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We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto - HB SLIPCASED 1976 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fact he is... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG403 Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG404 William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: £43.79 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto - HB SLIPCASED 1976 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fact he is... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG403 Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG404 William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: £43.79 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto - HB SLIPCASED 1976 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fact he is... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG403 Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG404 William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: £43.79 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto - HB SLIPCASED 1976 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fact he is... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG403 Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG404 William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: £43.79 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... 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Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. 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A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG403 Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG404 William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: £43.79 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG403 Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG404 William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: £43.79 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG404 William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: £43.79 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... 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Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. 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A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... 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Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... 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A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... 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Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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