Historie og samfunn

A work that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. It is a parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. It provides an overview of this world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2003 A shattering history of the last hundred years of genocidal war that itemises in authoritative, persuasive manner exactly what the West knew and when, and what it chose to do, and what not to do, with that knowledge.

Den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, som varede fra 1861 til 1865, kaldte millioner af immigranter fra hele verden til våben. Nogle af dem var danske, og de var med overalt - i alle de største slag og ved alle våbenarter. I både Nordstaternes og i Sydstaternes hære. Det var mænd som københavneren, der var med til at udvikle et fartøj for Nordstaterne, der vandt verdenshistoriens første søslag mellem panserskibe. Og en sønderjysk sydstatssoldat, der deltog i verdenshistoriens første ubådsangreb - og en sjællandsk løjtnant, som blev vidne til mordet på præsident Lincoln. For blot at nævne nogle få eksempler. Bogens anden del er et register med 585 navngivne immigranter, d.v.s. omtrent halvdelen af det anslåede antal danskere i Den Amerikanske Borgerkrig. Hvem var de, hvor kom de fra og hvilken skæbne overgik dem i én af verdenshistoriens blodigste konflikter? "Dengang jeg drog af sted ..." er et stykke hidtil ubelyst dansk udvandrerhistorie og en samling af beretninger om danskere, som forlod det gamle land og risikerede livet for det nye.

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends - it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality.

'A wake-up call ... These women's stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.' Amal ClooneyFrom award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict.Christina Lamb has worked in war and combat zones for over thirty years. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefield she gives voice to the women of conflicts, exposing how in today's warfare, rape is used by armies, terrorists and militias as a weapon to humiliate, oppress and carry out ethnic cleansing.Speaking to survivors first-hand, Lamb encounters the suffering and bravery of women in war and meets those fighting for justice. From Southeast Asia where 'comfort women' were enslaved by the Japanese during World War Two to the Rwandan genocide, when an estimated quarter of a million women were raped, to the Yazidi women and children of today who witnessed the mass murder of their families before being enslaved by ISIS. Along the way Lamb uncovers incredible stories of heroism and resistance, including the Bosnian women who have hunted down more than a hundred war criminals, the Aleppo beekeeper rescuing Yazidis and the Congolese doctor who has risked his life to treat more rape victims than anyone else on earth.Rape may be as old as war but it is a preventable crime. Bearing witness does not guarantee it won't happen again, but it can take away any excuse that the world simply didn't know.

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?

A guide to meditation and mindfulness written by Buddhist monk Gelong Thubten.

Bret Easton Ellis's first work of non-fiction is an incendiary polemic about what is going on in the world right now -guaranteed to entertain, surprise and provoke.

The gripping true story of a front-line trauma surgeon in the world's most dangerous war zones.

A ground-breaking exploration of feminism's most buzzy topic.

In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.

The most popular series by the most successful Chinese author - a cultural monument translated into English for the first time

The Rise of the Robots for the masses. How to survive in a world of virtual globalisation.

`Prepare to laugh' - Reese Witherspoon 253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl.