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While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. 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Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. 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(Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. 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(Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60124K Edward Young / One of our Submarines In the very highest rank of books about the Second World War. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a book with excitement on every page. ''He writes beautifully, economically and with... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60124K Edward Young / One of our Submarines In the very highest rank of books about the Second World War. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a book with excitement on every page. ''He writes beautifully, economically and with... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60124K Edward Young / One of our Submarines In the very highest rank of books about the Second World War. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a book with excitement on every page. ''He writes beautifully, economically and with... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60124K Edward Young / One of our Submarines In the very highest rank of books about the Second World War. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a book with excitement on every page. ''He writes beautifully, economically and with... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60124K Edward Young / One of our Submarines In the very highest rank of books about the Second World War. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a book with excitement on every page. ''He writes beautifully, economically and with... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60124K Edward Young / One of our Submarines In the very highest rank of books about the Second World War. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a book with excitement on every page. ''He writes beautifully, economically and with... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 60124K Edward Young / One of our Submarines In the very highest rank of books about the Second World War. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a book with excitement on every page. ''He writes beautifully, economically and with... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: LAR7, Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: £35.74 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88947H Eric J. Hobsbawm / Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Hardback) Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... 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Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. 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Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H,X95923H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86609H Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback) Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95453H Jonathan D. Spence / God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Hardback) "My hand grasps the killing powerin Heaven and Earth;To behead the evil ones, spare the just,and ease the people's sorrows."So resolves Hong Xiuquan. It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father --... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94110H William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback) A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X96622H Valentine Low / Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (Hardback) The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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