Second-hand Books

For more than fifty years this beautifully written biography has held the field as THE comprehensive study of Elizabeth's entire reign- the wars with Spain and the Spanish Armada; the...

This is an account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Mexican empire beneath the onslaught of Cortez's conquistadors. It considers the moral and political issues involved in this extraordinary clash...

This text looks at the military history of a battle scene by examining the experiences of individuals at the "point of maximum danger". The author has attempted to write the...

NINA X is loosely inspired by the real case of a tiny Maoist cult in London whose leader kept five women trapped for more than twenty years. Nina X has...

A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender euphoria let me tell you how to lean gently on one another without rocking sideways. Rae White's much-anticipated second...

From bestselling author Samantha Wheeler comes a remarkable novel about finding your voice. Ava would like nothing more than to tell her family she loves them, particularly her big sister,...

Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism...

When Michael Asher and his wife, Mariantonietta Peru, arrived in Mauritania to begin their trek across the Sahara alone on camelback, they had been married only five days. The harsh...

The author shares his observations on the New Age world, UFO conspiracies, the Internet, the apocalypse, commercialism, harmonic convergences, numerology, and other topics.

Gathering evidence from art, literature, history, pop culture, science, and psychology, Marjorie Garber offers a startling new take on the nature and influence of bisexuality in our culture. Now in...

"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to battle." Strategy is made of...

The author journeys back into his own family's past to investigate the century-old murder of his great-great-grandfather, a revolutionary and legendary bandit known as the Monk, and the conspiracy of...

'You've disappointed me. You had all the potential in the world. You could have been so much.' William Adair, patriarch, doting father of three girls, Men's Tennis Club Champion from...

Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and...

In December 1937 a naive young Englishman slipped across the Spanish frontier to fight for the Republican cause. In the third volume of his autobiographical trilogy, which began with "Cider...

An internationally respected commentator on financial markets, credited with predicting the Global Financial crisis and featured in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, Satyajit Das is our finest writer about...

When you don't trust the captains, it's time to take back the ship. Rabbit: MUTINY features rogue poems that resist the usual rules of resistance -nonfiction poems, in all aesthetic...

What can poets do when faced with the archive and what it holds or excludes? How might poets open, dismantle, excavate, interrogate, reshape and/or expand the archive? How might a...

SAVING THE "POLLY WOODSIDE" Charles Treleaven was a leading figure in the fight to save Melbourne's heritage sailing ship "Polly Woodside" for future generations. For many years, he not only...

Men and How To Manage Them by 'An Old Housekeeper' is a facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1885 by A.H. Massina in Melbourne. It is augmented with...

Each edition of this unique series marries a collection of previously published essays with detailed practical information, creating a colorful and deeply absorbing pastiche of opinions and advice. Each book...

Fat-burning is a revolutionary development in the history of slimming because it combines safe rapid weight loss with lasting results. The benefits include satisfactory weight reduction and the provision of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker , and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of...

An unforgettable story of love and adventure set in one of the world s last unspoiled wildernesses. For Libby Bass, expert in whale and dolphin communication, the job in New...

The year is 1949. In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king. Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients...

In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam),...

Andrew Motion's new collection offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how...

Did you know that most of the biggest indie filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers working today each made the same avoidable mistakes early on in their careers? The Reel Truth details...

Many of the great books of English literature were first published without their authors' names upon them. But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity...

James Spada is the author of 12 books about figures in the movie business, including the bestselling Streisand: The Woman and Her Legend, Monroe: Her Life in Pictures and Grace:...

AN ACCIDENTAL DEATH? Reporter Annika Bengtzon is working on the story of a devastating crime when she hears that a journalist investigating the same incident has been killed. It appears...

The chilling second novel from the Scandinavian crime queen 'That night he did something so controversial that he'd rather be suspected of murder than tell anyone what he was really...

No human being has ever seen a triceratops or velociraptor or even the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex. They left behind only their impressive bones. So how can scientists know what colour...

"Bad truck, bad guy; bad wave, bad bye . . ." A boy and his family are packing up their old home, and the morning feels scary and sad. But...

Join Curious George as he snoops around a wide variety of houses and homes. Twelve full-to-bursting spreads represent home interiors from lighthouses to castles. Jaunty rhymes introduce each inviting scene...