Academic & Professional

Joseph Stiglitz / The Roaring Nineties : Why We're Paying the Price for the Greediest Decade in History

   From the author of Globalization and its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz's The Roaring Nineties: Why We're Paying the Price for the Greediest Decade in History blows the whistle on the devastation wrought by the free market mania of the...

Do Sheep Shrink in the Rain? : 500 Most Outrageous Questions Ever Asked and Their Answers

 A fascinating and witty compilation of the most interesting and outrageous questions received and answered by 82ASK, the UK's premier text-answering service.Find the answers to questions you never could have dreamed of, like:* Why is it so rare to...

John Travers / Green & Gold: Ireland as a Clean Energy World Leader

    While many agree Ireland can become a world leader in clean energy as conventional energy sources run out, there's little agreement on how. Travers captures the challenge and opportunity from an Irish perspective.     All...

Andy Cope / The Art of Being Brilliant

    A pep talk in your pocket This short, small, highly illustrated book will fill you to the brim with happiness, positivity, wellbeing and, most importantly, success! Andy Cope and Andy Whittaker are experts in the art of happiness and...

Patrick Holford / Say No To Cancer

    Cancer is on the increase. It is predicted that, within twenty years, half the population will be affected at some point in their lives. The single greatest cause of cancer - even greater than smoking - is now know to be the modern diet...

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

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

John Harvey-Jones / Troubleshooter

    This book is produced to accompany the second series of John Harvey-Jones' successful programmes investigating the health of individual British companies. Each chapter investigates an individual company, including one newly privatized,...

Fred Sedgwick / How to Teach with a Hangover : A Practical Guide to Overcoming Classroom Crises

 As the title suggests, a humorous and extremely practical guide for both trainees and practising teachers to coping with some of the more common classroom crises. Feeling at your wit's end after yet another lesson with your 'class from hell'?...

Paula Polk Lillard / Montessori A Modern Approach

    A presentation of the basic principles of the Montessori method, preceeded by an historical survey of its vicissitudes.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Jinny Ditzler / Your Best Year Yet! : How to Make the Next 12 Months Your Most Successful Ever!

    A self-help and personal development book. Based on a goal-setting programme used by thousands of people, the key is a set of ten questions which provide the impetus to self-knowledge and change.     All of our books are...

Flic Everett / Girl's Guide to Getting it on : What Every Girl Should Know About Sex

    Published in association with "Company" magazine, this guide book is a vibrant guide to sex. There are 15 chapters dealing with different aspects of sex and sexuality. Each chapter has boxes on different themes and at the end there is a...

Eamonn Butler / Boost Your I. Q.

    This sequel to Test your IQ provides a sample IQ test containing 60 questions--logic puzzles, word questions, and diagram questions. The authors use a series of exercises to demonstrate how to tackle problems in a logical, systematic...

Anthony Holden / All In

   When Anthony Holden was the only British player in the 1988 world poker championships in Las Vegas - with which his classic poker book, "Big Deal", begins - there were 167 entrants. Last year there were 2,500; this July, when he plays in it...

Philip Ball / Critical Mass

    Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology and psychology. Ball shows how much of human...

Philippe Legrain / Open World : The Truth about Globalisation

   Globalisation is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. While protestors take to the streets at international summits, it is becoming conventional wisdom that companies are taking over the world, that governments' ability...

Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the words We Use

   Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb?These and hundreds...

Ricardo Semler / Maverick

    Ricardo Semler inherited his family company, Semco - manufacturer of marine pumps, industrial dishwashers and mixing equipment - when he was 19. Soon, by 1980, it was on the brink of bankruptcy, but a decade later, during a period of...

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...

A Very Short Introduction: Politics

   In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order...

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...

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...

John Gray / How To Get What You Want In The Workplace : How to maximise your professional potential

    Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus at home and at work! In this powerful book, John Gray turns his successful Mars and Venus healing advice towards work and success in modern times - from how to create and maintain positive...

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...

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...

Julian Barbour / The End Of Time

   Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there are only timeless 'nows'. In THE END OF TIME, the British theoretical physicist Julian Barbour describes the coming...

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...

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

      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...

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...

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...

Michio Kaku / Parallel Worlds

   From the bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds takes us to the frontiers of scientific knowledge to explain the extraordinary nature - and future - of our universe.Imagine a future where we are not...

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...

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...