New Hardback Books

Andreas Wagner / The Arrival of the Fittest - How Life Invents Itself (Hardback)

We all know about natural selection and the so-called survival of the fittest, which governs how evolution preserves useful adaptations in each subsequent generation of a species. Unfortunately, random change alone could not have produced life as we know...

Gary Cox / The God Confusion: Why Nobody Knows the Answer to the Ultimate Question (Hardback)

What is God? Does he exist? Can we know?The God Confusion offers a down-to-earth beginner's guide for anyone interested in these questions. It does not evangelize for God and religion or, indeed, for atheism, secularism and science. Instead, it explores...

Jesse J. Prinz / Beyond Human Nature (Hardback)

We are constantly told that human traits - from aggression to gender differences - are 'hardwired'. In Beyond Human Nature Jesse J. Prinz reveals that it is the societies we live in, not our genes, that determine how we think and feel. From why...

Deirdre Lanoue / The Spiritual Legacy of Henri Nouwen (Hardback)

In 1969, the year following the death of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen published his first book. Who, reading Intimacy: Essays in Pastoral Psychology, at the time could have guessed that its 37 year old Dutch priest-author would become one of the most...

Richard Swinburne / Was Jesus God? (Hardback)

Writing clearly and powerfully, Swinburne argues that it is probable that the main Christian doctrines about the nature of God and his actions in the world are true. In virtue of his omnipotence and perfect goodness, the author shows, God must be a...

John Cornwell / Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to "The God Delusion" (Hardback)

The God Delusion is a clarion call to the faithless, the waverers, and even firm religious believers, to follow the author into radical atheism not merely as a private conviction but as a public profession. Wouldn't humankind be better off without...

Nick Page / The Wrong Messiah (Hardback)

He came from the wrong social class, the wrong place and the wrong profession. He ate with the wrong people, championed the wrong causes and attracted the wrong kind of supporters. He even spoke with the wrong accent.In fact everything about Jesus of...

Chris Rylander / The Fourth Stall (Hardback)

Chris Rylander delivers a funny Ferris Bueler-style middle grade novel with The Fourth Stall.Do you need something? Mac can get it for you. It's what he does—he and his best friend and business manager, Vince. Their methods might sometimes run...

Aaron Elkins, Charlotte Elkins / Lee Ofsted #5 On the Fringe (Hardback)

A Lee Ofsted mystery Lee Ofsted and Graham Sheldon, her ex-cop fianc?, have decided to take advantage of the glorious setting of the historic Royal Mauna Kea Golf and Country Club to have a quiet wedding ceremony. But from the start things go awry,...

Thomas Berry / Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community (Hardback)

Essays on our spiritual role in the fate of the planet from “the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco-theologians” ( Newsweek ). Among the contemporary voices for the Earth, none resonates like that of cultural historian...

Ellen Williams / The Historic Restaurants of Paris: A Guide to Century-Old Cafes, Bistros, and Gourmet Food Shops (Hardback)

The vanished world of nineteenth-century Paris still awaits behind the doors of select restaurants and gourmet shops that have delighted customers for more than a hundred years. Crossing these thresholds, the discriminating diner and shopper can step...

Helen Exley / Teddy Bear Quotations: A Collection of Beautiful Pictures and the Best Teddy Quotes (Hardback)

Collections of wise and witty words from the famous and the infamous. These books contain the best, the most apt, the most eloquent or simply the most amusing quotations about a theme. The text is set within tinted borders and illustrated throughout...

Arthur Rowe / The Essence of Jesus (Hardback)

Who was Jesus, why are his life, death, teaching and ministry so vital and how have different groups through the ages understood Him? Writing from a conservative evangelical position and in a wide-ranging manner the author unfolds from an analysis of...

Dorothy Eden / Never Call It Loving (Hardback)

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Donald E. Nuechterlein / Defiant Superpower: The New American Hegemony (Hardback)

Donald E. Nuechterlein examines George W. Bush’s transformation of American foreign policy and the repercussions for the future. Defiant Superpower recounts how the Bush administration’s bold actions in response to September 11, 2001,...

