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Sometimes I need to listen to people around me before reading books. I've liked much of Charles Stross' earlier work, as it pushes n...

At the start of the 19th century, the world was a very young place. God had created the planet a few thousand years previously and placed, a...

Recent reading has made me think about how it was that the hopes of the Russian Revolution of October 1917 became the distorted caricature...

I started this volume of the excellent Wonders of the World series prepared to dislike it. Perhaps I shouldn't read press releases, but ...

This is a superb book. Rarely do I come away from reading a non-fiction book feeling as satisfied as I did when I closed Stuffed and Starve...

Few countries have a history that really allows for novels on an epic scale. France is of course one, with its revolutions and Commune, dic...

Why the world is dominated by us and not Neanderthals, is a surprisingly complex question. Traditionally, we've been given an image of N...

In the simplistic view of British History, there was a brief period around 2000 years ago of stability, civilisation and prosperity with the...

No one has done more than John Bellamy Foster over recent years to reassert an ecological aspect to Karl Marx's thought. In a series of ...

This memoir by one of France's most important writers recounts a series of disjointed episodes from his life as an aviator. Flying mail ...

Watching the average war film, playing the most popular "first person shooters" that are set in the Second World War, or even wat...

With the BNP getting two members elected to the European Parliament in Britain and various other Fascist organisations doing well in coun...

Imagine a world without rubber. Cars would have to run on wooden tires. Engines would leak oil and petrol through badly fitting pipes. Elec...

Victor Serge's life was a unique one. His experience of the highs and lows of revolutionary struggle across the globe is one shared by ...

Economics is one of those subjects that those who are proficient in it, often like to pretend is beyond the understanding of most mortals...

I know little about "Castle Studies" apart from a fascination with these historic buildings and many visits to castle sites in ...

The title of this book, refers to the famous couplet that raised the question of class relations in society in a way that made sense to the ...

I've reviewed several other of Paul Theroux's travel writings elsewhere and one of the things that has struck me time and again, is ...

The relationship between humans, the societies that they create and the natural world around them is something that fascinates me. Of part...

Rarely do I come away from reading a Terry Pratchett novel feeling disappointed. Sadly, this most recent Discworld story left me with the se...