Century

God's Century

A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion’s political influence across the globe. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by...

Camp Century

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap: Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the...

Nomad Century

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where – and how – we liveWe are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for...

Century Sisters

The redoubtable Owtram sisters, best-selling authors of Codebreaking Sisters, take us back in time once again with recently rediscovered diaries and letters from the ’20s and 30s that paint a vivid picture of their childhood at Newland Hall in Lancashire’s Lune Valley. Here they lived with their...

Biotech Century

In this seminal book, Jeremy Rifkin explores the epic marriage between computer technology and genetic engineering, and the historic transition into the Age of Biotechnology. Already, Rifkin explains, our economy is undergoing a massive shift away from the Industrial Age and into an era in which...

Sinatra's Century

In celebration of his one-hundredth birthday, a charming, irresistibly readable, and handsomely packaged look back at the life and times of the greatest entertainer in American history, Frank Sinatra.Sinatra’s Century is an irresistible collection of one-hundred short reflections on the man, his...

NFL Century

From the executive director of the NFL Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the NFL, timed to coincide with the NFL’s 100th Anniversary Season.From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League,...

Ottoman Centuries

The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was sent into exile by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk). In this...

Century Rain

Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous...

My Century

In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation —in which...

Electric Century

Johnny Ashford, former sitcom-star, drives drunk through a storefront and gets tossed in jail. His aspiring actress girlfriend bails him out and he begins seeing a hypnotherapist, who sends him to his “happy place”: 1980’s Atlantic City, where he relives his childhood on the boardwalk and the...

Hegel's Century

The remarkable lectures that Hegel gave in Berlin in the 1820s generated an exciting intellectual atmosphere which lasted for decades. From the 1830s, many students flocked to Berlin to study with people who had studied with Hegel, and both his original students, such as Feuerbach and Bauer, and...

Century 21

Established in 2009, the highly successful Century 21 series of books soon acquired a reputation for presenting some of the best-loved comic strips of the 1960s in breathtaking quality. Each page is painstakingly restored from the best archive materials, including original artwork unseen for over...

Cosmologys Century

Modern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and his notion of a homogenous, philosophically satisfying cosmos. Cosmology’s Century is the story of how generations of scientists built on these thoughts and many new measurements to arrive at a well-tested...

Cosmic Century

The twentieth century witnessed the development of astrophysics and cosmology from subjects which scarcely existed to two of the most exciting and demanding areas of contemporary scientific inquiry. In this book Malcolm Longair reviews the historical development of the key areas of modern...

Heartbreak Century

So Last Century

General Haig, Noël Coward, Butch Cassidy, Margaret Thatcher’s bloomers and a racehorse strongly resembling Shergar feature in So Last Century, the new collection of astute and witty stories from award-winning journalist and author Charles Nevin.So Last Century begins with Edward VII on a tricky...

Mid Century DVD

Murder by design. Looking for a change one weekend, ER doctor Alice and her husband, Tom, rent a glamorous mid-century style home designed by architect Frederick Banner. As they investigate the home, they learn that Banner and his two wives died mysteriously – yet their spirits are very much alive....