December 2025

Charles Bronk Ramsey / Radiocarbon and Archaeology: Fourth International Symposium, St Catherine's College, Oxford (Coffee Table Book)

Radiocarbon dating covers the most recent span of geo-archaeological time, back to c.55,000 years BP. The list of applications and disciplines it can be used for is wide-ranging and burgeoning. It is used widely in dating aspects of the Earth's...

Ray Mears / Bushcraft Survival (Coffee Table Book)

In BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL Ray Mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. From the Hudson Bay in Canada, via Tanzania and the jungles...

Frederick W. Foulds / Wild Things: Recent advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research (Coffee Table Book)

Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide. Finds such as the Mesolithic house at Howick, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, and the recently discovered footprints at Happisburgh all serve to indicate...

Stefan Karol Kozlowski / Thinking Mesolithic (Coffee Table Book)

Studies of the European Mesolithic have gone through a renaissance since the seminal Warsaw conference on the subject in 1973, and Stefan Kozlowski has been at its heart. This book presents a comprehensive, reedited selection of his most important...

Pablo Neruda / Machu Picchu (Coffee Table Book)

Machu Picchu, the famed Inca site in Peru high in the Andes, is one of those talismanic places that everyone dreams of visiting. The beauty of this extraordinary place is celebrated here in the striking photography of Barry Brukoff whose images evoke the...

Marjorie Caygill / The Story of the British Museum (Coffee Table Book)

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Bjørn Lomborg / The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Coffee Table Book)

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective...

Miriam S. Balmuth / Sardinian and Aegean Chronology (Coffee Table Book)

Balanced between the Aegean and West Mediterranean worlds, Sardinia offers a perfect laboratory for the investigation of interaction between societies from the Palaeolithic to Roman period. This work has, however, been hampered in the past by...

Kristian Pedersen / Mesolithic Studies In The North Sea Basin And Beyond (Coffee Table Book)

The North Sea has acted as both physical barrier, separating regions from each other, and as the principal means of communication between the same. This duality can also be seen in its potential to be both yielding and destructive; providing food and...

Ronald Singer / The Lower Paleolithic Site at Hoxne, England (Coffee Table Book)

At the edge of the small Suffolk village of Hoxne lies whatis arguably the single most important Middle Pleistocenearchaeological site in Europe. Here the deposits contain notonly prehistoric artifacts but also extraordinary records offossil flora and...

Michael Baillie / A Slice Through Time: Dendrochronology and Precision Dating (Coffee Table Book)

Dendrochronologists can now provide a wood sample for any calender date over the last seven millennia from two continents. The author discusses the latest developments.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Norman Hallendy / Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Arctic (Coffee Table Book)

The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic...

Caroline Wickham-Jones / The Landscape of Scotland (Coffee Table Book)

From the top of the highest mountain to the bottom of the deepest peat bog, the landscape of Scotland bears the mark of the people who have lived and worked on the land for generations. It is the role of archaeology to recognise and interpret these...

Mariana Mondini / Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A Zooarchaeological Approach (Coffee Table Book)

  Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident. This volume of 12 papers offers a zooarchaeological approach to...

Kenneth Thomson / Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea (Coffee Table Book)

12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, this unique...

G.N. Bailey / Shell Energy: Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources (Coffee Table Book)

Shell middens are ubiquitous archaeological features on coastlines throughout the world that have been variously analysed and interpreted as mounds of food, burial places, or simply as convenient receptacles for the preservation of stratified remains...

Per Karsten / In the Wake of a Woman: The Pioneering of North-Eastern Scania, Sweden, 10,000-5000 BC: The Årup Settlements (Coffee Table Book)

Flint material and settlement remains from the Late Palaeolithic Ahrensburg culture, as well as the Early and Middle Mesolithic from a newly excavated site is presented and interpreted in detail. The well preserved remains give new insights into everyday...

