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In this "excellent survey of earthquakes and their effects-their mystery, terror, and science" (Christopher Arnold, president, Building Systems Development), two of the world's premier structural engineers take readers on a...

To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov's writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven...

In 1911, Dr Ernst Stromer led an expedition to Egypt's Bahariya Oasis in the Sahara and discovered four new species of dinosaurs, including the tyrannosaurus rex - sized predator Spinosaurus....

The oldest profession continues to flourish, on the streets and in brothels and bedsits, expensive hotels and suburban semis. This is an investigation - neither sentimentalized not glamorized - into...

The Sunday Times bestselling author concludes her compelling Lost Bride trilogy as two women - one dead, one alive - prepare for a terrifying final showdown... Long ago, Arthur Poole...

The book titled Journeys to the Underworld by the author Fiona Pitt-Kethley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

HISTORY HAPPENED WHILE YOU WERE HUNGOVER When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. If you're living...

Imagine if your dad painted pictures of nude women who looked like your mum, and your younger brother liked homework (and experimenting with your bra in the garden). Amaryllis has...

impoverished as our present sense of the past.

This cultural history extends to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological and emotional dimensions of the primary colours. Using poetry, song, fable, opinion, literary criticism,...

This text concerns the evolution of language. It follows the first "modern" humans who developed language and so produced the ability to express complex and abstract thought. The book argues...

This is a book about simple but important words, and how they shed light on the way the human mind works. The author, winner of the National Book Award, examines...

"What if?" questions have always stimulated people to think in new ways. "What if the Earth Had Two Moons" leads us on a fascinating 10 world journey exploring what the...

The much awaited latest installment in this New York Times bestselling series brings Marcus Didius Falco back to the city of Rome and its deadly, convoluted intrigues In the high...

Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic...

Fascinated by depravity and unpredictability, horrified by the prospect of family life, Graham Greene's travels took him to some of the most neglected and dangerous parts of the world. Julia...

MORE THAN 100,000 COPIES SOLD! New York Times bestselling author Rachel Macy Stafford shares simple words of daily inspiration in this unique, seasonal devotional to help you find new and...

Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of "One Thousand and One Nights" tell of the real and the...

A page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido-from one of the most gifted American writers of the...

From the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, and civil rights to jazz, blues and country music, Nat Hentoff has written about American life for decades, in the Atlantic Monthly...

The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to...

The year is 1626 and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the war in Flanders. He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core,...

A man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle....

Written with the same clarity, directness, and humor that have made Simon LeVay one of the most popular lecturers at Harvard Medical School and at the University of California, San...

Our planet's resources are running out. And in the race for global resources, China is way out in front. Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with...

This is an another exciting novel by China Mieville. On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt. The giant...

Twenty-five stories are contained in this text, beginning with the search for an alchemist's secret, and ending with the re-imagination of a past world. Each is connected to a remote...

The book titled Dinosaur in a Haystack by the author Stephen Jay Gould. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1856, the disovery of the remains of Neandertal Man in a Swiss mountain valley forced scientists to face what Thomas Huxley called "The question of questions". What precisely was...

The book titled Driving Passion by the author Peter Marsh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize ...' No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes...

'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended' The fragility...

Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self. Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled 'An Island Tale', it tells...

What do road and railway systems, electrical circuits, mingling at parties, mazes, family trees, and the internet all have in common? All are networks - either people or places or...

The Great Auk is one of the world's most famous extinct birds. It was undoubtedly a most curious creature: a flightless bird with tiny wings, it stood upright like a...

This comprehensive work explores the broad question of how the English courts dealt with crime in the period during which the foundations of modern forms of judicial administration were being...

This book, first published in 1982, is now reissued with a foreword by David Attenborough. The author of 'Garden Jungle', and columnist for the 'Sydney Morning Herald', presents a collection...

Insects are the forgotten members of Australia's rich and diverse fauna. Few people can recognise more than a few common groups and species, yet there are more insect species that...

This book is a guide to the invertebrate orders known to occur on land in Australia. A series of illustrated keys allows the reader to identify invertebrates to the order...

Hurley here revives a classical idea about rationality in a modern framework, by developing analogies between the structure of personality and the structure of society in the context of contemporary...

Collected here in a single volume "On Liberty", "Utilitarianism", "Considerations on Representative Government", and "The Subjection of Women" show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues...

Although best known for his collection of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal , Baudelaire was also a gifted and inventive prose writer. In combining certain of the restrictions of poetic...

This wide-ranging dictionary of earth sciences has been compiled with the help of a team of specialist contributors, and has been substantially revised and updated for this new edition. It...

When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded in hospital and carefully removes his bandages, he realises he is one of the few who can see; almost everyone else has been blinded by...