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Seraphin Monge begins a quiet march of revenge against his family s killers. But for each murder he plots, another hand silently executes it in his place. In this gripping...

'Crime fiction for those with a soul and a dark sense of humour' - Independent on Sunday In Banon, a small, peaceful village in upper Provence, the local community's principal...

The definitive translation of our history's founding legal document - translated with a new commentary by David Carpenter 'No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his...

Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the bustling taverns and gladiatorial arenas of first-century Rome, the poet Martial unleashed a collection...

Since its discovery by a teenager in 1859, thousands of specimens of lustrous black tourmaline crystals from Pierrepont, New York, have found their way into both museum and private mineral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedCondition remarks: faded boards. Light bumping on corners and spine. A legend of the 64 squares speaks for himself...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be human in an age of mechanised thought and spiritual disconnection? Kenneth Walker's...

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 imageWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most brilliant minds turns his gaze upon an entirely foreign...

"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her...

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...

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: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of 3 February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in Australia...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew documents have shaped the course of human civilization as profoundly as the Magna Carta, and Magna Carta:...

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...

"An intellectually vivid and curious collection that refuses to find simple answers to its complex questions."-NPR Books We Love "T his book is a rare comfort, a companion . ....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of economic theory and educational policy stands a deceptively powerful question: what is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the storm-shadowed final days of Leon Trotsky's life in Mexican exile, The Great Prince Died reconstructs, with...

Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? Most political commentators point to heads of state, such as the Presidency, and other formal institutions of the state....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artists captured the dynamism of the modern industrial age with the visual boldness and philosophical ambition of Fernand Léger, and this authoritative catalogue...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be human in a universe billions of years in the making? Pierre Teilhard...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to see the world through a sociological lens? Peter L. Berger's landmark work,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of Western art burned as brilliantly — or as controversially — as Eugène...

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A newly revised and expanded version of the great national epic of Persia--the most complete English-language edition and definitive translation by Dick Davis The definitive translation by Dick Davis of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFrom the gilded solemnity of Byzantine icons to the luminous humanism of the early Renaissance, Italian Painting: From the Byzantine Masters to the Renaissance...

A fully illustrated catalogue of new work and texts by Sir Grayson Perry to accompany a landmark exhibition at the Wallace Collection in celebration of the artist's 65th birthday. This...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew rivers have shaped a nation's identity as profoundly as the Mississippi, and no writer understood...

The Great Wall of China - stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the Bohai Sea - remains an enduring symbol of Chinese might....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the heart of the Holy See comes one of the most extraordinary musical recordings ever produced under papal authority — Music from the Vatican: Alma...

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Investors are placing increased emphasis on capital allocation methods to achieve their desired social, environmental and financial objectives, and are targeting investments that not only facilitate economic growth in countries...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the golden age of aviation, one man's audacity redefined what it meant to conquer the skies. Ride on the Wind chronicles the extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe skies over Britain in the summer of 1940 became the stage for one of history's most desperate...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! It's time for Christmas fun with Bluey and friends! Bluey, Bingo and their family are having the best ever Christmas. Use the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWho really owns America, and how do they keep it? Ferdinand Lundberg's The Rich and the Super-Rich tears...

'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World 'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton's. -- A. N. Wilson, The Oldie A...

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,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the glamour of Rome's film world lies a carefully constructed lie — and in The...