Defines our understanding of colonialism and empire.

A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subject

A penetrating look at the way in which experts, policy-makers and the media have dealt with the crisis in Iran and the Middle East. With examples, Said demonstrates that the government-business establishment has produced a portrait of Islam and Muslims based on ignorance, inaccuracy and prejudice.

Based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Said's essays explore what it means to be an intellectual today. He argues that the intellectual's role is to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation.

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time.

A manifesto for an aggressive liberal response to terrorist attacks, this text argues that the terror war is not a battle of the West against Islam but a continuation of the battle between freedom and totalitarianism that arose in Europe many years ago and spread to the Muslim world.