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Jeremy Wyndham / How Long Is a Piece of String? : More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

    Why do weather forecasters get it wrong? What are the best tactics for playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" and "The Weakest Link"? And what is the link between a tin of baked beans and a men's urinal? These and many other questions...

Jerome Bruner / The Culture of Education (Large Paperback)

What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it...

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor / Paul: A Critical Life (Large Paperback)

Traditionally the Acts of the Apostles has provided the framework for biographies of the Apostle Paul. In recent years, however, the historical value of the Acts has come into question. Many scholars argue that, despite the accuracy of many details, the...

Jerome R. Ravetz / The No-Nonsense Guide to Science

In this No-Nonsense Guide Jerome Ravetz introduces a new way of thinking about science, moving away from simplistic ideas of perfect certainty and objectivity. The book gives a fresh look at science's history, with a guide to the key theories, and...

Jerome Tuccille / Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker (Hardback)

 When Alan Greenspan talks, Wall Street listens-as do bankers, investors, politicians, and economists throughout the world. He is the number one arbiter of U.S. monetary policy-credited, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, with having simultaneously...

Jerry Hopkins / No One Here Gets Out Alive

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 price sticker on a...

Jerry B. Jenkins / Missing Pieces

    Someone is playing mailbox baseball in the town where Bryce and Ashley Timberline live, and a missing person's case has caught Ashley's attention.All clues point to their stepsister's boyfriend, Randy, leaving broken mailboxes in their...

Jerry Bridges / Trusting God (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Jerry Kaplan / Start-up : Silicon Valley Venture Story

Kaplan, a well-known figure in the computer industry, founded GO Corporation in 1987, and for several years it was one of the hottest new ventures in the Valley. Startup tells the story of Kaplan's wild ride: how he assembled a brilliant but fractious...

Jerry Savelle / Giving : The Essence of Living

US Televangelist .      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...

Jerry Sittser / A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss (Hardback)

An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss with a new preface and epilogue.Loss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his family: his mother, his wife, and his young daughter...

Jerry Soverinsky / Cycle Europe: 20 Tours, 12 Countries (Large Paperback)

If you read other guides to bicycling Europe you'll find, between yawns, they are filled with very general practical information and describe routes in a long-winded narrative format, impractical for most cyclists. In addition, most focus on just one...

Jerusha Hull McCormack / John Gray: Poet, Dandy, & Priest (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...

Jess Phillips / Everywoman : One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS‘Jess Phillips writes like she talks: brilliantly. Her humour and passion shine through every page. Loved it.’ ROBERT WEBB_____________________If you’re thinking, ‘Jess...

Jesse Hanley / Tired of Being Tired (Large Paperback)

  The way we live these days, most of us are running so fast that we do not give our adrenal glands the chance to rest, repair and rejuvenate. The result is anything from fatigue, to weight gain, to depression, to constant colds and...

Jesse Reeder / Black Holes and Energy Pirates (Large Paperback)

  Much of our lives can be limited by blocks of negative patterns or 'black holes'. These, in turn, can be exploited by people who wish to control us - 'energy pirates'. All of this happens unconsciously, but it can have a devastating effect...

Jessica Bennett / Feminist Fight Club

This is a call to arms.Are you aged zero to infinity? Finished with the sexist status quo? Ready to kick ass and take names?Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. You have lifetime membership.Feminist Fight Club provides an arsenal of weapons for...

Jessica Bruder / Nomadland

 ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best ActressStarring Oscar winner Frances McDormand & directed by Chloe Zhao?'Sublimely written' Sunday Times'Scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly...

Jessica DiLullo Herrin / Find Your Extraordinary: Dream Bigger, Live Happier, and Achieve Success on Your Own Terms (Hardback)

 In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, Jessica Herrin, serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of the Stella & Dot Family Brands, shows how the classic traits of successful entrepreneurs are ones each one of us can develop--and use not only to...

