The Pursuit of Italy - A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples

David Gilmour

The "Pursuit of Italy" traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and V...

Lolcatz, Santa and Death by Dog: Strange and True Tales from Science and Technology

Andrew Masterson

In Lolcatz, Santa, and Death by Dog, Andrew Masterson reveals the hidden secrets of science and technology research. Have you ever considered, for example, the influence of breasts in cyberterrorism? Or the role of cats in the Arab Spring? Did you know that there is a peer-reviewed paper describing the ...