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*In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol.

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If Rupert Murdoch isn't making headlines, he's busy buying the media outlets that generate them. His News Corp holdings are vast, and his power is unrivalled. Michael Wolff chronicles the growth of the $70 bn media kingdom, probes the Murdoch family dynasty, and offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and Newsday.

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Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. This is his biography that also tells the story of a musical and political era.

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Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. Creator of the famous Obedience Experiments carried out at Yale in the early 1960s, and originator of the 'six degrees of separation' theory, Milgram continues to be an intriguing figure in psychology and beyond. This is a biography of Milgram.

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An award-winning journalist shatters the myth of Ronald Reagan

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Like a Graham Greene novel come to life, this biography tells the mesmerizing story of Fred Cuny, the "Master of Disaster"--a complicated man who disappeared in the scariest place on earth. of photos.

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SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishops lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britains most remarkable 20th century figures.

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From one of our most astute observers, a haunting and unexpected investigation of the many voices he carries inside himself

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A timely and important re-evaluation of a pioneer in anthropology and Aboriginal studies: meticulously researched, beautifully written and convincingly argued.

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"The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy-before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up"--

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A history of the Australian Army Training Team in Vietnam, as told through the personal recollections of the men who served in the Team from 1962-1972.

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At the time when wealth was stored and exchanged as gold and silver coin - and there was rarely enough to fund the extravagance of kings, let alone trade - Law realised that the overriding problem was lack of available money.

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Tells the extraordinary story of how a dope-smoking beach bunny from Mudgee, Robyn Hutchinson, became Rabiah - a member of the jihadist elite. Known among her peers as 'the mother of Mohammed', and as 'the Elizabeth Taylor of the jihad' in CIA circles, Rabiah lived for twenty years on the frontlines of the global holy war.

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In this sequel to The Flame Trees of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War. Her family and friends, their home and their travels, the glorious wildlife and scenery, described in rich and loving detail.

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This selection of Bowen's non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her brilliant evocations of London in wartime and of the Irish 'big house', and penetrating accounts of some of her most famous contemporaries.

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With formidable skill, historian Patricia Cline Cohen has reconstructed the events and characters central to one of the great public melodramas of the 19th century--the murder of a beautiful prostitute and the trial of her lover. 16 illustrations. 2 maps.

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From the glamour of 1930s Hollywood and John Montague's extraordinary skill on the golf course to the shady world of Adirondack bootleggers, a "New York Times"-bestselling author captures a man and an era with extraordinary color and energy.

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An extraordinary and unique memoir from an international hostage negotiator.