Jessica Ennis / Jessica Ennis: Unbelievable - From My Childhood Dreams To Winning Olympic Gold (Hardback)

 On 4 August 2012 Jessica Ennis kicked off what some described as the greatest night in British sporting history. For her it was the end of a long, winding, and sometimes harrowing road.Nobody was under more pressure at the London Olympics than 'the...

Jessica Francis Kane / The Report

  It is an early spring evening in 1943 when the air-raid sirens wail out over the East End of London. From every corner of Bethnal Green, people emerge from pubs, cinemas and houses and set off for the shelter of the tube station. But at the...

Jessica Harrington / Moscow Flyer : Flying to Success (Hardback)

 The two-mile steeplechaser is the most exciting equine athlete on the planet. Half a ton of horse set to carry a rider over twelve 5ft fences at almost 40mph. Moscow Flyer, twice winner of Cheltenham's Champion Chase, is the most exciting of them...

Jessica Macbeth / Sun over Mountain: A Course in Creative Imagination (Large Paperback)

Actually, Goodreads added this automatically, not me, as I am not the co-author as it might appear. So just to avoid any confusion let me say I only wrote the Foreword. :) Warmly, Muz Murray'Sun Over Mountain' is a course in the use of imagery to help us...

Jessica McGregor Johnson / The Right T-Shirt - Write Your Own Rules and Live the Life You Want (Large Paperback)

   In her experience as a coach Jessica McGregor Johnson has met 100's of successful women who have worked very hard to get to where they are, only to find that what they have strived for is not what they thought it was. Is this you? Have you...

Jessica Stern / ISIS : The State of Terror

 The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014.Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources and material, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research into open source...

Jessica Valenti / The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women (Hardback)

There is no working medical definition for "virginity."“Vaginal rejuvenation” – in which a woman’s labia is trimmed and vagina tightened or her hymen is completely replaced (a "revirginization")– is the fastest-growing form...

Jesuit Communication Centre Ireland / Sacred Space 2010: The Prayer Book (Large Paperback)

Now in its third year, the 2007 edition of Sacred The Prayer Book offers a practical, portable way to pray throughout the year. Sacred The Prayer Book 2007 is a prayer guide inspired by the very popular, successful, interactive website, Sacredspace...

Jetsun Pema / Tibet : My Story - An Autobiography

 Jetsun Pema is the youngest sister of the Dalai Lama. Her family was one of exceptional destiny. Her description of the finding of the new Dalai Lama is unique because she was there as a young girl when the old Lamas arrived to see if her brother...

Jhumpa Lahiri / In Other Words (Hardback)

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated...

Jihan Sadat / A Woman of Egypt (Hardback)

This is an autobiography by Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar el Sadat, tracing her early life in Cairo where she had a middle-class Egyptian upbringing, to when she was 17 and fell in love with a divorced revolutionary. She recounts how she and Anwar...

Jill Anderson / Unbroken Trust : The Forbidden Goodbye of a Husband's Suicide

 In 2005, Jill Anderson went on trial at Leeds Crown Court for the manslaughter of her husband of eight years. Paul, a 43-year-old linguist, had been suffering for several years from the debilitating effects of ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with...

Jill Bolte Taylor / My Stroke of Insight

   The astonishing international bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment.On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist...

Jill Fullerton-Smith - The Truth About Food - PB - Diet and Nutrition 2007

Is red wine good or bad for you? Can certain foods stop you needing glasses? Is it worth drinking eight glasses of water a day? Which foods are aphrodisiacs, and which are just passion killers? Why do some people appear to eat as they like, yet never put...

Jill Hedges / Argentina: A Modern History (Hardback)

In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world’s most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well behind its regional neighbors. At the same time, despite...

Jill Homer / Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide (Large Paperback)

Jill is an unassuming recreational cyclist who has about as much in common with Lance Armstrong as she does with Michael Jordan. But despite her perceived athletic mediocrity, the newspaper editor from Alaska harbors an outlandish ambition: the "world's...

Jill Homer / Ghost Trails (Large Paperback)

Most sports become inspirational when extraordinary people excel at ordinary things. In ultra-endurance racing, ordinary people must excel at extraordinary things. "Ghost Trails" is the true story of an ordinary person - timid, nonathletic, raised in the...

