Voices of The Codebreakers: Personal Accounts of the Secret Heroes of World War II

This title offers a comprehensive look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of WWII was won away from the battlefields and how each side desperately tried to get into the 'mind set' of their enemies' code makers. From the British cryptologists to the Navajo Indians whose codes helped win the war against Japan, this book reveals the stories of extraordinary people and their chance finds, lucky accidents, dogged determination and moments of sheer brilliance, to expose how the war was really won.It includes an intriguing glimpse of the early history of the computer - its spectacular uses and subsequent development. 

Kafka: A Very Short Introduction

Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. His other three novels, published after his death, helped to found his reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. Discussing both Kafka's crisis-ridden life and the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson provides an intriguing and accessible look at the life of this fascinating author.

A Coffin for Dimitrios

Eric Ambler - A Coffin for Dimitrios

While vacationing in Istanbul, an English novelist decides to investigate the intriguing past of one of Europe's most sinister criminals.

Write Your Own Nonfiction

Do you often post the questions "Why?" or "How?" or "What's next?" If you want to find out the answers, you will enjoy writing nonfiction. This book will help you present intriguing facts with your own personal flair.

Tales of Hi and Bye: Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World

We do it over and over again, day after day, and never seem to get enough of it. Albanians do it. Zulus do it. Movie stars and plumbers do it. All around the world, people say hi and bye in innumerable languages and countless ways: they wave and bow and curtsey and shake hands and rub noses and fist-bump and mwah-mwah and perform a vast array of greeting and farewell rituals, so common and natural that no-one stops to notice Tales of Hi and Bye provides a delightful, witty, and intriguing insight into the sometimes strange and often wonderful customs associated with an ordinary, everyday event.