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| "Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 We live in epoch-making times The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 46 billion-year history As a result our planet is said to be crossing into the Anthropocene - the Age of Humans Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age to see what life is really like for the people on the frontline of the planet we've made From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean Gaia found people doing the most extraordinary things to solve the problems that we ourselves have created These stories show what the Anthropocene means for all of us - and they illuminate how we might engineer Earth for our future"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The White Road : a pilgrimage of sorts" |
| "A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise that mixed with the right materials it might survive the fire of the kiln and fuse into porcelain - translucent luminous white Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice Versailles Dublin Dresden the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain Along the way he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired made rich or heartsick by it and the many whose livelihoods minds and bodies were broken by this obsessionIt spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material the white gold&39; he has worked with for decades Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Winner of The Times British Sports Book Award 2014 A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UKA teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park His name is Raheem Sterling The call is made Get down here quick This is something special Another boy is 8 going on 28 His name is Jack Wilshere The referee an Arsenal scout spirits him away from Luton Town A young goalkeeper struggles on loan at Cheltenham Town in League Two His name is Jack Butland Within months he will be playing for England Welcome to football's hidden tribe Scouts are everywhere yet nowhere faceless and nameless despite making the informed decisions worth millions Award-winning sportswriter Michael Calvin opens up their hidden world examining their disconnected lifestyles petty betrayals and unconsidered professionalism of men who spend long lonely hours on the road"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2) by Hugh Howey (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo The full novel which brings together First Second and Third Shift 'The next Hunger Games' The Sunday Times'An epic feat of imagination You will live in this world' Justin CroninIn a future less than fifty years away the world is still as we know it Time continues to tick by The truth is that it is ticking away A powerful few know what lies ahead They are preparing for it They are trying to protect us They are setting us on a path from which we can never return A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground The history of the silo is about to be written Our future is about to begin"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Wool by Hugh Howey (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "'The next Hunger Games' The Sunday Times Well written tense and immensely satisfying Wool will be considered a classic for many years in the future' WIRED'Thrilling thought-provoking and memorable one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World' Daily Express'Howey's Wool is an epic feat of imagination You will live in this world' Justin Cronin'Wool is frightening fascinating and addictive In one word terrific' Kathy ReichsIn a ruined and hostile landscape in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive a community exists in a giant underground silo Inside men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations of secrets and lies To live you must follow the rules But some don't These are the dangerous ones; these are the people who dare to hope and dream and who infect others with their optimism Their punishment is simple and deadly They are allowed outside Jules is one of these people She may well be the last"
Price: 7.99 |
| "An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACYWinner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionParis 1895 an army officer Georges Picquart watches a convicted spy Alfred Dreyfus being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil&39;s Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life A breathtaking historical spy thriller from Robert Harris author of Munich Conclave and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE 2017 Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can The newspaper headlines tell us that Britain's wildlife is in trouble It's not just rare creatures that are vanishing hares and hedgehogs skylarks and water voles even the humble house sparrow are in freefall But there is also good news Otters have returned to the River Tyne; there are now beavers on the River Otter; and peregrines have taken up residence in the heart of London Stephen Moss travels the length and breadth of the UK from the remote archipelago of St Kilda to our inner cities to witness at first-hand how our wild creatures are faring and ask how we can bring back Britain's wildlife"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Marches by Rory Stewart (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017This is travel writing at its best' Katherine Norbury Observer An Observer Book of the YearHis father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk and walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia Now they have chosen to do their final walk together along the Marches' - the frontier that divides their two countries Scotland and England Brian a ninety-year-old former colonial official and intelligence officer arrives in Newcastle from Scotland dressed in tartan and carrying a draft of his new book You Know More Chinese Than You Think Rory comes from his home in the Lake District carrying a Punjabi fighting stick which he used when walking across Afghanistan On their six-hundred-mile thirty-day journey - with Rory on foot and his father ambushing' him by car - the pair relive Scottish dances reflect on Burmese honey-bears and on the loss of human presence in the British landscape On mountain ridges and in housing estates they uncover a forgotten country crushed between England and Scotland the Middleland They cross upland valleys which once held forgotten peoples and languages - still preserved in sixth-century lullabies and sixteenth-century ballads The surreal tragedy of Hadrian's Wall forces them to re-evaluate their own experiences in the Iraq and Vietnam wars The wild places of the uplands reveal abandoned monasteries border castles secret military test sites and newly created wetlands They discover unsettling modern lives lodged in an ancient land Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood an anatomy of the landscape a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son And as the journey deepens and the end approaches Brian and Rory fight to match step by step modern voices nationalisms and contemporary settlements to the natural beauty of the Marches and a fierce absorption in tradition in their own unconventional lives"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Geoff Robertson was born in Australia bu came to London in 1970 He made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at