Arts, Language & Literature

Blue Eyed Salaryman

Niall Murtagh

A fascinating and engaging book … a rare inside look at corporate life in Japan, one that's worth more than a dozen business-school studies.

Democracy

Paul Ginsborg

Despite the global expansion of democracy, a looming threat has appeared in the countries that claim to love it most: declining electoral turnout, dim…

Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy

L Vaughan Spencer

HILARIOUS! Laughed out loud from start to finish. So much great material. Silly and smart. Bravo.

Hellfire And Herring

Christopher Rush

A vivid and moving account of the author's childhood in the 1940s and 1950s in the little fishing village of St Monans…

Intellectual Impostures

Jean Bricmont

When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it pr…

Into The Arena

Alexander Fiske-Harrison

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2011Alexander Fiske-Harrison has spent a year travelling with bullfighters to watch the…

Meaning Inc

Gurnek Bains

Meaning, Inc. is about achieving happiness, motivation and performance at work for you and your organisation. Well-motivated people who are happy with…

Moral Relativism

Steven Lukes

Everyone holds beliefs. So what gives us the right to judge the behaviour of other people in a world where moralities are diverse and conflicting?

Movie Lists

Paul Simpson

At last! A film book that is really useful! And fun! These enthusiasts' lists, arranged by genre, director or actor, answer that most difficult o…

Runaway World

Anthony Giddens

'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do…

Sew Your Own

John-Paul Flintoff

What happens when a man, dazzled like most of us by hi-tech, happy to have his suits made by robots in New York, sets out to find the meaning of life?…

The Answers

Lucy Kellaway

…covers the gamut of problems that can crop up in office life…her answers will also offer much needed help and balm to soothe the troubled office…

The Big Idea

Robert Jones

This book will make you look at the marketplace and see what's going on…a fascinating account of how people's needs are being met

The Ruin of the Roman Empire

James J O'Donnell

A provocative portrait of the end of Rome's empire in the 5th and 6th centuries by a major historian, who tells the story of the barbarians who m…

The Shock Of The Old

David Edgerton

'So the new is old, and the old is new! Marvellous stuff and absolutely spot-on.' – Simon Jenkins

The Tomb of Agamemnon

Cathy Gere

With wit and energy, Gere peels away layers of modern fantasy, literary imagination, political appropriation and fashions of modern scholarship.

The Wonga Coup

Adam Roberts

In July 2008 Eton-educated British mercenary Simon Mann was sentenced to 34 years in prison for attempting to overthrow the government of Equatorial G…

OxTravels

Mark Ellingham

If you have the slightest curiosity about the world beyond your living room, then this is a collection to die for. What could be a better way to raise…