In the final years of the twentieth century Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy was the wonder of the western world. This book identifies the policies which will help in our changing circumstances and carry us through into a bright future.

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century.

A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.

Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland.

Hunter Davies looks back at a hundred years of economising at a time when a lot of the old tips and hints are still useful today as the same sorts of problems present themselves.

Hunter Davies looks back at a hundred years of economising at a time when a lot of the old tips and hints are still useful today as the same sorts of problems present themselves.

A landmark work of African-American thought written in a period of immense social ferment.

Defying all the odds 1600 men, women and children went out on 24 April, Easter Monday, 1916 to fight for an independent Ireland. Vividly illustrated, this book takes you through the battle-torn streets of Dublin.

Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd was a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the nascent New Left.

With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great.