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I used to think that the trilobite was merely one of those instantly recognisable fossils, sort of like an elongated and flattened woodlouse...

I read the "author's preferred text". I will start this review by making a very clear statement about the book under scru...

Volume three of Philip José Farmer 's Riverworld series is one of those novels were you wonder if the series is about to "jump the ...

The northern-most frontier of the Roman Empire, marked out by the Antonine Wall is often overlooked by its more impressive southern cousin b...

Gitta Sereny's detailed and scholarly examination of one of the key figures in Hitler's leadership is also extremely readable and ...

In this challenging book "string theorist" Brian Greene has attempted to being together the most recent understanding of this comp...

This is a beautifully written book about the terrible legacy of European exploration of the Pacific. Alan Moorehead's classic study of...

Leon Trotsky is of course, best known for helping lead the Russian Revolution and creating the Red Army to win the Civil War. He was also so...

In this latest addition to the Rebel's Guide series, Sally Campbell points out that many aspects of the modern world would be instantly ...

Jared Diamond's books have become phenomenal bestsellers. Both Guns, Germs and Steel and the more recent Collapse have sold in their t...

As I write this review, tens of thousands of people are engaged in Occupy protests and occupations around the world. Most famously in Wall S...

While this book will contain little for evolutionary scientists or Darwin scholars, for those who like their travel books to be a little mor...

Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel, Snuff , has become the third fastest selling non-fiction book in history. It deserves this acc...

The Singapore Grip is a different novel to the others in J.G.Farrell's Empire trilogy. At just of 675 pages in length it is by far the ...

Rarely do I read a book that leaves me quite so upset and angry. The life of David Oluwale should really  have been a footnote in hist...

Henry Mayhew's classic text, London Labour and the London Poor is a powerful and fascinating study of life on the streets during the l...