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| "The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "It is Christmas Eve 1957 Flying home on leave from Germany he is alone in the cockpit of the Vampire Sixty-six minutes of flying time with the descent and landing - destination Lakenheath No problem all routine procedures Then out over the North sea the fog begins to close in Radio contact ceases and the compass goes haywire Suddenly out of the mist appears a World War II bomber It is flying just below the Vampire as of trying to make contact"
Price: 6.99 |
| "House of Robots: (House of Robots 1) by James Patterson (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "In this new illustrated middle-grade series from James Patterson an extraordinary robot signs up for an ordinary fifth grade class and elementary school will never be the same!It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school a walking talking robot he calls E - for Error Sammy's no stranger to robots - his house is full of a colourful cast of them But this one not only thinks it's Sammy's brother it's actually even nerdier than Sammy Will E be Sammy's one-way ticket to Loserville? Or will he prove to the world that it's cool to be square? It's a roller-coaster ride for Sammy to discover the amazing secret E holds that could change his family forever if all goes well on the trial run!"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO one of the most ambitious feats in scientific historySelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Sunday Times'This is empirical poetry A fascinating tale of human curiosity beautifully told and with black holes and lasers too' Robin InceIn 1916 Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves miniscule ripples in the very fabric of spacetime generated by unfathomably powerful events If such vibrations could somehow be recorded we could observe our universe for the first time through sound the hissing of the Big Bang the low tones of merging galaxies the drumbeat of two black holes collapsing into one In 2016 a team of hundreds of scientists at work on a billion-dollar experiment made history when they announced the first ever detection of a gravitational wave confirming Einstein's prediction a century ago Based on complete access to LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the scientists who created it Black Hole Blues offers a first-hand account of this astonishing achievement an intimate story of cutting-edge science at its most awe-inspiring and ambitious"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Journey Into Cyprus by Colin Thubron (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The people their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy This is the account of a unique journey - a six-hundred-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace Colin Thubron intertwines myth history and personal anecdote in a quest from which the characters and places architecture and landscape all spring vividly to the reader's eye"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "In the summer of 1953 maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic patient named Henry Molaison But it was a catastrophic failure leaving Henry unable to create long-term memories Scoville's grandson Luke Dittrich takes us on an astonishing journey through the history of neuroscience from the first brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the New England asylum where his grandfather developed a taste for human experimentation Dittrich's investigation confronts unsettling family secrets and reveals the dark roots of modern neuroscience raising troubling questions that echo into the present day"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Dark Road by Ma Jian (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Meili a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China is married to Kongzi a village school teacher and a distant descendant of Confucius They have a daughter but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy mother father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life For years they drift south through the poisoned waterways and ruined landscapes of China picking up work as they go along scavenging for necessities and flying from police detection As Meili's body continues to be invaded by her husband and assaulted by the state she fights to regain control of her fate and that of her unborn child"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Hannibal: Clouds of War by Ben Kane (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "As Rome's war with Carthage continues two friends - now on opposing sides - confront each other in one of the most brutal sieges of all time A new Hannibal novel by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Legion series 213 BC Syracuse Under the merciless Sicilian sun a city is at war Outside the walls a vast Roman army waits Yet the city's incredible defences designed by Archimedes mean that Syracuse will not be taken easily A veteran of the bitter war since its beginning Quintus is ready to give his life in the service of the Republic But dangers face him from within his own ranks as well as from the enemy - who include his former friend the Carthaginian Hanno Hanno has been sent by his general Hannibal to aid Syracuse in its fight against Rome Pledged to bring death to all Romans he is diverted from his mission by the discovery of Quintus' sister Aurelia a captive within the city Two friends on opposing sides A woman caught between them They are about to meet in one of the most brutal sieges of all time Who will survive?"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims : (Book 1)" |
| "'An enthralling adventure story honest and powerful The Wars of the Roses are imagined here with energy with ferocity with hunger to engage the reader' Hilary MantelFebruary 1460In the bitter dawn of a winter's morning a young man and a woman escape from a priory In fear of their lives they are forced to flee across a land ravaged by conflict For this is the Wars of the Roses one of the most savage and bloody civil wars in historyWhere brother confronts brother king faces kingAnd Thomas and Katherine must fight - just to stay alive"
Price: 8.49 |
| "A Girl in Exile" |
| "When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication - to Linda B"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Lying Under the Apple Tree" |
| "Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being as she descends time and again headlamp on full beam pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready'The TimesSpanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted written with emotion and empathy these stories are nothing short of perfection A masterclass in the genre from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Middle School: Ultimate Showdown : (Middle School 5)" |
