On the 29 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo triggering events leading to the outbreak of the First World War. Less well known is that the car…

This Mystery unfolds over 8 days of hard-hitting evidence. It all starts in a smaller area. In an area like you or I would probably live. One day everything is…

This definitive international technical and practical manual from world-leading practitioners details design and quantitative analysis, manufacturing and construction to ACI and ASTM codes and the main global standards; and with…

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Being the discontinuous narrative of an Australian family in short stories, including glass eyes, false mermaids, inadvertent death, nuclear weapons, and the accidental destruction of the Sydney Opera House.

This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society - which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats. It…

A practical book highlighting that inexplicable or sudden mental health problems (as well as perplexing somatic complaints) may be masking serious medical disorders. It helps clinicians recognise when a medical…

In England’s Cross of Gold, James Ashley Morrison challenges the conventional view that the UK’s ruinous return to gold in 1925 was inevitable. Instead, he offers a new perspective on…