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1.
Series:
Do You Mind If I Cancel?
(Things That Still Annoy Me)
Paperback
Gary Janetti
9781250266415
$22.99
HUMOR
Oct 22, 2019
The InstantNew York TimesBestseller"From “Family Guy” to his own Instagram account, Janetti has been behind some of his generation’s greatest comedy. This book of essays is no exception."— The New York TimesFans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey… meet your new friend Gary Janetti.Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious, and poignant book chronicling the ...
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Series:
How Fear Works
Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century
Paperback
Frank Furedi
9781472972897
$20.50
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 22, 2019
In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book calledCulture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. InHow Fear Works, Furedi seeks to explain two interrelated themes: why has fear acquired such a morally commanding status in society today and how has the way we fear today changed from the way that it was experienced in the past? Furedi argues that one of the main drivers of the culture of fear is unravelling of moral authority. Fear appears to p...
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Series: Pocket Photo Guides
Birds of Ecuador and Galapagos
Paperback
Clive Byers
9781472974488
$19.00
NATURE
Aug 25, 2020
Although it is one of South America's smallest countries, Ecuador is home to nearly 1,600 species of birds. This is thanks to the huge variety of habitats created by the Andes. The country is a birder's paradise and an increasingly popular tourist destination. Areas such as Tandayapa, Mindo and La Selva are renowned for their birdwatching potential and boast such dramatic species as Toucan Barbet, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Andean Condor, Giant Conebill and Ocellated Tapaculo, plus an array ofbrightly coloured manikins, cotingas, tanagers and hum...
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Series:
Celebrating Life
Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places
Paperback
Jonathan Sacks
9781472974365
$28.00
RELIGION
Aug 13, 2019
'I have tried to say what happiness is, how we make it, how we lose it, and how we sometimes walk past it without recognising it. Happiness isn't somewhere else, it's where we are. It isn't something we don't have, we do. It isn't fantasy, it's reality experienced in a certain way. Happiness is a close relative of faith.'Following the painful loss of his father, former Chief Rabbi Sacks began to learn how to celebrate life in a new way. He discovered where happiness lives, often in unexpected places, through family, community, friendship and re...
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Series:
Etruscan Places
Travels Through Forgotten Italy
Paperback
D. H. Lawrence
9781838600228
$20.00
TRAVEL
Jul 16, 2019
The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the 5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their 'old wisdom', the secret of their vivacity and love of life. To him they represented the antithesis of everything he despised in the modern world, perhaps because their spontaneity and naturalness struck a chord with his own quest for personal and artistic freedom - so often censured or repress...
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Series:
Burn This
A Play
Paperback
Lanford Wilson
9780809030576
$19.00
DRAMA
May 02, 2019
Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company,Burn This first appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1987 to near-universal praise. Set in the bohemian art world of downtown New York, this vivid and challenging drama explores the spiritual and emotional isolation of Anna and Pale, two outcasts who meet in the wake of the accidental death by drowning of a mutual friend.Their determined struggle toward emotional honesty and liberation--by no means guaranteed at the play's ambiguous end--exemplifies the strength, humor, and complexity o...
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Series: Shacking Up
Making Up
A Shacking Up Novel
Paperback
Helena Hunting
9781250257390
$25.99
FICTION
Jul 16, 2019
A new standalone, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy byNew York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting.Cosy Felton is great at her job—she knows just how to handle the awkwardness that comes with working at an adult toy store. So when the hottest guy she’s ever seen walks into the shop looking completely overwhelmed, she’s more than happy to turn on the charm and help him purchase all of the items on his list.Griffin Mills is using his business trip in Las Vegas as a chance to escape the broken pieces of his life in New York City. The last thing h...
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Series:
Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism
Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism
Hardcover
Terry McAuliffe
9781250245885
$33.99
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jul 30, 2019
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe former governor of Virginia tells the behind-the-scenes story of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville—and shows how we can prevent other Charlottesvilles from happening. When Governor Terry McAuliffe hung up the phone on the afternoon of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, he was sure Donald Trump would do the right thing as president: condemn the white supremacists who’d descended on the college town and who’d caused McAuliffe to declare a state of emergency that mo...
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9.
Series:
Piranhas
The Boy Bosses of Naples: A Novel
Paperback
Roberto Saviano
9781250265302
$24.50
FICTION
Jul 16, 2019
InGomorrah, aNew York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, Roberto Saviano revealed a true, devastating portrait of Naples, Italy under the rule of the Camorra, a crime organization more powerful and violent than the Mafia. InThe Piranhas, the international bestselling author returns to his home city with a novel of gang warfare and a young man’s dark desire to rise to the top of Naples’s underworld.Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the...