| "Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck Lauren Graham Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca Readers get a chance to participate in James Patterson's wildly successful Middle School series in this interactive book featuring more than 80 hilarious anecdotes from dueling siblings Rafe and Georgia Khatchadorian - plus dozens of fun-filled activities!The Khatchadorian kids are an opinionated duo and as readers of the Middle School stories know they don't exactly see eye to eye But when wild-card Rafe and mostly-straight-laced Georgia go at it the only thing more fun than their ranting is getting to join in! Their back-and-forth banter on a range of topics - from bullying to cafeteria food to school dress codes - introduces more than 40 writing and drawing prompts and other games along with room for readers to share their own points of view (Includes over 200 illustrations)"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Love, Guilt and Reparation by The Melanie Klein Trust (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Love Guilt and Reparation shows the growth of Melanie Kleins work and ideas between 1921 and 1945 The earlier papers reveal her intense proccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development She traces these influences on criminality and childhood psychosis symbol formation and intellectual inhibition and the early development of conscience In the final paper on the Oedipus complex Klein develops her theories of the earliest infant stages of development extending Freuds analysis of the Oedipus complex and laying a basis for her own subsequent conceptualising of the paranoid-schizoid position in the first six months of life The volume also contains a foreward by Dr Hanna Segal and explanatory notes by the Editorial Board of the Melanie Klein Trust"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Human Bone Manual by Pieter Arend Folkens, Tim D. White (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Building on the success of their previous book White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom by professional forensic scientists anthropologists and researchers The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information"
Price: 27.49 |
| "Digital Design and Computer Architecture by Sarah Harris, David Harris (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Digital Design and Computer Architecture Second Edition takes a unique and modern approach to digital design introducing the reader to the fundamentals of digital logic and then showing step by step how to build a MIPS microprocessor in both Verilog and VHDL This new edition combines an engaging and humorous writing style with an updated and hands-on approach to digital design It presents new content on IO systems in the context of general purpose processors found in a PC as well as microcontrollers found almost everywhere Beginning with digital logic gates and progressing to the design of combinational and sequential circuits the book uses these fundamental building blocks as the basis for the design of an actual MIPS processor It provides practical examples of how to interface with peripherals using RS232 SPI motor control interrupts wireless and analog-to-digital conversion SystemVerilog and VHDL are integrated throughout the text in examples illustrating the methods and techniques for CAD-based circuit design There are also additional exercises and new examples of parallel and advanced architectures practical IO applications embedded systems and heterogeneous computing plus a new appendix on C programming to strengthen the connection between programming and processor architecture This new edition will appeal to professional computer engineers and to students taking a course that combines digital logic and computer architecture"
Price: 56.99 |
| "Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release)" |
| "Creative professionals seeking the fastest easiest most comprehensive way to learn Adobe InDesign choose Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) from Adobe Press The 16 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in InDesign Designers will build a strong foundation of typographic page layout and document-construction skills that will enable them to produce a broad range of print and digital publications-from a simple postcard to an interactive Adobe PDF with form fields The real-world tasks in this comprehensive book are presented in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format and are designed to train beginning Adobe InDesign users in the program-from fundamental features to powerful layout skills This book can also help experienced InDesign users elevate their skills and learn about new features The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases new features for Creative Cloud customers All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and interactive multiple-choice quizzes As always with the Classroom in a Book Instructor Notes are available for teachers to download"
Price: 21.99 |
| "Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 1966)" |
| "Originally written to entertain move or chill the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and lifeArranged in approximate order of difficulty the range of stories is wide from the stylized wit of Raymond Queneau to the beautifully written ambiguities of Philippe Sollers from Pierre Gascar's exploration of childhood as a background to a tale of infidelity to Henri Thomas's gentle ironic look at war All make wonderful reads in either language"
Price: 7.49 |
| "On Photography by Susan Sontag (Paperback, 1979)" |
| "Susan Sontag&39;s On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject Susan Sontag&39;s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form Photographs are everywhere and the &39;insatiability of the photographing eye&39; has profoundly altered our relationship with the world Photographs have the power to shock idealize or seduce they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us In these six incisive essays Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives &39;Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites&39; The Times&39;A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves&39; Washington Post&39;The most original and illuminating study of the subject&39; New YorkerOne of America&39;s best-known and most admired writers Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004 Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction among them Regarding the Pain of Others On Photography Illness as Metaphor At the Same Time Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn Early Diaries 1947-1963 all of which are published by Penguin A further eight books including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor are available from Penguin Modern Classics"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE'Gripping SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins Erasmus Kemp the son of a Lancashire merchant and Matthew Paris a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's iniquitous greed AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman (Paperback, 1990)" |
| "The dwarf the disfigured the blind man the homosexual the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic they are all socially abnormal and therefore in danger of being considered less then human Whether ordinary people react by rejection by over-hearty acceptance or by plain embarressment their main concern is with such an individual's deviance not with the whole of his personality Stigma is a study of situations where normal and abnormal meet and of the ways in which a stigmatized person can develop a more positive social and personal identity"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought by Michel Foucault (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "An introduction to Foucault's thought which includes some previously unpublished material"
Price: 8.99 |
