The super-rich shall inherit the earth

the new global oligarchs and how they're taking over our world

In 2000 No Logo described a vision of rapacious corporations building brands at the expense of impoverished third world employees and ripped- off first world consumers. Now, only eight years later, No Logo looks almost optimistic against the rise of a new and insidious club ...

A brief history of Khubilai Kahn

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coastline ...

The last White Rose

dynasty, rebellion and treason: the secret wars against the Tudors

This is a brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history. The Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry VII's victory, it continued underground ...

Eminent corporations

the rise and fall of the great british corporation

How much do you know about the big-name brands we live by? Virgin, BP, Land Rover, Barclays, Cadbury's, BBC and M&S. In our times the PLCs have been seen as giants, the backbone of commerce and society. Yet seen through a historical perspective ...

The House of Borgia

The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose ...

The Battle from Christendom

the council of constance, 1415, and the struggle to unite against Islam

At the dawn of the fifteenth century, Islam invaded Europe from the East and it seemed that Christendom itself was under threat. In an attempt to save Christian world the Emperor Sigismund called the many nations of Europe together for a conference at Constance, beside ...

Tescopoly

how one shop came out on top and why it matters

You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco. The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis, Andrew Simms ...

How rich countries got rich...and why poor countries stay poor

In this work, Erik S. Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite ...

Stonehenge

a new history of the world's greatest stone circle

Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all - Stonehenge. Drawing on forty years of research and fieldwork, archaeologist Aubrey Burl offers a seminal new view of the changing cults and evolving architecture of Stonehenge. Every aspect ...

The Renaissance Popes

culture, power and the making of the Borgia myth

Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the world's largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to ...

The origins of the british

a genetic detective story

Unpublished mtDNA and Y-chromosome genetic data has rapidly piled up about the British people. Synthesising the new genetic evidence with linguistics, archaeology and history, Stephen Oppenheimer breaks dramatic findings about the origins of the British people. The first scoop is that the roots of English ...

Catullus

a poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar

The corporation

the pathological pursuit of profit and power

What would the world be like if the ruling elite were insane? This isn#t a question for science fiction but a matter for social scientists. The most powerful class of institution on earth, the corporation, is by any reasonable measure hopelessly and irrevocably demented ...

Global disorder

The sink

terror, crime and dirty money in the offshoreworld

"The Money Sink" tells the how, when and why of criminal and terrorist money laundering, the murky and ultra-secret world where the line between legitimate business and crime vanishes. In 1994, when Jeffrey Robinson, author of "The Laundrymen", first brought to the world's attention ...

Napoleonic army handbook

The french army and her allies