'Chernobyl' offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of the accident are.

Students new to the work of William Morris will find the full range of his achievements covered in Peter Faulkner's biography. The author has carefully placed Morris in the context of the Victorian age, but has also suggested the relevance of his ideas today.

The late J.L. Mackie and his work were a focus for much of the best philosophical thinking in the Oxford tradition. His moral thought centres on that most fundamental issue in moral philosophy - the issue of whether our moral judgements are in some way objective.

This substantial and innovative contribution to the critical literature on the economies of the former Soviet bloc is unusual in that its author is equally familiar with both Western and Eastern sources.

First published in 1966 these collected papers, written by the distinguished and visionary climatologist Hubert H. Lamb, describe how climates come about and give a history of climatic changes from the last ice age to the present time.

This work was originally written by renowned Marxist historian Max Beer to commemorate the centenary of Marx's birth. It is a definitive biography, full of interesting personal details and a clear and comprehensive account of Marx's economic and historical doctrines.

This is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England's only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now underline much of Western civilization.

This collection contains ten key essays written by leading economists on the subject of the Industrial Revolution. Among the questions discussed are the causes for the pre-eminence of Britain, and the roles of the inputs for growth (capital, labor, technical progress).

This collection of essays is written by one of the world's foremost experts on weather and climate. Six of the chapters have not been published before. The rest have been thoroughly revised. The author provides an authoritative voice in the current debates about today's environment and the prospects for the future.

This work is a guide to the analysis of Thomas Hardy's technique and style through consideration of extracts from four novels: 'Far from the Madding Crowd', 'The Mayor of Casterbridge', 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Jude the Obscure'.