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From 1917 to the 1980's

Paul Johnson begins this dramatic account of the last six decades with ehe end of the First World War, which saw the destruction of the traditional European order, the triumph of Einstein's new cosomology, the full impact of Freudianism, the establishment of the First Marxist state and the genesis of the great Marxist heresy, Fascism.  He traces the interplay of these forces during the aracdian Twenties, the desparate Thirties and the catastrophe of the Second World War.  Within the framework of the ingenious organisational structure, which allows ample space for the vivid incident and telling anecdote, de describes the rise of the two super - powers, locked in Cold War, the Communist revloution in China, the deconilization of Africa and Asia and the tragic aftermath of independence, the stunning recovery of democracy and capitalism in Western Europe, the rise of the Pacific enterprise economies led by Japan, the radicalizing of Latin America, the expansion of the Soviet Russia as a global military power, the hegemony of the United States followed by its attempted suicide in the years 1965-1980.

Author: Kerry Jamieson 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date:  2005 
Pages: 346
 Charles Lindbergh thrilled the world by becoming the first lone pilot to cross the Atlantic. Soon after he landed, however, the flight log from the Spirit of St Louis was stolen from the aeroplane's cockpit. That much is fact...Pica Koll, the heroine of Kerry Jamieson's new novel, first encounters the charismatic young flier in Minnesota in 1923 - long before he becomes an international celebrity - and falls in love with him.

Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at the life-giving beliefs and ideas that have been made visible and audible through the medium of art. From the collapse of the Roman Empire, he concentrates on the crucial episodes that produced the ideas, books, buildings,works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation.

Author:  Richard Mooney
Condition:  4/10
This books Published Date:  1975
Pages:  274
Man's unearthly origins - a shattering new perspective on human history.

Author: David Bodanis
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2006

A technological odyssey complete with heroes and villians, triumph and tragedy - a true scientific adventure.

Author: Nadine Gordimer 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2000
Pages: 236

Nadine Gordimer describes this collection of her non-fiction pieces as "a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in". The collection of essays, articles and addresses encompass Gordimer's own evidence of the inequities of apartheid as she saw them in 1956, her account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a free country.

Author: Philip Boast
Condition: 5/10
Published Date: 1987

The saga of a turn-of -the centuary foundling.

Author: Helon Habila 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 383
A novel of ardent loyalty, encroaching modernity, political desire, and personal liberation, Measuring Time is a heart-wrenching history of Nigeria, portrayed through the eyes of a single family.

Author: Leon Uris
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2003
Pages: 394

After the Civil War, stalwart warriors struggle to keep the Marine Corps alive. Their one hope may lie in Zachary O'Hara, the son of their hero, Paddy. But Zachary is haunted by a secret - one that may force him to choose between a career in the Corps or a life with a woman who fulfils his desires.

Author: Mark Oxbrow and Ian Robertson
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2006

Does the fabled Holy Grail lie buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel?

Did the Knights Templar hide their treasure in Rosslyn's secret crypt?

Can the thousands of carvings within Rosslyn Chapel be decoded?

Author: Anita Shreve 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 2002
Pages: 356

When an English biographer, Mr Moxom, sets out to write a story on the Rose Street Massacre of 1933, he interviews elderly Honora Beecher, one of the few remaining survivors 50 years later. He wants to know everything and sets out to get Honora's and her late husband's life story to tell the tale.

Author:  Raymond Dawson 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date:  2005 
Pages:  318
Theirs was a rich civilization in which emperors are magnified, bureacrats satirized, women worshipped, nature revered, parting and death mourned, and war reviled. Dawson shows how Chinese art and literature are linked by the magic of the calligraphic brush-stroke, and the lasting influence of ancient doctrines on Chinese manners and institutions, all of which is deeply rooted in tradition.

Author: Umberto Eco 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2005
Pages: 455
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.

Author: William T. Vollmann Condition: NEW Published Date: 2007 In Uncentering the Earth, William T. Vollmann provides an enlightening and readable explanation not only of Copernicus and his work, but also of his epoch, and the momentous clash between the two.

Author: Anthony Tallarico
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 1991

Detect Donald along with hundreds of other amusing things as you follow his hilarious adventures.