Examines the mind of an extremist who turns out to be disarmingly like many other clever adolescents, and bears witness to a history with whose reverberations we continue to live. This book serves as a critical guide for the reader to the movement's unfamiliar debates and preoccupations, motives and intentions.

November 1913, three German shipbuilders are ordered to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble it on Lake Tanganyika. At the same time, Churchill sends two dilapidated and incongruously named gun-boats, Mimi and Toutou, to the other side of the lake. As war breaks out they are left facing each other.

A memorial ceremony for a popular young English mistress seamlessly alternating between 18-year-old Christian's memory of a summer love affair with his tutor.

Martim is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders through a forest until he comes across an isolated farm run by Vitoria - an indomitable spinster who is 'afraid to live', and her flighty, obsessive cousin Ermelinda, who is terrified of death.

The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of Lawrence of Arabia as portrayed in David Lean's 1962 film.

Few Western scholars of the Middle East have exerted such profound influence as Edward William Lane. This biography examines Lane's life and accomplishments, including his crucial years of field work in Egypt, revealing the life of a great Victorian scholar.

The Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was one of the stars of the Paris Peace Conference, impressing many of the Western delegates, already possessed of a romantic view of 'the grandeur that was Greece', with his charm and oratorical style.

In 1956 John Stephen took a lease on the newly available 5 Carnaby Street. Before long John Stephen had three shops on Carnaby Street and was starting to be a cult name. In the process he revolutionised the design of men's shops, and established the prototypical boutique aesthetic that was to be copied by an entire generation of fashion retailers.

T S Eliot has been blamed for the instability of his first wife and declared a closet homosexual. This book aims to free Eliot from such distortions, as well as from his cold and unemotional image. It offers a sympathetic study of Eliot's first marriage which does not attempt to blame, but to understand.

Ever since the Third Partition in 1795 brought Polish independence to an end, nationalists had sought the restoration of their country, and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 did indeed produce the modern Polish state.

Conflict on the borders of the Russian 'Empire' has been a constant feature of over past 90 years. In 1919, as the smaller nations on Russia's borders sought self-determination while the Civil War raged between the Whites and the Bolsheviks, the Paris Peace Conference struggled with a situation complicated by mutually exclusive aims.

In 1858, India came under the direct control of the British Crown. To reflect the status and role of the Governor-General as a representative of the monarch to the feudal rulers of the princely states, the term Viceroy was applied, and his consort was accordingly elevated to Vicereine. This book illustrates the lives of Vicereines.

The island of St Helena, in the South Atlantic, is at one and the same time the most remote and most famous island in the world, due to it being the final place of exile of Napoleon Bonaparte, a role it was chosen for because of its very remoteness from Europe. This book offers an account of this place.

The Earth is home to a diversity of species and they are of fundamental importance for the continued existence of life on this planet. This work deals with biodiversity and its perpetuation, at a time when diverse species are being destroyed.

Cyril Lionel Robert James was one of the great intellectuals of the African revolution. A friend and inspiration to Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere (the two leaders of the first generation of independence struggles), James was a product of the colonial education system - a world which shaped him - even as he exposed and fought it.

Walking, exploring and writing all over the world for 30 years, and as the Walking Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph the author has written the Walk of the Month for over 15 years. This work features a selection of his 100 favourite walks.

L S Lowry depicted the industrial northwest of England as a bleak urban landscape in which tiny stick-like figures go in a lonely and detached manner about their business. This work includes extracts from his biography - collections of private letters, housed in the archives of The Lowry, the millennium arts centre on the banks of the Irwell.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wrote about social suffering, sexual freedom, exploitation, disbelief, and the courage and honesty to face the worst. He intimately and dynamically engaged with the worlds of politics, ideas and culture, as well as the world of rural Wessex, fusing a localised imagination with a cosmopolitan intellect.

An anthology that deals with the pictures of women taken by women. It begins with photographs by the two great female photographers of the 19th century, Clementina Lady Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron, and covers a period of over 100 years.

Takes readers on a journey based on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey . This book provides a description of the individual steps of the Odyssey, starting in Troy and finishing in Ithaca. It helps readers to discover places of historic importance.