This is a full-colour Rockfax guide to rock climbing in the eastern gritstone areas of the Derbyshire Peak District. The dark gritstone cliffs hold a higher esteem in the mythology of climbing that their diminutive size might suggest - and this is because of the fantastic quality of the climbing available. It features 1000+ selected routes in 20 ar...more

A passionate and brilliant polemic on the meaning of national identity in modern Britain.In a world where British citizens can lay bombs to kill their countrymen and where religious fundamentalism and political fanaticism are on the increase, what does patriotism actually mean? The Progressive Patriot is singer-songwriter Billy Bragg’s urgent, el...more

Philip K Dick notoriously charted SF's most dangerous, booby-trapped realities. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974) is a relatively straightforward tale of paranoid unease at finding the world isn't what it should be. Jason Taverner is world-famous for his songs and regular TV show. "Thirty million people saw you zip up your fly tonight." ".....more

Dougal Haston was a man of extremes. Combining a hedonistic lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering, he remains, even in death, a figure whose deeds have inspired climbers worldwide. His good looks, exceptional talent, egocentricity, and obsession have ensured that his legend extends far beyond the climbing fraternity. C...more

A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celest...more

Salam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept during the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postings together in print for the first time, Salam Pax provides one of the most gripping accounts of the Iraq conflict and will be the subject of global m...more

The White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer and his comrades in 1938, but also the previous, tragic attempts at a wall of rock that was recently enshrined in mountaineer Jon Krakauer's first work, Eiger Dreams. For a generation of American climbers, The White Spider has been a formative book--ye...more

Brawling, hard-drinking, hellman—Don Whillans’ reputation was as wide as the Yosemite big walls and as high as the Himalayan peaks he risked his life to scale. ·Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers ·His epochmaking first ascent of Annapurna’s South Face set a standard to which modern Himalayan climbers aspire...more