At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forwa...

In 1952 fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent poets and writers, were falsely accused, secretly tried, and convicted of treason and espionage. Thirteen were executed, one died in a prison hospital and one was exiled. This book presents the lo...

For sale in CIS only! In this topical text Paulin Kola challenges the accepted notion that there is widespread support for a 'Greater Albania' among the Albanian-speaking people of the Balkans, and argues that Albanians do not wish to join a single,...

For sale in CIS only! This is a first hand account of the first successful expedition to the South Pole, written by the leader Roald Amundsen. It constructs the character of the expedition and provides insight into Amundsen's philosophy of explorati...