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Chris Waring / I Used to Know That (Hardback)

Brush up on your mental arithmetic, including percentages, averages and recurring decimals or work on your trigonometry skills, from Pythagoras Theorem to triangle areas and angles. I Used To Know That: Maths is a fun and accessible way to re-visit all...

George Thomas / Mr Speaker (Hardback)

    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 author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Elizabeth LaBan / The Grandparents Handbook (Hardback)

Dozens of Activities for Grandparents and Grandchildren, Including:      •  Scavenger Hunts     •  Fruit Cobblers     •  Bath-Time Fun  ...

Laura Lippman / What the Dead Know (Hardback)

Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two...

Yumi Sakugawa / Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe (Hardback)

A hand-drawn path to inner peace!Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe will set you free on a visual journey of self-discovery. Set against a surreal backdrop of intricate ink illustrations, you will find nine metaphysical lessons...

Eoin Colfer / The Eternity Code (Hardback)

In the third Artemis Fowl instalment the 13-year-old criminal mastermind takes on his most cunning adversary yet — American billionaire Jon Spiro, owner of the high-tech firm Fission Chips. While recuperating Artemis Fowl’s father, AF Senior,...

Michael Berg / Becoming Like God (Hardback)

Becoming Like God offers a kabbalistic approach for becoming all powerful. Written with extraordinary clarity, Michael Berg presents a logical method to achieving our supreme birthright. In revealing this opportunity for humanity, he highlights ways to...

Anthony Bozza / Why AC/DC Matters (Hardback)

Australian rock giants AC/DC have sold more records in the U.S. than Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and than the Rolling Stones, yet have always been undervalued and unappreciated by mainstream rock music critics. In Why AC/DC Matters ,...

Graeme Macrae Burnet / Case Study (Hardback)

“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.”London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her...

Clive James / The Fire of Joy (Hardback)

Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French...

Daniel Wallace / The Bounty Hunter Code (Hardback)

Discover the crucial tools and techniques all bounty hunters need to master. Get the basics on making a living at the margins of galactic law. Delve into the history, philosophy, and gear of Death Watch, a secretive splinter group of Mandalorians...

Ian McEwan / Lessons (Hardback)

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving...

Deirdre Bair / Parisian Lives (Hardback)

In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The...

Jennifer Ackerman / The Bird Way (Hardback)

'A celebration of the dizzying variety of bird life and behaviour, one that will enthral birders and non-birders alike' The ObserverFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and...

Marcus du Sautoy / Around the World in 80 Games (Hardback)

An award-winning mathematician explores the math behind the games we love and why we love to play themWhere should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?Spanning millennia,...

Craig Unger / House of Trump, House of Putin (Hardback)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A bombshell.' Daily Mail 'Damning, terrifying and enraging.' The Spectator 'The story Unger weaves with his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele...

John Banville / Prague Pictures (Hardback)

Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, 'devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art', who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradcany hill, it has...

Max Décharné / Vulgar Tongues (Hardback)

Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honor, a sign of identity or a dangerous assault on the values of polite society. Of all the...

Benjamin Myers / Cuddy (Hardback)

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England. Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy...

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi / Talented Teenagers (Hardback)

Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent...

Craig Donaghy / Doctor Who: How to Be a Time Lord (Hardback)

This ancient Time Lord manual has been kicking around the TARDIS for over 1200 years, giving the Doctor plenty of time to 'improve' it with scribbles, doodles and post-it notes as a gift for his successor, the Twelfth Doctor. He's even ripped out the...

Janet Frame / Owls Do Cry (Hardback)

This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of "The Carpathians", which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989.   This book is second...

Peter Doggett / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Hardback)

At 3 a.m. on Monday, 18 August 1969, the final night of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, four men armed only with acoustic guitars faced the gaping darkness of a vast open-air audience. An hour later, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young had confounded and...

Susie Hodge / Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That (Hardback)

Come on, you know you've thought it--while viewing a -masterpiece- of abstract art, you mutter, -A kid could do that.- Here Susie Hodge, author of How to Survive Modern Art, explains why the best examples of modern art are actually the result of...

John C. Polkinghorne / Belief in God in an Age of Science (Hardback)

Focuses on the collegiality between science and theology, arguing that the two are intellectual cousins, since both are concerned with a quest for truth and reality   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

James Lee Burke / Harbor Lights (Hardback)

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post), the New York Times  bestselling James Lee BurkeHarbor Lights  is   a story collection from   one of the most popular and...

Sam Lee / The Nightingale (Hardback)

Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale.Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring. For thousands of years, its sweet song has...

Michael Ende / The Night of Wishes (Hardback)

From the author of The Neverending Story, a book that reminds us that “magic—be it good or bad—is no simple matter.”It's New Year’s Eve at the Villa Nightmare but Beelzebub Preposteror is in no mood for celebration. As...

