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Lorenzo Marone / The Temptation to Be Happy

Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his days avoiding the old cat...

Gavin Weightman / The Frozen Water Trade

The story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England – valued for its incredible purity – revolutionised domestic life around the world. In the days before artificial refrigeration, it was thought impossible...

Quentin Bates / Chilled to the Bone

Officer Gunnhildur #3 When a shipowner is found dead, tied to a bed in one of Reykjavik's smartest hotels, sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the city police force sees no evidence of foul play but still suspects things are not as cut and dried as...

Marion Husband / The Boy I Love

A tangled web of love and betrayal develops when war hero Paul returns from the trenches. He finds himself torn between desire and duty, his lover Adam awaits but so too does Margot, the pregnant fiancée of his dead brother. Set in a time when...

Gertrude Himmelfarb / The ROADS to MODERNITY

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Simone de Beauvoir / Letters to Sartre

In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of...

Wess Roberts / Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

Explains how the legendary military commander's principles of leadership can be applied to contemporary business situations in the '90s.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Laure Adler / Marguerite Duras : A Life

Laure Adler contacted Marguerite Duras in the 1970s, after finding consolation from one of her novels after the death of her child, and they became friends. Years later, she became Duras' official biographer, and they embarked on two years of...

C.J. Box / Paradise Valley

The Highway Quartet #4 It's the end of the road. For three years, Chief Investigator Cassie Dewell has been hunting the Lizard King. Twice she's nearly had him and watched him slip through her fingers, but this time, the trap is set and she's...

Colin Murray / A Random History of Football

A top club can spend millions on a legendary player, but it's the small, random things that can affect a soccer match--like a bottle dropped on a goalkeeper's toe or your most creative footballer fleeing town after a drunken encounter with another...

Frank Worrall / The Magnificent Sevens

With the help of players, journalists, and a psychologist, this authoritative study analyzes the five men who have worn the number seven shirt for Manchester United—Best, Robson, Cantona, Beckham, and Ronaldo—and assesses both their...

Clare Dignall / Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?

The punctuation workout for sticklers and rookies alike. The punctuation panda is back! Armed with a permanent marker, a smidgen of confidence, and a copy of 'Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?', everyone now has the chance to become a member of the...

Samuel P. Huntington / The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Huntington argues that the fundamental source of conflict in the post-Cold War world will be cultural, rather than ideological or economic. As people increasingly define themselves by ethnicity and religion, the West will be at odds with non-western...

Gerd Gigerenzer / Reckoning with Risk

Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty   'This is an important book, full of relevant examples and worrying case histories. By the end of it, the reader has been presented with a powerful set of tools for understanding...

Oprah Winfrey / What Happened to You?

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to...

Steven Kotler / The Rise Of Superman

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Tom Wolf / Secret Berlin

Far from the crowds and the usual cliche's, Berlin offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable...

Daniel Pollock / Lair of the Fox

The film crew sailing on the limpid Sea of Marmara have never heard of the Little Fox. Nor the fanatical Kurdish freedom fighters whose bizarre hijack galvanised the world.US diplomat Paul Cyrus conducts the knife-egde negotiations. But the film's...

Hugo's Language Institute / Italian Verbs Simplified

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Vex King / Healing Is the New High

Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom   Achieve genuine inner healing, let go of trauma and find clarity, resilience and freedom with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Vex King.Vex developed...

Jeremy Bentham / Utilitarianism

Jeremy Bentham, John Austin Utilitarianism / On Liberty / Essay on Bentham The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to...

Wendy Green / 50 Things You Can Do Today to Manage Stress

A no-nonsense guide to help reduce day-to-day stress   In this reassuring and easy-to-follow book, Wendy Green explains the psychological and physical factors that contribute to stress and offers practical advice and a holistic approach to...

David Adam / The Man Who Couldn't Stop

Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within...

Don Marquis / Archy and Mehitabel

Of all the literary genres, humor has the shortest shelf life--except for Archy and Mehitabel, that is. First published in 1916, it is a classic of American literature. Archy is a cockroach, inside whom resides the soul of a free-verse poet; he...

Andrey Kurkov / The President's Last Love

A major new novel from the author of Death and the Penguin .     Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov...

M.Esther Harding / The Way of All Women

The Way of All Women: a Classic Study of the Many Roles of Modern Woman       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and...

David S. Landes / The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor   The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this...

Alan Spooner / The Oxford Quick Reference Thesaurus

This revised edition of the Oxford Quick Reference Thesaurus allows you to look up a wide range of alternative words quickly and easily, with a straightforward page design that takes you directly to the word you want. Opposite words are provided for...

John Harvey-Jones / Managing To Survive

This reference book isolates the key areas which every manager will have to confront in the '90s, and the key skills he or she must bring to the job.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Rosalind Ashe / Moths

The spirit of a long-dead actress possessed her--setting her body afire with its lust and consuming her soul with its evil.As soon as Nemo Boyce saw Dower House she fell in love with it and convinced her husband to buy it. As soon as Professor Harris saw...

