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Alain Finkielkraut / The Defeat of the Mind (Hardback)

The Defeat of the Mind examines the opposition to Enlightenment thought from the eighteenth century to the present. Finkielkraut asserts that the ostensibly progressive cast of third world anticolonial and anti-Western sentiment, paradoxically, has its...

Péter Nádas / Love (Hardback)

  The hallucinatory, unforgettable account of a moment-or an eternity-in an uncertain love affairThe man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realizes he won't be able to tell her. The woman...

Modris Eksteins / Walking Since Daybreak (Hardback)

Based on personal experiences the author offers this history of the Baltic nations describing their brief independence after World War I, their devastation during World War II, and their annexation into the Soviet Union   This book is second hand,...

Peter Schneider / Couplings (Hardback)

Eduard, a molecular biologist living in West Berlin, along with his friends Theo, a writer from East Berlin, and Andre, an international composer, scientifically examine every form of love and its complications and ironies, during the re-unification of...

Bev Williams / Let's Not Age, Let's Just Marinate (Hardback)

A collection of cartoons offering painless ways to age, from the author of  Older, Wiser . . . Sexier When a recipe says "add wine," never ask "to what?" This cheeky but charming book brings together the best of Bev Williams's cartoons...

Joel M. McMains / Advanced Obedience (Hardback)

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Adrian Geoffrey Gilbert / The Mayan Prophecies (Hardback)

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Simon Brett / A Reconstructed Corpse (Hardback)

While playing the part of missing property developer Martin Earnshaw on "Public Enemies," a true-crime television series, actor-sleuth Charles Paris begins to uncover the shocking truth about the missing man's disappearance   This book is second...

Donald J. Trump / The Way to the Top (Hardback)

The host of the hit reality show The Apprentice presents an invaluable collection of grounded, hard-hitting advice on business success, from people who have made it to the boss’s chair at some of America’s most thriving companies.How can you...

A.J. Baime / White Lies (Hardback)

A riveting biography of Walter White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America foreverWalter White led two lives: one as...

Henry Cavanna / Governance, Globalization and the European Union (Hardback)

This book is an edited version of the proceedings of a seminar held in 2000 and jointly sponsored by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and the Forum International des Sciences Humaines, Paris.   This book is second hand, and while you may...

John Cassian / The Conferences (Hardback)

The first complete English translation of John Cassian's (c. 360-430) Conferences, a work that records dialogues between Cassian and his traveling companion, Germanus, and the great desert masters on the recurring theme of purity of heart, which is the...

Adam Maguire / The Bailout Babies (Hardback)

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Leo F. Buscaglia / Papa, My Father (Hardback)

The best-selling author of Love celebrates the wonder of fatherhood by paying tribute to his own father--a humble immigrant who was a self-styled educator, philanthropist, philosopher, patriot, and nurturer. Reprint. 200,000 first printing...

Douglas Stuart / Young Mungo (Hardback)

Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Now Stuart...

Michael Ondaatje / Handwriting: Poems (Hardback)

  Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler . It is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems of delicacy and power--poems about love, landscape, and the sweep of history set in the poet's first home, Sri...

Ivan Klíma / Karel Capek: Life and Work (Hardback)

Contemporary Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klíma has transformed his lifelong admiration for the work of the great Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek into an extended personal essay on Capek's life and work. Written with letters and...

Milan Kundera / The Curtain (Hardback)

  "A magic curtain, woven from legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote on a journey and tore down the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comic nakedness of his prose... it was by tearing down the curtain...

Nigel Harris / The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital (Hardback)

Nigel Harris argues that the notion of national capital is becoming redundant as cities and their citizens, increasingly unaffected by borders and national boundaries, take center stage in the economic world. Harris deconstructs this phenomenon and...

Péter Nádas / The End of a Family Story (Hardback)

It is the 1950s, in Hungary, when Stalinist repression has reduced the populace to silence and deception. The narrator, a young boy, lives alone with his grandparents. His rebellious, talkative grandfather, refusing to submit to the implacable realities,...

Joshua Dickson / The Highland Bagpipe (Hardback)

The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. But Scottish bagpipe music and tradition - particularly, but not...

Milorad Pavić / The Novel of Hero and Leander (Hardback)

Two lovers in Belgrade, one from the 1700s, the other from the 1900s, reach out to each other across a gulf of time, in a story that parallels the myth of Hero and Leander. By the author of Dictionary of the Khazars.   This book is second hand, and...

