People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy and[...]

A book containing the edited transcripts of the Mellon lecture series, given by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin in Washington in 1965 on the subject of Romanticism. It is accompanied by a recording, on compact disc, of Berlin delivering the final lecture.[...]

A collection of portraits of seventeen people of remarkable distinction in the intellectal or political world - sometimes in both - now supplemented for this edition by five new essays. The names include Churchill, Roosevelt, Weizmann, Einstein, Bowra, Pasternak and Akhmatova.[...]

Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centres, and the best shops to buy [...]

"Wallpaper* City Guides" are a ruthlessly researched, design conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a city has to offer.[...]

'A fine book for those who enjoy vintage Le Carre' IAN RANKINAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 2's SARA COX SHOW 'The new Le Carre . . . an absolutely brilliant page turner . . . if you love thrillers, Jack Grimwood is a name you need to remember'_________________In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negoti[...]

The 1936 Berlin Olympics brought together athletes, politicians, socialites, journalists, soldiers and artists from all over the world. But behind the scenes, they were a dress rehearsal for the horrors of the forthcoming conflict. Hitler had secretly decided the Games would showcase Nazi prowess an[...]

"Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes."--"New York Times Book Review"
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkab[...]

This major new book provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. Kittler begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was or[...]

Includes novels "Mr Norris Changes Trains" and "Goodbye to Berlin".

Berlin Ghetto tells the story of a group of young people who had lives filled with intellectual exploration, intense friendships and romances - and dangerous, illegal political action against the Nazi regime. The roots of anti-fascism in the Communist, Socialist and Jewish youth movements of pre-Na[...]

Secrets and spies, love and tragedy in Stasi East Germany. Brandenburg 1993: The Berlin Wall is down, the country is reunified and thirty-year-old school teacher Michael Ritter feels his life is falling apart. His wife has thrown him out, his new West German headmaster has fired him for being a soci[...]