Louisa May Alcott / The Inheritance (Hardback)

Here at last is the book 'Jo' wrote. Generations of fans have longed to plumb that first romance, hinted at so captivatingly on the pages of Little Women, Alcott's autobiographical classic. Now after nearly one hundred fifty years spent among...

Kevin Gardiner / Making Sense of Markets (Hardback)

Since the financial crisis, there have been numerous reports, articles and books highlighting the gloomy future ahead. Making Sense of Markets makes the case that received wisdom is still far too pessimistic, and that the future may be brighter than...

Josephine Wilkinson / Mary Boleyn (Hardback)

The scandalous true story of Mary Boleyn, infamous sister of Anne, and mistress of Henry VIII. Mary Boleyn, 'the infamous other Boleyn girl', began her court career as the mistress of the king of France. Francois I of France would later call her 'The...

Julia Kristeva / Nations Without Nationalism (Hardback)

Underlying Julia Kristeva's latest work is the idea that otherness - whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political - needs to be understood and accepted in order to guarantee social harmony. Nations Without Nationalism is an impassioned plea for...

Iván T. Berend / History Derailed (Hardback)

There is probably no greater authority on the modern history of central and eastern Europe than Ivan Berend, whose previous work, Decades of Crisis, was hailed by critics as "masterful" and "the broadest synthesis of the modern social, economic, and...

George Konrád / Stonedial (Hardback)

The year 1993. Janos Dragomán, a wandering scholar, a world-famous and world-weary Hungarian writer, returns to his native town to visit three old friends. They are Aba Kuno, the almost saintly, highly respected rector of the university; Antal...

Isabel Fonseca / Bury Me Standing (Hardback)

After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania - listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become...

Péter Hanák / The Garden and the Workshop (Hardback)

A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figures as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and...

Tom Gjelten / Sarajevo Daily (Hardback)

  Using the intrepid, multiethnic staff of the city newspaper--where people are risking their lives to get the paper out--as a microcosm of the city itself, the author offers an account of war in Sarajevo This book is second hand, and while you may...

Ernst Jünger / A Dangerous Encounter (Hardback)

  Gerhard, a young man on the rise, is drawn into the seedy underside of Paris, where he witnesses the murder of a young ballerina This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture...

Günter Grass / My Century (Hardback)

Germany's most critically acclaimed writer presents his latest collection of stories--one for every year of this century, offering an interlocking history of murder, war, wondrous technological achievement, persecution, athletic prowess, scientific...

Anthony Loyd / My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Hardback)

A former soldier who fled depression and drug addiction in England to cover Europe's bloodiest conflict since the Second World War recounts stories of brutality and compassion he recorded while in both Bosnia and Chechnya   This book is second hand,...

Aleksandar Tišma / The Book of Blam (Hardback)

Miroslav Blam walks through the empty streets of Novi Sad, remembering. The war has ended, but for Blam the town is haunted with its presence, and memories of its Aaron Grün, the hunchbacked watchmaker; Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; Jakob Mentele,...

Dennis P. Hupchick / Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe (Hardback)

The return of Eastern and Central Europe to true independence, following the collapse of Communist rule, has retained an enormous number of historical and cultural issues largely dominant since the disaster of World War II. Conflict and Chaos in Eastern...

Elie Abel / The Shattered Bloc (Hardback)

A veteran journalist offers his views on the dramatic political changes in Eastern Europe, noting the differences among the individual countries and the factors that will determine the success of reform movements   This book is second hand, and...

Gary Small / The Memory Bible (Hardback)

Clear, concise, prescriptive steps for improving memory loss and keeping the brain young—from one of the world's top memory experts.Everybody forgets things sometimes—from your keys to your lunch date to the name of an acquaintance. According...

Alan Brinkley / The Chicago Handbook for Teachers (Hardback)

Unlike their counterparts on the high school or elementary school level, those who teach college students have extensive training in their various disciplines, but surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself.The Chicago Handbook for...

Jacques Derrida / The Other Heading (Hardback)

Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has...

Umberto Eco / How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays (Hardback)

Once a columnist for an Italian literary magazine, Eco now shares his acute and highly entertaining sense of the absurd in modern life in these essays about militarism, computerese, cowboy and Indian movies, art criticism, librarians, semiotics, and much...

Patrick J. Geary / The Myth of Nations (Hardback)

Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand...

H. Ramsey Fowler / The Little, Brown Handbook (Hardback)

Authoritative and accessible, The Little Brown Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. One of the best–selling handbooks on the market, it provides comprehensive coverage of writing, research and grammar,...

Hans Magnus Enzensberger / Civil Wars (Hardback)

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The New York Times / Writers on Writing (Hardback)

Today's most celebrated writers explore literature and the literary life in an inspirational collection of original essays.By turns poignant, practical, and hilarious, Writers on Writing brings together more than forty of contemporary literature's finest...

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...