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For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In 'Cairngorm John' (his call...

John L. Allen, one of the most trusted reporters at the Vatican, brings together the first biography of the new pope, taking an in-depth look at his background and opinions....

There is no other organisation whose inner workings are more secretive than the Vatican - the spiritual and physical center - of the Catholic Church. Now, with a dynamic new...

Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom. This text tells the story of how John Allen Paulos gambled - and lost...

From America's wittiest writer on mathematics, a lively and insightful guide to understanding and predicting the stock market Paulos offers a hillarious account of how the stock market both follows...

Two things to flag before this one goes live: Great Britain — Michelin Green Guide has no author listed, worth checking the copy. More importantly, this box has the same...

The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries of all time. 8,099 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the...

Author: John RuskinBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN, 1884Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Marked wear and fraying of external...

Barry Allen has just woken up in universe where nothing is the way he left it! Writer Geoff Johns (Blackest Night, The Flash: Rebirth) and artist Andy Kubert (Dark Knight...

Author: John Gregory DunneBinding: HardbackPublished: W. H. Allen, 1970, First UK Edition!Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThe Studio chronicles the evolution of recording studios...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscribed by Captain J. D. C. Hammon (VX46251). DJ; unclipped; edgeworn; no tears. Boards: light bumping on corners...

Edition: Second EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in Victorian England rang with such passionate authority on art, architecture,...

Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In the far-flung future... ...An all-new Justice League must investigate the mysterious death of their greatest foes-the Legion of Doom! The Justice...

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Seven strange and disturbing stories - computer-generated collaborations based on pieces by different writers, and shaken, stirred and transformed by the poet John Tranter. In a Norwegian fiord, Biggles clashes...

Author: John GardnerBinding: HardbackPublished: W.H. Allen , 1980Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor moisture damage on DJ. Cracked hinges. Clean text. Golgotha...

Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublished: ALLEN LANE, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsJohn Mortimer's In Character presents a collection of insightful and often humorous interviews with prominent...

Previous biographies have either been principally studies of his work (John Baxter's WOODY ALLEN: A LIFE, HarperCollins, 1998) or authorised (Eric Lax's WOODY ALLEN: A LIFE, Cape, 1992). Marion Meade...

Author: Sir John BuntingBinding: HardbackPublished: A Susan Haynes Book, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Wellington, London, Boston, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markings'R.G. Menzies: A Portrait presents a comprehensive...

Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublished: ALLEN LANE, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents a series of incisive portraits, offering a keen examination of human nature...

Author: Sir John BuntingBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen & Unwin, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket. cover spine lightly tanned and has light wearR.G. Menzies: A Portrait presents...

Author: John Ruskin, Ll.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN, 1894Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling work of art history and architectural criticism...

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Author: Sir John BuntingBinding: HardbackPublished: Sydney; Susan Haynes/Allen and Unwin;, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, R.G. Menzies: A Portrait, chronicles the extraordinary life and political...

Author: John RuskinBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen, 1893Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Rebound copy. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges....

Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson - author of the award-winning Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm - pieces together the life of Penelope Lucas and the pivotal role she...

The book titled Arlott on Wine by the author John Arlott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublisher: ALLEN LANE, 1983Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerJohn Mortimer's In Character presents a collection of insightful and often humorous interviews with prominent...

Author: John RuskinBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen, 1900Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Marked wear and tanning of external cover and...

Author, Geoff Johns Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 160 Best-selling author Geoff Johns pens one of the biggest events ever to happen in the DC Universe with echoes reaching throughout...

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Allen himself, his family members (including actor and poet Jo Harvey Allen, his wife and artistic partner of more than sixty years), and his...

'The first and, in some respects, still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation... brilliant and important' The Los Angeles Free Press The novel that launched the beat...

Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible? Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics - and John Gribbin argues...

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the...

An introduction to clinical depression details causes, treaments, and common misconceptions of the disease for both patients and caregivers.

At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's...

Through a collection of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's speeches, letters, sermons and off-the-cuff remarks, this book sketches the story of South Africa from 1976, when apartheid oppression was at its peak,...

James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one...

After serving twenty-seven years of a lifetime sentence for conspiring to overthrow South Africa's apartheid government, Nelson Mandela emerged to become both the catalyst and the symbol of post-apartheid South...

A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the medieval mind The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They...

Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson - author of the award-winning Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm - pieces together the life of Penelope Lucas and the pivotal role she...

Secondhand Vintage Hardback Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4101 Twenty mid-century hardbacks, all in dust jackets: John Fowles’s The Collector, Irwin Shaw’s Lucy Crown, Harold Robbins’s 79 Park Avenue, two Kathleen...