Jill Ireland / Life Wish

 Jill Ireland had a thriving film career, seven devoted children, lavish homes, a horse farm in Vermont, and a happy marriage to movie star Charles Bronson. Then she learned she had cancer. Life Wish is the story of her inspired fight using every...

Jill Mc William / Instant Cooking (Hardback)

Quick Meals for Family and Friends. Contents "Making the Most of Time"; "Starters and Snacks"; "Main Courses; "Puddings & Desserts"; "Packed Lunches"; "Microwave Magic" and "Menus for Entertaining".     All of our books are second hand, and...

Jill Nalder / Love from the Pink Palace (Large Paperback)

Jill met the crisis head on . . . She held the hands of so many men. She lost them, and remembered them, and somehow kept going' RUSSELL T DAVIES A heartbreaking, life-affirming memoir of love, loss and cabaret through the AIDS crisis, from IT'S A SIN's...

Jill Nalder / Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis (Hardback)

When Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends - of which many were young, talented gay men with big dreams of their own - she grabbed London by the horns:...

Jill Stark / Happy Never After: why the happiness fairytale is driving us mad (Large Paperback)

 What if all the things you'd been told would make you happy … didn't?Jill Stark was living the dream. She had a coveted job, she was dating a sports star, and her first book had just become a bestseller. After years of chasing the dream,...

Jill Swedlow / A New Owner's Guide to Great Danes (Hardback)

Presents the expert advice of Great Dane breeder Jill Swedlow on topics that every responsible dog owner needs to know. It contains firsthand information on the history, characteristics and descriptions of the breed, selecting and training a puppy, daily...

Jill Tweedie / Eating Children: Young Dreams and Early Nightmares (Hardback)

Beginning with her father's death, the author of this book takes an autobiographical look at the traumas and outstanding events that make up the early years of her life. Jill Tweedie is a former Woman Journalist of the Year and the author of "In The Name...

Jillian & Michelle Madison / Dear Asshole: 101 Tear-Out Letters to the Morons Who Muck Up Your Life

Ever wish you could leave a nasty note for that jerk in the Hummer who blocked you in, or the idiot who didn’t clean up after his dog? Now you can! Dear Asshole includes 101 letters to all of the assholes you encounter on a daily basis, each...

Jillian Godsil / The Upside of Lockdown (Large Paperback)

This book is a physical memory of the positive memories that came out of the Covid lockdown  perios in Wicklow. They are diverse, interesting, and insightful personal memoirs, spread across a wide variety of people in Wicklow.It is a snapshot of...

Jillian R. Griffith / Access, Delivery, Performance: The Future Of Libraries Without Walls (Hardback)

This book celebrates and acknowledges the contribution Professor Peter Brophy has made over a career spanning 37 years to the field of library and information studies. Whilst reflecting on his work, it is forward looking and challenging, and offers...

Jim B. Smith & Malcolm McConnell / The Last Mission

14 August 1945. As Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, rebel troops commanded by high-ranking officers from War Minister Anami's staff burst into the Imperial palace. Their intention was to stage a coup, destroy...

Jim Connolly / How to Pull Cookbook

You're on the dating circuit. You're too old for heavy petting sessions in your parents house, you've had your fill of al fresco touch ups and the appeal of a Ford Focus with the seats rolled back has worn off completely. You've moved on. Those classic...

Jim Corbett - Not While I Have Ammo -A History of Captain Connie Mackey - BRAND NEW ( 2nd Edition 2025)

During the Irish Civil War, between the 15 and 20 July 1922, the Republican-held Strand Barracks in Limerick, on what is now Clancy’s Strand, came under constant ferocious attacks from Free State troops. They attacked the barracks repeatedly with...

Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback)

The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning...

Jim Daly / Finding Home: An Imperfect Path to Faith and Family (Hardback)

   I should be insane—or in jail.” Instead, Jim Daly, President and CEO of Focus on the Family managed to rise above his harrowing childhood that began in the Compton suburb of Los Angeles. In this deeply personal memoir, he...

Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets

   It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has...