Second-hand Books

Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jewellers on the Champs-Elysees. Shot three times, beaten almost beyond...

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the nearby Rio de la Plata. The passengers are reduced to sleeping in the corridors of hotels...

Why do we count the way we do? What is a prime number or a friendly, perfect, or weird one? How many are there and who has found the largest...

The British Army was not highly regarded before World War I; the Kaiser was said to have called it "contemptible"; the French regarded it as a colonial police force with...

Markham, who uses crystals in her work, explains the practical applications of crystals and semiprecious stones through a series of exercises and experiments. This guide examines the role of crystals...

David Ponder is back. This time the fate of mankind is in his hands. This is mankind's last chance. Centuries of greed, pride, and hate have sent humanity hurtling toward...

The exciting ninth book in the Left Behind series that has sold over 2.5 million copies in hardcover is now available in trade paperback. In November 2001 "Desecration" was #1...

Born in Posen in 1905, Jean Gebser came from an old Franconian family domiciled in Thuringia since 1236. A nephew of German chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, he was a descendant on...

Photographers striving for excellence in their work will find the help they need in this book's jargon-free text and varied photography, showing how a blend of technical skill, art, theory,...

This guide opens with in-camera flash basics, then moves to topics such as exposure flash readings, detachable units, flash guide numbers, bounce flash, and fill flash, then covers advanced methods...

" American Spy updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality."-- Entertainment Weekly "There has never been anything like it."--Marlon James, GQ "So much fun . . . Like the best...

Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be...

The Tulip Anthology is a comprehensive celebration of the world's most passionately beloved flower. Bold contemporary photos by Ron Van Dongen (author of Bloom) are paired with text and art...

Of the notable artists and craftsmen of the time, Laurence Sterne, author of the mock-heroic novel Tristram Shandy, makes an appearance here, as do the furniture maker Thomas Chippendale, painter...

Stackpole is pleased to introduce the final two installments in the Who's Who in British History series. Chronologically arranged and extensively indexed, these eight volumes are an indispensable guide to...

Everybody has a job to do. Sally wants one, too! Loveable pet Sally wants to find the perfect job, just like the rest of her family. She likes digging in...

This work is published to coincide with an exhibition in the USA of a group of Van Gogh's paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The collection is based...

An oversized volume features curator examinations of the museum's collection of Impressionist and Post-impressionist pieces from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, discussing such topics as the primacy...

"It is the dream of every publisher to hit upon a project that will win praise for contributing to the intellectual and cultural life." John B. Breslin, Theology Today In...

"Precisely the dimension of our heritage that most needs to be recovered...I cannot imagine a more timely publishing venture." Huston Smith Emanuel Swedenborg: The Universal Human and Soul-Body Interaction edited...

Pisciculture -- the process of raising fish -- held a lasting fascination for the people of ancient Rome. Whether bred for household consumption, cultivated for sale at market, or simply...

The discovery in 1938 of the diary and personal papers of William Johnson ( ca. 1809-1851), a free Negro of Natchez, Mississippi, made possible the publication of this fascinating volume....

Comprises ten different puzzle types to find different ways to show off problem-solving skills. The book contains an answer key and cartoons.

Improve your intellectual flexibility and ability to problem-solve in all facets of life with 90 conundrums that include word and math puzzles, visual dilemmas, codes to crack, patterns and series...

Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught...

No single event since World War II has marked this country's foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is a complete...

A collection of nature writing specifically about the attraction of the central Atlantic region. Broader in scope than traditional essays, the selections bring together all the outdoor experiences that have...

An absorbing study of heroes who broke the rules to turn a challenge into victory.

SOMETIMES DREAMS DO COME TRUE... AND THAT'S THE LAST THING KAYLEE NEEDS Working things out with Nash - her maybe boyfriend - is hard for Kaylee. She's already coping with...

Kaylee has one addiction: her very hot, very popular boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no one else. Nothing can come between them. Until something does....

Not only does Keyserlingk show that Great Britain and the US recognized the Anschluss both in fact and in law throughout the war, he also reveals the growing importance of...

The bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and Killing Rommel delivers a "thinking person's techno-thriller" (Wall Street Journal) in this chillingly plausible near-future tale about the rise...

If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it-and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary...

Banish awkward silences, boring weather talk, or (worst of all) the embarrassing conversation gaff with this pithy, hilarious guide to effortless party banter. We've all been there. You're at a...

This book contains a series of pamphlets entitled: Catalogue of Books on Hermetic Philosophy, being the entire collection of General E. A. Hitchcock; Some English Alchemical Books, being an address...

Contents: Part 1: parable; dream and myth interpretation; Part 2: Analytical Part: psychoanalytical interpretation of the parable; alchemy; Hermetic art; Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry; problem of multiple interpretation; Part 3: synthetic...

Readers seeking spiritual enlightenment, as well as those interested in comparative religion, will find a concise, clearly written introduction to one of the world's great and ancient faiths in this...

Adolescents and older teenagers are the fastest growing group of vegetarians, but until now, no book has been written and edited entirely for people aged 12 to 20 who are...

The eighteenth novel in Cherryh's Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi , has taken aboard...

A man of faith. A nation of fear. A world of secrets. 1564: Catholic herald William Harley, Clarenceux King of Arms, is the custodian of a highly dangerous document. When...