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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94090H Rodney Castleden / Events That Changed the World (Hardback) The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various events that have affected the world in one way or another. These historical accounts will keep readers enthralled, page after page. The events in this book have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... 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But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW36970H Meredith MacArdle / The History of the World Quiz Book : 1000 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge (Large Paperback) Taking the history of the world as its basis might seem a mammoth task but this fascinating book does just that, breaking the whole lot down into ten enthralling chapters that cover the ages and the world, from the Bronze Age up until the end of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED2070 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16934H Konrad Spindler / The Man in the Ice : The Amazing Inside Story of the 5000 Year Old Body Found Trapped in a Glacier in the Alps In 1991 a preserved corpse was found by chance in an Alpine glacier. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who had died some 5300 years ago. This book sets out the results of the investigations carried out by Dr... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80198H Tom G. Palmer ( Editor ) / Peace Love & Liberty 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80213H Shridath Ramphal / Mission to South Africa: The Commonwealth Report 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38834H John Gribbin / In Search of the Big Bang Where do we come from? How did the universe of stars, planets and people come into existence? Now revised and expanded, this second edition takes into account developments in cosmology and quantum physics since its first publication in 1986, and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80172H Mary Benson / Nelson Mandela : A Biography 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27148H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings (Hardback) Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94090H Rodney Castleden / Events That Changed the World (Hardback) The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various events that have affected the world in one way or another. These historical accounts will keep readers enthralled, page after page. The events in this book have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... 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Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED2070 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16934H Konrad Spindler / The Man in the Ice : The Amazing Inside Story of the 5000 Year Old Body Found Trapped in a Glacier in the Alps In 1991 a preserved corpse was found by chance in an Alpine glacier. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who had died some 5300 years ago. This book sets out the results of the investigations carried out by Dr... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80198H Tom G. 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR16934H Konrad Spindler / The Man in the Ice : The Amazing Inside Story of the 5000 Year Old Body Found Trapped in a Glacier in the Alps In 1991 a preserved corpse was found by chance in an Alpine glacier. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who had died some 5300 years ago. This book sets out the results of the investigations carried out by Dr... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80198H Tom G. Palmer ( Editor ) / Peace Love & Liberty 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80213H Shridath Ramphal / Mission to South Africa: The Commonwealth Report 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38834H John Gribbin / In Search of the Big Bang Where do we come from? How did the universe of stars, planets and people come into existence? Now revised and expanded, this second edition takes into account developments in cosmology and quantum physics since its first publication in 1986, and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80172H Mary Benson / Nelson Mandela : A Biography 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27148H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings (Hardback) Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94090H Rodney Castleden / Events That Changed the World (Hardback) The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various events that have affected the world in one way or another. These historical accounts will keep readers enthralled, page after page. The events in this book have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 80198H Tom G. Palmer ( Editor ) / Peace Love & Liberty 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80213H Shridath Ramphal / Mission to South Africa: The Commonwealth Report 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38834H John Gribbin / In Search of the Big Bang Where do we come from? How did the universe of stars, planets and people come into existence? Now revised and expanded, this second edition takes into account developments in cosmology and quantum physics since its first publication in 1986, and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80172H Mary Benson / Nelson Mandela : A Biography 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27148H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings (Hardback) Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94090H Rodney Castleden / Events That Changed the World (Hardback) The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various events that have affected the world in one way or another. These historical accounts will keep readers enthralled, page after page. The events in this book have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... 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In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. 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Quick view sku: rR38834H John Gribbin / In Search of the Big Bang Where do we come from? How did the universe of stars, planets and people come into existence? Now revised and expanded, this second edition takes into account developments in cosmology and quantum physics since its first publication in 1986, and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80172H Mary Benson / Nelson Mandela : A Biography 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 80172H Mary Benson / Nelson Mandela : A Biography 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27148H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings (Hardback) Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94090H Rodney Castleden / Events That Changed the World (Hardback) The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various events that have affected the world in one way or another. These historical accounts will keep readers enthralled, page after page. The events in this book have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... 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Quick view sku: wW27148H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings (Hardback) Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94090H Rodney Castleden / Events That Changed the World (Hardback) The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various events that have affected the world in one way or another. These historical accounts will keep readers enthralled, page after page. The events in this book have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X94090H Rodney Castleden / Events That Changed the World (Hardback) The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various events that have affected the world in one way or another. These historical accounts will keep readers enthralled, page after page. The events in this book have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW39418H Jacques Barzun / From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat 1500 to the Present (Hardback) "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." ' William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... 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In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR59200H Antony Beevor / Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War' - Robert Fox, Evening... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5919H Nadine Gordimer / Living in Hope and History Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42372H Ziauddin Sardar / American Dream, Global Nightmare (Hardback) Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28742H Lara Maiklem / Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardback) WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR_______________Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW42136H Martin Amis / The Rub of Time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016(Large Paperback) Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW40647H Iain Martin / Making It Happen : Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (Hardback) When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze,... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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