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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsPeter Schmid's Beggars On Golden Stools: A Journey Through Latin America chronicles a vivid and often stark expedition...

A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe 's most charismatic and enigmatic city It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive...

Prominent liberals support a whole litany of policies and principles: progressive taxes, affirmative action, greater regulation of corporations, raising the inheritance tax, strict environmental regulations, children's rights, consumer rights, and...

The book titled Himmler: Reichsfuhrer S.S. by the author Peter Padfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the long-awaited follow up to "The Sound of Laughter". Picking up from where Peter's massive bestselling autobiography "The Sound of Laughter" left off, "Saturday Night Peter" charts the...

A riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans--born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere--have been...

"A fine new novel... The great pleasure of reading Louis Begley [is] his exceptional literary intelligence". The New York Times Book Review "Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the...

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"A fine new novel... The great pleasure of reading Louis Begley [is] his exceptional literary intelligence." The New York Times Book Review "Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. Few rulers in history reshaped the spiritual and institutional life of...

Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA quietly devastating work of literary fiction, Schmidt Steps Back chronicles the later years of...

An in-depth look at the ambitious career and sudden disgrace of the former New York governor With a combination of talent, hard work, connections, and family wealth, Eliot Spitzer built...

"Delightful....[An] engrossing plot and writing of the highest caliber."-- Washington Times A globe-trotting archeologist with more grit, wit, and fortitude than Indian Jones himself, the intrepid Amelia Peabody confronts danger...

By a detailed investigation of dreams Freud discovered a way of exploring the unconscious, recognized that dreams, like neurotic symptoms, are products of a conflict and compromise between conscious and...

Secondhand Ed McBain 87th Precinct Bargain Book Box SP4090 Fifteen Ed McBain, fourteen of them 87th Precinct, most in the gold-banded Pan editions: Fuzz, Axe, Bread, Ghosts, Tricks, Vespers, Widows,...

Secondhand Interior Design & Houses Bargain Book Box SP4250 Eight large-format hardbacks with jackets: Houses and Gardens of Portugal, Houses and Palaces of Andalusia, New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, In...

'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor every horse owner, trainer, or equine enthusiast who has ever needed a reliable, authoritative reference at their fingertips, The Horse's Health From...

How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay like Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of...

What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and...

Sophie Johnson studied very hard to become a detective and it's a good thing she did - there has been a terrible crime! Someone has stolen Lion's tail. Unfortunately, this...

THE DEBUT ADULT NOVEL FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE KISSING BOOTH , A MAJOR NETFLIX HIT Five couples. One week. A love story like no other . ....

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security...

One morning in 1994, two men in a stolen car skid to a halt in front of Norway s National Gallery. Minutes later, they roar off with Edvard Munch's iconic,...

Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and...

Feet. They're everywhere! We share them with bats, cats, rats, even gnats! But not all feet are the same. Some are sticky, and some are stinky. Some can hear, and...

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest ' SARAH MILLICAN 'Hollie McNish's words always sweep...

From bestselling international author Judy Hall comes a fascinating book that gives you a personalized and direct experience of the thought-provoking wisdom that crystal exploration has conveyed to thousands throughout...

Together with 'House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848', Niall Ferguson has produced a two volume history that reveals in absorbing detail the phenomenal economic success of this fascinating and secretive...

Robert A. M. Stern is dedicated to the synthesis of tradition and innovation. In more than thirty-five years of practice, he has produced a wide range of building types with...

This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fresh and...

In the not too distant future the European Union enacts its most far reaching human rights legislation ever. The incompetent have been persecuted for too long. After all, it's not...

The Milan-based interior design and architectural firm Studio Peregalli presents for the first time their breathtaking environments that capture the classic elegance of the past. Studio Peregalli is the master...

'The perfect antidote to our modern mental health epidemic' PROFESSOR TIM SPECTOR 'Wallace has a deep understanding of what matters most to us - and her book shows us how...

In all areas-from fashion to cuisine to the art of seduction-the French reign supreme in their ability to enjoy life to the fullest. So why do we love to hate...

Along the border of gentrifying Los Angeles, a teenage girl is found dead at a construction site. Homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton's partner assumes it's a suicide. Lou isn't buying...

"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...

Join our team of Heroes in this fast-paced, dinosaur-themed chapter book In Ptersaour Trouble the heroes investigate the theft of some pterosaur eggs which leads them to a shocking discovery...

Sometimes it feels so hard to love yourself. We worry that we're not good enough or we're being selfish if we take time to prioritise what we need. But self-love...

'Among the best books ever written on playing the game' Golf.com With a foreword by Edward, the late Duke of Windsor. Once named the most influential golf instructor of all...

What secrets connect Egypt's Great Pyramids, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations In this astonishing book, celebrated journalist Jim Marrs examines the world's most closely guarded secrets, tracing...