New Paperback Books

Geddes & Grosset / Pocket Atlas of the World

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Alfred Jules Ayer / Language Truth and Logic

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims...

Andrew Hsiao / The Verso Book of Dissent

The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring...

Diarmaid MacCulloch / A History of Christianity

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to...

Robert Hine / Oxford Dictionary of Biology

Fully revised and updated, this new sixth edition is the perfect guide for those studying biology either in high school or college. The Dictionary offers more than 5,500 clear and concise entries, including more than 300 entries new to this edition. It...

Julie Gray / Interview Success - Get the Edge

Get the edge to perform at your best and land your dream career. By building skills instead of providing stock answers, you will get the tools you need to get ahead of the crowd.       This book is second hand, and while you may...

Joe Abercrombie / The Wisdom of Crowds

The Age of Madness #3 Chaos. Fury. Destruction.The Great Change is upon us . . .Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of...

Ryuho Okawa / The Essence of Buddha

The Essence of Buddha: The Path to Enlightenment     Ryuho Okawa is known for his wisdom, compassion and commitment to educating people to think and act in spiritual and religious ways.  The Essence of Buddha presents his...

Eugen Herrigel / Zen in the Art of Archery

It's almost impossible to understand Zen by studying it as you would other intellectual pursuits. The best way to understand Zen is, simply, to Zen. This is what author Eugen Herrigel allows us to do by sharing his own fascinating journey toward a...

Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber / The Shambhala Dictionary of Taoism

The Shambhala Dictionary of Taoism presents the basic terminology and doctrines of this ancient Chinese philosophy for the general reader in a clear and easily understandable form, effectively unlocking the mysteries of these terms and concepts that...

Tony Coult / About Friel

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Benjamin J. Myers / Strange Energy

The Bad Tuesdays #2 The Tuesdays' journey to realise their perilous destiny continues in the second of the Bad Tuesdays sequence. Chess, Box and Splinter are faced with new enemies and allies - and still they are warned to 'trust no one'. Can...

Andrew Edney / An Introduction to the iPad Mini

This book covers everything a new iPad mini user will need to know in setting up and using this new device. It is written in plain English and uses numbered 'walk throughs' to explain exactly what you have to do.       This...

Robin Hobb / Ship of Magic

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly...

John Daintith / A Dictionary of Chemistry

Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition is the ideal work of reference for students of chemistry, either at school or at university. Containing many new entries as well as biographies of key scientists, it covers all aspects of chemistry, including...

David V. Barrett / Secret Religions

Brief Guide to Secret Religions: A Complete Guide to Hermetic, Pagan and Esoteric Beliefs This wide-ranging book explores the diversity of esoteric and occult beliefs. Neo-Paganism is one of the fastest-growing new religions in the western world...

Tariq Ali / The Obama Syndrome

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad   Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration’s historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators...

Jean-Paul Sartre / Baudelaire

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Nigel Cawthorne / Reaping the Whirlwind

Reaping the Whirlwind: The German and Japanese Experience of World War II This title offers an amazing insight into the events of World War II through the eyes of those who fought against the Allied forces in all theatres of the war.It features...

C.M. Hoffman / Judaism - An Introduction

A concise guide to the history, beliefs, and practices of a major world religion, covering everything from the beginnings of the faith to modern events such as the horrors of the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel Assuming...

Ian Ridpath / Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy

The revised second edition of this established dictionary contains over 4,300 up-to-date entries on all aspects of astronomy. Compiled with the help of thirty-four expert contributors under the editorship of renowned author Ian Ridpath, the book...

Jonathan Healey / The Blazing World

The Blazing World A New History of Revolutionary England   The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the...

Hilary Boyd / Meet Me On The Beach

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Irfan Master / Out of Heart

Donating your heart is the most precious gift of all.Adam is a teenage boy who lives with his mum and younger sister. His dad has left them although lives close by. His sister no longer speaks. His mum works two jobs. Adam feels the weight of the world...

Russell Hoban / Kleinzeit

On a day like any other, Kleinzeit gets fired, is booked into hospital because of a recurring pain, falls in love with a beautiful night sister, and finds himself pitched headlong into a wild and flickering world of mystery...

Cachin Francoise / Manet Painter of Modern Life

The work of Manet is defined in this book - he was an artist who interpreted modern life with a fresh handling of colour and tone. Yet he craved official recognition and was dogged by notoriety. He rejected traditional conventions in paintings such...

