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Author: Jean VanierBinding: PaperbackPublished: Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBe Not Afraid by Jean Vanier presents a profound...

Community and Growth is a series of starting points for reflection on the nature and meaning of community.

One afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Western intellectual history burned as brilliantly — or as dangerously — as François-Marie Arouet, the man the world came...

Kochin is a Heartsooth - a rare being with the ability to heal any wound. Any wound, that is, except death. Gradually he realises the answer to his desperate quest...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gaslit streets and shadowed back alleys of nineteenth-century Paris emerges a woman who cannot outrun the...

'A Tolkienesque journey through a gorgeous, shimmering world ... Venetia Constantine is a bright new star' - Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree *** Leilani...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most audacious and brilliantly satirical works ever written, Candide and Other Romances follows the relentlessly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Some wear but otherwise in good condition.Few cities have inspired the photographic imagination quite like Paris, and Paris: Les Livres de Photographie des Années...

Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer - who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he's doing it under the scrutiny of an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA novel of shattering intensity, Beautiful Losers plunges the reader into a fractured, hallucinatory world where an unnamed...

The internet is no longer new, it is part of our everyday lives, and as a commonplace, we rarely take time to contemplate what we have made together. In these...

Trapped in the Maze, Forged by Myth-Wonder Woman Faces Her Greatest Test Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me continues Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman's bold new...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew lands on Earth are as paradoxical as Australia — a continent of ancient landscapes, vast interior silences, and dynamic coastal...

LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the cutting edge of the most destructive conflict in human history, Germany's engineers waged a parallel war of innovation — one that would...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rain-soaked cafés of Paris and the grey, unforgiving streets of London, a woman teeters on the...

'Everyone should read this book' - George Monbiot 'A compelling read for anyone who cares about all lives on our planet' - Tanya Steele CBE, CEO of WWF UK In...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turn of the twentieth century, a rebellious current surged through the world of architecture and design — one that defied the clean...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet in the raw, rain-soaked landscape of rural Ireland, A Pagan Place is an unflinching portrait...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of developmental psychology and educational philosophy stands Jean Piaget's landmark work, Play, Dreams and Imitation...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: vol iv missing. vol ii - moderate annotations in grey lead. Few lives in the annals of European history have matched...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedLong before she became one of Britain's most beloved comic actresses, Joanna Page was just a girl from Swansea with big dreams and an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat shapes a child's mind in the earliest and most formative years of life? Experience and Environment: Major Influences on the Development...

Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of the political landscape. On Revolution is her...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artists captured the ineffable beauty of leisure and longing quite like Jean-Antoine Watteau, the French Rococo master whose shimmering canvases defined an era...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names in the English literary canon command the reverence and enduring affection of Jane Austen, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA young boy's audacious decision to abandon city life and survive alone in the Catskill Mountains of New...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists have so deliberately blurred the boundary between the readymade and the painted object as Bertrand Lavier,...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew artists captured the quiet intimacy of domestic life with such chromatic brilliance as Édouard Vuillard, the Post-Impressionist master whose canvases transformed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. worn edges - creased corners; internally sound.At the dawn of the twentieth century, in the shadowy quarters...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to construct a living theology in a world desperately in need of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThese two volumes present the first installments of Simone de Beauvoir's landmark autobiography, a cornerstone of twentieth century...

The third book in a series that explores Australia's secret histories By the 1790s, orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams...

Few jewellers are as celebrated as Cartier, even fewer have as many instantly recognizable designs - some of which, such as the Tank watch, Love bracelet and Trinity ring, have...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet corrupt underbelly of Second Empire Paris, a city intoxicated by wealth, spectacle, and moral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most audacious and unrepentant memoirs ever written, The Naked Civil Servant chronicles the extraordinary life...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2025 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly compelling.' SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterpiece of biography.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A total joy to read.'...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the greatest epics ever written, Virgil's The Aeneid chronicles the legendary journey of Aeneas,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe eighteenth century was an age of revolution — not only political, but visual — and Graphic Art...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time of sweeping cultural upheaval and radical rethinking of institutions, Jerome S. Bruner's Relevance of Education...

A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg. The D-Day...