Second-hand Books

This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's...

Showcasing the work of ten talented contemporary artists, this full-color volume is a breathtaking collection of some of the best Celtic artwork available, representing a variety of styles and influences....

In "The Voice, the Word, the Books", F. E. Peters leads readers on an extraordinary journey through centuries of written tradition to uncover the human fingerprints on the "Hebrew Bible",...

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Nelson Mandela, South Africas first Black president and his fight for...

Modern Women is a celebration of some of the influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to...

Inspired by the hugely successful Stick Book, The Pencil Book is packed full of ideas for things to make and do with a pencil. It provides a starting point for...

Do you yearn for a tranquil retreat in busy surroundings, a healing sanctuary, or a convenient stage for entertaining, dining and family gatherings? A garden in town can provide any...

Reverend Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle meet with the editor Mr Bassett. Mr Bassett viciously rejects not only Doyle's work, but also that of up-and-coming...

Untidy Towns is a highly anticipated coming-of-age novel from Kate O'Donnell, an exciting new voice in Australian YA. Seventeen-year-old Adelaide is sick of being expected to succeed on other people's...

This January is different. School is over for Alex Delaney and he's waiting for his tertiary offer - only 17 days away. The waiting is killing him. He's not expecting...

To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe...

How has computer science changed mathematical thinking? In this first ever comprehensive survey of the subject for popular science readers, Arturo Sangalli explains how computers have brought a new practicality...

A great deal of Holocaust survival stories revolve around disguise--many Jews were forced into impersonation by the desperateness of their plight. Imagine if a person, by the accident of birth,...

"Nureyev: His Life," the first full-scale biography of the legendary Russian dancer, traces Nureyev's remarkable climb out of poverty in the war-torn Soviet Union to become one of our century's...

Challenges the belief that the Neandertal was the first true human species, revealing the existence of humans fifty thousand years earlier, and considering why the Neandertal species died out.

This self-help resource demonstrates how some of life's most important and joyous lessons can come from life's hardest knocks.

From the bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant , a comic and life affirming novel of the clash between progress and tradition, science and magic: " one of...

From Simon & Schuster, The Koran Interpreted is an English translation of the Muslim holy book portrays the spirit, rather than the exact context and rhythm, of the original Arabic...

Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency,...

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Sense of an Ending comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is "wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence" (...

Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our...

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of aunique missionary project and the America it embodied from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth...

In this provocative and illuminating book, Marianna Torgovnick explores the psychology of our profound attraction to cultures we call "primitive." Whether located in Africa, the South Pacific, or the American...

The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits...

A former KGB major who defected to the West after a meteoric rise in the Soviet secret service, Vladimir Kuzichkin breaks all the rules of secrecy in a book that...

It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips,...

Three hundred years ago, the "S.S. Valiant" was destroyed during an ill-fated attempt to cross the legendary Galactic Barrier. Starfleet had always assumed that the "Valiant" had perished with all...

Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town... But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe--until a dreadful mine accident ripped...