A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers

A fascinating and gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.

Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography

Told in a very relaxed and sometimes - as you might expect - very funny Palin style.' David Baddiel, Daily Mail 'Magisterial .

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? Here is an accessible and enlightening guide to the sometimes hidden techniques of map-making through the centuries.

Focuses on the Irish landscape. This title includes a rewriting of the contemporary section to take account of the Celtic Tiger, and contains six fresh regional case studies - Tory island (Donegal), the Wicklow uplands, Inistiogue (County Kilkenny), Aughris (County Sligo), Clonfert (County Galway) and Point Lance in Newfoundland.