Guardian Shorts imprint: 32 books

Whether it's glamping or wild camping, every year well over a million of us leave the warmth of our homes and head into the outdoors and its varying degrees of luxury. Camping in the 21st century has never been more popular, nor have campers before had such access to different camping styles and the...

In December 1959 the Guardian ran a story on a struggling Second Division club: W. Shankly was appointed manager of Liverpool last night at a salary reported to be £2,500 a year.Five years on, the struggle was just a memory. The Guardian's Eric Todd was at Anfield to watch Shankly's dramatically reshaped...

The internet has the potential to help society build the greatest global democracy with lofty ideals of freedom, and the capacity to facilitate the most authoritarian of surveillance states. One of the defining philosophical clashes of our age will be whether the original open model of the web prevails...

Begin asking a question of Google, and some interesting insights into the inner-conflicts of the collective human mind emerge. Type how … and two of the most popular choices are how to make pancakes and how to lose weight fast. But there is also a heartening level of wonder at the world around us:...

The Leveson Inquiry has, throughout 2012, attracted countless column inches as it has examined press regulation in the UK. Inside a London courtroom, the Inquiry has progressed and debates have been ignited. Journalists, politicians, policemen - along with the odd film star - have been summonsed to the...

Bradley Wiggins is a very British sporting hero: unassuming, private, given to a sardonic sense of humour and a strong appreciation for those that have supported him throughout his family and fans. He is also a fiercely determined competitor, a supremely passionate athlete and an eloquent ambassador...

New York. NYC. The Big Apple. Home to over 8 million people, as well as some of the world's finest art, culture, buildings and restaurants. Each year over 45 million people visit this famous city.In addition to giving you all the information you need on everything from the Empire State Building to MoMA,...

Reading the Riots is the only research study into the causes and consequences of the summer riots involving interviews with large numbers of people who actually took part in the disorder. A project run jointly by the Guardian and the London School of Economics (LSE), the aim was to produce evidence-based social research that would help explain why the rioting spread across England.

2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of Britain's all-time greatest writers. This collection charts the Guardian's relationship with Dickens and his legacy over that time, from his first 'celebrity' profile in the paper in 1846 right through to modern day reviews...

1966 was England's greatest moment - and its biggest curse. After the World Cup win, crowds outside the team hotel in Kensington sang "For he's a jolly good fellow" to Alf Ramsey, looking forward to years of domination. Nearly five decades later, the wait goes on.This is the story of how the England...

Reported over the decades by the Guardian's finest journalists, this is the modern story of America's national debt.

It's not something that happens very often any more. A new drama begins on a digital channel with very little hype, turns out to be brilliant, and quickly becomes a phenomenon. But such was the success of Forbrydelsen, or The Killing. This is the best of the Guardian's wildly popular blog from series 1 and 2, with additional articles by the Guardian's finest TV critics and journalists.

Based on original reports from the Guardian and Observer archives from the last 130 years, this unique collection revisits 20 of the club's defining matches in the words of contemporary writers, from the 1930 Zeppelin Cup final to Wenger's Invincibles and beyond. This is the Arsenal story.

The Guardian and Observer newspapers have covered jazz in all its shapes and forms for almost a century. Jazz: From New Orleans to the new generation is a collection of reviews and profiles that charts the development of the music from its first appearance in London in 1917 right through to latter day...