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The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World
Author: Fernanda Pirie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those...
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Paul Stephenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' - The Times Long before Rome fell...
From CIA to CEO: Unconventional Life Lessons for Thinking Bigger, Leading Better and Being Bolder
Author: Rupal Patel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From CIA to CEO is an ops manual for entrepreneurs that reveals how the esoteric techniques of the CIA can help...
The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters
Author: Susan Pinker (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, award-winning author and psychologist Susan...
You Already Know How To Be Great: A simple way to remove interference and unlock your potential - at work and at home
Author: Alan Fine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 According to Alan Fine, every one of us has the capacity for greatness. So what is it that's stopping us from...
Woman of Light
Author: Kali Fajardo-Anstine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you're swimming under a big, sparkling night...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert Sapolsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that...
The Coming of the Dark
Author: Chris Humphreys Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Three lands. Each ruled in different ways by a decadent immortal elite for their own pleasure and power. They know nothing...
Bright Steel: Masters and Mages Book Three
Author: Miles Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Every war comes down to the flash of bright steel, even when the air is full of magic . . ....
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A cult writer at his best Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for the...
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
Author: David Crystal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation...
Vera Brittain: A Life
Author: Mark Bostridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge. 'Riveting and...
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One
Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we...
The Age of Shakespeare
Author: Sir Frank Kermode Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of Elizabeth's great reign. Here, the circumstances...
Overcoming Anxiety, 2nd Edition: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques
Author: Helen Kennerley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 HIGHLY COMMENDED for the British Medical Awards book prize for Popular Medicine Fully updated edition of the bestselling self-help book, now...
A Plot to Kill: The notorious killing of Peter Farquhar, a story of deception and betrayal that shocked a quiet English town
Author: David Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The true story behind hit BBC drama THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT '[A] real-life Midsomer Murder ... it's chilling, but [David Wilson's] explanation...
Awakenings
Author: Oliver Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays, and...
Rendezvous With Rama
Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass...
The Fountains Of Paradise
Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one...
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Author: Peter Turchin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
Achtung Panzer!
Author: Heinz Guderian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of study since his days on the German General Staff in World War...
Daughters of The Labyrinth
Author: Ruth Padel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times 'A moving, superbly written...
The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 '[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations...
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
Author: John Dickie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street Journal THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020 'This book shows that, despite rumours...
The Collective
Author: Alison Gaylin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Gripping, suspenseful, and dark' - HARLAN COBEN ------------------------------------------------ How far would a mother go to right a wrong? Camille Gardner is...
The Get Things Done Book: 41 Tools to Start, Stick With and Finish Things
Author: Mikael Krogerus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 LEARN THE TECHNIQUES YOU NEED TO STOP PROCRASTINATING AND START GETTING THINGS DONE Every day we begin new projects, or try...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Author: Eric R. Kandel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Neurological and psychiatric disorders have long been regarded as fundamentally different, depending on whether they appear to affect the brain...
The Undercover Economist
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station Why is it impossible to...
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian...
The This
Author: Adam Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of...
SAS Shadow Raiders: The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The incredible story of the radar wars - Britain's most secret battle In the winter of 1941 an alien-seeming object was...
Venus and Aphrodite
Author: Bettany Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Lively' THE TIMES 'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR 'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME 'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE Through ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological...
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal...
Find Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a...
The Mortal Instruments 2: City of Ashes
Author: Cassandra Clare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Second in Cassandra Clare's internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series about the Shadowhunters. Discover more secrets about the Shadowhunters as they fight...
The Man I Think I Know: A feel-good, uplifting story of the most unlikely friendship
Author: Mike Gayle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking and completely charming.' Ruth Hogan 'Mike Gayle is...
The God Delusion
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,...
The Falconer
Author: Dana Czapnik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence.' - Ann Patchett 'An electric debut' - New York Times 'Exhilarating' - Claire...
How Democracies Die
Author: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Donald Drumpf's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy...
Against the Fall of Night
Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see...
A Lost Lady
Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Marian Forrester brings delight to her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; to the small town of Sweet Water where they live;...
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival
Author: Amira Keidar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto by two courageous women. Holocaust Child is an inspirational story of...
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' *...
SEX/LIFE: 44 Chapters About 4 Men: Now a series on Netflix
Author: BB Easton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The inspiration for seasons one and two of the hit Netflix series Sex/Life One woman's secret journal completely changes her marriage...
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: Wayfarers 4
Author: Becky Chambers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES* The stunning finale to the award-winning Wayfarers series...