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Rafael C. Gonzalez / Digital Image Processing (Hardback)

A comprehensive digital image processing book that reflects new trends in this field such as document image compression and data compression standards. The book includes a complete rewrite of image data compression, a new chapter on image analysis,...

Jessica Yellin / Savage News (Hardback)

Be noisy. Natalie Savage grew up hearing these words from her beloved father, who admired Walter Cronkite so much he named the family dog after him. Natalie--who spent her twenties missing out on life's benchmarks--finally sees her efforts pay...

Rachel Kushner / The Flamethrowers (Hardback)

From the bestselling author whose debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was nominated for a National Book Award and reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review comes an extraordinarily ambitious new novel about a young artist and the worlds she...

Lynda La Plante / Royal Heist (Hardback)

From Lynda La Plante, one of the world’s greatest crime writers, Royal Heist is a big, dashing novel of deception, passion, and international suspense, in which a man with a dangerous double life masterminds the greatest robbery of all...

Ian MacRae / High Potential (Hardback)

Ian MacRae, Adrian Furnham   High Potential: How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work Nurturing future talent in the workplace – choosing the right people, developing the good into the best and keeping hold of the...

Frank Rose / West of Eden: The End of Innocence at Apple Computer (Hardback)

Journalist Frank Rose provides a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of a business and a technology in tormoil. The fall of Steve Jobs, the visionary entrepreneur who founded Apple Computer, is also the story of a freewheeling California youth culture on...

Colman Andrews / My Usual Table: A Life in Restaurants (Hardback)

My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat—from Trader Vic’s to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli—and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James...

David P. Hanna / Leadership for the Ages (Hardback)

The last two decades of transition in organizations have presented new challenges to leadership. Many leaders face mergers, downsizing, and acquisitions that threaten to destroy trust within their companies. This book provides insight into what separates...

Mary Karr / Cherry (Hardback)

As a girl idling her way through long, toxically boring summer afternoons in Leechfield, Texas, Mary Karr dreamed up an unusual career for herself, "to write one-half poetry and one-half autobiography." She has since done both, and even when she's...

Michael Moore / Downsize This! (Hardback)

Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American   Nothing but the truth is sacred in Michael Moore’s hilarious screed on the state of America, Downsize This! With the same in-your-face tenacity that has made him everyman’s...

Kevin Leman / Have a New Teenager by Friday (Hardback)

Parents may survive the terrible twos and the first years of school all right, but the teenage years bring entirely new and alien creatures. So, parents have a either send that teenager to boarding school and visit him when he reaches normalcy again (in...

Michael Reagan / Michael Reagan: On the Outside Looking in (Hardback)

The adopted son of President Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, recounts his childhood and describes his current relationship with his parents       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Nina Carberry / Ride to the Rescue (Hardback)

Ride to the Rescue is the exciting first book in The Rowan Tree Stables series - an illustrated pony series inspired by Nina Carberry’s own childhood, featuring 10-year-old Grace and her best friend, Aaron.Grace and Aaron attend different schools...

Isi Hendrix / Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans (Hardback)

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Lucy Spraggan / Process: Finding My Way Through (Hardback)

By the age of twenty, Lucy Spraggan had already experienced more extraordinary things than many do across a lifetime. Growing up in a creative household, surrounded by artists, alcohol and raucous parties, by her late teens she had played pubs, clubs and...

Stephen E. Ambrose / D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WWII (Hardback)

On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944, had to be abandoned...

Simon Fenwick / Joan (Hardback)

The daughter of wealthy, well-connected parents, Joan Eyres Monsell defied convention by earning a living as a photographer, travelling to Russia and America, and conducting a series of affairs. In wartime Cairo she met Patrick Leigh Fermor; their...

Oren Harari / The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (Hardback)

The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, New York Times, and USA Today Business Bestseller! WORDS, WISDOM, AND INSIGHTS FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST COMMANDING FIGURES Inspiration from the man who went from humble beginnings in Harlem to the office of...

Cameron McNeish / The Wilderness World of Cameron McNeish (Hardback)

Cameron McNeish is one of Scotland's best-known hillwalkers and broadcasts regularly on national radio and television. He considers himself an evangelist for the wild places of the world - mountains, deserts, remote coastlines and forests - anywhere...

Adam Alter / Anatomy of a Breakthrough (Hardback)

A groundbreaking guide to extricating ourselves from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even business models that prevent us from achieving our full potential.Almost everyone feels stuck in some way. Whether you’re muddling through a...

Doug Pederson / Fearless (Hardback)

How does an underdog become a champion? One of the most innovative, gutsy, and dynamic head coaches in the NFL reveals the strategies behind building the Eagles team that shocked the world by winning the Super Bowl.Doug Pederson is the very definition of...

Caroline Lawrence / The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina (Hardback)

It is December AD 79. In the Roman port of Ostia braziers are lit, hot spiced wine is brewed and soft fur covers are brought out from cedarwood storage chests. It's the season of Saturnalia, a pagan festival where anything can happen. When a Roman...

Samantha Baines / Harriet Versus the Galaxy (Hardback)

A hilarious and heartfelt debut from multi-award winning, hearing aid wearing, comedian, actor and author Samantha Baines. The intergalactic adventure starts at home with Harriet, who discovers that her hearing-aid can do more than she ever bargained...

David Leavitt / Arkansas: Three Novellas (Hardback)

In a trio of novellas, a screenwriter who volunteers to deliver lunches to people homebound with AIDS falls in love with one of his clients; Celia and Nathan struggle with love, and a writer agrees to write term papers in exchange for sexual favors...

J.P. Martin / Uncle (Hardback)

If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years...

