December 2025

Christopher Baber / Cognition and Tool Use: Forms of Engagement in Human and Animal Use of Tools (Hardback)

The ability to use tools is a distinguishing feature of human beings. It represents a complex psychomotor activity that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Robust new theoretical accounts allow us to better understand how people use tools and...

Tiziano Terzani / Behind the forbidden door (Hardback)

This marvellously observed and brilliantly painted picture of China since Mao promises to be one of the most exciting and original new books of 1986.Tiziano Terzani was one of the first western journalists to be accredited after Deng Xiaoping opened...

Richard Harper / Organisational Change and Retail Finance (Hardback)

Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide...

Max H. Boisot / Information Space (Hardback)

In this book, Max Boisot lays the foundation for a new political economy of information to effectively meet today's needs. Information Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions, and cultures are being transformed by new...

Tristan Gooley / How To Read Water (Hardback)

A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How To Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around...

Jeremy Rifkin / THE AGE OF ACCESS (Hardback)

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Sheree Bykofsky / 500 Terrific Ideas for Organizing Everything (Hardback)

500 savvy solutions for organizing your life, from putting those tax records in order to straightening out that messy closet, from keeping track of appointments to getting to them on time. Put these smart tips into practice at home, at work, at...

Doron Swade / The Cogwheel Brain (Hardback)

In 1821, 30-year-old inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage was poring over a set of printed mathematical tables with his friend, the astronomer John Herschel. Finding error after error in the manually evaluated results, Babbage made an...

A. S. Imada / Participatory Ergonomics (Hardback)

Participatory ergonomics focuses on the way of involving workers in decisions which directly affect their well-being. Its aim is to match the technological developments and requirements of the business to the human needs of the workforce. This book...

Stephen van Dulken / Inventing the 20th Century (Hardback)

Imagine your average day without television, vacuum cleaners, photocopiers and personal stereos. This title offers window onto the technology of the 20th century. By combining a brief history of each patent (the zip fastener, the post-it note) with a...

David Cesarani / Arthur Koestler The Homeless Mind (Hardback)

Should we judge the work by the man, or vice versa? Ezra Pound was a Fascist and an anti-Semite; he was also a good poet. Arthur Koestler was a remarkable man, in his failings as much as his virtues, and David Cesarani's new biography pulls no...

Lisl Klein / Putting Social Science to Work (Hardback)

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

Barbara Czarniawska / A Tale of Three Cities (Hardback)

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

Arno Allan Penzias / Ideas and Information (Hardback)

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

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

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

Pierre Lévy / Collective Intelligence (Hardback)

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

Barbara Czarniawska / Writing Management (Hardback)

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

David M. Levy / Scrolling Forward (Hardback)

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

Andrew M. Greeley / Irish Gold (Hardback)

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

Donald M. Berwick / Escape Fire (Hardback)

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

Gitta Sereny / The German Trauma (Hardback)

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Marilynne Robinson / Absence of Mind (Hardback)

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

John Brockman / The Third Culture (Hardback)

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

Manuel Castells / The Internet Galaxy (Hardback)

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

George Mandler / Human Nature Explored (Hardback)

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

Marie Larochelle / Constructivism and Education (Hardback)

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

John Millar Carroll / Making Use (Hardback)

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

Ruy Castro / Rio De Janeiro (Hardback)

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

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

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

Chris Argyris / Reasons and Rationalizations (Hardback)

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

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

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

Rob Mundle / Fatal Storm (Hardback)

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

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

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

Duong T Huong / Novel without a Name (Hardback)

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

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

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

Cita Stelzer / Dinner with Churchill (Hardback)

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

Walter Cronkite / A Reporter's Life (Hardback)

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

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John Doyle / Policing the Narrow Ground (Hardback)

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

Steve Williams / Out of the Rough (Hardback)

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

Françoise Sagan / Painting in blood (Hardback)

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

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

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

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

Guy Standing / The Politics of Time (Hardback)

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

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

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

Jeffrey Archer / And Thereby Hangs a Tale (Hardback)

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

Michael Pollan / The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardback)

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

Stephen R. Platt / Imperial twilight (Hardback)

Imperial twilight: the Opium War and the end of China's last Golden Age     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title...

Estée Lalonde / Bloom (Hardback)

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

Andrew Murray / The '80s Kid (Hardback)

The '80s Kid: A Retro Take on Growing Up in '80s Ireland       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing...

Anthony Pagden / Worlds at War (Hardback)

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

Jeffery Deaver / Solitude Creek (Hardback)

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