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Artie Shaw led one of America's most accomplished big bands during the 1930s and 1940s, and has sold over 100 million records. An enigmatic figure, Shaw frequently tired of the...

Consciousness is a riddle for Western science and philosophy, yet for centuries Tibetan Buddhist contemplatives have directly explored consciousness through carefully honed, rigorous techniques of meditation. This book brings together...

The novel tells the story of Ivan Grigoryevich, who has returned to Russia after thirty years in the Gulag. After short and unsatisfying visits to familiar places and persons in...

"Move over, Hoyle! This compendium describes over 800 games and variations. Each entry has clearly written, easy-to-understand rules of play."-- "SLJ . "A very useful section entitled Finding a Game'...

The book titled Continual Pilgrimage by the author Sawyer-Laucanno. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Each volume is a visual resource with over 300 full-color illustrations, telling the story of a single artist with a look at the artist's life, the context in which he...

Each volume is a visual resource with over 300 full-color illustrations, telling the story of a single artist with a look at the artist's life, the context in which he...

The book titled U2: The Rolling Stones Files by the author Rolling Stone Magazine. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Get Heart to Heart with the Little Girl with the Great Big Voice; the tumultuous life of the country phenomenon who had the voice of an angel and rose from...

Illuminated with newspaper clippings, diagrams, archival artifacts, and photographs, this is a chronicle of more than two thousand years of murder and assassination, taking a close up look at the...

Widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Joe DiMaggio transcended sports and was a true American icon. Beyond his public life in a New York Yankee...

The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century. Evelyn's father, brother and son were all writers and now his grandson has taken up the baton. Based on...

Inns have long been at the heart of town and village life, havens of hospitality for travellers. This text takes the reader on a journey back in time to revisit...

From Blackboard Jungle to Quadrophenia, from 8 Mile to Abba: the Movie, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie. Garry Mulholland,...

In 1777, Jack Absolute is famous ... as the dashing lover in Sheridan's famous comedy THE RIVALS. However, this notoriety comes as something of a shock to the REAL Jack...

In 1994 punk rock trio Green Day were on top of the world with DOOKIE, their massive hit album. They were loud, fast, bratty, pissed off, hopeless, truthful, drunk, maybe...

In Italy the Cardinal Vicar of Rome is assassinated during a celebration for the Pope's birthday. In Los Angeles Harry Addison, a highly successful entertainment lawyer, finds a desperate message...

Exploring art from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th-century these indispensable guides are ideal for both students and enthusiasts. Each volume focuses on the...

Today, the Western world's knowledge of the gladiator-slave Spartacus comes from the Kirk Douglas epic released in 1960. But did Spartacus really come close to changing the structure of the...

Zoe is an interior designer with a unique sense of style. But even more uncanny is her sense of what s going on under the surface, the secrets a house...

IQ tests are now encountered in recruitment for the government, the armed forces, education, industry and commerce. Test Your IQ contains 400 IQ test questions written and compiled by IQ-test...

Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. Dickens the novelist,...

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE ENGLISH WOMAN WHO FOOLED THE VATICAN. The legend of Pope Joan - the woman who, dressed as a man, headed the Catholic church in the...

The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented and most eccentric in European history. The domineering paternal influence of Karl Wittgenstein left his eight children fraught by inner...

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the...

Despite having once been sacked from the shadow front bench, Boris Johnson is still widely seen as one of the stars of the Conservative Party. His distinctive appearance ('Like a...

Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their supernatural powers; he used a shamrock to explain...

The book titled Star Man: The Right Hand Man of Rock 'n' Roll by the author Michael Francis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

'Cake Wrecks' are professionally made cakes that for some reason are unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate, or perhaps just plain ugly. This book features photographs of some of these creations.

IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION. For Heather Baxter, a working trip to Australia with her new husband, Tom, and his two teens is a dream come...

Brian Corrigan began his working life as a country doctor but rose to become a leading rheumatologist, and one of Australia's greatest sports doctors. His decades of medical intervention, treating...

We all think we know Alan Bond: larger than life, a flamboyant, mesmerising tycoon - a man who went from being Australia's bona fide hero for his Americas Cup win...

Since her literary debut with the highly praised Mage Heart, fantasist Jane Routley has captivated readers with her noteworthy mixture of 'cleverness, subtlety, and emotion' Locus Now, following the epic...

The book titled Feral Palit by the author Robin Wallace-Crabbe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Between the Flags by the author Jane Hyde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The bestselling author of The Little Paris Kitchen departs France on a brand new culinary adventure Bestselling author Rachel Khoo is on the go once again with her latest cookbook,...

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69), the son of a well-to-do miller from the university town of Leiden, was by the age of 26 Holland's most celebrated painter and has remained an...

Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced...

'A welcome reassessment of one of the great forgotten mavericks of British science' (Sunday Telegraph) - the man who almost scooped Darwin. In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated...

In this memoir, Marlon Brando talks of his struggle to become an actor, of his remarkable career first on the stage and then in film, and of his on- and...

Roger Fisher and William Ury bring you a simple, step-by-step guide to give you the skills you need to negotiate successfully in every situation. We all want to get to...

A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with claw-like hands who cares little for the qualities of her companions provided...

The Haunted Library is a new collection of classic ghost stories many of which have never before been anthologized from the golden age of the genre in the late 19th...

Blanche Greypaull is a wild, independent beauty, her hopes high as she sets out for London. Leaving behind her the years of poverty in Taunton's slums and her unhappy childhood,...

The book titled Larksleve by the author Patricia Wendorf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.