Second-hand Books

Imagine if every manager in your organisation spent five minutes each day genuinely connecting with their teams. A year from now, how might things be different? Most people and culture...

Stray Feathers showcases some of the remarkable adaptations of Australian birds. A brief introduction describes how evolution shapes form and function, followed by a series of vignettes illustrating the wondrous...

Stuart Ross McCallum shares a true account of his battle with epilepsy-beginning with the peculiar sensations he experienced as a teenager that led to his diagnosis and concluding with his...

New cover reissue of Book Two of the classic ELENIUM trilogy, by the greatest living fantasy writer. The quest for the jewel of life continues. Ehlana, the young Queen of...

The enthralling sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's universally loved novels, A Woman of Substance and Hold The Dream. Set in Yorkshire, Hong Kong and America, this remarkable novel continues the...

A parole officer in her first month on the job. A convicted murderer. What could go wrong? When she starts her new job as a parole officer, Krissie is happy...

India, 1920: exotic, glamorous and wrenching away from Britain's colonial grip, only to be thrown into religious violence and terrorism. Isabel, a young woman in search of herself and in...

Malika Oufkir has been a prisoner for virtually her whole life. Born to a proud family in 1953, daughter of the King of Morocco's aide, Malika was adopted by Mohammed...

The breath-taking story of a mother's love and a son's gift... Johnny Peterson could light up a room with a word or a smile. He had a future filled with...

In "Bravo Two Zero", Andy McNab gave an account of his experiences as commander of an SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq. Now he tells the story of his...

There's a new kitten in the house, and Noodles is afraid she's going to get all of the attention. He doesn't think the family needs a new pet--especially one who...

Against Remembrance will give you pause for thought- maybe forgetting is the greatest blessing we have. In Against Remembrance, David Rieff provocatively argues that the business of remembrance, particularly of...

Ballarat was not a typical goldfield. The lava flows that created the fertile Western District of Victoria helped to bury the original streams and reefs so that there was little...

A major reading scheme for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years. The Best Present Ever is a charming short story which focuses on...

The Atlas of Interpersonal Situations provides a systematic theoretical account for understanding the impact of situations on patterns of social interaction. Structured around descriptions of twenty-one of the most common...

This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author...

America's best-known master of conversation unveils his secrets for getting the talk flowing smoothly in any situation. "Communication is a necessary skill- Larry King is a master of communication, and...

The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French...

Once upon a time, grown-ups ruled the roost with such absolute edicts as: Children should be seen and not heard... Spare the rod and spoil the chlid... Don't leave the...

This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it,...

They were three women who dared to make it in a man's world. Madeleine Arsenault has prepared for this moment all her life. Grief for her father is second only...

Rape and murder aren't new to the Deep South, but when the body of a popular high school girl is found dumped in the local river, the whole town of...

A precocious child of the 1970s feels stifled by her dull life in a small English seaside town. The only glamour in her world is Fanny Cradock's weekly TV cookery...

Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a...

The third novel in his amazing imaginative sequence focused on the fabulous city of New Crobuzon and its very special world It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict...

Fran and Francesca have been friends forever but now Francesca's morphing into someone super-sophisticated. She's hanging out with the cool crowd, including school pin-up Quinn Adams (though she's most definitely...

Alexander Kinloch found solitude and a steady income painting in a bothy on a remote Scottish mountain. Until the morning the strangers arrived to rough him up, and Alexander was...

A thriller featuring Tweed of the SIS, as he battles to discover which one of his European sector chiefs is a traitor. Other work by the author includes The Stone...

Is Bonaparte's Gull named after Napoleon Bonaparte? Is the Pallas' Sandgrouse named for the same individual as the Pallas' Warbler? This entertaining book provides for the first time a mini-biography...

In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualist, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the emergence of complex biological systems over time. Peter...

A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim...

Triumphant over Napoleon at Waterloo, idolized by his men, Wellington was one of the greatest commanders in history. Yet he achieved his victories despite impossible obstacles, not least George III's...

The prosecutor - Julia Valenciano. Young, ambitious and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant - David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The...

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