Second-hand Books

Great math skills are a head start to lasting success Teach Your Children Tables is the ultimate guide to improving your child's mathematical abilities. Written by a renowned education expert,...

Imagine an unborn foetus having children. In a world where frozen embryo banks and test-tube babies are presented as the 'norm', the culling of immature eggs from a female foetus...

Offers a survey of the important developments in Australian art since 1968, critically assessing the interconnection of art and significant moments of social and cultural development.

Bharti Vyas is the beauty therapist behind the immaculate faces and bodies of celebrities including Cher, Belinda Carlisle and Cherie Blair. This book gives you practical self-help advice for a...

As Lotus's flagship model for almost three decades, the Esprit was launched in 1976 and remained in production for over a quarter of a century. It received regular refreshment along...

In his early twenties Miles Hordern first crossed the oceans from Northern to Southern Hemisphere, but one final leg of his round the world journey eluded him for twelve more...

A memoir in the tradition of Lorna Sage's Bad Blood and Blake Morrison's When Did You Last See your Father John Sutherland's childhood ended abruptly the day his father was...

It was Graham Stuart Thomas who in "Old Shrub Roses" first brought to public attention the favourite roses of the early nineteenth century - the intensely scented damasks, the rich...

From the outside, Josh's life looks perfect: he has a loving wife, a beautiful son, money in the bank and a career he is passionate about. But on the inside,...

A completely new collection of images from the great chronicler of sartorial taste, Scott Schuman. Scott Schuman is back with a completely new collection of beautiful images of the men...

Embrace a healthy and natural lifestyle in 2020 with this delicious collection of over 110 paleo-inspired recipes ___________ This is heavenly food which is also incredibly good for you; the...

The Queen's Goddaughter. Her Favourite Maid. Her Deadliest Enemy? Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth I. But it's not just her looks that have won...

London 1910 Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is...

At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it - yet... One of...

It is 1636 - the height of the Thirty Years War, one of the bloodiest and most destructive conflicts Europe has ever seen. As the campaigning season begins, the Spanish...

Who'd make it into the best England team ever? And you can chose anyone, regardless of when they might have played. Would W.G. Grace be playing alongside Denis Compton and...

The book includes over 100 illustrations of ancient artefacts from the Celtic World and contains special features on Celtic myth and culture, rituals and festivals and teh role of magic....

Each of us belongs to a family and that belonging has different stages - we live with our parents, we move out on our own, we may form a partnership...

Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional...

Style is the quality that distinguishes one painter's work from another's. Just as people evolve their own distinctive handwriting, so in time painters develop an individual style. Aspiring watercolourists seeking...

Shows how to make wedding invitations, wedding favours, jewellery, wedding decorations, wedding sweet treats, wedding centrepieces and wedding gifts. This book is useful to the novice crafter. It contains step-by-step...

Recommends bonsai plants suitable for growing indoors, gives advice on pruning, repotting, watering, and fertilizing, and shows various styles of bonsai cultivation."

This is an introduction to the medium of watercolour. The author reviews the roots of the English watercolour tradition and takes a practical look at materials, subject choice, how to...

In today's business world, traditional structures have been turned on their heads. Hierarchies have been flattened, monolithic organizations have collapsed, and each manager within the scaled-down enterprise which remains must...

A call for action, in which the author aims to show us how to find our roots, heal negative ancestral patterns, create new myths for the 21st century and become...

Titles are: Roll Up and Shine * The Bartender and the Thief * Hurry Up and Wait * Pick a Part That's New * Just Looking * Half the Lies...

Titles are: A Thousand Trees * Looks Like Chaplin * More Life in a Tramps Vest * Local Boy in the Photograph * Traffic * Not Up to You *...

Although the great passenger liners such as Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary epitomised the height of luxurious sea travel, they never would have been able to function properly without assistance...

An exploration of the heroism and dedication of British nurses in World War II, which describes the often dangerous conditions under which many nurses had to work, with accounts of...

The first full account of a major disaster deliberately concealed during the Allied preparation for D-Day. Operation Tiger on Slapton Sands was one of the giant military exercises off the...

Brainstorming is probably the best known of all the techniques available for creative problem solving. This book, by one of the world's foremost exponents of brainstorming, begins by identifying the...

Gracey's coming home to Cunningham on holidays. But now she's a state athletics champion and a private school student, and everything looks different - even frightening. Part history, part mystery,...