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I've written elsewhere about the Reverend Malthus' views on population. His basic theory - that population will always, inevitably...

The heart of Venice, the Piazza San Marco is properly considered one of the most beautiful centres of a city anywhere. Its history is insepa...

The work of the Reverend Thomas Malthus can easily be said to have had a major influence on subsequent thought. Indeed, it must rank up ther...

Peter Linebaugh's sweeping history of Magna Carta, one of the founding documents of law couldn't come at a better time. This ancien...

This short book in the Penguin "Great Ideas" series, is actually a collection of essays and speeches spanning the period immediat...

This is a sober and thoughtful examination of something that is altogether the opposite of those sentiments - fear. We are taken through a l...

The Irish Potato Famine of 1845-9 probably resulted in 1.5 million deaths. A further million people fled the country looking for food and ...

Iain M. Banks' Against A Dark Background is perhaps his most militaristic novel. It's heroine Lady Sharrow begins the novel living i...

Francis Pryor makes it clear in his introduction that this isn't intended to be either a definitive academic history, nor a social histo...

Everyone should have at least one favourite novel that they return to year after year. One of mine is Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Se...

The concept of infinity is one of those slightly misunderstood scientific ideas. Everyone thinks they know what it means, but Brian Clegg...

Despite the strange world that Andrew Kaufman's book is set in – one populated by a limited, but significant number of superheros (Toron...

Organised religion certainly needs the fun poked at it, and Thomas Disch certainly does that here. Now any book that contains the line ...

Since I heard it was going to be published, I've desperately be waiting for Frank Henderson's auto-biography to be published. For t...

The sheer scale of Iain M Banks' Science Fiction always excites me. His ability to blend far reaching ideas with a galactic scale, witho...

The Little Sister is not one of Raymond Chandlers better known novels. It is however one of the classic Phillip Marlowe novels and has all t...

The classic story of the low level gangster trying to break through into the big time has been told many times. Rarely though, has it been t...

This first volume of Tony Cliff 's biography of Leon Trotsky is a compelling read. Unfortunately, it isn't the best introduction t...

Despite what you learn from a childhood watching British war films, or even the potted history of the war you can pick up from The History ...

There is a great irony that we live on a planet which is two thirds covered in water, yet millions of people around the globe live in areas ...