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Series:
Knitty Gritty
Knitting for the Absolute Beginner
Paperback
Aneeta Patel
9781789940077
$34.00
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
May 14, 2019
There's a new generation of knitters out there, turning the traditional image of granny-knitters on its head. Everyone has heard the mantra 'knitting is the new yoga' but not everyone is lucky enough to have someone to show them the ropes and get them started on their very first row. Unless they have a friend or relative to teach them how to start, often would-be knitters turn to the so-called 'beginners patterns' but these can be confusing, difficult to follow, and more often than notwritten in 'knit' rather than English. This book is a tried-...
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Series:
Silent Spring Revisited
Paperback
Conor Mark Jameson
9781472970589
$20.00
NATURE
Jun 04, 2019
American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication ofSilent Spring in 1962. She made vivid the prospect of life without birdsong. But has her warning been heeded?Fifty years on, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on the growth of environmentalism sinceSilent Spring was published. His revealing and engaging tale plots milestone events in conservation, popular culture and political history in the British Isles and beyond, tracing a path through the half century since 'zero hour'...
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Series:
Projects and Their Consequences
Reiser+Umemoto
Hardcover
Jesse Reiser
9781616897192
$88.00
ARCHITECTURE
May 28, 2019
Projects and Their Consequences presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. Projects and Their Consequences traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan and the Alishan Railway in Taiwan, as well as schemes for cultural institutions including the New Museum, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, and University of Applied Arts ...
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Series:
The Tenth Parallel
Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Paperback
Eliza Griswold
9781250269782
$24.50
RELIGION
Jun 25, 2019
A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world's 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where the two religions meet; their encounter is shaping the future of each faith, ...
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Series:
Syria
The Desert and the Sown
Paperback
Gertrude Bell
9781838602307
$23.00
TRAVEL
Aug 13, 2019
"You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain."Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy - was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century. With T.E. Lawrence, she was a significant force behind the Arab Revolt and was responsible for creating the boundaries of the modern state of Iraq, as well as installing the Hashemite dynasty, with Faisal I as king, in Iraq and Transjordan. Her knowledge ofthe Arab world was forged through decades of travel and the ...
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Series:
Running Up That Hill
The highs and lows of going that bit further
Paperback
Vassos Alexander
9781472947956
$20.00
SPORTS & RECREATION
Jul 16, 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS HEALTH & FITNESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019Running Up That Hill is a celebration of endurance running. Of running ridiculous distances – through cities, over mountains and across countries. Distances most people couldn't even imagine. But sports presenter Vassos Alexander ishooked!Why else would he run an ultra in Paris, backwards, having missed the start? Why head to Wales for the world's hardest mountain race with a badly sprained ankle? And why follow in some unforgiving, ancient footsteps and attempt th...
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Series:
Forgotten Masters
Indian Painting for the East India Company
Hardcover
William Dalrymple
9781781301012
$54.50
ART
Jan 28, 2020
As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770sand the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857.Edited b...
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Series: Complete Guides
The Complete Guide to Indoor Rowing
Paperback
Jim Flood
9781472974938
$39.00
HEALTH & FITNESS
Nov 05, 2019
Indoor rowing machines (or ergometers) were once used only by outdoor rowers during their winter training. Over the last twenty years however the benefits of indoor rowing have attracted more and more users, and now every gym comes with one as standard. It's also a sport in its own right, with competitions ranging from school leagues to the European and World Championships.The Complete Guide to Indoor Rowing is the first comprehensive book to focus on this unique form of strength-endurance training. Clearly illustrated in full colour and packed...
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Series:
With All Due Respect
Defending America With Grit and Grace
CD-Audio
Nikki R. Haley
9781250267207
$54.50
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nov 12, 2019
This program is read by the author.A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal audiobook about the most significant events of our time, by the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations.Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner (“With all due respect, I don’t get confused”), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and her confident representation of America’s interests as our Ambassador to the United Nations during times of crisis and consequence.In this audiobook, Haley offers a first-hand perspective on major national and...
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19.
Series: Themed Kits
Burger Poet
Printed item
Magnetic Poetry
602394036483
$18.95
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Jul 01, 2019
Over 200 word magnets that make up more than a quarter-pound of cheese and ketchup dripping poetry. Includes words like meat, delicious, cheese, bun, patty, and melt.
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Series: Themed Kits
Creepy Clown
Printed item
Magnetic Poetry
602394036490
$18.95
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Jul 01, 2019
Over 200 word magnets that straddle the line between delightful and terrifying. Includes words like clown, laugh, silly, frown, funny and run.
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Series: Themed Kits
Go Girl!
Printed item
Magnetic Poetry
602394036506
$18.95
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Jul 01, 2019
Over 200 power-packed word magnets that are an unstoppable force. Contains words like spirit, accomplish, anything, power, and change.