Scott L. Malcomson / Borderlands (Hardback)

Turkish or European? European or Muslim? Muslim or Communist? Such were the identities that Scott Malcomson found people grappling with as he traveled through Eastern Europe, Turkey and Central Asia. Learning the languages and immersing himself in the...

Andreï Makine / Dreams of My Russian Summers (Hardback)

"Dreams of My Russian Summers" tells the poignant story of a boy growing up amid the harsh realities of Soviet life in the 1960s and '70s, and of his extraordinary love for an elegant Frenchwoman, Charlotte Lemonnier, who is his grandmother. Every summer...

Milan Kundera / Testaments Betrayed (Hardback)

Examines the art of fiction, focusing on the literature's history, its structure, and the creative process   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same...

Joseph Gibaldi / MLA Style Manual (Hardback)

Since its publication in 1985, the MLA STYLE MANUAL has been the standard guide for graduate students, teachers & scholars in the humanities & for professional writers in many fields. Extensively reorganized & revised, the eagerly awaited 2nd...

D.P. Simpson / Cassell's Latin Dictionary (Hardback)

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Cinda Williams Chima / The Wizard Heir (Hardback)

Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. And it's not his attitude that's the problem: it's the trail of magical accidents - lately, disasters - that follow in his...

Iain M. Banks / Feersum Endjinn (Hardback)

In the penultimate year before the Encroachment, the dimming sun still shines on the cloud-high weathered walls of Serehfa Fastness. On the day the Count Sessine dies for the final time, the chief scientist to the clan Accounts/Privileges receives a...

Harvey Karp / The Happiest Baby on the Block (Hardback)

In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries --an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying.No wonder pediatricians across the country...

Mike Evans / The Beatles Literary Anthology (Hardback)

The Beatles: Literary Anthology recounts the group's mercurial rise from the British Merseybeat scene; the "British invasion" that made them iconic figures in the USA; the experimentation with song structure and sound-recording technique that re-defined...

Lynda La Plante / Trial and Retribution (Hardback)

It is every mother's nightmare. Her child is missing, found murdered. Her lover is the prime suspect. It is every police officer's dread. A child murdered in a circumstantial case. It is every lawyer's dream. Twelve men and women will decide the verdict...

Atul Gawande / Being Mortal (Hardback)

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and...

Suzanne Ruiz / A Dog Owner's Guide to Grooming Your Dog (Hardback)

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Paul Slade / Doctor's Orders (Hardback)

A TV series tie-in which gives an account of real-life drama within a GP super-practice, set in a picturesque Somerset town.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Ian Gilmour / Riot, Risings & Revolution (Hardback)

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BeanoBooks / Comic capers: Cops 'n' robbers (Hardback)

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Clement C. Moore / The Night Before Christmas(Hardback)

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Juliet Moxley / Party and Table Decorations (Hardback)

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The Five Mile Press / Ice Age Collision Course Storybook (Hardback)

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Grace De La Touche / The Emperor's New Clothes (Hardback)

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Daithi O hOgain / Irish Family Names: O'Brien (Hardback)

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Tobar / Eye tricks (Hardback)

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Linda Doeser / 1 mince mix, 50 dinners (Hardback)

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Francis Gay / The Friendship Book of Francis Gay: 1996 (Hardback)

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Emer Stamp / The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig (Hardback)

Hello. I is Pig. This is my diary. It's super Top Secret, but Duck and me agrees that you needs to read it so you can help us, because we is in a bit of a pickle. I hopes you will be believing what I has written, because Duck says it is UNBELIEVABLE. But...

Sandy Carr / The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Cheese (Hardback)

This is a guide to the great variety of cheeses which the reader is likely to encounter when shopping, eating out or travelling. It discusses the various cheese-making processes and the classification of cheeses, which are grouped according to the...

Alan M. Dershowitz / The Advocate's Devil (Hardback)

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Jessica Sutton / Vital Signs (Hardback)

Bel Air General #4 A searing drama of passions and power plays within the walls of Hollywood's superstar hospital.CRITICAL CONDITIONSDr. Hamilton Dodd, Bel Air General's top-ranking obstetrician, is far from optimistic about the prognosis for...

Godfrey Smith / The Christmas Reader (Hardback)

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Ronald William Clark / Lenin, the man behind the mask (Hardback)

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Michael Leapman / Treacherous Estate: The Press After Fleet Street (Hardback)

This book looks at the recent history of the British newspaper industry. It examines the changing roles and powers of proprietors and editors, the print unions and the Wapping phenomenon, the vanishing middle gorund newspaper-buying market, gutter...