Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Mis rables is one of the great works of western literature. Victo...

The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth

Fred Pearce

What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles o...

Everyday Thermo Cooking

Alyce Alexandra

If you have a thermo cooker, you'll know that it makes cooking faster and easier. You can cook from scratch and cook more often--but you need the right recipes In Everyday Thermo Cooking, Alyce Alexandra shows you how to get the best out of your thermo cooker with recipes that reflect the rhythm of ever...