Like the best-selling Black Hat Python, Black Hat Go explores the darker side of the popular Go programming language. This collection of short scripts will help you test your systems, build and automate tools to fit your needs, and improve your offe…

A Financial Times Book of the Year, Chris Patten's What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century is a frank and witty survey of our geopolitical future. At the start of the twenty-first century, the challenges the world faces seem bewilderingly comp…

"A magisterial volume a cocktail of autobiography, political analysis of the state of the world, and policy prescriptions." "Foreign Affairs"For fifty years, the Americans, British, and Europeans were close partners, yet today the Western alliance i…

Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight'. This is a different sort of memoir. Following his life as a self-confessed 'wet European' from parliament to Hong Kong and beyond, Chris Patten creates a meditation on personal and…

This is a summary of the Girl's Own Paper which was a British story paper catering for girls and young women, published from 1880 until 1956.The G.O.P provided a mix of stories and educational and improving articles, with 'Answers to Corespondents'…

After spending several years in the thick of international events, the author has seen rather a lot of the world - and the people who run it. In this book, he gives us his forthright views on everything from the Tories' downfall to America's empire,…