Academic & Professional

Susan Faludi / Stiffed

    From industrial workers to modern war veterans, from astronauts to porn actors, Stiffed examines men whose sense that they have lost jobs, skills, roles, wives and a secure future is only one symptom of a wider betrayal...

Robert Fulghum / All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten : Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

    When asked what he does, Robert Fulghum usually replies that he is a philosopher, and explains that what he likes to do is to think about everyday things and then to express what he thinks by writing, speaking or painting. This is a...

Christopher Cerf / The Official Politically Correct Dictionary

    An essential handbook for the nineties, providing a fool proof guard against those politically incorrect faux pas which can ruin social and professional life.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Ricardo Semler / Maverick : The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workshop

   The international bestseller that tells how Semler tore up the rule books - and defied inflation running at up to 900% per year!- Workers make decisions previously made by their bosses- Managerial staff set their own salaries and bonuses-...

Simon Singh / Big Bang

   The bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. A fascinating exploration of the ultimate question: how was our universe created?Albert...

Jean-Claude Carriere / The Power of Buddhism : His Holiness, the Dalai Lama with Jean-Claude Carriere

   His Holiness the Dalai Lama is famous for his skill in weaving together East and West, today and tomorrow, and offering an insight to an inner calm and clarity of mind that can become the fuel of our daily lives.He has never before directly...

Rob Parson / The Heart of Success

    Jack's father was one of the most successful entrepreneurs of his time - the only problem was that the old man had no time, no friends, and died early. The prospect of following in the family tradition seems less than appealing to Jack...

Mark Rowe / A Prescription for Happiness : The Ten Commitments to a Happier, Healthier Life

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Lyndsey Saul / Damn You Autocorrect! 2

   It's back. And it's more awkward than ever.Ever been screwed over by predictive text on your smart phone? You are not alone.Damn You, Autocorrect! 2 brings together more of the laugh-out-loud funny and painfully embarrassing posts from the...

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...

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...

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

    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...

Nicholas Jones / Soundbites and Spin Doctors

   Written by an insider to the relationship between the media and politics, and shows how both manipulate the other.   All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books...

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,...

Julian Baggini / Do They Think You're Stupid? : 100 Ways Of Spotting Spin And Nonsense From The Media, Celebrities And Politicians

    This companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time,...

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...

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...

Ian Robertson / The Winner Effect : The Science of Success and How to Use It

 What makes a winner?Why do some succeed both in life and in business, and others fail?The `winner effect' is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights against weak opponents is much more likely to win later bouts...

John Button / How to be Green : The Definitive Guide on How Each and Everyone of Us Can Do Our Bit for the Maintenance of Planet Earth

 More and more people want to know what they can do to look after themselves and the planet. This book lists easy and practical ways of making changes in your everyday life to benefit yourself and the environment. The author has also written "A...

A Very Short Introduction: Mathematics

   The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and readers...

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...

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...

Frank Delaney / The Celts

    This book, a companion volume to the BBC2 television series, aims to trace the origin, growth, flowering and eventual decline of the Celts, a people who are traditionally portrayed as wild, excitable, warlike, ferocious and uncivilized...

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...

Sigmund Freud / 5 : The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

    The simple but convincing explanations of things that are familiar to everybody are explained in this book: the sudden forgetting of proper names, of sets of words, impressions and intentions; childhood and "screen" memories; bungled...

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...

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...

Judy May Murphy / Sleeping Your Way to Success

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Andrew Marr / A History of the World

   Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best. Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly...

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"

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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...