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Throughout history we have come up with a multitude of different approaches to land. From the hunter-gatherer communities for whom ownership...

As we mark the centenary of the start of the First World War there are any number of books that tell us the slaughter was inevitable, just...

At the heart of this book is the near unbelievable story of the "capture, bold escape and lonely exile of Philip Ashton". It is an...

Any study of the medieval European period finds that peasant rebellions and uprisings, far from being uncommon, are actually part of the fab...

Terry Pratchett's Dodger is a wry look at the London of Charles Dickens. Indeed, Dickens himself is a central character, as is the grea...

Any review of this extensive book must begin by acknowledging the immense amount of scholarship that has gone into it. Even without the ind...

Having read of C.V. Wedgwood's glittering academic career in an obituary I was expecting to find this history of Charles I's trial ...

David Harvey is one of the foremost Marxist thinkers in the world today. His guides to Marx's Capital have been read and watched by ...

Elizabeth Kolbert begins her book on the current biodiversity crisis with a damning summary of the situation. After visiting Panama and mee...

Eduardo Galeano is probably best known for his wonderful history The Open Veins of Latin America which was famously presented to President ...

Early in this book, Robin Dunbar explains the importance of an introductory work on human evolution. He writes, we share with the other gre...

***Spoiler Alert ***   Heavily influenced by Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War , as well a...

This recently republished collection of essays is essential reading for anyone trying to understand how the British criminal justice system ...

From its radical design and layout, to its unusual notion of what constitutes an essay, John Berger's Way of Seeing  is a striking book....

This lovely little book details the authors two voyages with the crews of two ships, the Gerd Maersk and tje Maersk Pembroke. The first a ...

Fracking is a relatively recent arrival in the UK. The few sites that have seen drilling have provoked large and diverse protest movements a...