Read more...
Foolish Lessons in Life & Love
23 year-old Taras Krohe is wedged between the two women in his life: his Russian girlfriend, Katya, who is struggling to fund her way through college; and his overbearing Bukovinian mother. Read more...
A Natural Calling
This book provides new factual material on Charles Darwin, following many years of research into Darwin’s relationship to his cousin William Darwin Fox. Read more...
Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames
The Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames is a useful and fascinating guide to the surnames that offer a unique insight into the place of origin, the occupations - and even the personality traits - of our ancestors. Read more...
Sidney Sussex College: A History
Richard Humphreys, an alumnus of Sidney and an enthusiast for all aspects of its history, has unearthed fascinating facts, people and connections that present the life of an extraordinary community through four hundred years of English history. Read more...
Reflections on Cambridge
The traditions and creativity of Cambridge University have survived 800 years. Read more...
Architecture in Cambridge
First published in 1942, Theodore Fyfe’s book on Cambridge architecture was written to ‘enable the visitor to Cambridge to realise the value of the Town and University for illustrating the sequence of styles in English architecture’. Read more...
Politics and the Imagination
In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Read more...
Sand: A journey through Science and the Imagination
This book is all about sand - sand in individual grains, each one a little different; sand in piles; sand in shoals and dunes; the science of sand but also, shot through the book, sand and imagination - the art and the music of sand. Read more...
This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes
An entertaining introduction to logic and reasoning, packed with puzzles and thought experiments for the reader to try. Read more...
Literary Semantics
Literary Semantics develops an original, simple but philosophically potent idea into a theory for the human sciences covering philosophy, logic, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, ontology, morality, religion, neurology, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, history and education. Read more...
Royston Cave: Used by Saints or Sinners?
Royston Cave-Used by Saints or Sinners? puts Royston’s unique cave, so remarkably engraved with religious figures, pagan and Masonic symbols, into its historical context. Read more...
Living in Arcadia
In Paris in 1954, a young man named André Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for “homophiles” that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly thirty years. Read more...
Memories of F.R. Leavis
Mr Matthews’s memories of more than sixty years, going back to the great days of Downing, are a fresh testimony to the greatest English critic of modern times. Read more...
The Palm at the End of the Mind
In many societies, and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Read more...
Sardinian Silver
How many young people have dreamt of self and sexual discovery in a far off, exotic place? Read more...
The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science
Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Read more...
Poseidon’s Steed: the Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality
Poseidon’s Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs of Indonesia, through the back streets of Hong Kong and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome. Read more...
Twisted Wing
The claustrophobic environment of Ariel College, Cambridge, has become the hunting ground of a serial killer. Read more...
Its A Dons Life
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the "TLS" website for nearly three years. Read more...
The Defence of the Realm
To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian, the first time any of the world's leading intelligence or security services has taken such a step. Read more...
The Children's Book
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. Read more...
The Evolution of the Modern Workplace
The last twenty-five years have seen the world of work transformed in Britain. Read more...
The Art of French Piano Music
Howat explores the musical language and artistic ethos of this repertoire, juxtaposing structural analysis with editorial and performing issues. Read more...
Collected Poems and Translations
This collection of poetry and translations draws together the threads of his work in eight linked sections of sensuous evocation. Read more...
F.R. Leavis ‘Critical Thinkers
F.R. Leavis is a landmark figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and theory. Read more...
The Now Show Book of World Records
The team behind Radio 4's THE NOW SHOW present the fruits of a decade's staring at world events and tutting - in the form of the definitive guide to all the biggest, smallest, cheesiest, most irritating, most stupid, most gut-wrenching or most plain silly things, people and activities on the planet. Read more...
Beyond the Boys’ Club
Beyond the Boys Club will show you how to develop your careers strategy, break though the glass ceiling for women and completely raise your game. Read more...
Mrs Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book
More than a cookbook, the Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book delineates a lifestyle at the top of English society and intelligentsia at the time. Read more...
Blood over Water
On a blustery, overcast April day in 2003, David and James Livingston raced against each other in the 149th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, watched by over seven million people. Read more...
Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities
The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. Read more...
Inside the Kingdom
Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. Read more...
The Dawn of Green
Located in the heart of England’s Lake District, Thirlmere, with its placid sheen, surrounding evergreens, and apparent lack of pollution or development, seems to epitomize the unadulterated bucolic ideal. Read more...
In Sight of America
When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. Read more...
Before the Deluge
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. Read more...
God’s Philosophers
This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. Read more...
Friends and Enemies
Friends and Enemies delivers a lucid and provocative history of one of the world’s largest and most successful political organizations, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Read more...
From Cloisters to Cup Finals
Charterhouse football goes back to the days of the Hospital in the 17th century. Read more...
The Successes and Sacrifices of the British Army in 1914
The form of warfare changed radically and unexpectedly in 1914, and as a result large armies became deadlocked and suffered disastrous losses in their attempts to advance from their lines of primitive trenches. Read more...
Rebel Land
What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? Read more...
The Bad Book Affair
Israel Armstrong—the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel-gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland—finds himself on the brink of thirty. Read more...
The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
The Conservatives are back – but what took them so long? Read more...
The Insecure American: How we got here & what we should do about it
Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. Read more...
Changing the Course of Aids
Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. Read more...
Aaaargh!
Simon Hamartian PhD, Boadicea University's Egregius Professor of History, is on his deathbed in Heaven’s Waiting Room Private Hospital, Nursing Home, Mortuary and Crematorium (The One-Stop Mortality Service). Read more...
Nuclear Papers
This is an explosive mixture of Owen's recently declassified papers relating to the UK's last review of nuclear weapons policy and a forceful polemic on the past, present and future of government nuclear policy. Read more...
The World and Wikipedia - How we are Editing Reality
Wikipedia has emerged as the reference source that most of us turn to most of the time. Read more...
The University of Cambridge: A New History
The intertwined story of the great English 'Varsity' universities has many colorful aspects in common, yet also boasts elements of true originality. Read more...
Building Pembroke Chapel: Wren, Pearce and Scott
Although the chapel of Pembroke College, Cambridge, is commonly taken to be Sir Christopher Wren’s first building, there has been no previous study of how it came into being. Read more...
Cambridge: Treasure Island in the Fens
Cambridge is much admired and yet the admiration of those who live there, visit or were educated at the university is not always matched by an equivalent knowledge. Read more...
Do you think you’re Clever? The Oxbridge Questions
The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates. Read more...
Arena of Ambition: A History of the Cambridge Union
Stephen Parkinson, an ex-President of the Society, charts the history of the Union from its nineteenth-century origins, focusing particularly on the turbulent Second World War and post-war years - during which the Union building was hit by a German bomb and commandeered by the army, future Cabinet ministers fell out over bitterly contested elections, and controversies raged about the admission of women and the place of such an apparently antiquated club in a modern university. Read more...
Growing up in Cambridge - From Austerity to Prosperity
This fascinating story of life in Cambridge is written from the idiosyncratic perspective of an author who not only grew up in the city during the 1950s and 1960s, but who also attended its prestigious university. Read more...
The House on the Sacred Lake
In 1959 Margaret Anstee was working for the UN in Uruguay when she was offered the job of Deputy Resident Representative in Bolivia, then an extremely poor and underdeveloped country. Read more...
Unutterable Love: The Passionate life and preaching of F.W. Robertson
In this book Christina Beardsley uncovers two episodes of Robertson’s life that have been somehow obscured until now: his Victorian crisis of faith and his preoccupation with gender and sexuality. Read more...
The Mayor of Aihara
Aizawa Kikutaro was born into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, an agricultural village specializing in wheat and silk. Read more...
The Other Elizabeth Taylor
This is the first biography of one of the outstanding English writers of the last century. Read more...
What a Time I am Having – Selected Letters of Max Perutz
Selected by his daughter, Vivien, from Max Perutz’s voluminous correspondence, the letters reproduced here portray their author with a spontaneity and directness no autobiography could have matched. Read more...
The Pattern in the Carpet
This is a beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it plays in the puzzle of its distinguished author's life. Read more...
