The first third of the book gives an absorbing account of the making of an economist.

ECONOMIST: Milton Friedman

His book is an impressive account of a world that few readers of this newspaper will recognise.

ECONOMIST: Unlocking the books in a prison library

Although as an account of the events of the war, the book can be commended, its explanatory framework is therefore anachronistic and incomplete.

ECONOMIST: Modern Greek history

Ms Neighbour offers no grand prescriptions for dealing with terrorism, but her book is a compelling, readable and well-informed account of an Islamist terror network that has spread across South-East Asia.

ECONOMIST: Terror in South-East Asia

That gets its first outing in the Book of Revelation, a lurid account of the apocalypse probably best read as an allegory of the individual Christian's journey to salvation.

ECONOMIST: Heaven on earth

In his new book, Evening's Empire, historian Craig Koslofsky puts forward an account of how this happened.

BBC: The myth of the eight-hour sleep

"A historical account of the US economy sounds boring, but I found the book an easy read, " said Ghodsi.

FORBES: Intelligent Investing Briefing Book

Mr Rose, who as an historian of the book belongs to a growing sub-discipline, has written a masterly account of the way in which the British working classes (and that term must remain emphatically plural, since Mr Rose moves from the landlocked rural poor, to London's Jewish East End, to the clattering factory towns of north-western England) have taught, soothed and entertained themselves through their own intellectual resources.

ECONOMIST: Cultural history