Mark S. Umbreit / The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation (Hardback)

Written by Mark Umbreit, internationally known for his work in restorative justice, this indispensable resource offers an empirically grounded, state-of-the-art analysis of the application and impact of victim offender mediation, a movement that has...

Michaela Boehm / The Wild Woman's Way (Hardback)

For many women today, achieving a successful career, a fulfilling romantic relationship, and a rewarding personal life can feel like an unattainable goal. The pressure to “have it all” wreaks havoc on our bodies and emotional well-being, and...

Andy Tuohy / A-Z Great Film Directors (Hardback)

A striking, design-led reference book, A-Z Great Film Directors features Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 directors significant for their contribution to cinema including kings of world cinema Wong Kar-Wai and Akira Kurosawa, arthouse pioneers...

Tam Dalyell / Misrule (Hardback)

Misrule: How Mrs Thatcher Has Misled Parliament from the Sinking of the Belgrano to the Wright Affair       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Christopher D. Ringwald / The Soul of Recovery (Hardback)

Millions of alcoholics and addicts recover through spirituality. In The Soul of Uncovering the Spiritual Dimension in the Treatment of Addictions , author and journalist Christopher D. Ringwald tells how and why they seek and achieve these...

Sam Tanenhaus / Buckley (Hardback)

More than two decades in the making, the definitive biography of William F. Buckley Jr. tells the story of America’s greatest conservative and the rise and fall of the movement he led.In 1951, with the publication of God and Man at Yale, a...

Paulo Coelho / Brida (Hardback)

This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her about the...

John Betjeman / Trains and Buttered Toast (Hardback)

Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words—the poetry for which he is best...

Neale Donald Walsch / The Wedding Vows from Conversations with God (Hardback)

Honoring the spiritual nature of all beings; this is the essence of the wedding vows from Conversations with God . Thus, these are not simply vows, but something an outward manifestation of our deepest inner truth. These vows were spoken by Neale...

Hazel Holt / Fatal legacy (Hardback)

Mrs. Malory Mysteries #10 Sheila Malory is shocked to hear that her friend Dame Elizabeth Blackmore, the novelist, has died. Sheila discovers an unfinished novel and is convinced it is autobiographical - was Elizabeth leading a double life? Then...

Richard Paul Evans / The Road to Grace (Hardback)

Join one of America's beloved storytellers on a walk like no one mans unrelenting search for hope. Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, has left everything he...

Jerry Kobalenko / The Horizontal Everest (Hardback)

The Horizontal Everest : Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island     For more than a decade, author-photographer Jerry Kobalenko has traced the roots of explorers, Inuits, and famous Mounties, and broken many new trails across the...

Cesar Millan / A Member of the Family (Hardback)

Many of us think of our dogs not as pets but as full-fledged members of our families. If you own a dog—or are thinking about getting one—A Member of the Family is the ultimate resource for integrating your canine companion into the life...

Katharine Washburn / Dumbing Down (Hardback)

Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture Twenty essays consider the declining American cultural standard and include the writings of such figures as Philip Lopate, Cynthia Ozick, Wendy Kaminer, Francine Prose, Sven Birkerts,...

Robin Cook / Toxin (Hardback)

Just when you thought it was safe to eat a hamburger again, Robin Cook--master of medical mysteries, deadly epidemics, and creepy comas--returns with an all too likely villain drawn right from current headlines: the American meat industry. If you've ever...

Gianni Riotta / Prince of the Clouds (Hardback)

Palermo, 1946. Carlo Terzo, a retired military strategist who has never seen combat, is teaching young Salvatore Dragonara military history while Terzo works on his 'Manual for Strategic Living', in which he hopes to apply the hard lessons of war to...

David Baldacci / Simply Lies (Hardback)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man comes a twisting new psychological thriller in which two women—one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist—go head-to-head in an electrifying game...

Montegue Blister / Montegue Blister's Strange Games (Hardback)

A hilarious compendium of weird, wonderful, warped classic and new games. Taken from the brilliant website Montegue Blister's Strange Games is a pocket-sized compendium of the most hilarious, noisy, messy, and often vomit-inducing games ever written...

Enid Blyton / The Good Old Rocking-Horse (Hardback)

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Enid Blyton / Bumble and the Elves (Hardback)

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the economist / Pocket strategy (Hardback)

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Douglas Sutherland / English Gentleman (Hardback)

Originally written for Debrett's Peerage , Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was composed as an antidote to all the dull little books on manners. Both genuinely informative and very amusing, The English...

Betty Kirkpatrick / Bloomsbury Thesaurus (Hardback)

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Orange Hippo! / The Little Book of Drinking Games (Hardback)

All the drinking games you'll need for the perfect night out …or in! Drinking is great, right? But not on your own. That's sad. Thankfully, The Little Book of Drinking Games is here to help you - and your friends - find an excuse to get drunk...

Michael Morpurgo / Mimi and the Mountain Dragon (Hardback)

A classic Christmas story from the author of War Horse and the illustrator of How to Hide a Lion As soon as the bells stop ringing, I'm going to carry you home to your mother, back up to the Mountain Dragon's castle . . . In her castle lair,...

Iain Banks / The Business: A Novel (Hardback)

A fiercely satirical novel by one of the Britain's greatest living writers chronicles the behind-the-scenes machinations of a secretive organization with plans to dominate the world. By the author of A Song of Stone and The Wasp Factory...

Andrew Grant / Invisible (Hardback)

An Army veteran and intelligence agent goes undercover as a janitor at a federal courthouse to pursue his own brand of justice.As a young man, Paul McGrath rebelled against his pacifist father by becoming a standout Army recruit and the star of his...