First published in 1998, this volume explores the Royal Navy which had most of its greatest triumphs in the decades up to 1815, but has received relatively little study of…

Bali, island of many gods,

and long unspoiled by modern obsessions.

For a hundred years the magnet for hermit artists,

for revelling hippie surfers,

for wide-eyed boomer travellers in their…

Prequel to the author’s 40,000-copy bestseller Nelson’s Navy

Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of her launch and an exhibition at Chatham Historic Dockyard this title gives new and surprising revelations about her career.

First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relates-with humanity, humour and the authority of experience-lower-deck life in the British navy, from basic training to…

Presents the results of an assessment of the state of robotics in Japan, Korea, Western Europe and Australia and a comparison of robotics R&D programs in these countries with those…