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Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... 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Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... 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Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90187K Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback) Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... 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Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... 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His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90187K Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback) Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... 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Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... 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Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... 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His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90187K Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback) Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... 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Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... 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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... 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His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... 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His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: X90106K Rebo Publishing / The Complete Encylopedia of Beer (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X90105K Michael Pollan / How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Details US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90102K Carl Bernstein / A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90189K Benedict XVI / The Word of God (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90187K Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback) Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: X90105K Michael Pollan / How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Details US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90102K Carl Bernstein / A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90189K Benedict XVI / The Word of God (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90187K Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback) Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90102K Carl Bernstein / A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90189K Benedict XVI / The Word of God (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90187K Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback) Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90189K Benedict XVI / The Word of God (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90187K Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback) Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90187K Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback) Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90186K Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback) This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90184K Atul Gawande / Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right (Hardback) The bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90182K Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback) The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP. All... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90181K Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback) The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X91303H Gitta Sereny / Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (Hardback) Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Germany | sku: X90178K Victor Klemperer / I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 (Hardback) A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90176K Azar Gat / War in Human Civilization (Hardback) In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90173K Eamonn Fingleton / In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (Hardback) The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90172K David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback) David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90167K Thomas Moore / Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them (Hardback) Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90164K Steven R. Gundry / The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (Hardback) Plants have an impressive array of defense tactics to protect themselves from predators of all shapes and sizes--including humans. Stephen Gundry believes that these defense strategies make the seemingly virtuous plants that we consume every day--fruits,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90163K Jeni Wright / Cooking for Two (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90162K Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback) To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90161K Andrew Marshall / The Trouser People : A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Hardback) Filled with humor and history, a compelling story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, follows the author, who retraces the steps of Sir George Scott, a Victorian adventurer who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma and introduced the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90160K Pico Iyer / The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Hardback) Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Germany | sku: X90158K Jan Philipp Reemtsma / In the Cellar (Hardback) Jan Philipp Reemtsma inherited Germany's largest tobacco fortune. His research into Germany's role in the 20th century has made him the focus for hate groups. On 25 March 1996 he was beaten and abducted from outside his house. This is the story of his 33... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90157K Nicholson Baker / The Fermata (Hardback) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90156K Joe Roberts / Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat (Hardback) When Joe Roberts and his wife decided to spend the winter in Calcutta, they wanted to challenge the false impressions that Westerners have of the city. This informative history of the city mixed with the author's personal account intends to recast... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90154K Julia Ponsonby / Mindful Thoughts for Cooks: Nourishing Body & Soul (Hardback) Embracing cooking as a spiritually-nourishing meditation is a deliciously simple path to reconnecting ourselves to what we eat every day—this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it.Mindful Thoughts for... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90152K Seán Lysaght / Eagle Country (Hardback) Walking through County Mayo Seán Lysaght began to notice not only what was there, but also what was not. Eagles are extinct in Mayo, or rather, they are absent, although suitable habitats abound, as do ancient place-names like "Eagle Peak," "Eagle... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90150K Felipe Fernández-Armesto / So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind (Hardback) You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90149K John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback) Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90148K Michael Richardson / The Experience of Culture (Hardback) Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts. This book... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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