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For seven years, Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned...

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A joyful and intimate celebration of the beauty and creativity of algebra from one of the foremost math educators of our time. For many of us, algebra conjures up memories...

Author: E. Lockhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 At the Manhattan School of Art and Music, where everyone is unique and everyone is 'different', Gretchen Yee feels...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize'Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening' Sunday TimesA book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the...

WE WERE LIARS NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME! Matilda has been through a lot. Her mum has run off to Mexico, her boyfriend has dumped her, and...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize'Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening' Sunday TimesA book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the...

Sally is 25, and somebody wants to destroy her. She receives divorce papers from a man she has never met, let alone married - yet this trap is so well...

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This exciting series features hundreds of everyday objects for babies to recognise and talk about. Arranged by theme, with bright artwork from Louise Lockhart, Look, Baby, Look is the most...

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Author: Kenneth Young (editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ spine faded. Minor scratches to back...

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If you could live your life again and again, what would you do differently? After a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, Adelaide Buchwald finds herself catapulted into...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in twentieth-century British history lived...

'Paul Halter is France's answer to John Dickson Carr' Martin Edwards The ultimate locked-room mystery. In Paul Halter's The Fourth Door , the impossible becomes reality. A haunted room. An...

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In April 1871, a constable walking a beat near Greenwich found a girl dying in the mud - her face cruelly slashed and her brains protruding from her skull. The...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn one of the most explosive works of investigative journalism of the twentieth century, In God's Name presents a meticulously...

The Medici Conspiracy is a real-life thriller that travels the murky depths of the undercover network of art criminals, in tandem with the some of the world's most high-profile art...

Author: Howard Singerman (Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair, Hunter College of the City University of New York) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 A nuanced reading of an artwork that...

This text is an essay in the retrieval of a lost outlook. The complex of political thought, beliefs about the contemporary world and the perception of history that sustained the...

In America alone, nearly 70 million people live in urban areas. Fortunately, cities offer as much variety in living spaces as the people who inhabit them - young or old,...

' Brillian t, wise, humane, scientific, and kind. Beliefism is exactly what the doctor ordered - and it could change the world' Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the bitter, exhausted close of France's catastrophic defeat in the summer of 1940, two men face the...

"The shadowy Gangster Squad was formed in 1946 with eight men operating out of two rusted old Fords. They had no office and made no arrests - the idea was...

A collection of the timeless, the priceless and the unforgettable, this beautiful compendium accompanies the beloved BBC One TV series. Antiques Roadshow has graced our screens for forty years and...

Neurologist and neuroscientist Dr Paul Goldsmith reveals compassionate, practical insights on the evolutionary origins of our brain and how we can best use it to thrive in our daily lives....

An authoritative introduction to one of the most influential painters in the history of art, written by the pre-eminent authority on the subject and informed by the latest research. More...

"The need for realism in reform of its monetary system is what makes Bernstein's story of the Power of Gold so timely. It is a compelling reminder that maintaining a...

In 1666 the Great Fire raveged much of the capital. After the flames had been put out and the dead buried, London was once more a blank canvas for builder...

Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as...