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John Lloyd / 1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted (Hardback)

 'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris EvansThis is an astonishing trove of the strangest, funniest, and most improbable tidbits of knowledge from the clever lot at the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI.The sock-blasting,...

John Lloyd / Afterliff (Hardback)

 A liff is a familiar object or experience that English has no word for. Afterliff, its long-awaited sequel, corrects this disgraceful oversight by recycling the names found on signposts.This brilliant successor to Douglas Adams' and John Lloyd's...

John Lloyd / Qi Advanced Banter (Hardback)

  Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best...

John Lloyd / QI: The Book of the Dead

   Welcome to QI: The Book of the Dead, a biographical dictionary with a twist - one where only the most interesting people made it in! QI have got together six dozen of the happiest, saddest, maddest and most successful men and women from...

John Lloyd / QI: The Book of the Dead: A Quite Interesting Book (Hardback)

'"The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless' - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed...

John Lloyd / QI: the Second Book of General Ignorance

   Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of coke...

John Lloyd / QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance

 The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all.Who...

John Lonergan / Parenting : Raising Your Child in Ireland Today (Large Paperback)

  'Parenting' looks at the challenges and rewards of being a parent in modern Ireland, with a particular focus on raising teenagers. Based on his own experience as a father and grandfather, John Lonergan, the former Governor of Mountjoy, details...

John Lonergan / The Governor (Large Paperback)

In his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness. It is an unexpected theme for the former boss of Ireland's biggest and toughest prison,...

John Lowe / 50 Ways To Wealth : The Money Doctor

   Here is the Money Doctor with a short, snappy guide to protecting and increasing your wealth. John Lowe is the master of plain English in an areathat`s too often awash with jargon.Based on his hugely popular Sunday Independent column, John...

John Lowe / The Money Doctor (Large Paperback)

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John M. Gottman , Nan Silver / The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (Hardback)

Just as Masters and Johnson pioneered the study of human sexuality so John Gottman - author of the much-praised Why Marriages Succeed or Fail and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute - has revolutionized the study of marriage. Gottman has...

John M. Gottman / Seven Principles Making Marriage Work

 According to most relationship books, the key to a solid marriage is communication, communication, communication. Phooey, says John Gottman, Ph.D., author of the much-lauded Why Marriages Succeed or Fail. There's much more to a solid,...

John M. Naish / The Hypochondriac's Handbook : An Illness for Every Occasion, a Disease for Every Symptom (Hardback)

 THE HYPOCHONDRIAC'S HANDBOOK is a treasure trove of wild, daft, strange, scary -- and hitherto obscure -- medical research. This is a snappy and amusing guide to over 250 fascinating conditions from the dark corners of medical journalism, compiled...

John M. Ortiz / The Tao of Music: Using Music to Change Your Life (Large Paperback)

 In the 'Tao of Music' Dr John Ortiz offers 'Musical Menus' of carefully selected songs and melodies, reflective of specific emotional states, that you can use to progress from identifying your pain to healing it. He also provides creative...

John M. Ziman / An Introduction to Science Studies: The Philosophical and Social Aspects of Science and Technology (Large Paperback)

Professor Ziman provides a coherent account of the different perspectives on science and technology that are normally studied under various disciplinary heads such as philosophy of science, sociology of science, and science policy. It is intended for...

John Major / John Major : The Autobiography (Hardback)

   Major's early life was extraordinary; his rise through Parliament meteoric. Soon a favourite of Margaret Thatcher, he became Foreign Secretary and then Chancellor of the Exchequher. When Thatcher fell, he fought and won a shrewd campaign to...

John Malam / The Ultimate Book Of Dinosaurs (Hardback)

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John Malathronas / Rainbow Diary : A Journey in the New South Africa

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John Marlowe / Forcible Confinement: Monstrous Crimes of the Modern Age

This book is a study of the warped thinking that went into some of the world's most macabre crimes, as well as a clinical examination of the purpose-built rooms, hidden spaces, and soundproof dungeons increasingly prepared for victims. John Marlowe takes...

John Marsh / The Liberal Delusion (Large Paperback)

 Is western civilisation based on a mistaken understanding of humanity? Fundamental to any society is its comprehension of human nature. It shapes attitudes and policies on a whole range of issues: interpersonal relations, child-rearing, discipline...

John Masterson / Working it Out

I am not so much of a sucker for Self-Help books. I am a bit jaundiced with the notion that we must all be successful and have to strive to be better every waking hour. A world where everyone is socially skilled, in good humour, has straight teeth and is...

John Matthews / Grand Prix: The Killer Years : Extended Interviews from the BBC Film

  This is the story of when Grand Prix was out of control. Mechanical failure, lethal track design, fire and incompetence snuffed out dozens of eager young drivers, who had become almost expendable. It was the '60s and early '70s and this waste...

John Maxtone Graham / Liners to the Sun (Hardback)

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John Maynard Keynes / Essays and Sketches in Biography (Vintage Paperback)

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John McAreavey / The Canon Law of Marriage & the Family (Large Paperback)

This work has three parts: the first deals with the substantive religious law on marriage; the second deals with procedures, such as nullity procedures and procedures for the dissolution of marriage; the final part deals with issues of family. NB - this...

