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Redemption Ark is Alastair Reynolds's third hefty SF novel, a direct sequel to his debut book Revelation Space, and also linked with Chasm City, which won the British SF Association Award. Gripping high-tech action features various groups struggling for control of a cache of "hell-class weapons", while the alien Inhibitors--who stamp out space-going intelligence wherever they find it--are busy dismantling planets to build a doomsday engine of awesome size. Building on the previous ... less info

Redemption Ark is Alastair Reynolds's third hefty SF novel, a direct sequel to his debut book Revelation Space, and also linked with Chasm City, which won the British SF Association Award. Gripping... more info

Pages: 768, Paperback, Black Library less info

Pages: 768, Paperback, Black Library

Pages: 160, Edition: Tra, Paperback, Feminist Press at The City University of New York less info

Pages: 160, Edition: Tra, Paperback, Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Back in the 1980s, capitalism seemed ready to finally inherit the earth. According to the likes of Francis Fukuyama, in his infamous book The End of History, history was coming to an end with the triumph of western capitalism, witnessed by the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Bloc and the growth of the global free market. Subsequent events, from the downfall of Mrs Thatcher to the recent financial unrest in Southeast Asia, have seriously questioned the validity of Fukuyama's arguments (not to ... less info

Back in the 1980s, capitalism seemed ready to finally inherit the earth. According to the likes of Francis Fukuyama, in his infamous book The End of History, history was coming to an end with the t... more info

Pages: 304, Edition: 7th Revised edition, Hardcover, Pen & Sword Books Ltd less info

Pages: 304, Edition: 7th Revised edition, Hardcover, Pen & Sword Books Ltd

In the Company of Soldiers is a thoroughly engrossing look at the strategies, personalities, and struggles of waging modern warfare. The advent of embedded reporters in the opening days of the 2003 US war on Iraq meant a more direct and personal point of view than battlefield coverage has historically offered. Rick Atkinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for An Army at Dawn, an account of combat in North Africa during World War II, traveled with the 101 Airborne Division of the US Army from it... less info

In the Company of Soldiers is a thoroughly engrossing look at the strategies, personalities, and struggles of waging modern warfare. The advent of embedded reporters in the opening days of the 2003... more info

Pages: 488, Edition: New edition, Paperback, University of Nebraska Press less info

Pages: 488, Edition: New edition, Paperback, University of Nebraska Press

It's sometimes difficult for Westerners not to write off Islam as a fanatical religion for war-like fundamentalists in turbans. In Islam: Empire of Faith, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair have written an excellent resource which knocks such media-conditioned prejudice on the head. As professors of Islamic and Asian art at Boston College, they are well placed to unlock the complex history and culture of Islam for Western readers. This book and the BBC documentary series it ties in with should w... less info

It's sometimes difficult for Westerners not to write off Islam as a fanatical religion for war-like fundamentalists in turbans. In Islam: Empire of Faith, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair have writt... more info

The Second World War has England struggling for its survival, but in Suffolk, in the summer 1943, the setting of Robert Radcliffe's Under an English Heaven, beautiful weather and bumper harvests almost distract the locals from the build-up to one of the most crucial battles of the war. At dawn, the hosts of bomber bases constructed among East Anglia's quiet hamlets dispatch American airmen for daring daylight assaults against Germany's industrial war engine. At the village of Bedenham, a dusk... less info

The Second World War has England struggling for its survival, but in Suffolk, in the summer 1943, the setting of Robert Radcliffe's Under an English Heaven, beautiful weather and bumper harvests al... more info

Pages: 1152, Hardcover, Barbour Publishing less info

Pages: 1152, Hardcover, Barbour Publishing

Pages: 220, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Chaucer Press (imprint of Altschuler, Richard & Associates, Inc) less info

Pages: 220, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Chaucer Press (imprint of Altschuler, Richard & Associates, Inc)

Pages: 412, Hardcover, AltaMira Press,U.S. less info

Pages: 412, Hardcover, AltaMira Press,U.S.

Pages: 96, Paperback, New Dawn Press less info

Pages: 96, Paperback, New Dawn Press

Pages: 176, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Brady Games less info

Pages: 176, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Brady Games

With The Millennium: The Unofficial Guide, Bob Fowke, the polymath and well- known author of more than 50 entertaining and unusual children's books published by Hodder, (such as What They Don't Tell You About World War II, What They Don't Tell You About Science, What They Don't Tell You About Ancient Greeks and What They Don't Tell You About Planet Earth) gives readers yet another fascinating collection of facts, figures and imaginings. Inside this wonderfully rich and amusing unofficial gui... less info

With The Millennium: The Unofficial Guide, Bob Fowke, the polymath and well- known author of more than 50 entertaining and unusual children's books published by Hodder, (such as What They Don't Tel... more info

Alastair Reynolds's first novel is "hard" SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. Its events take place over a relatively short period, but have roots a billion years old--when the Dawn War ravaged our galaxy.Sylveste is the only man ever to return alive and sane from a Shroud, an enclave in space protected by awesome gravity-warping defences: "a folding a billion times less severe should have required more energy than was stored in the entire r... less info

Alastair Reynolds's first novel is "hard" SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. Its events take place over a relatively short period, but have roots a b... more info

Pages: 688, Hardcover, ReganBooks,U.S. less info

Pages: 688, Hardcover, ReganBooks,U.S.

David Mitchell's second novel, number9dream, uses a similar episodic format to his brilliant but fragmentary debut Ghostwritten to create a more coherent and assured narrative that is part detective, part coming-of-age, story. Eiji Miyake, 20, naïve and wholly loveable, encounters a frantic, exotic world when he comes to Tokyo from his small island home to find the father he has never met. Pin-stripped drones, a lip-pierced hairdresser, midday drunks ... Not a single person is standing still ... less info

David Mitchell's second novel, number9dream, uses a similar episodic format to his brilliant but fragmentary debut Ghostwritten to create a more coherent and assured narrative that is part detectiv... more info

History is written by winners, but Bill Gates isn't talking yet. Those interested in how this weird, wonderful World Wide Web--and its infrastructure--came to be should turn to historian Janet Abbate's look at 40 years of innovation in Inventing the Internet. Peeking behind the curtain to show the personalities and larger forces guiding the development of the Net, from its dawn as a robust military communications network designed to survive multiple attacks, to today's commercial Web explosio... less info

History is written by winners, but Bill Gates isn't talking yet. Those interested in how this weird, wonderful World Wide Web--and its infrastructure--came to be should turn to historian Janet Abba... more info

Pages: 204, Paperback, AuthorHouse less info

Pages: 204, Paperback, AuthorHouse