All Books

'Persian Pictures' is both travelogue and meditation, an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.

An authoritative review of the position of the IMF and World Bank in their sixtieth year.

A remarkable collection of essays, considering every angle of the Chechen conflict.

An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.

This book is an authoritative and radical manifesto for changes that are urgently required in development cooperation. The book predicts that, unless radical steps are taken by the World Bank, the first decade of the century will witness a ever-widening gulf between poor and rich countries.

This book is about the right to a basic income: a right without conditions, just as a citizen of a good society should have the right to clean water.

Provides a revealing global overview of air pollution and its startling impact through graphical and visual representation of data.

A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present.

This lively and controversial book is a timely contribution to the debate of the future of New Labour.

A unique and timely volume, offering the first major reassessment of Keble's work for several decades.

In considering Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot', a novel less easily defined in terms of plot and ideas than his other major fictional works, Sarah Young addresses problems in the novel unresolved by previous interpretations, and in doing so fills a significant gap in Dostoevsky studies.

A prescient examination of the serious faults and pitfalls of neoclassical economics.