21st Century History: from c 2000

In this extraordinary debut called gripping by The Times of London Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news from a forgotten town deep in Congos ...

The war in Afghanistan is over ten years old. It has cost countless lives and hundreds of billions of pounds. Politicians talk of progress, but the...

At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world''s most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smalle...

How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. historyonly to realize that the struggle t...

Yemen is an intriguing, strategically located country that is the perennial poor relation of the wealthy oil monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula an...

''An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards ...

Since 2003, obstetrician Alice Rothchild has traveled annually to Israel/Palestine with other concerned Americans, to learn about health and human ...

How has Japan become a global superpower and what does the future look like for it? There was a time in the 1980s when, if the media were to be bel...

In our wars since 2001 the term front line has long since lost its meaning, and the true combats have waged throughout the countries we''ve invad...

Slavery remains rampant worldwide. At least 27 million men, women, and children are enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indenture...

It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a lan...

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.This is the generation that will change China. The youth, over 320 million of them in their teens and twent...

Global Events: 2011 is a new publication from Gale that summarizes major, current global issues. It provides clear, impartial summaries of the sub...

The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow citizens ...

A brilliant (The Washington Post), clear-eyed and incisive (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making li...

There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitio...

Italy began work on a new fighter-bomber in the late 1970s, aiming to field an aircraft capable of surviving in heavily defended Cold War airspace,...

This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Z...