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Rana Mitter / A Bitter Revolution (Hardback)

China today is poised to play a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation was very different. In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the...

Lisl Klein / Putting Social Science to Work (Hardback)

In this book, first published in 1991, Lisl Klein and Ken Eason look at the various issues involved when attempts are made to make use of the theories, methods and findings of the social sciences in practical affairs. They consider how human and...

Barbara Czarniawska / A Tale of Three Cities (Hardback)

This book examines the effects of globalization at the local level within our everyday lives. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, a location of economic activity or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as...

Arno Allan Penzias / Ideas and Information (Hardback)

A scientist probes the nature of computer information, exploring the assemblage of symbols, numbers, words, and pictures that make up information, the degree to which machines extract meaning, and the destined role of machines in our...

Evgeny Morozov / To Save Everything, Click Here (Hardback)

In the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new...

Pierre Lévy / Collective Intelligence (Hardback)

Argues that the technology of cyberspace will have a positive, humanizing influence on civilization, rather than creating a world where machines rule mankind       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Barbara Czarniawska / Writing Management (Hardback)

Barbara Czarniawska is one of the most original of contemporary writers on organizations. Sceptical of scientific claims and explanations of the social world, she advocates an approach that draws on narrative, literary theory, cultural studies, and...

David M. Levy / Scrolling Forward (Hardback)

By focusing on the "document" in history, the author explores what this simple concept reveals about the people who use it every day, tracing its evolution from the handwritten correspondance of the nineteenth century to the digital documentation of the...

Andrew M. Greeley / Irish Gold (Hardback)

In Ireland to discover why his grandparents left there during the Troubles, American Dermot Michael Coyne becomes the target of someone who does not want the past revealed, and only beautiful Nuala Anne McGreal stands between him and certain death...

Donald M. Berwick / Escape Fire (Hardback)

Spanning a decade (1992-2002), these speeches echo the theme that our health care system needs fundamental change and a revolutionary new design. Throughout the book, Berwick identifies innovations and ideas from a number of surprising sources―a...

Pierre Lévy / Becoming Virtual (Hardback)

Virtual reality is a phenomenon that captivates people of all ages and all levels of technical expertise. It appears on the Internet and in computer games, and is used, among other places, in high-tech software for doctors, engineers, and scientists...

Gitta Sereny / The German Trauma (Hardback)

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Marilynne Robinson / Absence of Mind (Hardback)

In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her...

John Brockman / The Third Culture (Hardback)

Providing an analysis of the intellectual culture of today that has science--not literature or philosophy--at its center, a guide to the latest scientific theories and research is also a provocative discussion of the predominance of science.   This...

David Sedaris / A Carnival of Snackeries (Hardback)

Picking up where his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, left off, David Sedaris chronicles the years 2003–2020.If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his...

Garry Kasparov / Deep Thinking (Hardback)

In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology: machine intelligence had arrived at...

Manuel Castells / The Internet Galaxy (Hardback)

Manuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new information age, hailed by The Economist as "the first significant philosopher of cyberspace," and by Christian Science Monitor as "a pioneer who has hacked out a logical, well-documented,...

George Mandler / Human Nature Explored (Hardback)

What exactly is "human nature"? Are we correct in accepting ourselves as unchangeable, determined by biology, or is this idea an obstacle to our cognitive, emotional, and evolutionary development?George Mandler explores these questions from a fresh...

Marie Larochelle / Constructivism and Education (Hardback)

This international and interdisciplinary collection of chapters presents and discusses the many issues and educational practices that are touched on by constructivism. Drawing on perspectives from a range of different fields (ethics, mathematics...

John Millar Carroll / Making Use (Hardback)

Difficult to learn and awkward to use, today's information systems often change our activities in ways that we do not need or want. The problem lies in the software development process. In this book John Carroll shows how a pervasive but underused...

Ruy Castro / Rio De Janeiro (Hardback)

Occupying what is arguably the most breathtakingly beautiful site in the world, the people of Rio - the Cariocas - tell their of cannibals charming European intellectuals; of elegant slaves and their shabby masters; of how a casual chat between two...

Yi-Fu Tuan / Passing Strange and Wonderful (Hardback)

In this rich and rewarding work, Yi-Fu Tuan vividly demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential components of life and society. The aesthetic is not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate...

Carl R. Woodring / Nature Into Art (Hardback)

The nineteenth century began with reverence for nature and ended with the apotheosis of art. In this wide-ranging excursion through the literature, visual arts, and natural sciences of the era from Wordsworth to Wilde, Carl Woodring traces shifting...

Chris Argyris / Reasons and Rationalizations (Hardback)

What is the purpose of social science and management research? Do scholars/researchers have a responsibility to generate insights and knowledge that are of practical (implementable) value and validity? We are told we live in turbulent and changing times,...

