Sky's the Limit: Froome, Wiggins and the Quest to Conquer the Tour de France: 2013
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On Sunday 22 July, Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider ever to win the Tour de France. It...
The Complete Maus
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"The Complete Maus" by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story. "The...
The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell - Love, Betrayal, Big x and the Great Escape
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Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944,...
Charlotte Bronte: A Life
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On the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, Penguin is publishing the definitive biography...
China to Chitral: Mountains are the Beginning and End of All Scenery
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'Upon this trackless waste of snow, cut by a shrewd wind they sat down and wept.' In China to...
Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History Through Biography in Finde-Siecle Egypt
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This book explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic language global biographical...
Ernst Toller and German Society: Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914-1939
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During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of the more active of the "other...
Last Voyage to Wewak: A Tale of the Sea, West Africa to South Pacific
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This is a thought-provoking work, capturing the march of time which overtook the maritime world in...
Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry
Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Paul Spee
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Reinsurance is a financial market that trades in the risk of unpredictable and devastating disasters...
Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for Industrial Engineering: Methodology and Applications
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This textbook presents methodologies and applications associated with multiple criteria decision...