Bloomsbury

A chance encounter in an Athens bar with war-time flying buddy sets Jack Clay on the trail of the Nawab of Tungabhadra's missing fortune, hi-jacked out of India years before at the time of partition.Maybe there would be nothing much in it for him at the end of the day, but it sure beat the hell out of growing old and obsolete together with the...

Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the WestFrom the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas...

Sometimes brains aren't everything.George R. Clark is gifted. Mentally, he's light-years ahead of his classmates. His parents worship him, and his teachers adore him. But socially, George is at the bottom of the curve. Most of his classmates avoid him-if he's lucky. Until the Bruise Brothers, the intellectually challenged members of the school...

The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. Indeed, both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) suffered early onset of unaccountable "e;debility"e; aboard ship and Ross suffered greater fatalities during his single winter in the Arctic than did Franklin during his first. Both expeditions were forced to retreat...

New Research in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development"e;This book is an important contribution to recovering a nuanced, contextually aware view of access to knowledge and global knowledge governance"e; Yochaie Benkler, Harvard Law School"e;This is a 'must read' for scholars and practioners interested in economic devlopment,...

Meet the Mudcrusts! LowbrowMudcrust is the lumbering, lazy head of the family, who is happiestwhen he is squelching his toes in the slime. That doesn't stop his wifeFlora from nagging him and reminding him that he's not the chief of thetribe. Their two children, Bogweed and Fungus, are always fighting.Although Fungus doesn't have Bogweed's brute...