Caroline Gray / Victoria's Walk (Hardback)

When Boston widow Victoria Lang is shipwrecked with eighteen others, including two teenage girls and a four-year old boy, on the coast of West Africa, with only the Sahara Desert before them and the sea behind them, where her companions can think of...

Dawn Iacobucci / Kellogg on Integrated Marketing (Hardback)

This cutting-edge book-with contributions by the star faculty of the Kellogg School of Management and the Medill School of Journalism's Integrated Marketing Communications department at Northwestern University-offers the latest thinking on the art and...

Margot Abbott / the last innocent hour (Hardback)

It is 1946 and Berlin is a ruined city, the Nazis vanquished, but memories of the city in 1934 haunt Sally as she returns to investigate war crimes as an army intelligence officer. Her father was the American ambassador to the new Third Reich and...

Hans Küng / My Struggle for Freedom: An Autobiography (Hardback)

In this fascinating autobiography Kung gives a frank account of the first four decades of his life. Of his youth and his decision to become a priest; his doubts as he stidied; and his experiences as an academic. One of the last surviving witnesses of...

Harvey Robbins, Michael Finley / Why Teams Don't Work: What Went Wrong and How to Make it Right (Hardback)

Today's companies are fast turning to teams as a means of organising and doing work. In theory, teams increase productivity, however many companies and managers have found teams prone to problems that make them ineffective. Teams become confused...

Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner / 21 Leaders for The 21st Century (Hardback)

With a client list that includes Motorola, Daewoo, AT&T, and Volvo, Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner are considered today’s most knowledgeable, innovative management consultants. In 21 Leaders for the 21st Century , they tap into...

Kate Kray / Hard Bastards 2 (Hardback)

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Christy Campbell / Target London: Under Attack from the V-Weapons During WWII (Hardback)

During the darkest days of the Second World War, the Allies listened intently to the messages of the enemy. Every whisper built a picture of the threat to come - weapons that were terrifying in their murderous capabilities.Target London is the dramatic...

Deborah Crombie / Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James #14 No Mark Upon Her (Hardback)

New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense - a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious...

Beryl Bainbridge / The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress (Hardback)

In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. In a country rocked by the assassination of Martin Luther...

Alice Ozma / The Reading Promise: 3,218 Nights of Reading with My Father (Hardback)

When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go...

R.T. Kendall / By Love Transformed (Hardback)

This devotional contains "golden nuggets of truth" handpicked from all of the books that R. T. Kendall has written (which have sold more than 400,000 copies). It will challenge, motivate, and inspire Christians to fervently pursue Him daily. By Love...

Masha Gessen / Perfect Rigour: A Genius And The Mathematical Breakthrough Of The Century (Hardback)

In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In...

Charles J. Murray / The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer (Hardback)

The SUPERMEN"After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly fallen silent when Cray offered to answer questions. He stood there for several minutes, waiting for...

David Gale / Tracking the Automatic ANT: And Other Mathematical Explorations (Hardback)

For those fascinated by the abstract universe of mathematics, David Gale's columns in The Mathematical Intelligencer have been a prime source of entertainment. Here Gale's columns are collected for the first time in book form...

Dianne Tittle de Laet / Giants and Heroes: A Daughter's Memories of Y. A. Tittle (Hardback)

The daughter of Y. A. Tittle, the celebrated quarterback, tells how, after ignoring her father's career as an adolescent, she came to appreciate his accomplishments and courage after becoming the mother of an aspiring football player...

Hugo Young / One of Us: A Biography of Mrs. Thatcher (Hardback)

Written to coincide with a Channel 4 series on Lady Thatcher, this biography is based on intimate conversations between the Prime Minister and the major politicians of the period and Hugo Young. It traces her life from being an apprentice under...

Clare Mulley / The Spy Who Loved: the Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's First Female Special Agent of WWII (Hardback)

In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable.The daughter of a...

Ken Auletta / Googled: The End of the World as We Know It (Hardback)

There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. This is a ride on the Google wave, and the fullest account of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses. With unprecedented access to Google's founders...

