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A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable...

Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs. The 1990s were tough times for the...

A new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron. In Space and Time under Persecution , Guy Miron considers...

A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised...

The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism's most insidious seeds. Though you may not know his name, Robert...

A counterintuitive and compelling argument that existing laws already protect the entirety of our oceans-and a call to understand and enforce those protections. The world's oceans face multiple threats: the...

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes,...

A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors , a controversial nonexistent medieval book. Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239,...

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the...

A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev. There is a literal Russian landscape, and there is...

All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well is the story of Burt Hecker, a sixty-three-year-old medieval re-enactor (he dresses in...

When Lady in the Dark opened on January 23, 1941, its many firsts immediately distinguished it as a new and unusual work. The curious directive to playwright Moss Hart to...

Here's a wide-ranging survey of mechanical and technological history that offers more than dates and facts. The evolution ofinvention takes center stage here. The authors believe that how society came...

In April 1987 the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) issued the report "Our Common Future", which pointed out that the world could no longer afford to think of...

A gripping new novel from one of our leading writers. A compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family. Up on the highway, the only evidence...

The basis for the Emmy-nominated " instantly gripping" ( Washington Post ) anthology series on USA starring Jessica Biel, The Sinner is an internationally bestselling psychological thriller surrounding an unexplained...

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it It is only in the last...

Who or what is Endymion Spring? A power for good, or for evil . . . A legendary book that holds the secret to a world of knowledge . ....

The highly anticipated final volume in the Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy In this gripping tale of passion, politics and conflict, King Henry II finds himself brutally betrayed...

A triumphant return to form - one of Barbara Vine's best novels to date It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing- between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three...

The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day. It's only when we're asked who smart Alec or Holy Moly were, where...

The AK-47, or 'Kalashnikov', is the most abundant and efficient firearm on earth. It is so light it can be used by children. It has transformed the way we fight...

The book titled Believe & Achieve & You Can Do by the author Paul Hanna. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The memoirs of the actor Sir Alec Guinness. The book includes pen portraits of such characters as Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike and John Gielgud, as well as accounts of Guinness's...

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Brian MacArthur brings together the words of over a hundred men and women - from Moses to Mandela - who changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory....

Hemingway's classic novel about smuggling, intrigue and love, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms. Harry Morgan was hard - the classic Hemingway hero - rum-running, gun-running...

The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in...

A dazzling novel telling the history of Singapore through the moving stories of three families whose lives become intertwined. Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix....

The memoirs of Tony Blair - a worldwide publishing sensation In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen...

The book titled Margot: Life of Margot Asquith by the author Daphne Bennett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

With the insight only a novelist can provide, A. S. Byatt vividly conjures into being the world of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship...

Famously, Jane Austen created a fictional universe from 'three or four families in a country village'. In this remarkable first novel James Fleming achieves something very similar- out of the...

SOMETIMES LIFE CAN SEEM UNFAIR. YOU WORK HARD, YOU DO YOUR BEST -BUT NOTHING SEEMS TO CHANGE. AND YET THERE ARE OTHERS WHO, WITH THE EFFORTLESS EASE OF ANGELS, ALWAYS...

When did your sexual experiences start? Are you having more virtual sex than real sex? Can you have too much or not enough sex? What exactly is 'normal'?Bestselling author and...

"Against Gravity" is a wonderfully quirky but seriously written comedy, in the ancient Greek sense of a revel through reality with a happy outcome. Drawing it's characters from the upper...

Is spelling still important in the age of spellcheckers? Ask Dan Quayle Part guide to better spelling, part paean to an endangered art, Eyes Before Ease is filled with fascinating...

Start your journey to flourishing with wisdom from nature. With the same soothing and sage insights from his beloved online channels where he is known as Garden Marcus, Marcus Bridgewater...

A divinity scholar at Wittenberg University, Horatio prides himself on his ability to argue both sides of any intellectual debate but is himself a skeptic, never fully believing in any...

In the ninth century b.c., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the prophets who refuse to worship the pagan god Baal. Commanded by an angel of God...

The book titled Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life by the author Jillian Michaels. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder by the author Tony Hawk. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Tender and thrilling it's Yuzuki at her best' ELLE 'Deliciously satisfying' iPAPER 'I couldn't stop reading' COSTANZA CASATI 'Fantastically dark' ERIN KELLY The unsettling new novel of friendship and dangerous...

The number 1 German dictionary for GCSE success. Fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE study and examinations. An easy-reference German to English and English to German dictionary...

The number 1 French dictionary for GCSE success. Fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE study and examinations. An easy-reference French to English and English to French dictionary...

Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Comedy Award in 2025 'Cosy, fun and delicious - a book to devour in one sitting' Emily Stone, author of Always, In December 'A base...

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