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A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in twentieth-century Britain -...

The text of this volume comprises the Chichele Lectures of 1986 on the architectural history of All Souls College. Beginning with a discussion of the college's foundation by Archbishop Chichele...

As a royal capital, Westminster was unique: a small town, characterized by a complex economy and society, but lacking legal incorporation. Gervase Rosser examines the nature of the urban community....

What is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril...

Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic of twentieth-century British composers. He was by turns a sensitive songwriter of remarkable genius, a witty and caustic...

This book offers a new perspective on the pioneer settlement experience of colonial Victoria by examining the ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs...

Australia has an enormously rich heritage of gardens and gardening and there has never before been a reference work of this scale with this diversity covering this wide-ranging subject. Ten...

This book is intended for professional and amateur ornithologists; naturalists; bush-walkers; conservationists; tourists.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), the author of the classic novel for children, Anne of Green Gables , kept extensive journals for most of her life, beginning them in 1889 when...

This book traces methods of Egyptian stone construction during the pharaonic period, from the construction of the step pyramids at Saqqara to the obelisks of Tuthmosis III to the temples...

The book titled In Search of the Human Mind by the author Robert J. Sternberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Aphra Behn Connolly has the type of life most teenage girls envy. She lives on a remote tropical island and spends most of her time eavesdropping on the rich and...

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans....

Pevsner dedicated his original volume, on the Cities of London & Westminster, to the nights spent fire watching from Birkbeck College. Simon Bradley's revised volume, on the City alone, examines...

An architectural guide that encompasses three centuries of metropolitan growth, spanning an area from Georgian St Marylebone and the riverside terraces of Chelsea and Chiswick to Heathrow Airport and the...

In the only novel Conrad set in London, "The Secret Agent" communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory...

A collection of Elizabeth David's short pieces on food and wine.

Penguin Classics relaunch. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here...

When her aunt marries the forbidding Mr Tyrell, Frances is introduced to the mysterious temple, with its strange, fanatical beliefs. At first she trustingly accepts her aunt's new life, and...

The book titled The Boy Who Loved Chocolate: And Other Stories by the author Dianne Bates. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I...

The book titled Body Language in the Workplace by the author Julius Fast. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This legend tells of Huma, fabled hero of the Lance - his mysterious origins, his Oath to the Measure, treachery among the Knights of Solamnia, his love for Silver Dragon,...

The book titled Living Places: Twenty Houses by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture by the author Charles Jencks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Social BOOM! addresses every aspect of social media, including the business periphery (blog, personal website, e-zine) that you need in order to create the real law of attraction. When you...

For undergraduate-level courses in Adulthood and Adult Development and Aging. This best-selling text studies aspects of growth and development from young adulthood to old age, and the impact cultural, gender,...

Since 1969, the Redundant Churches Fund has saved over 250 churches from ruin. The fund's preservations include a 13th-century wall painting at Moulton, 17th-century woodwork at St John the Evangelist,...

The book titled The Age of Unreason by the author Charles B. Handy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The thrilling, bloody and glorious new novel, from the master of the epic tale, Tim Willocks, author of The Religion The thrilling, bloody and glorious new novel, from the master...

Centenary of Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole. This is 'the most gripping story of polar exploration ever written' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR RANULPH...

The book titled Blindsighted by the author Hinkler Pty Ltd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Deja Dead by the author Kathy Reichs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The acclaimed sequel, authorised by Mario Puzo's Estate, to the bestselling The Godfather. 'The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete,' begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's...

AS DAWN BREAKS EAST OF BOSTON, A TIMEBOMB LIES WAITING TO EXPLODE A misplaced comma, or a billion dollar fraud? An innocent man caught in the headlights of coincidence -...

The book titled Treasures of Chatsworth: A Private View by the author The Duchess of Devonshire. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Mark Cavendish knows all about the exhilaration, speed and pure mayhem of the Tour de France. Written off as fat and useless in his youth, now aged 23 Cavendish has...

Jason Hawkes is a photographer with an exceptional talent for the difficult art of aerial photography. Here he captures the essence of London's ever-changing skyline in over 150 stunning colour...

Book Three of Kate Forsyth's spellbinding Witches of Eileanan series Lachlan the Winged now holds the Lodestar and is Righ of Eileanan. But his battle to gain the throne is...

The book titled Wildfire by the author Geason S. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Discover the nine keys that can unlock your pathway to dramatic healing.Kelly Turner, Ph.D., a researcher and psychotherapist who specializes in integrative oncology, gives the reader the results of her...

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers....

Lois Greiman's talent for historical romance has never shone brighter than in this tale of mistaken identity, hidden agendas, and a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

She thought she was the luckiest woman in London . . . Surviving on a seamstress' income and a steady stream of fantasies, Prudence Bosworth has always longed for love...