First Contact
In the heart of the jungle lies a powerful secret. A secret thousands die for every year. A secret that men will kill for. They hoped for the trip of a lifetime. Now they are minutes from death. Read more...
A Study in Survival: Conan Doyle Solves the Final Problem
Here is dramatic new evidence for the survival of our individual personalities after death. Read more...
The Gropes
It is one of the more surprising facts about old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. Read more...
BabyBarista and the Art of War
It is BabyBarista’s first day as a pupil barrister in chambers. Read more...
City of Thieves
Nic Lamparelli works for a leading US investment bank in London. Starting at the bottom, he rises rapidly through the ranks to reach the pinnacle of his profession. Read more...
In Restoration
In this compelling drama of love, loss and reconciliation, the tragic death of their child precipitates Olivia and art restorer Paul into the unfamiliar world of a Tuscan hill town. Read more...
Death and the Lit Chick
As the wildly successful darling of the publishing industry, chick lit mystery writer Kimberlee Kalder is the guest of honour at an exclusive writers' conference at Dalmorton Castle in Scotland. Read more...
Under Running Laughter: Burma- The Hidden Heart
Under Running Laughter is a fictionalised biography of Charles Garrad. Read more...
Hope for Animals and their World
The incredible rapid rate at which various animals and plants are disappearing from the planet is shocking. Read more...
Science for All
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. Read more...
Raymond Williams - A Warriors Tale
Raymond Williams (1921-1988) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Read more...
Beyond the Giant- Personal Insight into the Life of J.R.D. Tata
This penetrating book tells the story of one of India’s most successful businessmen Mr J.R.D Tata. Read more...
The Young Charles Darwin
What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? Read more...
Two Victorian Ladies on the Continent
This is the journal of Miss W, a lady in her forties, travelling through France and Switzerland to Italy, accompanied by a teenage girl, Minnie, for whom she is acting as guardian and tutor. Read more...
The Pelican in the Wilderness
Ivan Clutterbuck has long been a familiar figure amongst Anglo-Catholics. Read more...
A Dyslexic Doc's Memoirs
Ian Whyte, a Cambridge-graduate family doctor, was born in pre-apartheid South Africa. Read more...
Conversations on Ethics
Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgments objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid what is wrong? Read more...
Humanism
Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? Read more...
Lonesome
'There is another loneliness', wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson: 'Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought'. Read more...
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. Read more...
The Extended Case Method
In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century - the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Read more...
Frances Partridge - A Life
Frances Partridge was the last significant writer of the Bloomsbury Group but far from the least. Read more...
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Read more...
Pompeii
The ruins of Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79 offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman empire. Read more...
Almost Home
Ten years ago, American Jordan Weiss's idyllic experience as a graduate student and coxswain at Cambridge was shattered when her boyfriend and fellow crewmember, Jared Short, drowned in the River Cam the night before the biggest race of the year. Read more...
Crossed Wires
This is the story of Mina, a girl at a Sheffield call centre, whose next customer in the queue is Peter, a Cambridge geography don, who has crashed his car into a tree stump. Read more...
Second Coming
Dr Miles Wallace is a thirty-something biology lecturer and a leading - if rather undervalued - expert on the Urodela - that's salamanders and newts. Read more...
Birdscapes
What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? Read more...
A Short Gentleman
How did Robert Purcell, distinguished barrister and perfect specimen of the British Establishment, end up in prison? Read more...
The Grown-Ups' Book of Risk
The Grown-Ups' Book of Risk is a simple and entertaining explanation of all you need to know about risk. Read more...
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. Read more...
The Blackstone Key
'The footsteps grew louder, and now Mary could make out the dim figure of a man advancing towards her. Read more...
Khrushchev's Cold Summer
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. Read more...
Bluestockings
In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Read more...
A 'Splendid Idiosyncrasy': Prehistory at Cambridge 1915-50
Based on many interviews with Alumni and new archival sources, 'A Splendid Idiosyncrasy' is the original history of archaeology and anthropology in the early-Twentieth century at Cambridge. Read more...
