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"Millions of people want to know the origin of the words they use. Word columns in daily newspapers and numerous books attempt to satisfy their curiosity. Word histories are usually...

This study addresses the question of what makes humans unique, of how sharply we differ from other animals. It begins with evidence on the split of the hominids from the...

Readers are given a sweeping chronicle of this royal and ancient game in a volume that is both an informal history and a collection of interesting anecdotes. The stories on...

One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung...

"In this superbly written book, Ian Tattersall combines his unique knowledge of the human fossil record, Paleolithic archeology, primate behavior, prehistoric art, as well as the workings of the human...

Kurt Ford is shattered by the death of his only sonm, a secret service agent. The offical line is suicide, but Kurt, a retired agent himself, refuses to accept it....

In this haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little...

A collection of Wilde's most charming and well-loved tales, as part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous-...

Disappear into nature with a latter-day Thoreau . . . 'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the...

In the Micronesian Islands, a top-secret US undersea lab vanishes . . . At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere operated by NUMA and overseen by Kurt Austin is...

In an increasingly complex world 'simplicity' is going to be a key value. The pace of change is not going to stop so we have to make a conscious effort...

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The book titled Corrigan by the author Caroline Blackwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Sahibs' War and Other Stories by the author Rudyard Kipling. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Childhood at Alconleigh is scanty preparation for the realities of the outside world and Linda, sweetest and most aimless of the young Radletts, falls prey to a stuffy banker and...

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this tense and unputdownable medical page-turner from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. Incredible medical knowledge...

The book titled Time and Again by the author Jack Finney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling from the very first page' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times One windy spring day in...

'Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not...

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to...

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue. With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life....

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue. When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational...

A farmer finds a corpse floating near the mouth of the Yangtze River. This isn't the first time a body has washed up on his little piece of land. He's...

Charles Darwin's formulation of the theory of evolution with its now commonplace central idea of the 'survival of the fittest' is today - if not fully proven - generally accepted...

In today's ultra-competitive selling environment, where similar prices and products frequently create a level playing field, the decision to buy from one company versus another often comes down to the...

Mysticism can be practical: Good magic gets your house cleaned, creates abundance and helps conjure your own brand of bewitching sexuality. So says Francesca De Grandis in this down-to-earth and...

The specacular happily ever after of the #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has captured the hearts of readers from...

Super 8 meets Friday Night Lights in this smart and action-packed coming-of-age novel from the author of The End Games, T. Michael Martin. Benji's lived his whole life in the...

Gluck was born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895, into the family that founded the Lyons catering empire. She was a rebel. She insisted on her own monosyllabic name. She dressed as...

Left-handedness is a complex psychological and neurological phenomenon. Recent research suggests that left-handed people encounter psychological problems and have a shorter life expectancy, but display greater intelligence and creativity in...

I survived the accident. Now the real nightmare begins... The chilling new psychological thriller by S. K. Tremayne, author of the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller, THE ICE TWINS. How...

The first ever illustrated paperback of part one of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring 19 colour paintings by Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE...

"Petrified Life" tells the stories of the fossil discoveries that unlocked the secrets of the past. Told in the order of discovery, the stories take you on an archaeological journey....

The book titled Izzy, Willy-nilly by the author Cynthia Voigt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A fascinating memoir of a former sociologist/criminologist with over 40 years of experience incriminal justice.Van Groningen s experience includes working as aprison officer, juvenile corrections officer,researcher, policy analyst, lecturer, consultant...

"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...

The book titled Transformers: Retribution by the author David J. Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A guide to successfully marketing your Natural Therapy business.

This is a beautiful guided journal for anyone who shares their life with a dog - and wants to celebrate that bond. Filled with questions and reflections that will help...

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 - now called Acheron - has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of...

From forgotten enclaves to floating islands, from hidden villages to New York gutter spaces, Off the Map charts the hidden corners of our planet. And while these are not necessarily...

Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts of a small group of African would-be emigrants, waiting on the beach in Morocco for a boat that will take them...

The novelist E. M. Forster opens the door on life in a remote Maharajah's court in the early twentieth century, a 'record of a vanished civilization.' Through letters from his...

Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding...

Bored and jaded, Matthew is as well-known for his coldness as for his licentious affairs with beautiful women. While these dalliances fulfil his every physical need, they secretly leave him...