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Series: Themed Kits
Hygge Poet
Printed item
Magnetic Poetry
602394036513
$18.95
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Jul 01, 2019
Over 200 word magnets that settle together for evenings of warm conviviality. Includes words like blanket, comfort, calm, book, fire and winter.
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Series: Themed Kits
Pagan Poet
Printed item
Magnetic Poetry
602394036520
$18.95
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Jul 01, 2019
Over 200 word magnets that align with the mysterious natural forces of the universe. Includes words like sacred, energy, spirit, channel, ritual and celebrate.
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Series: Themed Kits
Tree Poet
Printed item
Magnetic Poetry
602394036537
$18.95
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Jul 01, 2019
Over 200 word magnets that cling to the earth and reach for the heavens. Includes words like tree, grow, leaf, root, shade, and green.
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25.
Series: Travel Guide
Lonely Planet Best of Peru 2nd Ed.
Paperback
Lonely Planet
9781786574954
$34.99
TRAVEL
Aug 20, 2019
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Best of Peru is your passport to Peru's top sights and most authentic experiences. Scale the heights of Machu Picchu; puzzle over the Nazca Lines; or visit the sweltering, seductive Amazon Basin, all with your trusted travel companion. Offering visually-inspiring content along with the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you, this photo-rich, user-friendly guide makes planning fun and easy. Discover the best of Peru an...
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Series: Travel Guide
Lonely Planet Best of Malaysia & Singapore 2nd Ed.
Paperback
Lonely Planet
9781786574961
$34.99
TRAVEL
Aug 20, 2019
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Best of Malaysia & Singapore is your passport to Malaysia and Singapore's top sights and most authentic experiences. Enjoy some of Malaysia's best food in charismatic George Town, hunt out giant rafflesia flowers in Sarawak or sing karaoke at the Jonker Walk Night Market, all with your trusted travel companion. Offering visually-inspiring content along with the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you, this photo-rich, ...
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Series: Travel Guide
Lonely Planet Best of Japan 2nd Ed.
Paperback
Lonely Planet
9781787013872
$34.99
TRAVEL
Aug 20, 2019
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Best of Japan is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. See traditional geisha in Kyoto, hike up Mt Fuji, or shop around the clock in Tokyo; all with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of Japan and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Best of Japan: Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interest...
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Series:
Larousse College Dictionary French-English/English-French
Hardcover
Larousse
9782035973269
$42.95
REFERENCE
Aug 20, 2019
Aimed at upper-intermediate and advanced users who need more than a pocket-size or concise dictionary can offer, the Larousse College French/English Dictionary provides in-depth coverage of common vocabulary and a broad range of business terminology to appeal not only to students but to those who use French in their professional lives.
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Series: Do You Know?
Do You Know Your Bride?
A Quiz About the Woman in Your Life
Paperback
Dan Carlinsky
9781492696780
$9.99
REFERENCE
Nov 05, 2019
The perfect book for wedding showers, engagements, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and more! This fun activity book will uncover the hilarious things you know (or don't know) about your bride-to-be before the big day! With brain-stumping questions and fun multiple choice, this is the perfect shower or engagement party game to get couples talking, laughing, and learning more about each other!The only real question is, willyou take up the challenge?
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Series: Do You Know?
Do You Know Your Groom?
A Quiz About the Man in Your Life
Paperback
Dan Carlinsky
9781492696797
$9.99
REFERENCE
Nov 05, 2019
The wedding quiz book for wives-to-be!The perfect book for wedding showers, engagements, bachelorette parties, and more! This fun activity book will uncover the hilarious things a bride does (or doesn't!) know about her groom-to-be before the big day! With brain stumping questions and fun multiple choice, this is the perfect shower or engagement party game to get couples talking, laughing, and learning more about each other!Questions like: What nicknames has he gone by, from childhood on?Does your groom know his car license plate?Does your groo...
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Series: Do You Know?
Do You Know Your Wife?
A Quiz about the Woman in Your Life
Paperback
Dan Carlinsky
9781728211299
$9.99
HUMOR
Dec 24, 2019
Just because you're married doesn't mean you know her shoe size, favorite ice cream, or what she carries with her in case of emergencies! This fun activity book will uncover the hilarious things you know (or don't know) about your wife! With brain stumping questions and fun multiple choice, this is the perfect party game or dinner activity to get couples talking, laughing, and learning more about each other!It may be a humbling experience, but you're sure to have fun, and to find out a whole lot about the woman you married.
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Series: Do You Know?
Do You Know Your Husband?
A Quiz about the Man in Your Life
Paperback
Dan Carlinsky
9781728211305
$9.99
HUMOR
Dec 24, 2019
Just because you're married doesn't mean you know who his barber is, his shirt size, or the song that makes him cry!This fun activity book will uncover the hilarious things you know (or don't know) about your husband! With brain stumping questions and fun multiple choice, this is the perfect party game or dinner activity to get couples talking, laughing, and learning more about each other!It may bea humbling experience, but you're sure to have fun, and to find out a whole lot about the man you married.
