A fascinating portrait of country life across the centuries, as told by the nation's greatest diarists.

A fascinating anthology of war journals and diaries

Describes the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait. This book conveys the story of competing interests - Spanish, French, English, Native, Russian - that over the centuries shaped both the continent and its 'suburbs' in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Teaches humanities majors discrete and deductive mathematics. This book includes models of escalation, game-theoretic models of international conflict, political power, and social choice. It contains exercises throughout.

A remarkably wide-ranging anthology - laid out, day by day, like a diary - The Assassin's Cloak has been universally praised.

How is American history written? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor answers this question in this collection of his essays from The New Republic, where he explores the writing of early American history.

The last two turbulent decades of the British Raj in India is the exciting setting for an unusual saga of romance and colour imaginatively conceived by an author who lived there at the time.

War infects everything it touches. For everyone, whether combatant or not, it is the most testing of times, when the old certainties and moral imperatives cannot be guaranteed. Life hangs by a gossamer thread and many people who would otherwise not keep diaries feel the need to record what they see, feel and do. Arranged like a diary, The Secret Annexe tells many individual stories - some ...

A selection of photographs that illustrates the transformation that has taken place in The Potteries during 20th century. It offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of change. It records the process of transformation.

From the team that edited the bestselling The Assassin's Cloak which has sold over 90,000 copies to date The wartime experiences of over 100 diarists from around the world Published to coincide with Remembrance Day Third party promotion in conjunction with the British Legion under discussion The Secret Annexe brings together - in their own words - the stories of the men and women who have endured