Oxford University Press

A Very Short IntroductionGenius is highly individual and unique yet it shares a compelling quality. In this intriguing introduction Andrew Robinson uses the life and work of familiar geniuses - and some less familiar - to consider what their achievements have in common; whether its heredity, education, hard work, intelligence or just plain luck....

Sportsman. Naturalist. Warrior. President. There are so many sides to Theodore Roosevelt that it is easy to overlook one of his most enduring contributions to American public life: the use of fame to fuel his political career.   In this concisely written, enlightening book, presidential historian Lewis L. Gould goes beyond the "e;bully...

The great scientist's ideas and their relevance to the present dayYou might know what is said about Galileo, but not many people know what Galileo himself actually said! His elusive and often misquoted discourse has resulted, over the years, in slurs against his name and reputation as a scientist. Let him speak then, so that he can bring to...

The story of the most powerful political metaphor of the twentieth century, shattering the conventional assumption that it was coined by Churchill in the 1940s and charting its long and influential history prior to the onset of the Cold War....

Power, Myth, and the Rise of the NazisHindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis reveals how a previously        little-known general, whose career to normal retirement age had provided no real        foretaste of his heroic status, became a national icon and living myth in Germany        after the First World War, capturing the imagination...

This new book by Julian Jackson, a leading historian of twentieth-century France, charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of one of the key Allied powers, setting in motion the traumatic years of the Occupation, the Vichy regime, and the rapid escalation of World War Two....