Winston Churchill, Andy Warhol, Walt Disney, Tom Cruise, Agatha Christie, and Pablo Picasso are all famous and successful in their chosen professions. All are dyslexic. According to Dyslexia: A Beginner’s Guide - around 5 to 15 per cent of speakers of alphabetic languages are dyslexic; around 4 per cent severely so. But what exactly is dyslexia? Are there different types of dyslexia? Is it more likely to occur in boys than in girls? Is there a cure? This book answers these, and other, questions.

The nature of warfare changed dramatically in the 19th century, from battles such as Waterloo being decided in a single day, to wars dragging out over years and raging over entire continents. Warwick alumnus Christian Wolmar argues that this change was brought about by the invention of the railway, which enabled troops and supplies to be mobilised on a vast scale and with previously unimagined speed.

New research by the University of Warwick on French President Nicolas Sarkozy compares his political rise to Bonapartism.

Person-Centred Counselling in a Nutshell is a short, accessible guide to one of the most popular approaches to counselling.

Dr Richard Walton, from the Department of Chemistry has co-edited a series of five books Inorganic Materials, alongside Duncan W. Bruce and Dermot O'Hare. The Inorganic Materials series contains five volumes, based on the physical properties of each material: Molecular Materials; Low-Dimensional Solids; Porous Materials; Functional Oxides; Energy Materials