Claudia Gray / Spellcaster #2 Steadfast (Hardback)

Nadia, Mateo, and Verlaine have saved Captive's Sound from the dark Sorceress Elizabeth . . . or so they thought. Despite their best efforts, a crack opened and a new, greater evil seeped through. With Mateo as her Steadfast, Nadia's magic is...

Nicholas Webb / The Healthcare Mandate: How to Leverage Disruptive Innovation to Heal America’s Biggest Industry (Hardback)

A top healthcare futurist and consultant shows healthcare professionals and stakeholders how to redirect resources and leverage innovation to improve wellness and lower costs . Despite being the wealthiest nation on earth, the United States spends much...

David Garnett / The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945 (Hardback)

Of all Britain's secret intelligence organizations, the least known is the Political Warfare Executive, developed to conduct psychological warfare against the Nazis. The PWE's history has now been declassified by the Cabinet Office and released, 50...

Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler / Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry (Hardback)

How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world's fastest growing software company in less than a decade? For the first time, Marc Benioff, the visionary founder, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, tells how he and...

John Naisbitt / Megatrends Asia (Hardback)

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audrey-howard / A Place Called Hope (Hardback)

To Sir Robert Blenkinsopp, his frail, exquisite wife Amy is just another possession to be misused and discarded. Amy is overjoyed when the brute is found unconscious at the bottom of his own staircase, deprived of the power of speech and movement...

Eli Maor / Trigonometric Delights (Hardback)

Trigonometry has always been the black sheep of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this book, Eli Maor draws on his remarkable talents as a guide to the...

Shashi Tharoor / An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardback)

In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters,...

John O'Farrell / May Contain Nuts (Hardback)

Alice and David are worried parents. Are their children falling behind with their schoolwork, their music lessons and the number of sleepover invitations received this month? Or are all these extra lessons causing them to miss out on physical...

Joe Longthorne / Joe Longthorne the Official Autobiography (Hardback)

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John Lightfoot / Agent Undercover: His Explosive Account of How Infiltrating the Drug Barons for Hm Customs Made Him an International Fugitive (Hardback)

Lightfoot's horrifying story of his undercover work for HM Customs and Excise among the drug barons in Spain. His activities led to the destruction of narcotics with a street value of 6 million pounds. Betrayed by his former employees, he was left to...

Meg Cabot / Queen of Babble (Hardback)

Lizzie Nichols discovers that her inability to keep her mouth shut has landed her once again in hot water when she aggravates her unfaithful boyfriend, Andy, is stranded in London, and takes a job as a bartender for a catered wedding at a French chateau,...

David Domoney / My House Plant Changed My Life: Green Wellbeing for the Great Indoors (Hardback)

Use the power of houseplants to combat the pollution and stresses of modern life.Everyday products pollute the air in our homes, and our mental wellbeing is threatened like never before - but help is at hand from the humble houseplant!Drawing on...

Georg von Krogh / Getting Real About Knowledge Networks: Unlocking Corporate Knowledge Assets (Hardback)

Theoretical approaches to the management of organizational knowledge abound, yet there are few guidelines on how to implement a systematic approach to the management of organizational knowledge. This book provides a practical guide to the management...

Sandy Linver / Leader's Edge: How to Use Communication to Grow Your Business and Yourself (Hardback)

Showing how managers can help their businesses grow by developing their special personalities and strengths, a communication expert explains how major corporations have used her accessible techniques to build realistic goals and achieve better...

Jason Webster / Chief Inspector Max Cámara #4 Blood Med (Hardback)

Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse. The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and right wing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge and a source of...

James F. Balch / Ten Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life (Hardback)

Dr. James Balch's book Prescription for Nutritional A to Z Guide to Supplements established him as one of the most trusted authorities in the fields of alternative and naturopathic medicine. Now, his potentially life-saving wisdom is made more accessible...

Robert E. Staub II / The 7 Acts of Courage: Living Your Life Wholeheartedly (Hardback)

The 7 Acts of Courage breaks new ground in the self-help field, offering clear, practical guidance on how we can seize control of our lives through courage. We must all access more courage to live our lives with greater joy, power, love, integrity,...