Academic & Professional

Lynn Grabhorn / Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting

   We all know how strong our emotions can be - but do we really appreciate that they can actually help us to achieve what we want?We sometimes disregard our feelings and carry on living life the way we have always lived it - but our emotions...

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...

Alastair Cambell / Winners : And How They Succeed

   How people succeed - and how you can, too.***Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller***Alastair Campbell knows all about winning. As Tony Blair's chief spokesman and strategist he helped guide the Labour Party to victory in three successive general...

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...

Daniel and Jason Freeman / Use Your Head : A Guided Tour of the Human Mind

   What makes us tick? Why do we feel happy, sad or anxious? Does our IQ affect how successful we are at work? Why are we attracted to some people and not to others? Can our personalities influence how long we...

Alice Walden Howard / Exploring the "Road Less Travelled"

      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...

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...

V. S. Naipaul / Beyond Belief : Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples

   This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and stories. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes...

Isabel Fonseca / Bury Me Standing : The Gypsies and their Journey

   Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. But because they resist assimilation, having survived as a distinct people for over a thousand years,...

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...

Caroline Taggart / My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?) : Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English

 Will do for grammar what Eats Shoots and Leaves did for punctuation' - The TimesA runaway hit and Sunday Times bestseller in 2008, My Grammar and I has continued to grow in popularity, becoming the go-to guide for grammar.Repackaged with a fresh...

Caroline Taggart / I Used to Know That : Stuff You Forgot From School

   This is a fascinating book... it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table' - SheA Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with...

Sandra Mara / Dead Men Talk

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Sandra Newman / How NOT to Write a Novel : 200 Mistakes to avoid at All Costs if You Ever Want to Get Published

   There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of...

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...

Ellen Gunning / Ten Red-Hot Tips to Promote your Business

 If I was down to my last dollar, I'd spend it on public relations.' - Bill Gates PR techniques can be used by businesses of all sizes. In Ten Red-Hot Tips well-known PR guru Ellen Gunning reveals the top ten most important types of PR for...

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

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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...

Eric Berne / What Do You Say After You Say Hello

 What Do You Say After You Say Hello? explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined script - a script they compose for themselves...

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...

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...

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

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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...

Edward Tenner / Why Things Bite Back : Predicting the Problems of Progress

 This work contends that with every great advance in science and technology, there is a corresponding revenge effect. Yesterday's asbestos curtain, for example, which used to be used for protection, now implies a long-term chronic hazard. The book...

Melissa Rossi / The Armchair Diplomat on Europe

 It happens all the time: you're watching the Champion's League, pondering Robert Kilroy Silk's unnatural glow, reading the latest newspaper debate about EU bendy banana laws, and thinking: what's really going on in Europe? Does anyone actually know...

John Murray / That's What I Call Jargon

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

Edward O. Wilson / Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge

 In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition of the principles governing every branch of...

Walden Howard / Exploring the "Road Less Travelled"

      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...

Connie Robertson / A Book of Humorous Quotations

 From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always married', and by way of Woody Allen's numerous bon...

Margaret Donaldson / Children's Minds

 Margaret Donaldson's seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought. In this concise and brilliantly readable book, Margaret Donaldson shows that context is key when it...

Robin Norwood / Letters from Women Who Love Too Much

  A Closer Look at Relationship Addiction and Recovery     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...

Edwina Currie / This Honourable House

 Politicians are amongst the most reviled and distrusted of all professionals. Nevertheless, honourable men and women do put themselves forward to help run the country, whether out of conviction, altruism, vanity or ambition. Under pressure - from...

Andrew Marr / Head of State

 Two corpses. A country on the edge of a political precipice. A conspiracy so bold it would make Machiavelli wince. Andrew Marr's debut novel imagines what really might be going on behind the door of 10 Downing Street.When a young investigative...

John Gray / Mars And Venus Together Forever : Relationship Skills for Lasting Love

 This repackaged, retitled version of WHAT YOUR MOTHER COULDN'T TELL YOU AND YOUR FATHER DIDN'T KNOW brings the book firmly into line with John Gary's existing Mars and Venus classics, and has proved immensley successful in the states. This enticing...

Ken Blanchard / The One Minute Manager

 With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard The original, bestselling blockbuster which has transformed businesses world wide. The blockbuster number one international bestselling phenomenon is back ...not that it ever really went away. This easily-read...

Jack Black / Mindstore for Personal Development

 This work uses the techniques in "Mindstore", Jack's first book, and applies them to the arena of the more personal; memory and learning, tip of the tongue triggers, relationships, communications, diet and nutrition and intuition.   ...

W. Clement Stone / The Success System That Never Fails

 W. Clement Stone's classic three-point formula has been helping people achieve their dreams for more than 25 years. His practical text and inspiring stories teach readers how to chart their own journey through life, create and accomplish goals and...