Bloomsbury

After one of the most controversial and divisive periods in the history of American foreign policy under President George W. Bush, the Obama administration was expected to make changes for the better in US relations with the wider world. Now, international problems confronting Obama appear more intractable, and there seems to be a marked continuity...

Few moments in Civil Rights history are as important as the morning of Sunday April 9, 1939 when Marian Anderson sang before a throng of thousands lined up along the Mall by the Lincoln Memorial. She had been banned from the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall because she was black. When Eleanor Roosevelt, who resigned...

So here he was at last, where he had long feared to be.Harry Chapman is not well, and he doesn’t like hospitals. Superficially all is as it normally is in such places, with nurses to chide him and a priest to console. But there are more than usual quotient of voices - is it because of Dr Pereira’s wonder drug that he can hear the voice of...

Hegel'sPhenomenology of Spirit is probablyhis most famous work. First published in 1807, it has exercised considerableinfluence on subsequent thinkers from Feuerbach and Marx to Heidegger, Kojeve,Adorno and Derrida. The book contains many memorable analyses of, for example,the master / slave dialectic, the unhappy consciousness, Sophocles' Antigone...

In this sequel to At the House of the Magician, Lucy has become a firm fixture in the household of the mysterious Dr. Dee. What the doctor doesn’t know is that Lucy is not just a maid-she is also a spy for the Queen. Then Lucy hears unexplained cries in the Dee house, and finds a young girl imprisoned there. What is Dr. Dee doing? Lucy means...

Hailed as the "patron saint of farmers’ markets" by the Guardian and called one of the "great food activists" by Vanity Fair’s David Kamp, Nina Planck is single-handedly changing the way we view "real food." A vital and original contribution to the hot debate about what to eat and why, Real Food is a thoroughly researched rebuttal to...