Jamling Tenzing Norgay / Touching My Father's Soul (Hardback)

Sherpas are part of our everyday parlance, yet we know so little of their world beyond their depiction as climbing wonders. In Touching My Father's Soul, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world as he tells a story of...

Rob Mundle / Fatal Storm (Hardback)

Describes the December, 1998 yacht race from Sydney, Australia to Hobart, Tasmania, and the overpowering storm that claimed the lives of six sailors       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Matt Goss / Matt Goss : More Than You Know (Hardback)

Matt Goss is to tell his life story for the first time, from before the Bros years, through the heady days as frontman for the biggest pop band on the planet, to the traumatic times following the band's split and his gritty, inspired return to public...

Duong T Huong / Novel without a Name (Hardback)

The powerful, personal story of Vietnam's war against Americans as experienced by North Vietnamese soldiers and villagers on the front lines offers an unforgettable tale of struggle and loss from the author of Paradise of the Blind.   This book is...

Tom Garvin / Preventing the Future (Hardback)

From the mid-thirties to 1960, independent Ireland endured economic stagnation and a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. External circumstances - the depression of the thirties, World War II and post-war trade barriers which...

Douglas C. Merrill / Getting Organized in the Google Era (Hardback)

Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't...

Louise Penny / Glass Houses (Hardback)

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #13   When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving,...

Cita Stelzer / Dinner with Churchill (Hardback)

A friend once said of Churchill He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes and Havana cigars. Everything included the opportunity...

Walter Cronkite / A Reporter's Life (Hardback)

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Michael Bartholomew / In Search of H. V. Morton (Hardback)

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John Doyle / Policing the Narrow Ground (Hardback)

The Patten Report on policing in Northern Ireland was a benchmark in the 1998 Belfast Agreement which signalled an end to sectarian violence in the North. Ten years after its publication, this book reflects on the Report, its role in the subsequent...

Byron Katie / Loving What Is (Hardback)

Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice on what to believe, comes Byron Katie and what she calls “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank...

Steve Williams / Out of the Rough (Hardback)

With 150 wins to his name, Steve Williams is one of the most successful caddies of the modern era. From his modest start in freelancing his way around the world’s golf courses, he became a man in demand, working with some of the golfing...

Ian Kershaw / Personality and Power - Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe (Hardback)

From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age’s uniquely...

Elizabeth Smart / On the side of the angels (Hardback)

This book continues to tell the story of Smart;s romance with the poet George Barker. This book tells of her leaving Canada for England, the birth of her four children and unsuccessful attempts to leave George.       This book is...

Françoise Sagan / Painting in blood (Hardback)

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Gerard J. DeGroot / Sixties Unplugged Kaleidoscopic History Disorderly Decade(Hardback)

In this compelling book, Gerard DeGroot overturns the generally held belief that the sixties was a time of peace, love and understanding, of power to the people, freedom and new dawns. In fact, as he reveals, the decade was as much...

Tony Schwartz / The Way We're Working Isn't Working (Hardback)

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live. Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious...

Guy Standing / The Politics of Time (Hardback)

'Guy Standing's books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda ... His Politics of Time is a splendid and timely addition to this body of important work' Yanis VaroufakisTime has always been political...

Christine Quinn / How to be a Boss Bitch (Hardback)

'Let's get one thing straight right up front: If you're going to call me a bitch, I'm going to take it as a compliment.'Christine Quinn, the breakout star of Netflix's hit Selling Sunset, shows women how to unapologetically own their power in...

Jeffrey Archer / And Thereby Hangs a Tale (Hardback)

Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of...

Michael Pollan / The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardback)

The New York Times bestseller that's changing America's diet is now perfect for young readers."What's for dinner?" seemed like a simple question - until journalist and supermarket detective Michael Pollan delved behind the scenes. From fast...

Stephen R. Platt / Imperial twilight (Hardback)

Imperial twilight: the Opium War and the end of China's last Golden Age     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...

Estée Lalonde / Bloom (Hardback)

'For me, the word "bloom" encapsulates the idea that anything is possible when you put your mind to it. It's a word that hints at becoming who you are meant to be.'What makes you happy? What makes you you? What defines your style?In Bloom, Estee...

John M. Dillon / Rebel Women (Hardback)

A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama Ancient Greek drama provides the modern stage with a host of powerful female characters who stand in opposition to the...

Andrew Murray / The '80s Kid (Hardback)

The '80s Kid: A Retro Take on Growing Up in '80s Ireland       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...

Anthony Pagden / Worlds at War (Hardback)

Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been...

Jeffery Deaver / Solitude Creek (Hardback)

Kathryn Dance #4   A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But...