Hans Kindgren / Mesolithic on the Move: Papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Stockholm 2000 (Coffee Table Book)

What do we know about the Mesolithic? What distinguishes the Mesolithic from earlier and later periods of human history? What do the Mesolithic cultures of Europe have in common, and what differentiates them from one another? This comprehensive volume...

Joakim Donner / The Quaternary History of Scandinavia (Coffee Table Book)

During the Quaternary Period, Scandinavia's mountains were the source for repeated glaciation that covered much of eastern, central and western Europe. With a particular emphasis on Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, this text describes how these...

G.N. Bailey / The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines (Coffee Table Book)

The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in...

Graeme Warren / Mesolithic Lives in Scotland (Coffee Table Book)

This is an in-depth study of Mesolithic Scotland, with chapters on landscape change, hunting and gathering, crafts and skills, scales of community, and senses of time and place. Graeme Warren takes the reader through the transition from Mesolithic to...

Richard Bradley / Interpreting the Axe Trade: Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain (Coffee Table Book)

Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and context of stone axe production and exchange in the British Neolithic. Drawing on a variety of studies, the authors explore some of the problems and potentials that attend archaeological...

Augusto Boal / Games for Actors and Non-Actors (Coffee Table Book)

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary Method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and...

John Gascoigne / Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Coffee Table Book)

Joseph Banks's name is attached to various plant species around the world; he was President of the Royal Society, a Privy Councillor and adviser to the English government on a range of scientific and imperial issues. He was a driving force in the...

Joshua Pollard / Prehistoric Britain (Coffee Table Book)

Informed by the latest research and in-depth analysis, Prehistoric Britain provides students and scholars alike with a fascinating overview of the development of human societies in Britain from the Upper Paleolithic to the end of the Iron Age...

Malcolm Greenhalgh / Freshwater Fish (Coffee Table Book)

250 color photos and drawings 9 x 9* Worldwide freshwater species with a focus on Europe* Atlantic salmon, trout, smallmouth/largemouth bass, many more This attractive book provides detailed coverage of major families of freshwater fish found around the...

John Hedgecoe / Complete Guide to Photography: A Step-by-step Course from the World's Best-selling Photographer (Coffee Table Book)

In this step-by-step course the author shares his fund of knowledge, acquired over 30 years as a professional photographer. The book is planned around 70 projects to provide the reader with a steadily-growing command of the subject, building up from a...

David H. Levy / Practical Skywatching (Coffee Table Book)

Practical Skywatching is part of a four-book series, The Nature Companions; practical guides to observing and appreciating the wonders of the natural world. This spectacular series provides readers with a thorough understanding of topics such as...

D.R. Brothwell / Handbook of Archaeological Sciences (Coffee Table Book)

D.R. Brothwell and A.M. Pollard have got together to create the first large scale review of the many sciences which contribute to modern archaeology for over 30 years.The Handbook of Archaeological Sciences is intended to bring together a substantial...

Paul Pettitt / The British Palaeolithic (Coffee Table Book)

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas...

Nick Kanas / Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography (Coffee Table Book)

The beauty and awe generated by the celestial void captures our imagination and delights our aesthetic sense. Antiquarian map societies are prospering, and celestial maps are now viewed as a specialty of map collecting. This book traces the history of...

Ruth Charles / Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic: Studies in the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East and Europe (Coffee Table Book)

Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best...

Howard Reid / The Book of Soft Martial Arts : Finding Personal Harmony With Chi Kung, Hsing I, Pa Kua and T'Ai Chi (Coffee Table Book)

The soft martial arts address the internal development of the individual, contrasting with the external power developed by the combative martial arts. This book guides the student through the ancient Chinese techniques of spiritual training and...

Douglas J. Kennett / Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture (Volume 1) (Coffee Table Book)

This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human the origins of agriculture. Carefully...

Peter Woodman / Mesolithic Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Coffee Table Book)

The term 'Mesolithic' was born in the nineteenth century from the need to label a 'hiatus' period and was not generally accepted as a useful term by many scholars until around fifty years later. It has been championed by some, but still concerns others...

