2017
Oz Clarke’s World of Wine
About Wine The Story of Wine The Modern Picture Grape Varieties In the Vineyard In the Winery What does it taste like? Reading the Label The World of Wine France Italy Spain Portugal Germany Switzerland Austria Central and Eastern Europe Romania Hungary Western Balkans Bulgaria Greece Eastern Mediterranean England and Wales North America Canada South …
First Confession
Politics and Identity Mass and Privet Scholarship Boy ‘The Last Best Hope of Earth’ ‘Wet’ Leadership: Heath, Thatcher, Major Crazy Irish Knots Out East The Loneliness of the Long Distance European Atlantic Crossing Poobah Violence and Faith
The Tank Book
Foreword David Willey, Curator, The Tank Museum The First Tanks: To 1918 Introduction Earliest Experiments Leonardo da Vinci’s “Tank” Mark IV Tanks of World War I Renault FT-17 Great Designers: Tritton and Wilson The First Tank Action Wartime Experiments Early Armoured Cars Between the Wars: 1918-1939 Introduction Interwar Experiments A New Kind of Cavalry Armoured …
Die Anfänge von Allem
Einleitung: Das Rad Bodenständig, tragfähig, treu: Der Anfang des aufrechten Gangs Die Zeit der Zähne und die Zeit der Feste: Der Anfang des Kochens Röhrende Hirsche, die am Stammtisch leise werden: Der Anfang des Sprechens Dieses Spiel geht nur zu dritt: Der Anfang der Sprache Die Schönheit des Schmucks, des Sexes und der wilden Biester: …
We Were Eight Years in Power
Introduction: Regarding Good Negro Government Notes from the First Year: “This Is How We Lost the White Man” Notes from the Second Year: American Girl Notes from the Third Year: Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War? Notes from the Fourth Year: The Legacy of Malcolm X Notes from the Fifth Year: Fear …
Night Trains
Introduction The Blue Train The Nordland Railway Paris-Venice The ‘Orient Express’ The Sud Express The Berlin Night Express
The Age of Genius
Map Author’s Note Introduction Seeing the Universe The Epoch in Human History A Time of Wars The Origins of the Wars The Loss of the Palatinate The Mercenary Captains The Edict of Restitution, 1629 The Swedish Apogeee From Wallenstein to Breisach Towards Westphalia In the Ruins of Europe The Maritime Conflicts The Cumulation of Ideas …
Daring to Drive
A Country of One King and Millions of Queens Cockroaches and Prison Bars Dirty Girls Mecca under Siege Behind the Veil My Barbie is Murdered The Forbidden Satellite Dish Employed and Homeless Love and the Falafel Man Live Free or Die Driving while Female In the Kingdom of Saudi Men Abouya and the King The …
Black Tudors
“To Elizabeth + Harold, Enjoy! Miranda Kaufmann” John Blanke, the Trumpeter Jacques Francis, the Salvage Diver Diego, the Circumnavigator Edward Swarthye, the Porter Reasonable Blackman, the Silk Weaver Mary Fillis, the Moroccan Convert Dederi Jaquoah, the Prince River Cestos John Anthony, Mariner of Dover Anne Cobbie, the Tawny Moor with Soft Skin Cattelena of Almondsbury, …
This Orient Isle
Introduction: The Ambassador Arrives Conquering Tunis The Sultan, the Tsar and the Shah The Battle for Barbary An Apt Man in Constantinople Unholy Alliances Sultana Isabel London Turns Turk Mahomet’s Dove Escape from the Seraglio Sherley Fever More than a Moor Epilogue