When 32-year-old Bill Hicks died, he had been taking Britain by storm and was on the brink of fame in his own country, 'the United States of Advertising'. This is his biography.

The memoirs of 25 years of political activism, albeit mostly unsuccessful! Mark Steel has dedicated his life to eradicating injustice. For his efforts he has been wrongfully arrested during the Brixton riots; been called a poof for denouncing sexist attitudes; and has run in a GLA election.

Why are Iraqi prisoners of war being forced to listen to Barney the Purple Dinosaur's theme tune repeatedly, at top volume? Has the US army really enlisted the help of Uri Geller? This book searches for answers to these and other questions, revealing some of the beliefs at the core of the War on Terror.

While Jon Ronson attempts to locate the secret room, he is chased by men in dark glasses, and witnesses CEOs and leading politicians undertake a bizarre pagan owl ritual in the forests of Northern California. He also learns some alarming things about the looking-glass world of them and us. Are the extremists right? Or has he become one of them?

Rich Hall invites us into his world as he describes his idyllic childhood in Tennessee, helping to operate his grandfolks' backyard nuclear plant; explains how he sold his soul to the Devil (and how the Devil tried to sell it back); and questions what people breathed before oxygen was discovered.

The book that offers a cure for affluenza, 'No Logo' is one of those rare books that defines a generation, the most significant one since Douglas Coupland's 'Generation X'.