This book upends our understanding of international relations, and the grand strategies needed to navigate a complex, dangerous world, by describing how the world has transitioned from the problems of…

The author fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition when he spent fourteen months as the base-camp doctor at Halley, an isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. Following the…

An exploration of isolation and connectedness based on thirty years of travel, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being and Empire Antarctica.

Offers a reassessment of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and dollar-gold convertibility. This book demonstrates that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, Bretton Woods was a highly politicized…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Francis James was known for writing novella-length potboilers as headliners for various pulp magazines back in the 30s and John Pelan has collected a few of his best. No one…

The first modern anthology of Scottish nature writing which acknowledges the realities of our times, edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning author of Findings.