the celebrated trial and went on to engage in some of the most newsworthy cases in recent history He has defended John Stonehouse Cynthia Payne Salman Rushdie Kate Adie Arthur Scargill Daniel Sullivan Gay News 'The Romans of Britain' 'Niggaz with Attitude' and a pair of foetal earrings The book includes accounts of recent cases including the defence of a West London gym owner against the Prince of Wales the Matrix Churchill affair and the defence of the Guardian in the cash-for-questions affair Hugely readable funny scandalous revelator this will become one of the great books about the law"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske a Norfok fisherman was born in 1881 and in 1917 when he had just turned thirty-six he fell seriously ill For the rest of his life he kept moving in and out of what was described as a stuporous state&39; In 1923 he started making paintings of the sea and boats and the coastline seen from the sea and later when he was too ill to stand and paint he turned to embroidery which he could do lying in bedHis embroideries were also the sea including his masterpiece a huge embroidery of The Evacuation of Dunkirk Very few facts about Craske are known and only a few scattered photographs have survived together with accounts by the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner and her lover Valentine Ackland who discovered Craske in 1937 So - as with all her books - Julia Blackburn&39;s account of his life is far from a conventional biographyInstead it is a quest which takes her in many strange directions - to fishermen&39;s cottages in Sheringham a grand hotel fallen on hard times in Great Yarmouth and to the isolated Watch House far out in the Blakeney estuary; to Cromer and the bizarre story of Einstein&39;s stay there guarded by dashing young women in jodhpurs with shotguns Threads is a book about life and death and the strange country between the two where John Craske seemed to live It is also about life after death as Julia&39;s beloved husband Herman a vivid presence in the early pages of the book dies before it is finishedIn a gentle meditation on art and fame; on the nature of time and the fact of mortality; and illustrated with Craske&39;s paintings and embroideries Threads shows yet again that Julia Blackburn can conjure a magic that is spellbinding and utterly her own"
Price: 13.49 |
| "The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "'Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home home to his own beloved master'The Hunter children must go abroad for the summer so they reluctantly leave their three pets in the care of a friend But the faithful animals only know they must get home again somehow So the labrador the old bull terrier and the dainty Siamese cat set off on a perilous journey through the wilderness But how will domestic animals fare against river rapids hunger icy temperatures and ferocious wild beasts? And if they make it home will their owners be waiting for them?Includes exclusive material In the Backstory you can find out about some incredible real-life pet adventures! Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Collected Poems by Robert Frost (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost Hailed as the most eminent the most distinguished Anglo-American poet' by TS Eliot he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes In iconic poems like Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' simple images summon the rural landscape of New England and Frost unfailingly moves the reader with his profound grasp of the human condition This is the most comprehensive and authoritative volume of Frost's verse available comprising all eleven volumes of his poems meticulously edited by Edward Connery Lathem"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANELopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises A hostile landscape of ice freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes Home to millions of diverse animals and people The stage to massive migrations by land sea and air The setting of epic exploratory voyages And in crystalline prose Lopez captures the magic of the Arctic - the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man's imagination and ambition for centuries"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Hungry City : How Food Shapes Our Lives" |
| "Cities cover just 2 of the world&39;s surface but consume 75 of the world&39;s resources Global food production increased by 145 in the last 4 decades of the 20th century - yet an estimated 800 million people are still hungry In 2005 British supermarkets sent half a million tonnes of edible food to landfill - the whole food sector put together sent 17 million tonnesOne quarter of the British population is obese - one in three meals we eat is a ready meal WHY? The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our every day lives Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside that feeds usThe gargantuan effort necessary to feed cities arguably has a greater social and physical impact on us and our planet than anything else we do Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates Hungry City examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems from obesity the inexorable rise of the supermarkets to the destruction of the natural worldCarolyn Steel follows food on its journey - from the land (and sea) to market and supermarketkitchen to table waste-dump and back again - exploring the historical roots and the contemporary issues at each stage of food&39;s cycle She shows how our lives and our environment are being manipulated but explains how we can change things for the better Original inspiring and written with infectious enthusiasm and belief Hungry City illuminates an issue that is fundamental to us all WINNER OF THE RSL JERWOOD AWARD"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Vanishing Man : In Pursuit of Velazquez" |
| "WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSelected as a Book of the Year in the Herald In 1845 a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile Fusing detection and biography this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us even to the point of mania And on the trail of John Snare Cumming makes a surprising discovery of her own But most movingly The Vanishing Man is an eloquent and passionate homage to the Spanish master Velazquez bringing us closer to the creation and appreciation of his works than ever before"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Dr Dog by Babette Cole (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Meet Doctor Dog he's the Gumboyle family's favourite pet and their very own trusty physician When Doctor Dog jets off to a medical conference in Brazil the Guimboyles decide they can't survive without him and so he returns to rescue them from all sorts of ailments itchy nits tickly tonsils and worms to name but a few"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Big Katie Morag Storybook by Mairi Hedderwick (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Welcome to the Island of Struay home of one of the best-loved characters in children's books and as seen on TV - Katie Morag McColl!This lavish book is packed with brand-new stories and poems featuring favourite characters from Katie Morag's island home Whether she's trying to keep the secret of Baking Day from her little brother Liam befriending a baby seal with the Holiday Children or even smoothing out troubles between her two very different grannies Katie Morag is always at the heart of this island and its special way of life"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck (Paperback, 1990)" |
