Second-hand Books

When Magaly learns that Abuela has made ropa vieja (old clothes!) for dinner, she tries to hide her clothes before her family eats them up. Magaly enjoys the yummy Cuban...

Mike Hellawell made over 170 appearances for Birmingham City in the 1950's & 60's including scoring in the InterCitys fairs cup 1961 final against Roma. He also played topflight football...

Jakarta Undercover features: sex-for-sale in chauffeur-driven SUVs, sashimi sex, desperate housewives, scissorless barbershops, nude casinos and many other bizarre offerings of the flesh. When it comes to providing unlimited sexual...

As President of Maxxis International for more than 20 years, Dr. Wally Chen has guided this multi-billion dollar corporation to a position as one of the world's top ten tire...

The search for answers bring the Elric brothers to the residence of renowned Alchemist, Shou Tucker - the 'Sewing-Life Alchemist' - famous for his experiment that produced a chimera that...

This volume presents the work of 42 artists from Australia and includes paintings, drawings, prints, mixed-media, glass and sculpture. Two works by each artist are featured in colour, with a...

Where are the 5 best places to eat like a Portuguese? Which are the 5 best restaurants for Petiscos? Where can you find the nicest salons and barber shops? Which...

In The 500 Hidden Secrets of Stockholm Antonia af Petersens shares 500 must-visit places in her hometown, as well as good-to-know facts. SELLING POINTS: . An insider's guide to Stockholm...

An affectionate city guide to Bangkok, written by a local, tracking down the city's best-kept secrets. In The 500 Hidden Secrets of Bangkok Dave Stamboulis shares his favourite places in...

Instagram is more popular than ever before. Over 80 million new photos are posted daily on this social networking site. How to pick the very best of them? We have...

GETTING RICH IS NOT JUST ABOUT LUCK; HAPPINESS IS NOT JUST A TRAIT WE ARE BORN WITH. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy...

The Farming the City project began in November 2010 as an initiative of the Amsterdam-based organization CITIES, bringing city dwellers and urban farmers together to explore inspirational ways of producing,...

The stars and their movements have always captivated the human imagination. In all cultures, people have studied the sky to learn about the complicated relationships between celestial bodies and terrestrial...

Some novels are considered classics of children literature, read by numerous generations of young readers who made them immortal. That is the case with Around the World in Eighty Days...

Three little fairy friends live in the middle of the woods. Following them, the little readers will understand all the features and details of their enchanted world, but also the...

Industrial style or "industrial chic" refers to an aesthetic trend in interior design that has been popular since the start of the 21st century and which takes inspiration from old...

Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school and put to work in a teashop. As...

Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e , occupy a singular position in the lexicon of world art. They enthralled such Western artists as Whistler, Manet, Degas, and van Gogh, and gave...

First published in France in 1958, then the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface...

This is Taschen 25 - Special edition. Philippe Starck wants to bring love and happiness into your life by designing objects, environments, and appliances that will brighten your days. He...

After many years of low-cost mass production, the Japanese have long since shifted the focus of their efforts to the developments of high-quality technical products. In many cases, the designs...

Each book in Taschen's Basic Art movement and genre series includes a detailed introduction with approximately 30 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, sporting,...

This guide to conceptual art traces the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, with an essay exploring the historical basis...

These detailed spreads charting the course of a year in a fantasy medieval castle are packed to the brim with charming characters and hilarious adventures that young readers will return...

The De Stijl protagonist's elucidation of the basics of neoplasticism. Painter, writer, architect, typographer, art theorist and leader of the De Stijl movement, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) was one of...

The Portrait Photographer's Style Guide is a hardworking recipe book of inspiring portrait photography. This beautifully illustrated book explores professional portrait techniques across a wide variety of styles and genres...

The Paris Metro has 16 lines, 300 stations, runs for 214 kilometres, transports 4 million travellers per day. For the first time this guidebook reveals this wonderful network and its...

Divided by theme into chapters, this light-hearted and nostalgic romp through 20th-century Paris creates a beautiful history of the world's most romantic city and its exceptional women. This collection of...

WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD "Digital disruption" sounds like another business buzzword - until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other...

This gritty, sweeping novel follows a burgeoning political activist in the early twentieth century: a "precious, priceless book" (Alice Walker). "We owe our world to women like Agnes Smedley, who...

Why are there so many overweight, unhappy and unhealthy people who cannot find a solution to their poor health? Dr Cabot says "It took more than 20 years of medical...

In 2010 Andrea Gibson's poetry was read by a state representative in lieu of morning prayer at the Utah State Legislature. In THE MADNESS VASE, her second book of poems,...

A miscellany of ghost stories, odd tales and curious observations by a storyteller who penetrated Japan more deeply than any other Westerner, 'Kwaidan' captures the folk-spirit and 'exoticism' of a...

If you could provide a life more affirming and meaningful than current care practices provide, would you do it? Of course, you would! But how? Now the resource you need...

Discover the Life You Were Born to Live Bestselling author Dan Millman's Life-Purpose system, a modern method of insight based on ancient wisdom, has helped hundreds of thousands of people...