How did the Mob evolve from a disorganised gang of uncouth killers into the deadly 'international corporation' it is today? Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised ... Zobraziť viac
Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich... Zobraziť viac
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes... Zobraziť viac
In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is back in power, and Seierstad. Zobraziť viac
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later... Zobraziť viac
Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis. While most of the world was lauding the stability and economic growth that Vladimir Putin's ex-KGB regime had brought to Russia, Edward Lucas was ringing alarm bells... Zobraziť viac
Hogyan lesz egy aradi vagonlakóból a megnyíló Broadway mozi gépésze? Megalázó-e segítséget kérni és bűn-e belekapaszkodni a kínálkozó lehetőségbe egy rossz korban? Milyen nagyanya lesz abból a tanító nőből, aki szíve szerint apáca lett volna, ha nem... Zobraziť viac
Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it's cracked up to be? ... Zobraziť viac
The seventh edition will confirm the status of The World Atlas of Wine as the most essential and authoritative wine reference work. Zobraziť viac
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and... Zobraziť viac
Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the story of those families and their ties to the Windy City, ... Zobraziť viac
Little, Brown Book Group: 'A remarkable portrait, with deftly woven accounts of weddings and journeys, books and... Zobraziť viac
Im August 1992 wurde die Leiche von Chris McCandless im Eis von Alaska gefunden. Wer war dieser junge Mann, und was hatte ihn in die gottverlassene Wildnis getrieben? ... Zobraziť viac
Little, Brown: The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM... Zobraziť viac
Penguin: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences is considered by many to be the first work... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins Publishers: 'Brilliant!this powerfully-written book is filled with accounts of horror, pain and injustice. His... Zobraziť viac
Shocking and raw first person accounts of the war in Ukraine, from a prize-winning independent journalist... Zobraziť viac
In 2017, a company known as Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism... Zobraziť viac
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time... Zobraziť viac
