Academic & Professional

Noah J. Goldstein / Yes! : 50 Secrets From the Science of Persuasion

 Most of us are only too aware that, whatever roles we have in today's fast-moving world, much of our success lies in getting others to say 'Yes' to our requests. What many people might not be aware of, though, is the vast amount of research that...

Padraic O'Farrell / Irish Blessings Toasts & Curses

 The Irish had blessings, toasts and curses for every occasion: hearing the news of a death or marriage, consoling neighbours in sorrow or sharing their joy, looking for a husband or wife, going off to work, saving turf, or having a drink at the end...

Teach Yourself Journalism

 This introductory guide explains how to get into journalism and build a career in print, radio and TV. It discusses the basics of journalism - what journalism is, what skills and talents are needed to become a journalist, how to train and how to...

Lydia Elston / Italian

    A carefully graded introductory course in modern spoken and written Italian.     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...

Conor Kostick / Irish Writers Against War

   Irish Writers Against War presents an impressive range of literary voices from Ireland united by their opposition to the proposed war in Iraq.The Writers Against War movement has gathered huge support and momentum around the world,...

Jim Al-Khalili / What's Next?

   Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again.Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our future. So here, Jim Al-Khalili and his crack...

Alice Knight / How to Become a Clinical Psychologist : Getting a Foot in the Door

   Based on information gathered from assistants, trainee clinical psychologists and clinical psychology course directors across the country, How to Become a Clinical Psychologist includes:information on work experienceadvice on job...

John Allen Paulos / Beyond Numeracy : An Uncommon Dictionary of Mathematics

    From the author of "Innumeracy", this book explores the beauty and fascination of mathematics. It can be seen as a dictionary (ranging from algebra to zeno), as a collection of brief mathematical essays, or simply as the ruminations of...

Michael Brooks / 13 Things That Don't Make Sense : The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

   Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in...

H.W. Fowler / The King's English

    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches...

Jonas Ridderstrale / Funky Business : Talent Makes Capital Dance

     BUSINESS AS USUAL? FUNK THAT "In a world of suits, Nordstrom and Ridderstrale's message is refreshingly different." "Business Strategy Review," The Greatest Business Books of All Time" "Funky Business gives a unique, informed and...

George Monbiot / Heat : How We Can Stop the Planet Burning

   Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by the day, so does the amount of hot air and bluster spouted by politicians and businessmen on...

Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Journalism

    The newspaper has recorded and influenced modern history like nothing else on earth. From The Washington Post's exposure of Watergate, Tom Wolfe's 1960's social documentary in The Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test to Robert Fisk uncovering...

Michael Foley / The Age of Absurdity : Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

   The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. This knotty dilemma is...

Clay Shirky / Here Comes Everybody : How Change Happens when People Come Together

   Clay Shirky's international bestseller Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together explores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human society.Welcome to the new future of involvement...

Astrology and Horoscopes

      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...

Anna Kiernan / Voices for Peace

    The attack of 11 September was a terrorist atrocity of unprecedented scale, attracting near-universal condemnation from the international community. But was the bombing of Afghanistan, some three weeks later, the appropriate response...

Matt Ridley / The Origins of Virtue

    Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human...

Oliver Sacks / Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain

   `A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us.' Daily TelegraphOliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological...

Caroline Taggart / A Classical Education : The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School

   How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical...

Judy May Murphy / Sleeping Your Way to Success

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Alok Jha / How to Live Forever : And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science

    How to clone a sheep. How to build a brain. How to boil a planet. How to save the world. From the microscopic to the cosmic, this book takes you on a glorious tour of the known universe and beyond, encompassing alien worlds, bizarre...

E.O. Parrott / How to Become Ridiculously Well-read in One Evening

    Humorous poems summarize great works of literature by Jane Austen, Anthony Burgess, Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Graham Greene, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and Solzhenitsyn      All...

Lee Server / Ava Gardner : Love is Nothing

    Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide. Ernest Hemingway carried around...

Michael Wolff / Burn Rate: How I Survived The Gold Rush Years On The Internet

    Michael Wolff was a journalist and writer; in 1998 he is a journalist and writer again. But in the first half of the '90s he was an Internet entrepreneur, Chairman and CEO of Wolff New Media. This is Wolff's story. BURN RATE is hugely...

Gael Lindenfield / Super Confidence

   A practical handbook aimed at all women who want to be in control of every situation they encounter. The book includes strategies for increasing self-knowledge and self-esteem, becoming more assertive, communicating effectively, managing...