| "How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random) averages (mean median or modal) errors (probable standard or unintentional) graphs indexes and other tools of democratic persuasion"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Portable Nietzsche by Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche (Paperback, 1977)" |
| "The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago As Walter Kaufmann one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche notes in his introduction Few writers in any age were so full of ideas and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann's definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche's four major works Twilight of the Idols The Antichrist Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra In addition Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books notes and letters to give a full picture of Nietzsche's development versatility and inexhaustibility In this volume one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive passionate and misunderstood writers in Western or any literature -Newsweek"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Penguin History of the Church: The Early Church by Henry Chadwick (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Penguin History of Economics by Professor Roger E. Backhouse (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "A very clear reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians A core book"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Italian Food by Elizabeth David (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "In Italian Food Elizabeth David was the first to help us understand the real country cooking of ItalyItalian Food was an inspiration to British cooks when it was first published in 1954 - and it remains so to this day Embracing the variety richness and vibrancy of Italian cooking with particularly reference to regional variation Elizabeth David provides a magnificent and inspiring collection of favourite dishes as well as those more rarely encountered With straightforward recipes for meals such as Piedmontese cheese fondue fettuccine with fresh tomato sauce and chicken breasts with ham and cheese Elizabeth David brings us the authentic taste of Italian food 'Elizabeth David's clear and unpretentious directions for the enjoyment of good food have never been surpassed' Daily Mail 'Not only did she transform the way we cooked but she is a delight to read' Express on Sunday 'Britain's most inspirational food writer' Independent 'When you read Elizabeth David you get perfect pitch There is an understanding and evocation of flavours colours scents and places that lights up the page' Guardian 'Not only did she transform the way we cooked but she is a delight to read' Express on Sunday Elizabeth David (1913-1992) is the woman who changed the face of British cooking Having travelled widely during the Second World War she introduced post-war Britain to the sun-drenched delights of the Mediterranean and her recipes brought new flavours and aromas into kitchens across Britain After her classic first book Mediterranean Food followed more bestsellers including French Country Cooking Summer Cooking French Provincial Cooking Italian Food Elizabeth David's Christmas and At Elizabeth David's Table"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Daniel C Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? Here Daniel Dennett provides an impassioned defense of free will But rather than freedom being an eternal unchanging condition of our existence in reality he reveals it has evolved just like life on the planet and the air we breathe Evolution is the key to resolving this greatest of philosophical questions - and to understanding our place in the world as uniquely free agents Dennett shows that far from there being an incompatibility between contemporary science and the traditional vision of freedom and morality it is only recently that science has advanced to the point where we can see how we came to have our unique kind of freedom 'A serious book with a brilliant message' Matt Ridley author of The Red Queen 'Powerful and ingenious The definitive argument that the human mind is a product of evolution' John Gray Independent 'A book of sparkling brio and seemingly effortless panache Dennett at his best is as good as it gets' Spectator Daniel C Dennett is one of the most original and provocative thinkers in the world A brilliant polemicist and philosopher he is famous for challenging unexamined orthodoxies and an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement His books include Brainstorms Brainchildren Elbow Room Breaking the Spell Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Freedom Evolves"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly She was an ordinary if unusuallyintelligent and articulate little girl and her preoccupations include whether or not to join the Madonna fan club her piano lessons her friends andher new skis But the distant murmur of war draws closer to her Sarajevo home Her father starts to wear military uniform and herfriends begin to leave the city One day school is closed and the next day bombardments begin The pathos and power of Zlata's diary comes from watching the destruction of a childhood Her circle of friends isincreasingly replaced by international journalists who come to hear of this little girl's courage and resilience But the reality is that as they flyoff with the latest story of Zlata she remains behind writing her deepest feelings to 'Mimmy' her diary and her last remaining friend"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The Tiger Child: A Folk Tale from India by Joanna Troughton (Paperback, 1950)" |
| "This lively folk tale from Orissa India explains why tigers eat their food uncooked and why cats live with people The tiger child is sent to fetch some more fire from the village but on the way he gets distracted by his friends By the time he gets to the village he has forgotten what he has been sent to fetch"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The American by Henry James (Paperback, 1981)" |
| "Henry James's third novel is an exploration of his most powerful perennial theme - the clash between European and American cultures the Old World and the New Christopher Newman a 'self-made' American millionaire in France falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde Her family however taken aback by his brash American manner rejects his proposal of marriage When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past he confronts a moral dilemma Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Selected Poems: Keats by John Keats (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Over the course of his short life John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity By the end of his brief career he had written poems of such beauty imagination and generosity of spirit that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should be among the English poets after my death' This wide-ranging selection of Keats's poetry contains youthful verse such as his earliest known poem Imitation of Spenser'; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including Lamia' Isabella' The Eve of St Agnes' Ode to a Nightingale' and Hyperion' - and later celebrated works such as La Belle Dame sans Merci' Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be lesser work but which illustrate his more earthy playful side and superb ear for everyday language"
Price: 6.49 |
