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In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical...

Hailed as "the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement" ( Christian Science Monitor ), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound statement: Computing is turning...

The Internet is eroding our capacity for concentration and contemplation, chipping away at our ability to read and think deeply. In The Shallows, Nicholas Carr argues that every information technology,...

In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest...

Expecting your first baby is wonderful, perplexing and at times downright terrifying. Behind the brave face, a lot of first-time dads can become confused and frustrated, and are often left...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew names in twentieth-century fiction carry the weight and moral authority of John le Carré, and this handsome omnibus — collecting five of his...

Two couples. Two love stories. One epic tale. Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, with his mind fading, an image of his...

As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, the Smiley Collection offers a special look for the books featuring John le Carre's most iconic character- George...

Miles Ryan is a small-town sheriff, the single father of nine-year-old Jonah, and a man obsessed with uncovering the identity of the hit-and-run driver who killed his beloved wife two...

In the long hot summer of 1914, Aunt Tilly had come to stay with her brother the Rector and his4 lively daughters in the Sussex village of Ashden. But Aunt...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few writers have captured the moral ambiguity and psychological tension of the Cold...

The book titled Turncoat's Drum by the author Nicholas Carter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War, J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope...

Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award'Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself' Nicholas Shakespeare'Now that he...

Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award'Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself' Nicholas Shakespeare'Now that he...

Edward Hallet Carr is renowned as the historian of Soviet Russia, biographer of The Romantic Exiles, founder of the 'realist' approach to the study of International Relations and author of...

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Author: Nicholas EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: Corgi Books, 2002Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping novel chronicles the harrowing life of a smokejumper, a courageous individual who parachutes into remote...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of one of the most turbulent centuries in English history stood Sir Edward...

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carre's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George...

Penguin Classics relaunch The work of a young novelist at the height of his powers, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is one of the touchstones of the English comic novel. Around the central...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor foxing to block, sun-faded spine and previous owner's name in FEP.The Illustrated...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis handsome omnibus brings together three of Charles Dickens's most beloved and socially charged works, offering readers a sweeping encounter with the...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Thrust into the unforgiving machinery of Victorian London following...

The book titled Man with a Squirrel by the author Nicholas Kilmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

You don't have to believe it. I always took the Matthew Passion with a pinch of salt. Ramsden, Yorkshire, 1916. The ambitious local Choral Society is depleted as men volunteer...

In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist...

Author: Nicholas Sparks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must...

*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to...

'A fascinating journey through Nicholas's pre-F1 life and his experiences since joining Red Bull' Autosport Life in the Pitlane is an inspiring memoir from Red Bull's senior engineer Calum Nicholas...

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The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a...

Shows how to choose a satisfying career direction, with more than one hundred self-tests and exercises to determine natural aptitudes, interests, and values.

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The book titled The Love Child by the author Philippa Carr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Major Matthew Carr is a professional soldier who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. When faced with a cancerous invasion of his body, Matthew used the expert training he learnt...

The bone flute she wore at her neck.He touched the crescent-shaped curio. "You are Ilois," he said.It was the first time she had ever heard him use the word. The...