This is image is from Extreme Nature by Mark Carwardine, published by HarperCollins. (Click on the image for a larger version)

The Peasants' Revolt was the greatest mass rebellion in British history. Throughout June and July 1381, 60,000 men and women from as far afield as Yorkshire and Norfolk rampaged across the country in response to the attempted collection of the hated 'Poll Tax'. But this was not just a revolt of peasants and workmen. Many prosperous men and women, especially Londoners, used the 'Great Rising' as a cover for private acts of score-settling and criminality. Alastair Dunn re-examines the aims of the rebels, their bizarre acts of ritualistic violence and the unusual personalities of their charismatic leaders.

Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success 'might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic'. In The World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering 'masterless' men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs. It is a portrait not of the bourgeois revolution that actually took place but of the impulse towards a far more fundamental overturning of society.

The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book collects for the first time Crumb's finest drawings, stories, illustrations, covers, and paintings - ranging from his early work as a greeting card artist to such iconic sixties images as "Keep On Truckin'" and "Stoned Agin!" to drawings and comic strips featuring Crumb's signature creations, including Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Devil Girl. Brief commentaries by Crumb illuminate his obsessions with sex and old music, his disappointment with the hippie era, and other aspects of his life and career. With its never-before-seen drawings and sketchbook work, and featuring many cartoons coloured by the artist for the first time, The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book is a rich visual feast of a book - a celebration of one of the great original American artists of our time.