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A mordant, undeluded book about the 'innocent' habits of consumers and how theycontribute vastly to climate change.People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple trap that proved remarkablyeffective. It was nothing more than a stout glass jar with a comparatively narrow neck, into which they put a large juicy banana. Plunging its paw into the jar to grab the banana, the creature found its ??st was now too bulky to ??t through the j...

A mordant, undeluded book about the 'innocent' habits of consumers and how they contribute vastly to climate change.

Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris."-The New York Times Book Review Set both in Tuscany and in the trendy haunts of London, this hilarious sequel to the popular Cooking with Fernet Branca is further evidence of Hamilton-Paterson's wit and comic inventiveness. The inimitable Gerald Samper is back, with his musings on the absurdities of modern life and his entertaining asides during which he comments on everything from pub...

An account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war.

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Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie whose idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from a former Soviet republic now run by gangsters, notably male members of her family. She is a composer in a neo-folk style who claims to be writing a score for a trendy Italian film director.

An illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars and locomotives from 1900 to 1945.

The author of Whitbread-winning "Gerontius" turns attention to Britain's lost industrial and technological civilisation, exploring how this loss has impacted the current predicament.

The fascinating story of the spy plane SR-71 Blackbird-the fastest manned aircraft in the history of aviation.The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed "spy" jet, was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft-and its success has never been approached since. It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin's highly secret 'Skunk Works' team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all tim...

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.

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A beautifully illustrated guide to a great musical event and the revolutionary impact of Beethoven's Third Symphony, "The Eroica".

Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50, 000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Marked for Death debu...

The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed "spy" jet, was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft-and its success has never been approached since. It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin's highly secret 'Skunk Works' team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all time, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. Once fully developed in 1964, the Blackbird represented the apogee of jet-powere...

An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica, " rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical symphony and revealed a powerful new expressiveness, both personal and societal. Even the whiff of actual political revolution was woven into the work-it was originally insc...

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