Second-hand Books

The book that inspired the hit Freeform series, b y the New York Times -bestselling author of In Five Years. When Paige Townsen gets plucked from high school obscurity to...

Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. This reference work aims to represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing...

This collection of readings shows how cognitive science can influence most of the primary branches of philosophy, as well as how philosophy critically examines the foundations of cognitive science. Its...

DK's true-crime series voyages into the murky world of conspiracies and conspiracy theories Enter a hidden world of mysteries, scandals, secrets, and lies Perhaps it is human nature to believe...

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. i> fter his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to...

The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. It s a dream, a club where no one is more equal...

Meet the Hunter family- Adam, a teacher, his wife Kate, and their children Hal, 17 and Charlotte 13. And Prince their black Labrador. It's Prince who is the narrator and...

This study of Australian society, examines the changing values, beliefs and perceptions of Australians, and how these are changing Australia. Based on qualitative research conducted by the Mackay research organization,...

Gathers poems about tickling, fathers, brothers and sisters, spankings, dragons, friends, teachers, anger, bedtime, and pets.

This updated edition maintains an extensive coverage of literary and historical quotations, and contains completely up-to-date material. The book contains over 9000 quotations from nearly 2000 authors and includes quotations...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. In this edition...

This text offers effective, nonviolent options for dealing with the most common concerns of parents of preschoolers. Written in a friendly, positive manner, it offers practical solutions to misbehaviour and...

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...

Political satire as deeper truth- Donald Trump's presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally. 'I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody...

Downtown, wartime Auckland. Victoria Park is swamped by a vast American military camp and Ponsonby Road is a sometimes wild place of bars, drunken soldiers and brothels. Peter Sokel is...

Sleep is no longer a problem for Tom. His murderous alter ego, Tyler Garrett, has invaded his waking life, filling his mind with haunting memories and violent impulses. As Tom...

A funny, bittersweet and irresisitible teenage romance, perfect for fans of Gayle Forman's If I Stay, Jenny Downham's Before I Die or Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall A funny, bittersweet...

Boy: Tales of Childhood is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood. Including takes of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot - the inspiration...

A hilariously funny book containing hundreds of jokes on every subject under the sun, as well as the favourite jokes of famous celebrities. All royalties will be going to the...

This is the fourth and last book about the March family. Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, there is now a college, built with a legacy from...

First published in the 1940s, the story of Gobbolino the witch's cat with one white paw and bright blue eyes, has been delighting generations of young readers. It's the charming...

Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its...

A unique cricket fiction series with added extras - reissued with striking new covers and a new look! GLORY GARDENS C.C. are now in the North County Under Thirteen League,...

A unique cricket fiction series with added extras - reissued with striking new covers and a new look! Hooker, Azzie, Erica and the rest all play cricket in their spare...

At last. At last this very important book has been written... I t will empower legions of women to step into their greatness .' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT, PRAY,...

With a sudden jerk, squealing of brakes and a loud puff of the steam engine, the train shunted forward ... I stared out the window as we slowly pulled out...

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR , The Washington Post , and Financial Times "No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more...

An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay...

The most valued workers today are what the economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class, skilled individuals ranging from money managers to make-up artists, software programmers to steady-cam operators who...

Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary,...

Two girls with two very different lives come together in this beautiful and moving story of friendship and family, by a major new voice in girls' fiction. Meet Maya. She...

There's little room in this world for a moral man Meet Early "Trenchmouth" Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His...

The sparkling new novel from the author of SHINE and GLITTER. "We talk about everything, Dad and me. About all the mysteries inside of us. About all our wonderings of...

Inspiring and powerful true stories of communication with beings from the Afterlife from one of the country's most successful and sought after psychics. Includes amazing accounts of guardian angel interventions,...

A rich, magical saga, set in eighteenth-century China, which will appeal to fans of Joanne Harris and Amy Tan. In The Secrets of Jin-Shei, eight women pledge themselves as sisters...

A book about growing up and being young, about sex and love and rock and roll, about the dreams of youth colliding head-on with the grown-up world. Sometimes you can...

A border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg...

A forced wedding in a freezing country church, where the only sound is the bride's tears: so starts Mary Bicknor's life of misery with the brutish Easter Probert, groom to...

Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie is on any list of the all-time top ten books on the game. The stories it contains, originally published in the 1960s in Bridge...