Describes the twenty most important turning points in British history from AD 1000 to 2000. This title covers key moments including victories (or defeats) both at home and abroad, plague, reform and revolutions that have reshaped the British way of life.

Reflecting recent historical, textual and archaelogical research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.

When his love for the Baron's daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, and murder, testing the young hero's optimism.

Weaves a narrative out of the 10,000-year history of the subcontinent. This book is a mixture of history and travelogue, and a portrait of India.

Covering the 10,000-year history of India, this book provides portraits of India's regions and cultures, and insights into some of history figures: the Buddha and Ashoka, Samudragupta and Akbar, the Great, Nehru and Gandhi. It explores the ways in which Indian ideas and inventions have shaped the history of the world.

Tells of the hilarious adventures of the naive Candide, who doggedly believes that all is for the best even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair.

Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast beating heart of the USA. In a series of funny and sad misunderstandings, Pnin does halting battle with American life and language.

Features Michael Wood's magical journey through south-east India, which was inspired by a temple astrologer (who had accurately predicted his marriage and the birth of his two daughters).

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Great s amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements.

Weaves a narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India. This title explores the way in which Indian ideas and inventions have shaped the history of the world. It shows how some of ancient India's conclusions about the nature of civilization have lost none of their relevance for our own times.

Chris Argyris (b 1923) is regarded as the founding father of the learning organization. His work has made substantial contributions to the understanding of organizational behavior, and action research. This book brings together some of the influential critical writing on Argyris.

A government minister is found dead at the foot of a Lake District mountain, adding to a sudden increase in the accident statistics. A lonely Scotsman leaves his isolated croft and travels to steamy Manila. These apparently unconnected events are the first sketches on a large canvas, soon to be smeared blood red by a brutal killer. Who is he?

Offers an account of the developments in the search for Troy. In this title, his wide-ranging study of the complex archaeological, literary and historical records has been includes. It also details the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988.

Asking, What is a beginning? , this book brings together history, philosophy, structuralism and critical theory in a work of literary criticism. It differentiates beginning from origin; the latter is divine and mythical, the former secular, humanly produced and ceaselessly re-examined.

Written in search of four of the most famous myths in the world: Shangri-la, the Golden Fleece, the Queen of Sheba, and the Holy Grail. This title aims to take us to some of the remotest and most exciting places on earth - to the landscapes of Western Tibet, to the mountains of Georgia and the Caucasus, to the plains of Southern Iraq, and more.

In 1806, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman king William the Conqueror. It was called Domesday, the day of judgement, because 'like the day of judgement, its decisions are unalterable'.

Asks questions such as: what is civilization? Did it mean the same to the Chinese, the Indians and the Greeks? What can the values of the ancient cultures teach us today? And, do the ideals of the West - a latecomer to civilization - really have universal validity? This title explores these ancient cultures, looking for their essential character.

This is one of the first four in a series of natural history travel guides, intended for the general reader with an interest in natural history, and for the growing numbers of ecotourists who want to know where to see wildlife in the countries they visit.