Non-Secondhand Books

The sound of Maria Callas, artist and woman. Maria Callas was one of the most influential and renowned opera singers of the 20th century. Callas 100 recounts the diva's unparalleled...

This hands-on guide empowers individuals of all backgrounds to cultivate effective habits for enhancing creativity. Today, leaders and employees are expected to demonstrate increased creativity in their work. However, many...

When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design....

Many contemporary societal issues have grown to be too complex to solve with traditional approaches. It is no wonder that design practices increasingly appeal to public organisations as a new...

You are negotiating every day, whether it s with business partners, colleagues, in the community or at home. The challenge isn t to get as much for yourself as you...

This book is not so much about cooking and recipes, but more about creating an amazing eating experience. The author is the Creative Chef who turns every meal into a...

This book provides valuable insights for CEOs, as well as financial, commercial, and marketing directors/managers, business owners, startups, and students. Businesses are on the lookout for the one methodology that...

Where can a hospital apply principles from the airline sector? How can a car manufacturer use tools from the video game industry? What can an event organiser learn from the...

This first illustrated book in English about the work of Yeh Shih-Chiang, one of Taiwan's most reclusive and enigmatic artists, is groundbreaking, timely, and pioneering. This remarkable volume presents the...

Devoted to the celebrated Uzbek artist Bakhodir Jalal, this book showcases his most important works over four decades and represents a milestone in his creative journey. A master painter and...

Join the Vikings - On Raid contains 16 fascinating accounts of Viking exploits during the early Viking Age. Here you can read about the Viking chieftain Ragnar's raid on Paris,...

Age range 3 to 7 A picture book about making oneself heard, and taking care of our environment. Whisper is a quiet dragon who notices everything. When he sees that...

Age range 3+ Being able to buy fruit is something we take for granted, but what if we had to grow our own? A little girl helps Granny Pip as...

Age range 3 to 6 A girl follows Polly the worker bee collecting pollen and nectar from various flowers, and bringing it back to the hive where it is stored...

Age range 3+ A child follows a day in the life of Milly the cow, as she munches grass with her friends, drinks gallons of water, makes cow pats in...

Age range 9+ A dazzling collection of poems from an emerging poet, illustrated by Chris Riddell Scottish poet Simon Lamb delivers a debut collection for children of fifty luminous poems,...

Age range 3+ Albie arrived wearing NOTHING but fur, he could have been either a Him or Her...Most teddy bears let their owner decide, but Albie would not, for a...

Age range 3 to 6 Award-winning artist Satoshi Kitamura delivers the powerful message that kindness is more important than money. Nominated for the Greenaway Medal 2021. Celebrate the power of...

Age range 3 to 6 Get ready for your first day at nursery school with this exuberant little girl! MJ is more than ready for her first day of school!...

Age range 3 to 6 When Abigail can't concentrate in class, she gets bored and does naughty things! Abigail is sent to the cooling down room. Then she has a...

Age range 3 to 6 There once was a slug needing someone to hug. Along came a beetle, a lonely ol' bug. "You need a hug? I have one," said...

Age range 3 to 6 Rabbit and his dad are going to the park, but will they ever be ready to leave the house? Everyone has experienced the planning of...

Age range 3 to 6 'A welcome re-issue of a book first published in the 1980s.' - English Association It's a dark and stormy night and Toby cannot sleep. The...

Age range 3 to 6 An adorable count-down book by household name, Ruth Brown Ten little dogs, sitting in a line, One chased a butterfly And then there were.... nine....

Age range 3 to 6 Explore nature through evocative riddles and bold imagery that take the reader from day to night and back again. Who scribbles on the sidewalk with...

Age range 3 to 6 No visit to an art gallery can rival this one! Tom visits a very special exhibition where each picture features a cat. One by one,...

Age range 3 to 6 An upbeat story about a confident little boy who takes pride in his first day of nursery. Starting kindergarten is a big milestone - and...

Age range 3 to 6 First in a series of stories which encourage young children to enjoy and appreciate the natural world. A little boy is alarmed when he discovers...

After leaving the man with whom she'd been living, an unnamed protagonist in an unnamed university city is working unspectacularly on the poet Paul Celan. The abiding feeling in the...

Aromatic, refreshing, delicious and a feast for the eyes, the generously-sized and creatively garnished 'gin tonica' Spanish-style drink is taking the cocktail world by storm. Spaniards love their gin and...

An innovative, captivating tour of the finest whiskies the world has to offer, brought to you by bestselling author and whisky connoisseur Tristan Stephenson. Tristan explores the origins of whisky,...

Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy, recently widowed, is a cook and food journalist; Joanna, a successful business woman, never married; Rebecca is...

Dotty and Dash are off on a quest, to discover the number they like the best. Help Dotty and Dash to choose their favourite numbers between 1 and 100 in...

The perfect guide for dog owners who want to keep their pets occupied both indoors and outside. Do you like playing games with your dog? Here is the indoor and...

Discover lots of different shapes with Bear - there are triangles on the waves, diamonds on the crown and stars in the sky. Rhyme, repetition and counting establish this book...

The eggs are ready to HATCH! Learn all about animals that come from eggs and use the clever peek-through holes to watch them hatch into life.

It's Bear's birthday today! Join best friends Bear and Mouse for a full day of adventures! With interactive sliders and flaps to lift.

Ladybird scuttles and ladybird scurries, Ladybird hastens and ladybird hurries. Join a little ladybird as she explores the countryside and waits for winter. Full of facts, flaps and fantastic illustrations,...

Shop, cook and eat gluten-free on a budget with over 100 simple, flavoursome recipes. By using fresh, cost-conscious ingredients, making the most of ever-affordable pantry staples and sharing practical, easy-to-follow...

Capturing the views of over 300 business leaders on the common causes of digital transformation failure, this book sets out an actionable framework to help organisations of all sizes to...

Letters have been here all along, quietly influencing countless people in profound ways. They encourage, they bring happiness, while to some they even provide the will to keep on living....

Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an unpredictable private detective after he finds himself on the outs from his...

In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the...

'Mesmerising... the work of a writer possessed of a rare power and vision' - Daily Telegraph One evening, Gillis - a young Scottish minister who technically doesn't believe in god...

Miss Cassidy is no ordinary governess. She can tutor the most wayward child, tell stories in multiple languages and fix any household crisis. But she also deals with problems of...

Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so...

A clear and simple book to explain about body changes and sex for kids who haven't quite hit puberty yet. This is a brand-new edition, with new content and all-new...

'A fable becoming reality of a woman becoming herself: Tehila Hakimi's Hunting in America just purely bangs' Joshua Cohen An Israeli woman relocates to America on assignment from her tech...