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How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the 'do's' and 'don'ts' of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book offers students...

"No matter what or how you ride, read this book and remind yourself just how enjoyable cycling can and should be."-Eben Weiss, author of The Enlightened Cyclist Just Ride is...

Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero , published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder...

In the summer of 1845, following years of passionate political dispute, New York City at long last formed a Police Department. The potato, a crop that can be trusted to...

In April 1915 Joseph Reavley is serving as chaplain on the Front Line at Ypres. The war that should have been 'over by Christmas' has already decimated the British Expeditionary...

Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is due to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to...

Maggie Tulliver's quick imagination is stifled by the claustrophobic constraints of family life in a provincial town. Her parents suppress her natural intelligence and instead focus on her brother Tom....

From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist. 'It should be read by all' VOGUE 'My father died eleven years ago. I was only...

Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese high school girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to...

The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus side-show masquerading as a collection of short stories. In the title story, the Barnum Museum is a fantastic, monstrous...

DISCOVER THE SECRETS BEHIND MANY EVERYDAY ENIGMAS Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having...

Su Doku is a phenomenon - and just about every national newspaper now carries the puzzles. You don't need to be a mathematical genius as the Su Doku puzzles are...

Annie O'Neill has it all: a cosy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole - a...

In the dead of night, December 1939, a train winds its way through Italy towards the Alps with a cargo too precious to destroy, too awful to reveal. On board...

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'Find where you belong and make that place your own...' Tanner has spent his whole life moving from place to place, belonging nowhere. So when his dying grandmother reveals the...

'Absolutely brilliant ... impossible to put this book down! ... A must read' The Quiet Knitter If the Night Stalker is watching, you're already dead... In the dead of a...

Thomas Chaloner has forged a living as spy to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, since the early days of the Restoration. Now, in February 1664, he is aware...

'Extraordinary. A fabulous read' SIMON SCHAMA 'Wonderful. He writes with eloquence and wit' NICHOLAS HYTNER 'Fascinating' EIMEAR McBRIDE Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors....

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Newport during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living...

This is a new and frightening insight into Japanese atrocities in the Second World War. The horrific conditions aboard hellships at sea are revealed including the torture, disease and massacre...

The latest volume in the series covering the final days of the war on the Western Front from the Allied Armies being poised to capture the Hindenburg Line to the...

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Written by best-selling railway author and "Antiques Roadshow" expert, Paul Atterbury and introduction by well-known BBC TV presenter, author, photographer and historian Adam Hart-Davis, this book explores the closed lines...

The winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. An army intelligence captain is to be court-martialled for having kidnapped and set free a Viet Cong officer. This forces him...

Thirty thousand American GI's were killed or wounded in the longest battle ever fought by the US Army - a battle that has been ignored for more than 40 years....

The definitive study, in words and pictures, of the Queen Mother. From her happy childhood, through her marriage to the Duke of York and his accession as King George VI,...

The book titled Without Trace: The Last Voyages of Eight Ships by the author John Harris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of...

Thea Osborne embarks on her second house - sitting commission with very few worries. The Phillipses are obviously a laid back family. But she soon finds herself in the centre...

When Juno Browne purchased a car for her lover, Daniel Thorncroft, she was not expecting that the previous owner would lock a dead body in the boot. Who the dead...

'Delightful and informative ... packed with knowledge and information, but conveyed with such a lightness of touch' YOTAM OTTOLENGHI 'The books I value most are those I return to again...

In this beautiful, smaller format edition of the award-winning Big Fat Duck Cookbook , we hear the full story of the meteoric rise of Heston Blumenthal and The Fat Duck,...

Henry Stanfield is pleased with his new title: 'Truth Commissioner' has a pleasing ring to it. But his neutrality, as the product of an Irish Catholic mother and an English...

Susannah Misselthwaite was gazing up at the brightness of the blue sky when the deer leapt in front of the car. She never knew what happened. Her husband Guy, Professor...

One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly, he becomes a...

Promise Whittaker is the diminutive, cartoon-voiced acting director of the National Museum of Asian Art. Her mentor, the previous director, is now lost in the Taklamakan desert. Her favourite curator...

It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But Frank's behaviour is so odd...

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"Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?", asks Lauren Slater in this book about love. Slater, career-oriented and wilfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process...

The bewitching classic children's novel by Neil Gaiman, featuring spellbinding illustrations from Chris Riddell and an exclusive new introduction by the author 'I was enthralled ... a marvellously strange and...