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Michael Aldous, John D Turner
The CEO

The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power? Are they really worth that exorbitant salary? …

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Jane Austen,
Childhood Writings

The Cambridge Jane Austen

In her earliest writings, a precocious, alarmingly assured Jane Austen views the adult world with wide, clear eyes, cheekily amused at the emotions, pomposity, intrigues and bustle of family and friends. …

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Jane Austen,
Emma

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Jane Austen's stylish masterpiece, Emma is a brilliant psychological comedy about the mind's deception of itself. It speaks to the tedium of family and social existence, yet does so in a sparkling, utterl…

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Jane Austen,
Later Manuscripts

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Gathering together all the unpublished mature work of Jane Austen, this volume comprises poems, a novella, unfinished novels, literary spoofs and a series of letters giving advice on how to write fiction.…

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Jane Austen,
Mansfield Park

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Many critics regard Mansfield Park as Austen's supreme achievement. It is a serious, even earnest work, but never dull, finding its comedy less in dialogue than in situation. It has wonderful set pieces i…

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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey is both an ingenious Gothic parody and a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl in late eighteenth-century England. Conceived in the 1790s but not published unti…

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Jane Austen,
Persuasion

The Cambridge Jane Austen

A powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine. It opens with Anne …

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Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen's six remarkable novels. Full of crackling dialogue, it achieves the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity. While revealing th…

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Jane Austen,
Sense and Sensibility

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Money and destructive passion overshadow romance in this darkly humorous novel of sexual manoeuvring and greed. Appearing anonymously in 1811 under the attribution 'By A Lady', Sense and Sensibility is Ja…

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Jane Austen,
The Complete Cambridge Jane Austen 8 Volume Hardback Set

The Cambridge Jane Austen

A treasure for all lovers of Jane Austen, this authoritative and attractive new edition is accessible and informative for readers at all levels. With helpful notes and enlightening prefaces, it presents t…

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Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard,
Athens, 403 BC

Classical Scholarship in Translation

At the end of the fifth century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens' shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commission of thirty Athenians abolished the democratic instit…

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Katherine Backler
Athena's Sisters

Athena's Sisters transforms our understanding of Classical Athenian culture and society by approaching its institutions-kinship, slavery, the economy, social organisation-from women's perspectives. It arg…

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Robert Bartlett
History in Flames

The writings of the medieval period come down to us in manuscripts, which are highly vulnerable. This book explores cases in which large numbers of such manuscripts were rapidly destroyed by human force s…

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Huw Bennett
Uncivil War

When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Gre…

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Jonas Bens
The Sentimental Court

Modern law seems to be designed to keep emotions at bay. The Sentimental Court argues the exact opposite: that the law is not designed to cast out affective dynamics, but to create them. Drawing on extens…

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Mike Berners-Lee
A Climate of Truth

We have most of the technology we need to combat the climate crisis - and most people want to see more action. But after three decades of climate COPs, we are accelerating into a polycrisis of climate, fo…

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Gaia Bernstein
Unwired

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, …

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David Braund
Amazons

The idea of the Amazons is one of the most romantic and resonant in all antiquity. Greeks were fascinated by images and tales of these fierce female fighters. At Troy, Achilles' duel with Penthesilea was …

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Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz
Data-Driven Science and Engineering

Data-driven discovery is revolutionizing how we model, predict, and control complex systems. Now with Python and MATLAB®, this textbook trains mathematical scientists and engineers for the next generation…

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Sarah Burton, Jem Poster
The Prompts You Need to Help You Write the Book You Want to Write

How can you take your writing to the next level? In this follow-up to their acclaimed handbook The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write, Sarah Burton and Jem Poster offer exercises an…

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