H.E. Bates / The Purple Plain

1943:In war-torn Burma, an RAF plane is forced to crash-land. On board are three men: Carrington, the young navigator; Blore, a flabby officer; and Forrester, a pilot embittered by his young wife's death in the Blitz.Miles from anywhere, in the heat of...

Max Hastings / The Korean War

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian, takes us back to the bloody, bitter, struggle to restore South Korean independence after...

Milan Kundera / The Art of the Novel

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Hui Hai / Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening

Zen teaching of instantaneous awakening : A complete translation of the teaching of the Chinese Ch'an Master Hui Hai by John Blofeld, with a foreword by Charles Luk This eighth-century classic is a complete translation of Hui Hai’s teachings...

Bill Zehme / Lost in the Funhouse

Lost in the Funhouse : The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman First biography of the comedian Andy Kaufman, soon to be played by Jim Carrey in Milos Forman's new film Man On The Moon. In the 1970s a handful of young American comedians revolutionised...

Meg Grehan / Baby Teeth

A unique verse novel of queer love, lust, and vampires. From the award-winning author of The Deepest Breath and The Space Between.The bloodFeeds the hungerThat threatens everythingIt starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose.Immy has...

Jamie Redknapp / Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer

For the Redknapp clan, football is a family concern; it's the family business. Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer is a deeply moving, heartfelt and beautifully personal account of growing up as the second son of Harry Redknapp, and also an...

David Goldblatt / The Age of Football

The epic exploration of football in the twenty-first century through the prism of sociology, politics, and economics, by David Goldblatt, the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.       This book is second hand, and...

Damian Lawlor / After the Storm

After the Storm: How the GAA Found New Hope       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing...

Luca Caioli / Messi

This is an updated edition of Luca Caioli's best-selling biography, including the dramatic 2013/14 season and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, in which Lionel Messi's match-winning performances finally began to win over his harshest critics—his fellow...

Lorenzo Marone / The Temptation to Be Happy

Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his days avoiding the old cat...

Gavin Weightman / The Frozen Water Trade

The story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England – valued for its incredible purity – revolutionised domestic life around the world. In the days before artificial refrigeration, it was thought impossible...

Quentin Bates / Chilled to the Bone

Officer Gunnhildur #3 When a shipowner is found dead, tied to a bed in one of Reykjavik's smartest hotels, sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the city police force sees no evidence of foul play but still suspects things are not as cut and dried as...

Marion Husband / The Boy I Love

A tangled web of love and betrayal develops when war hero Paul returns from the trenches. He finds himself torn between desire and duty, his lover Adam awaits but so too does Margot, the pregnant fiancée of his dead brother. Set in a time when...

Gertrude Himmelfarb / The ROADS to MODERNITY

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Simone de Beauvoir / Letters to Sartre

In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of...

Wess Roberts / Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

Explains how the legendary military commander's principles of leadership can be applied to contemporary business situations in the '90s.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Peter Osborne / How to Read Marx

Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be practical historical beings. Drawing upon passages...

Laure Adler / Marguerite Duras : A Life

Laure Adler contacted Marguerite Duras in the 1970s, after finding consolation from one of her novels after the death of her child, and they became friends. Years later, she became Duras' official biographer, and they embarked on two years of...

C.J. Box / Paradise Valley

The Highway Quartet #4 It's the end of the road. For three years, Chief Investigator Cassie Dewell has been hunting the Lizard King. Twice she's nearly had him and watched him slip through her fingers, but this time, the trap is set and she's...

Natasha Lester / The Riviera House

A lush and engrossing novel of one woman’s quest to keep Nazis from stealing priceless art during WWII, perfect for fans of The Rose Code. Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can't understand German. They’re wrong. They think...

Colin Murray / A Random History of Football

A top club can spend millions on a legendary player, but it's the small, random things that can affect a soccer match--like a bottle dropped on a goalkeeper's toe or your most creative footballer fleeing town after a drunken encounter with another...

Frank Worrall / The Magnificent Sevens

With the help of players, journalists, and a psychologist, this authoritative study analyzes the five men who have worn the number seven shirt for Manchester United—Best, Robson, Cantona, Beckham, and Ronaldo—and assesses both their...

Clare Dignall / Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?

The punctuation workout for sticklers and rookies alike. The punctuation panda is back! Armed with a permanent marker, a smidgen of confidence, and a copy of 'Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?', everyone now has the chance to become a member of the...

Samuel P. Huntington / The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Huntington argues that the fundamental source of conflict in the post-Cold War world will be cultural, rather than ideological or economic. As people increasingly define themselves by ethnicity and religion, the West will be at odds with non-western...

Meave Conrick / Womanspeak

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