Biography: historical, political and military

The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and more effective than it was just a few years earlier.

The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and more effective than it was just a few years earlier.

Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies.

'I go about the street with water-creases crying, "e;Four bunches a penny, water-creases.

Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring for indicators of the value and reach of research.

'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, from Egypt to Uzbekistan, and died in Babylon at the age of 32 with further ambitions unfulfilled.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.

In 1972, a young widow dragged from her bath screaming and bundled into a waiting van while her children looked on in horror.

The definitve account of Napoleon's rise to power by one of our greatest historians.