Juliet Marillier / Foxmask

Saga of the Light Isles #2 Foxmask is the continuation of the tale started in Wolfskin, a story of the clash between the warlike Norsemen and the mysterious and magical people who lived at the top of the world in the land that became Scotland...

Richard McCandler / Improving Your Memory

The system in this book for memory improvement is easy to learn and its potential is huge - not just marginal; we are talking multiplication! On top of all that it is 'The Lazy Person's Guide'.       This book is second hand,...

Sue Clarke / Reinvent Your Career

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Adrian Gilbert / Sniper One on One

Sniper One on One: The World of Combat Sniping   For the ordinary soldier, modern warfare is an impersonal business over which he has little direct control, wheras for the sniper it is a deadly one-to-one confrontation. The sniper...

R.L. Trask / How to Write Effective E-mails

Many of us are spending more and more time using emails, especially at work. This practical guide steers you through all the basics and 'netiquette' of emailing strangers, business contacts and colleagues: from setting up an email account,...

Malcolm I.V. Jayson / Understanding Back Pain

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Suren Navlakha / Upanishads

Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination of a tradition of speculative thought first...

Natalie MacLean / Red, White, and Drunk All Over

Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-soaked Journey from Grape to Glass Natalie MacLean spent three years sipping, spitting and slogging her way through sun-drenched vineyards and cobwebbed cellars to bring us this witty, knowledgeable and...

Christopher Robinson / War of the Encyclopaedists

Christopher Robinson, Gavin Kovite   A smart, fresh tale for the millenial generation - about going to university, going to war, and growing upIt was the Friday before Independence Day and the twentysomethings of early-millennium Seattle...

Aeschylus / Suppliants and Other Dramas

Suppliants and Other Dramas: Persians/Seven Against Thebes/Suppliants/Fragments with Prometheus Bound Traditionally Ascribed to Aischylos   Suppliants dramatizes the powerful story of the daughters of Danaos, determined not to be forced...

Jesse Bullington / The Enterprise of Death

As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave is unwillingly apprenticed to an ancient necromancer. Her tormentor has bound her with a curse forged from blood and spirit. But salvation...

Geoffrey S. Kirk / The Nature of Greek Myths

Puts forth original theories concerning the origins and cultural significance of the Greek myths       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be...

T. Coraghessan Boyle / The Road to Wellville

The Road to Wellville : A Comedy of the Heart and Other Organs An account Dr John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake and peanut butter; his profligate, degenerate and opportunistic son; and the birth of America's first health fanatics. T...

Jonathon Savill / No More Mr. Fat Guy

No More Mr. Fat Guy: The Nutrition and Fitness Programme for Men!       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title...

Graham Masterton / The Last Drop of Blood

In the driver's seat of a Jaguar, on a country road, a good man burns.  Justice Garrett Quinn should have been at a sentencing. He was one of the good ones, fighting for order in a lawless world. In a burned-out car, on the outskirts of Cork, DS...

Joss Stirling / Stung

Struck #2 Stung by Joss Stirling is a breathtaking romantic thriller from the bestselling author of Finding Sky.Sixteen-year-old Kate has a talent for disappearing. Framed for murder, and hunted by a violent gang, she's running for her life . . ...

Maxim Jakubowski / The Mammoth Book of Future Cops

The future will be a world of ambiguity, of good men gone bad and bad men doing good - our world of today, turned sideways. This is the future of Blade Runner and Akira, the world of cops and crooks written across a bleak landscape of urban decay,...

Jacqueline Winspear / Leaving Everything Most Loved

Maisie Dobbs #10 London, 1933. Some two months after an Indian woman, Usha Pramal, is found murdered in a South London canal, her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but...

Paul Simpson / The Rough Guide to Elvis

January 2005 will see the 70th anniversary of Elvis Presley''s birth. This new edition of the Rough Guide to Elvis, will be the most up-to-date guide on every aspect of The King, from his songs to his record collection, his cars to his costumes, from...

Janet Dailey / With This Kiss

Dear friend,Where and when you least expect it...love is there. Revising these two stories was a pleasure--I hope you'll enjoy reading them. Wild And Wonderful In the rugged mountains of West Virginia, a green and blooming spring means that journalist...

Justyn Barnes / Little Book of Man Utd

Little Book of Man Utd: More Than 185 Red Soccer Soundbites! "The team never loses. They just run out of time."  —Steve McClaren  From Alan Hansen's falsely prophetic "You'll never win anything with kids," to Eric Cantona's...

Greg Keyes / Lord of Souls

The Elder Scrolls #2 Reeling from a devastating discovery, Prince Attrebus continues on his seemingly doomed quest to obtain a magic sword that holds the key to destroying the deadly invaders. Meanwhile, in the Imperial City, the spy Colin finds...