| "Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid And the very avoidance results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually Drawing heavily on his own professional experience leading psychiatrist Dr M Scott Peck suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding He discusses the nature of loving relationships how to recognise true compatibility how to distinguish dependency from love how to become one's own person and how to be a more sensitive parent This is the bestselling self-help book that will change the way you live and love for good"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The People of the Lie: Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck (Paperback, 1990)" |
| "A gripping book from the bestselling author of hugely popular self-help book The Road Less Travelled Leading psychiatrist and self-help pioneer Dr MScott Peck reveals his encounters with evil during sessions with patients of his psychiatric therapy The patient suddenly resembled a writhing snake of great strength More frightening than the writhing body however was the face The eyes were hooded with lazy reptilian torpor This is the second bestselling book by Dr M Scott Peck In this gripping psychology book the leading psychiatrist describes his encounters during psychiatric therapy with patients who are not merely ill but manifestly evil - People of the Lie This brilliant disturbing book forces us to confront the darker side of our natures and to recogise that without spiritual and religious dimension modern psychiatry cannot claim to understand human nature or behaviour It is a worthy successor to The Road Less Travelled"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Big Alfie And Annie Rose Storybook by Shirley Hughes (Paperback, 1990)" |
| "This gorgeous storybook is full of snapshots of family life from breakfast to bedtime and from birthdays to walks in the park All small children will be able to identify with Alfie and Annie Rose two hugely appealing pre-schoolers who are constantly tackling new experiences and making new friends"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past In this magical account Chatwin recalls his travels across the length and breadth of Australia seeking to find the truth about the songs and unravel the mysteries of their stories"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Touching The Void by Joe Simpson (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes He and his climbing partner Simon reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995 A few days later Simon staggered into Base Camp exhausted and frost-bitten with news that that Joe was dead What happened to Joe and how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR AND A READER&39;S GUIDEZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published in 1974The story of the narrator his son Chris and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California profoundly affected an entire generationBoth personal and philosophical this book is a compelling study of relationships values madness and eventually enlightenment"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Man Who Listens To Horses by Monty Roberts (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "When Monty Roberts was thirteen years old he went off on his own to the deserts of Nevada to watch mustangs in the wild What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life forever The Man Who Listens to Horses reveals his deep love and understanding of horses We learn how through his relationship with various horses he gradually developed the methods which enabled him to communicate with horses in their own language a silent language of gestures similar to sign language the unique art of the horse whisperer According to Monty anyone can learn the language of the horse and anyone can learn his Join-Up (R) methods In this amazing true life book he tells you how This is the bestselling autobiography that spread Monty Roberts' message across the world and changed his life forever Unique and inspirational and with a message that resonates far wider than its application to horses it might change your life too"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Shopping Basket by John Burningham (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Steven is sent out for groceries on to the mean street of the city with only a shopping basket for protection There are several shady characters about who are offering to lighten the load of the basket by helping themselves to his provisions! Stephen's having none of it and with the help of some of the city's less attractive sights he outsmarts all of them and makes it home in time for tea With the pictures telling as much of the story as the text children and adults alike will appreciate the humour and observations from this well known children's author"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee The 'third' chimpanzee is man Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle culture sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins"
Price: 8.99 |
| "All Join In by Quentin Blake (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "'And if Ferdinand decides to makea chocolate fudge banana cakeWhat do we do? For goodness sake!We ALL JOIN IN!'This book is a rumbustious rollicking and above all noisy collection of seven exuberant poems perfect for chanting aloud that are brilliantly illustrated by the incomparable Quentin Blake The collection includes 'All Join In' 'The Hooter Song' 'Nice Weather for Ducks' and 'Sorting Out the Kitchen Pans' Who coud possibly resist?"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Cockatoos by Quentin Blake (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos they're always just one step ahead of him This counting book won the 1992 Smarties Children's Choice Award"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Harry The Dirty Dog by Gene Zion (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Harry is a black and white dog who hates having a bath - so when he sees his owner with the dredded bath he runs away But in the end harry gets so dirty that his owners dont recognise him and so he has to beg for the thing he used to dread so much so they let him back into the houshold"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Guidelines by Jeff Johnson (Paperback,..." |
| "In this completely updated and revised edition of Designing with the Mind in Mind Jeff Johnson provides you with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that user interface (UI) design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list or rules to follow Early UI practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology and developed UI design rules based on it But as the field has evolved since the first edition of this book designers enter the field from many disciplines Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to design rules but it is essential that they understand the psychology behind the rules in order to effectively apply them In this new edition you'll find new chapters on human choice and decision making hand-eye coordination and attention as well as new examples figures and explanations throughout"
Price: 30.99 |
