Books about Published: 2007

A set of four puzzle collections from some of the most popular Guardian cryptic crossword compilers, which allows fans of the cryptic to get to grips with their favourite setter. It includes introductions from each setter.

A portrait of a society at total war, this work helps the reader learn: the total casualties sustained by the UK up to the beginning of May 1945 amounted to close on one million.

Brings together 50 fascinating predictions of the future made in the mid 1930s, from space travel to the advent of e-mail. A highly original gift book for readers of all ages. Engagingly written by a leading creative director, whose work in the field of advertising has won him numerous awards.

Nelson is put in charge of Redtown: a virtual city, inhabited by copies of real people going about their daily business, in which policies, diseases and disasters can be studied in perfect simulation. Soon the boundaries between Redtown and the real world become brittle, and Nelson finds himself forced to choose sides: Monad or his family.

Offers a glimpse into the frightening world of mechanical ducks, shark women that taste of liquorice, perverted sexual shenanigans in cramped office spaces, double-crossing Nazi apologists, bald-headed cultural subversives and celebrity deer-culling.

A collection of funny, irreverent and wise aphorisms that intends to not only entertain, but also lead us to ponder on the dark and light that make up the human condition.

Endeavors end in era-transcending odysseys when the World's Greatest Super-Team ventures into the Negative Zone as well as the death, life and rebirth of Doctor Doom.

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter - each a mighty hero in their own right. The Ultramarines are back, and the four super-soldiers have been joined in their flying city, Superbia, by heroes and reformed villains alike. But now Gorilla Grodd has lured them into a trap.

A book of puzzles and paradoxes which introduces some of life's important questions with tales and tall stories, reasons and arguments, common sense and bizarre conclusions.

Binu faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, who offered her his hand in marriage. Then one day, Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported and forced to labour on a project of the building of the Great Wall. Binu is determined to find and save her husband. She sets out on a journey towards Great Swallow mountain.

The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers, and arguably the best known, A. C. Grayling

At the end of his life, an old man waits in his office for a stranger to arrive. Over the next few weeks, Teiresias will visit again, making his way across the heath to relate the story of his life. As these two men sit together in front of a roaring fire, a remarkable tale unfolds.

Thanks to Lord Byron, Itchy ended up living in Chamonix Mont Blanc, the death-sport capital of the world. Now, a serial rapist is stalking Cham's tourist-thronged streets, haunting the same shadows as Itchy and triggering an obsession which will lead him far from Europe's zenith, to the depths of the valley and himself.

Avengers Assemble Volume 5 HC .

Presents a record of the year just past and a guide to the year come. This annual volume tells the real stories of the year, from the announcement of Gordon Brown as Britain's prime minister to Hurricane Dean's devastation of Jamaica, and from the release of the Iranian hostages to the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .

In this work, Maisel provides an insider's view of how the American political system actually works while shining a light on some it its flaws. Illustrations.