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His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass Illustrated Edition
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Author: Philip Pullman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An over-sized, lavishly illustrated, full-color edition of Philip Pullman's beloved classic. Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass has been changing the world...
Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning
Author: Le Corbusier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his death (August 27, 2015), one of Le Corbusier's most significant books becomes available again...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC
Author: Dr. John D. Grainger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the...
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Author: Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the international bestselling authors of Why Does E=MC2?...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
Author: Nicole Rafter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists...
The Bridge to Airpower: Logistics Support for Royal Flying Corps Operations on the Western Front, 1914-18
Author: Peter Dye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon...
Sleep in Early Modern England
Author: Sasha Handley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing...
Rise of the Tang Dynasty: The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD581-626)
Author: Julian Romane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 217 Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating...
The Invisible Collection: Tales of Obsession and Desire
Author: Stefan Zweig (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.' It...
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Author: Alberto Manguel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. "The...
Love & Other Disasters: 'The perfect recipe for romance' - you won't want to miss this delicious rom-com!
Author: Anita Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The first openly nonbinary contestant on America's favourite cooking show falls for their clumsy competitor in this delicious romantic comedy debut!...
The Best American Essays 2022
Author: Alexander Chee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power"...
Icons of Graphic Design
Author: Steven Heller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Icons of Graphic Design presents a unique history of design, documenting over a century of creative brilliance. Showcasing the most influential...
Tides of Fire: A Novel
Author: James Rollins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 In the latest riveting thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, an...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collins Classics)
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My life looks as if it had been wasted...
Zen Masters of Japan: The Second Step East
Author: Richard Bryan McDaniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread...
The Bhagavad Gita: A Verse Translation
Author: Geoffrey Parrinder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most widely read Hindu scriptures in the Western world. Taking the form of a...
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-east Asia
Author: Tadao Shimba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East Eastern Asia...
Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his...
Septimius Severus and the Roman Army
Author: Sage, Michael Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The assassination of Emperor Commodus in 192 sparked a civil war. Septimius Severus emerged as the eventual victor and his dynasty...
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Author: Kahlil G. Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil...
Great Generals of the Ancient World
Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered...
British Submarines at War 1914 - 1918
Author: Edwyn Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a...
Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235
Author: John S. McHugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 335 Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin,...
Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth
Author: Sergey Prokofiev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he...
Heavyweights: The Military Use of Massive Weapons
Author: Stephen Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delivering the heaviest possible munitions onto the enemy and his strongpoints serves a number of military functions: it destroys protective positions...
Battle of Jutland: History's Greatest Sea Battle Told Through Newspaper Reports
Author: Richard H. Osborne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Since the days of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy had been the acknowledged as the most powerful maritime...
Chinese Bridges: Living Architecture from China's Past
Author: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Chinese Bridges, Ronald G. Knapp, one of the foremost experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, gives these under-regarded...
The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys: Society's First Sex Offender
Author: Geoffrey Pimm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of...
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185
Author: John Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to...
Photographing the Deep Sky: Images in Space and Time
Author: Chris Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Spectacular nebulae where stars are born, beautiful star clusters from the early formation of the Milky Way, and galaxies as far...
Hunting the Last Great Pirate: Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star
Author: Michael Edward Ashton Ford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 1827 the Duke of Wellington - former Commander-in-Chief of the British Army and British Prime Minister - ordered...
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of...
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945
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Author: Steven K Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong...
Rebellion in the Middle Ages: Fight Against the Crown
Author: Matthew Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Shakespeare's Henry IV lamented 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'. It was true of that king's reign and of...
Siege of Brest 1941
Author: Rostislav Aliev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 235 On 22 June 1941, soon after 3am, the first German shells smashed into the Soviet frontier fortress of Brest Hitler's Operation...
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Author: Jay Gallentine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With...
Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition: Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of 2022
Author: Lulu Yilun Chen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In 2019, a Chinese entity called Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth-largest company. It was a watershed moment,...
Maggie Magoo's Amazing Alphabet: Beautiful letters for colouring
Author: Maggie Magoo Designs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 From the hugely popular Maggie Magoo design house, an outstanding colouring book of decorative letters. Two different illustrations of each...
It'll Never Work: Buildings, Bridges and Tunnels: An Accidental History of Inventions
Author: Jon Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Have you ever wondered what made human beings want to reach for the skies by building higher and higher? And how...
Still The One/Second Chances/The Husband She'd Never Met/A Surprise Reunion
Author: Barbara Hannay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Never say never... Second Chances It may be three years since Ellie saw Joe, yet their attraction was just as strong....
The Deceit
Author: Tom Knox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 High-concept adventure thriller set in Egypt and Cornwall. What connects a lost hoard of ancient religious texts with a revival in...
Joker Moon (Wild Cards)
Author: George R.R. Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by fantasy titan George R.R. Martin. In the aftermath...
Three Little Wolves And The Big Bad Pig
Author: Eugene Trivizas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 A subversive and hilarious spin on the well-loved fairy tale. The three little wolves erect first a solid brick house. The...