New Arrivals - Secondhand

A book featuring the wide-ranging work of internationally renowned Mexican graphic designer, illustrator, poet and artist Alejandro Magallanes, including posters, book illustrations, and works of art, as well as the...

The Fragile Feast was born of a creative collaboration between the artist and photographer Hannah Collins (*1956 in London) and Catalan star chef Ferran Adria and offers scintillating insight into...

Just as there are responsible drinkers and alcoholics, there are those who can moderate their cannabis use and those who cannot. If you are struggling to quit and you want...

Groundbreaking call to action by Donella Meadows, the bestselling author of Thinking in Systems ! Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse the Guardian The updated...

This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's...

With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank exposes how, in the last few decades, the American Left has made an unprecedented shift away...

Written with Fallada's distinctive power and vividness, Nightmare in Berlin captures the demoralised and desperate atmosphere of post-war Germany in a way that has never been matched or surpassed. Available...

It's late 1938. Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advertising company. In Leningrad, twenty-two-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on...

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and to delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan...

The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall...

In August, 2008, Facebook signed up its 100 millionth user. Eight months later its 200 millionth user signed up. Today it is closing in on 250 million users. This phenomenal...

In this powerful, personal and very readable analysis of the world's dire ecological crisis, Herve Kempf deftly illuminates the links between global ecology and the global economy. Drawing on a...

Mid-twentieth-century capitalism has turned into global capitalism, and global capitalism - turbocharged, Web-based, and able to find and make almost anything just about anywhere - has turned into supercapitalism. But...

The imaginative and refreshingly original debut short story collection by the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here In Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit...

A stunning debut novel follows a young woman, searching for her missing sister, as she is drawn into a world of escorts and prostitutionFiona works for a construction company in...

It is a brand new, terrifying 'tragedy of the commons' - the world carved up the benefit the few. Whole countries have been snatched from under the feet of native...

Ciaran O Nuallain's memoir of his brother Brian O'Nolan (1991-66), the only major source on the early life of the man who later achieved literary fame as Flann O'Brien and...

The international bestselling author shares "a compelling, devastating, and ultimately profoundly hopeful" guide to navigating our global future (Van Jones, Executive Director, The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights). David...

When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest....

There is a deep chasm between the promises of the new global capitalism and the reality of social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction it is leaving in its wake....

Volcanoes of Auckland is the definitive guide to Auckland's fiery natural world featuring an accessible introduction to the science of eruptions, volcanic cones, lava and ash; a history of Maori...

Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has long been legendary for its profundity and acerbic wit. In The Hall of Uselessness his most significant essays are finally gathered together, on...

A hip and entertaining book on famous and forgotten celluloid heroes: Patti Smith on Jeanne Moreau Malu Halasa on Robert Carlyle Ginny Dougary on Liz Taylor Greil Marcus on J.T....

Between the entry of the US and the end of the Second World War in Europe, the three huge Cunard liners Aquitania, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth carried a million...

Prof. Barlow's fine biography, based on the original sources and informed by the most recent scholarship, provides a compeling interpretation of the life of Becket- worldly courtier, zealous prelate and...

Set aside your preconceptions of postcard scenery, chocolate and cheese, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is anything but bland. This small, rugged, landlocked country at the heart...

The Aeneid is a journey of Aeneas, a survivor of the siege of Troy. The themes within this classic work include piety, respect, destiny, war and peace. The city of...

Count Dracula has been spreading evil and terror to the far corners of the globe for 100 years. But how will the Prince of Vampires fare in the new millenium?...

Warren Harris's lively biography not only reveals details of his private life such as his two illegitimate children and a clandestine fourth marriage - it also describes an incredibly long,...

Argues that new technologies are allowing pornography to emerge from the shadows as an acceptable form of popular entertainment. A mix of reportage, interviews and critical analysis, the text takes...

In this searing and entertaining indictment of the super-rich, Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks challenge the idea that today's cavernous income inequality is the result of merit, and reveal how...

Interest in renewable energy has never been greater, but much uncertainty remains as to the role the various technologies will play in the transition to a low-carbon future. This book...

The neoliberalism that has dominated economic thinking since Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan first came to power is now seen to have serious flaws, and 'Progressive Capitalism' seeks to replace...

This beautiful volume brings together 31 of the best-known tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, including 'Rapunzel', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White'. Brian Alderson's translation stays faithful to the...

The Rough Guide to the Energy Crisis is a comprehensive guide to the workings of today's energy world, explaining the seductive nature of fossil fuels and the reasons why international...

The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own...

When Jamie Hall finds a boy tied to a tree and cuts him loose, she can have no idea of the desperate chain of events her act of humanity will...

'Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys...

One of the Hollywood greats, Gary Cooper will always be known for his part in classic films like High Noon, A Farewell to Arms, The Fountainhead and Beau Geste. He...

Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the most dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth and...

War Paint is the story of two remarkable women - Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein. Between them they left an extraordinary legacy which touches the lives of virtually...

Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote :great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a- half...

How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the...

Chesterton is so good on Dickens because his wit is as sharp as that of the Great Inimitable himself: "Dickens was most accurate when he was most fantastic. . ....

With a word of warning to those of nervous a disposition, Wordsworth presents this spellbinding collection of chilling Celtic tales of the macabre, all drawn from the rich and varied...