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In this first major account of Radio 4's history, Hendy explores the station's struggle to justify itself in a television age amid passionate disputes with its fiercely loyal listeners.     Life on Air provides a gripping insight into the very nature of British life and culture in the last decades of the twentieth century....

A completely new edition of this informative and fascinating book which covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including traditional names as well as the very newest names. It covers pet names, variant spellings, and gives intriguing historical and linguistic information for names from Aaron to Zuleika....

Essential ReadingsThis volume collects important philosophical texts from across the Buddhist        tradition. Each text is translated and introduced by a recognized authority in        Buddhist studies. Buddhist Philosophy provides an introduction to the vast and        diverse traditions of Buddhist thought through a selection of their most...

This book draws on the author's column in The Guardian, 'Elements of Fiction'.          Using examples from well-known recent novels, it examines the techniques by which        fiction works. It will widen the vocabulary of anyone interested in contemporary        fiction, not least by showing where it has elements in common with classic novels...

A New HistoryThe Silk Road conjures up an image a lone traveler carrying silk as he sits atop a camel and moves along a desert highway. This book offers concrete evidence for what he was really carrying and where he was heading, looking at the key sites along the multiple silk roads, using newly discovered documents preserved in the sands of the...

War and Economy in the Third Reich examines the nature of the German economy in the 1930s and the Second World War. Richard Overy's essays, collected here for the first time with a substantial new introduction, explore the tension between Hitler's vision of an armed economy and the reality of German economic and social life. Often...