Benjamin R. Barber / Jihad Vs McWorld

    Designed for anyone who wants to understand the challenges facing us after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and in light of the conflict in the Middle East in 2003, "Jihad Vs McWorld" examines the conflicts of the modern world...

Aidan Macfarlane / Teenagers : The Agony, The Ecstasy - The Answers

    Ever felt you need to turn to a whole team of advisers for help in bringing up your wayward children? From psychiatrists to cooks, from laundry maids to substance abuse counsellors? Then this book, an easy pick-up-and-read guide to...

Sara Wheeler / Cherry

   Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature...

Sandra Mara / Dead Men Talk

      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...

Robert H Frank / The Economic Naturalist : Why Economics Explains Almost Everything

 Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Or why soft drink cans are cylindrical, but milk cartons are square? The answer is simple: economics...

Alan Sugar / The Apprentice

 Following the huge success of the first series on BBC2, The Apprentice will accompany the 2nd series planned for February 2006. Sir Alan Sugar is back with a new set of hopeful candidates battling it out to become his next apprentice. The...

Mark H. McCormack / What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

 McCormack, founder of the sports management industry and manager of Navratilova and Nicklaus, reveals the secrets of his business success and fills the gap between business school education and the street knowledge that comes from the day-to-day...

Mark Little / The New America

 Mark Little's central thesis predicts a power shift from the east coast to the southwest of America, based on the stream of population migration in that direction, and explores the challenges ahead, nationally and globally...

Ian Ayres / Super Crunchers

   When would a casino stop a gambler from playing his next hand? How could a company use statistical analysis to blackball you from the job you want? Why should you worry when customer services pay attention to your...

Janet E. Sahafi / Healing the Past

      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...

Stearn Robinson / The Dreamer's Dictionary

 The ultimate guide to understanding your dreams. This accessible and comprehensive guide has been a bestseller for almost twenty years.Do you want to know the secrets of your dreams?You remember them, talk about them, worry about them, but how much...

Alexis De Tocqueville / Democracy in America

 Abridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw.Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential...

Tom Stoppard / Arcadia

 In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is...

Oliver James / They F*** You Up : How to Survive Family Life

 Clinical psychologist Oliver James demonstrates that who we are is largely the result of the way we were cared for during our first six years, rather than our genes and other environmental factors. The particular way we were treated in these...

Loreto Todd / Celtic Names for Children

   A dictionary of over 2,000 Celtic names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. But more than that, it gives the origin and meaning of each name plus traditional stories, myths or poems for selected names. A...

Michael Argyle / The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour

 The first edition of this book outlined what amounted to a breakthrough in the analysis of social behaviour. Since then it has become widely used as an introductory textbook of social psychology. It is invaluable to anyone interested in the subject...

Richard Carlson / Stop Thinking Start Living

 Revolutionary in its simplicity and accessible to all, this bestselling book offers commonsense methods that allow you to let go of depression and tap into natural joy.In this indispensable handbook, Richard Carlson demonstrates how we can change...

Graham Allcott / How to be a Productivity Ninja

   In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don't cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings. Thankfully there is a better way: The Way of the...

Nicola Morgan / Know Your Brain

 Find out everything there is to know about your brain in this fascinating grey-matter guide! There is nothing more amazing than the human brain. It will be with you for your entire life, it will grow and change with you - it is you! So it's...

John Allen Paulos / A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

 With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made "Innumeracy" a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages ofthe daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many ofthe articles we read every...

Mary Kotsonouris / Talking to Your Solicitor

 If you have ever had a problem that has made you think about engaging a solicitor, this book is designed to be of interest. It looks at the ways in which solicitors can help people, examines the reasons for choosing one solicitor rather than...

David Stafford-Clark / What Freud Really Said

 This introduction to Freud is designed to be of interest to the student as well as the lay reader. The book describes the context in which Freud moved and the opposition he encountered. It gives, with quotations, a summary of Freud's revolutionary...

Anthony Storr / Solitude

 This study challenges the widely-held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. It argues that we pay far too little attention to some of the other great satisfactions of life - work and creativity. In a series of...

Colin Robson / Experiment, Design and Statistics in Psychology

      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...

Simon Singh / Fermat's Last Theorem

 In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across a great mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can now understand, but which has baffled mathematicians for over 300 years. Aged just ten, Andrew...

Carmen Renee Berry / Girlfriends : Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties

 Almost any woman will tell you that her friendships with other women are among the most rewarding relationships she has. In this remarkable book, real-life girlfriends Carmen Renee Berry and Tamara Traeder explore the depths and complexities of...