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.

This collection of essays from The New York Review of Books looks back at the legacy of Bush, Cheney, and Rove, and ahead to the challenges and opportunities that will face America during the next administration.

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

The full story of how weapons from the KGB, Gadaffi's Libya and US gun shops got to Ireland: and how the smuggling rings were finally broken. Also available in paperback.
'a very fine piece of work' The Irish Times

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.

No one outside the intelligence services knows more about their culture than Thomas Powers. In this book he tells stories of shadowy successes, ghastly failures, and, more often, gripping uncertainties.