R.C. Preece / Island Britain: A Quaternary Perspective (Coffee Table Book)

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Conor McAllister / The Grafton Barber Essential Guide to Grooming & Etiquette (Coffee Table Book)

Grooming is booming ..." Gentlemen of the twenty-first century know it's as important to be well groomed as it is to be well versed in the arts of conversation, dating and personal style. The Grafton Barber name is synonymous with their unique philosophy...

Michael van Straten / Superjuice for Kids (Coffee Table Book)

A simple and delicious way to encourage kids to enjoy fruits and vegetables. Michael van Straten, a leading expert in complementary medicine, has devised more than 70 simple juice recipes that provide children with a range of health and lifestyle...

Mark Holdstock / The Great Fair: Horse Dealing at Ballinasloe (Coffee Table Book)

An illustrated history of the October fair at Ballinasloe in County Galway, Ireland. The author also provides an account of the trading and events that take place at the fair today.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Hilary Stewart / Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians (Coffee Table Book)

Evderything you ever wanted to know about Cedar wood, and then some-filled with ink illustrations, and B&W photos depicting uses, preparation, and beliefs behind the wood! Easy to read, and informative; you will enjoy this one!   This book is...

John Bradley / From megaliths to metals: Essays in honour of George Eogan (Coffee Table Book)

A truly multidisciplinary book allowing the reader to gain insights into an exceptionally diverse set of topics such as hunting, burial, sword-production and rock art, from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages.   This book is second hand, and while you...

Anna Ritchie / Exploring Scotland's Heritage Shetland (Coffee Table Book)

Examining Shetland's heritage, this work includes a look at an 18th-century fort in Lerwick, a Viking-age farm beside Sumburgh Airport, Scotland's best-preserved iron-age broch on the island of Mousa, tombstones, and storehouses that illustrate...

Peter Topping / Neolithic Landscapes (Coffee Table Book)

Reprint of another classic Neolithic Studies Group volume. 'It is a sign of the intellectual health of a specialist study group that its deliberations can generate collections of papers of general interest. The topical issue of landscape is addressed,...

Peter Harrington / The Gibson Guarantee The Saving of Manchester United 1931-1951 (Coffee Table Book)

December 1931 - Manchester United were on the brink of bankruptcy and resignation from the League. Then at the eleventh hour a local businessman stepped in and saved the Club.For the twenty years James W Gibson led from the front and rebuilt Manchester...

Sonia Ducie / The Complete Illustrated Guide to Numerology (Coffee Table Book)

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Jeremy Williams / Decorative Woodcarving (Coffee Table Book)

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic beginner’s text on decorative carving that offers new projects, updated information on products and techniques, and color photography throughout. More than 200 illustrations accompany the detailed...

John T. Moore / Organic Chemistry II For Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

A plain-English guide to one of the toughest courses around So, you survived the first semester of Organic Chemistry (maybe even by the skin of your teeth) and now it's time to get back to the classroom and lab! Organic Chemistry II For Dummies is an...

Gill Branston / The Media Student's Book (Coffee Table Book)

Available in colour for the first time, thoroughly revised, re-ordered and completely updated with recent examples and expanded coverage of current issues, this fourth edition is a must-have introduction to media studies. The chapters are all supported...

Victoria Blashford-Snell / Cooking Book (Coffee Table Book)

This is the ultimate bible for today's busy cook. It is the cookbook that really understands what you need in the kitchen, answering all your culinary questions, from what the finished dish should look like and if it can be prepared, to what to do with...

Jonathan Pedley / Good Housekeeping Wine Book (Coffee Table Book)

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Clodagh McKenna / Clodagh's Kitchen Diaries: Delicious Recipes Throughout the Year (Coffee Table Book)

Clodagh s Kitchen Diaries takes you through a cooking year month by month. Packed with advice on what to eat when and tips for preserving the harvest, her inspirational recipes include dinner party menus for special occasions; monthly soup, salad,...

Simple Ideas : A Guide To Everyday Cooking With Thermomix (Coffee Table Book)

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