Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian ...

This is the first major study in English of the reign of Philip Augustus who ruled France from 1180 - 1223. Outshone for posterity, by his flamboyant contemporaries ...

Rex Pope reassesses the impact of war on the political and social structures of British society during the first half of the twentieth century, and introduces ...

The present and future state of the environment gives rise to ever increasing concern, but much less is known as yet about the past: the damage that has ...

This text provides a concise thematic introduction to the evolution of British defence policy since the end of the second world war

Management for the Construction Industry introduces the principles of management and applies them to the construction industry. It covers the level 2 ...

Cavour was perhaps the key figure in the process of Italian unification. As prime minister of Piedmont, still reeling from military humiliation by Austria ...

This book examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events. It highlights the potential of sporting events for ...

The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark ...

Here is a wealth of factual and interpretative information about Germany between 1918 and 1945. Designed for maximum practicality, it sets the Hitler years ...