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The study of oxygen transfer in animals and plants represents a large and diverse field of research, covering not only different levels of organisation ranging from the whole organism through...

Ivory is a wonderful material: tactile, beautiful, workable into many different forms and the strongest in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately for the elephant, it has been highly prized, by virtue...

Comet presents the amazing story of the Rosetta space probe and its interstellar voyage to the comet Tchoury. Its mission - to find clues to the origins of our solar...

The book titled Head First by the author William Leonard Marshall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera...

The book titled The Moscow Art Theatre Letters by the author Jean Benedetti. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Eighteenth Brumaire, November 9, 1799: with France in political and economic turmoil, a group of disaffected politicians enlisted the talented general Napoleon Bonaparte to lead a coup d'etat and...

The book titled Louis MacNeice by the author Reader in English Literature Jon Stallworthy (Oxford University). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Behind the Scenes at the Museum by the author Kate Atkinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece "Invisible Man." In 1953, Ellison's explosive story...

Lytton Strachey is one of the key figures in the cultural life of the twentieth century and his letters are a literary treasure-trove of the man and his world, as...

In 1945 Isaiah Berlin, working in Russia for the British Foreign Office, met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one...

MAGIC. POWER. GREED. The ultra-rich control magic-the same way they control everything else-but Stephen Oakwood may just beat them at their own game in this exhilarating contemporary fantasy from the...

The book titled The Quincunx by the author Charles Palliser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the story of how four people, grouped together inside a set of offices five floors above a greengrocer's shop on Shepherd's Bush Green in West London, launched a...

The book titled Death's Autograph by the author Marianne MacDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Galina: A Russian Story by the author Galina Vishnevskaya. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Detective Chief Inspector Phil Benholme has a reputation for being a little soft -- but it's only because he tries to see both sides of every story. And now he...

The book titled Rage by the author Gwen Moffat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Yellow Room Conspiracy by the author Peter Dickinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The celebrated French general and emperor Napoleon I was born in Ajaccio in Corsica in 1769. France had acquired Corsica only 15 months before his birth, and in his early...

Three stories in one volume from one of Britain's most admired authors and playwrights. "The Laying On Of Hands" is Bennett at his inimitable best in this funny, and mischievous...

The book titled Dead on Arrival by the author Patricia Hall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first freely elected head of state in Russia's 1000-year history, Boris Yeltsin ended Soviet military occupation of Eastern Europe, introduced the free market economy and, most importantly, forged and...

Kayla Anson, the only surviving child and heir of a multibillionaire capitalist, is being touted as the most glamorous debutante of the season. So when Bennis Hannaford, staying overnight at...

From the author of American Bloomsbury, Louisa May Alcott , and Home Before Dark , a major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright considered...

The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer , one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese...

The book titled Decadence and Innovation: Austria-Hungary in the Fin-de-siecle by the author Robert B. Pynsent. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Kitchen in Corfu by the author James Chatto. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It's contents are as curious as its price: subtitled Language of the Megaliths' this is a book for believers in the Earth Mother, with corn dollies, megalithic art and sexual...

The book titled Travels Through the Third World by the author Brian Schwartz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A new edition of DK's complete course-based guide to digital photography, teaching you everything you need to know step-by-step, week-by-week. Grab your camera and learn everything you need to know...

The book titled Dying Day by the author James Mitchell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus by the author Brian Roberts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Christopher Unborn by the author Carlos Fuentes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century, writes Adrian Tinniswood in his brilliant new book and thanks to the chance survival in an attic of tens of...

Harold Nicolson, born in the late Victorian age, scion of a privileged family, was a man of extraordinary talents. As a diplomat a glittering career beckoned - an Embassy certainly,...

In this perceptive series of lectures Doris Lessing explores the strange phenomenon that although, today, we know a lot more about ourselves very little of this knowledge has been put...

The book titled The Secret Life of the Seine by the author Rosenblum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The...

Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang...

This biography opens with a moving account of Foucault's death from AIDS. The author then returns to the provincial France of Michel's childhood, and follows the transformation of a conservative...

An original and provocative history of mankind that touches the heart as wellas the mind by exploring the evolution of emotions and personal relationshipsthrough diverse cultures and throughout time.

A KGB colonel who defected to the West and an expert on the intelligence community reveal the inside story of the Soviet KGB and its penetration of Western government and...

A unique exploration of acclaimed writer D.H. Lawrence's intimate relationships with women and men and how those relationships affected his work and his provocative theories of love. Feinstein's research and...

'For the reader who knows little about whisky, this is a book that will easily and enjoyably fill that gap.' - Sir Alexander McCall Smith Beginning with the origins of...

The stunning Collector's Edition features designed endpapers, sprayed edges and a foiled board design, while supplies last. 🔥Dragons. Romance. Magic. The sequel to A Fire in the Sky from the...

The new Hercule Poirot novel - another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his `little grey cells'. Since the publication of her...