John McCarthy & Jill Morrell / Some Other Rainbow

On 17 April 1986 John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut. For the next five years he was cut off from everything and everybody he knew and loved, from family, friends, and, perhaps above all, from Jill Morrell, the girl he was going to marry.For five...

John McCarthy / The Ghost Upon Your Path (Hardback)

  We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our nation, our family, our hometown or house. So how come one can find these feelings of belonging in a place that one has never visited before? Is it something about...

John McCormack / A Story of Dublin (Large Paperback)

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John McGahern / Dick Walsh Remembered

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John McGuinness / The House Always Wins (Large Paperback)

 In The House Always Wins John McGuinness gives an insider's account of dysfunction and waste in the Irish political and administrative system. He speaks with authority both as a TD and-crucially-as a former Government Minister. No one in such a...

John McGuinness /Built for Speed : Bikers Beers and Balls of Steel

 Go on the ride of your life with the racing legend himself **with a thrilling NEW CHAPTER on John's dramatic 2017 crash**'Then I was there myself, just another face in the crowd, watching the bikes fly by. The smells, the noise and the speed were...

John McGuire / Sorted! (Large Paperback)

  When it looked like his businesses were going down the tubes John McGuire slept in his office and started a battle for financial survival. He knows what it's like to see everything you've worked for about to collapse around your ears. He knows...

John McKenna / Ireland: Traveller's Guide

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John McShane / Heath Ledger: His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death

Young, cocksure, handsome and absurdly talented, Australian actor Heath Ledger shot to prominence with his first Hollywood film "10 Things I Hate About You": and a star was born.With huge charisma and smouldering looks lighting up the screen in a series...

John McShane / Susan Boyle : Living the Dream

 As a child Susan struggled at school and spent many years dreaming of being noticed at local talent shows. The death of her mother and the strength of her faith finally gave Susan the courage to apply for Britain's Got Talent in 2009. The rest as...

John Micklethwait / God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Is Changing the World

As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging. As "God is Back" shows, for better or for worse, faith is on the increase - fuelled by an American-style model...

John Miller / Judy Dench: A Crack in Her Voice

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John Mitchinson / QI The Pocket Book of Animals

   QI The Pocket Book of Animals is John Lloyd and John Mitchinson's funny, eccentric and confounding handbook filled with interesting animal facts and figures. Join the QI team for an off-road safari into the wildlife, past one hundred of the...

John Mooney / The Torso in the Canal : The Inside Story on Ireland's most Grotesque Killing

John Mooney's controversial new book explores the horrific killing and dismemberment of Kenyan immigrant Farah Swaleh Noor by Dublin sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall, dubbed the `Scissor Sisters' by the media.Noor's dismembered body was...

John Motson / Motson's FA Cup Odyssey: The World's Greatest Knockout Competition (Hardback)

The FA Cup competition is the greatest and most coveted football trophy in the world. Whether you're playing in Chile or Chesterfield, Beijing or Birmingham, come the final in May each year it has a worldwide television audience of billions and is...

John Mullins / The new business road test (Large Paperback)

 'You may have capital and a talented management team, but if you are fundamentally in a lousy business, you won't get the kind of results you would in a good business. All businesses aren't created equal.' William P.Egan II, veteran US venture...

John Murray / Issues of Justice and Peace (Large Paperback)

Published by Veritas, aimed at a higher secondary school years readership.      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...

John Murray / That's What I Call Jargon

 The Financial Regulator has a team of people whose task is to translate the language of the banking world in to understandable English. This book conducts a campaign to try and stave off the contamination of the English language.   ...

John Naisbitt / High Tech (Large Paperback)

  This text offers perspectives and insights on the interplay between technology and people. It is a compelling tour of our contemporary "technology immersion", and the author sets out to explain the new dynamics of our cultures, where each of us...

John Nichol / Tornado : In the Eye of the Storm

 Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses. It is an extraordinary account of courage and fortitude.'We were...

John O'Brien - Christianity & Social Democracy - PB - BRAND NEW SIGNED

A study of the interaction and relationships between Christianity and social democracy, examining philosophical thought on the issue.  SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, copies are barnd new, first published 2022. Paperback. 

John O'Brien / Janice Galloway / Robert Steiner/ Thomas Bernhard - Elizabeth Bowen, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Large Paperback)

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John O'Farrell / An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (Hardback)

 Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's 'Shatterproof' ruler...

John O'Regan - James Scanlon : Sneem - Gandon Editions - Works 1 - Irish Artist

This book documents a single project by the stained-glass artist and sculptor, James Scanlon. Sited in Sneem, Co Kerry, the project was created on a piece of derelict ground along the river. The artist employed local men to build the dry-stone-wall huts,...

John O,Brien / Seeds of a New Church (Large Paperback)

   Even as the familiar model of Church is in serious decline in Ireland, a new model of Church is coming to birth in the lives and creative pastoral initiatives of a significant number of small, independent groups in all kinds of ministry...

John O. Burtis , Paul David Turman / Group Communication Pitfalls: Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience (Hardback)

Group Communication Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience treats groups and the work involved in grouping as useful tools humans have developed for responding to pressures or demands faced by group members. This book assumes an orientation...