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Series:
Swimming Games and Activities
For parents and teachers
Paperback
Jim Noble
9781472973856
$26.99
SPORTS & RECREATION
Sep 17, 2019
Tried and tested by teachers for over 15 years,Swimming Games and Activities is packed with games and ideas for teaching children the basics of water competence. With over 200 graded games and activities, it provides enjoyable ideas to stimulate children of all ages and includes:- confidence-building games for non-swimmers and beginners- more challenging activities such as sculling, treading water and diving to help more advanced swimmers develop their skills- practical advice for teachers on lesson planning, using music, running a gala, teachi...
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Series:
Alexandria
A History and Guide
Paperback
E.M. Forster
9781838605896
$24.50
HISTORY
Feb 23, 2021
In the autumn of 1915, in a "slightly heroic mood", E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring "the magic, antiquity and complexity" of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a "funk-hole". With a novelist's pen, he brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and the g...
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Series:
Europe after the Rain
Paperback
Alan Burns
9780714549163
$16.25
FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst's surrealist work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction – a theme which Burns here takes to its conclusion, showing man not merely trying to come to terms with desolation, but combating human cruelty with that resilience of spirit without which survival would be impossible. The Europe through which the unnamed narrator travels is a devastated world, twisted and misshapen, both geographically and morally, and he is forced to witness terrible sights, to which he brings an interested ap...
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Series:
Cultural Intelligence
The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Boundaries
Paperback
Julia Middleton
9781472971784
$30.00
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jan 21, 2020
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Series:
Eclipse - Concrete Poems
Paperback
Alan Riddell
9780714549149
$16.25
POETRY
Dec 10, 2019
In this volume of typographical (or “concrete”) poems, Alan Riddell weaves words and the very letters they're made of into shapes and patterns that heighten or, in some cases, completely undermine the professed message of the pieces.When Eclipse was first published in 1972, concrete poetry was still a relatively new art form, and this book was the first substantial one-man collection to be published in Britain. Now, almost fifty years since its inception, this volume provides a unique perspective on this cutting-edge technique.
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Series:
Babel
Paperback
Alan Burns
9780714549170
$16.25
FICTION
Jan 21, 2020
Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define – shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by extreme contrasts of mood and style and startling surrealist juxtapositions of images and ideas.By turns comic and tragic, tender and brutal, religious and blasphemous, the narrative rockets from London to the United States to Vietnam to interstellar space,...
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Series:
Mugby Junction
Paperback
Charles Dickens
9781847498137
$15.00
FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of a literary collaboration between some of the leading writers of the day, and contains four unforgettable contributions by Dickens himself, including 'The Signalman' – a chilling tale of a spectral apparition whose appearances forebode fatal accidents on the line.The eight stories included in this volume range from the hilarious to the hair-raising, and not only remain as fresh today as when they first appeared in 186...
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Series:
Selected Poems: Blake
Paperback
William Blake
9781847498212
$15.00
POETRY
Apr 28, 2020
Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant in the figurative arts as in the field of poetry, his works are often difficult to categorize and, while constantly harking back to a classical and biblical past, they also look forward to the future and find resonance there – with authors such as T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and the Beat poets among his many modern admirers.This volume includes a comprehensive selection of Blake's poetry, from the early Songs of Innocence and Experience to...
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Series:
Manon Lescaut
Paperback
Antoine Francois Prevost
9781847498144
$15.00
FICTION
Jan 14, 2020
When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her, and they elope to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and forfeiting his inheritance. However, he struggles to satisfy her taste for luxury, frittering away the little he has left, and his domestic bliss finally disintegrates when he finds out that Manon has betrayed him for a rich lover.Although causing scandal on its initial publication in 1731 and subsequently being banned, Manon Lescaut proved very popular wi...
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Series: Evergreens
Jude the Obscure
Paperback
Thomas Hardy
9781847498076
$12.50
FICTION
Dec 31, 2019
Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy's fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of private study, but his plans are thrown into disarray when he is deceived into marriage and then deserted by the duplicitous Arabella Donn. Jude, still hoping to earn a place at the university, travels to Christminster to work as a stonemason. Here, he falls for his freethinking cousin Sue, but with the pair living together out of wedlock, the pressures...
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Series: Pocket Photo Guides
Birds of Costa Rica
Paperback
Susan Fogden
9781472971838
$19.00
SCIENCE
Sep 17, 2019
Ideal for the travelling nature watcher, this useful guide provides a comprehensive overview of the variety of bird-life to be found in Costa Rica. Over 250 native species are included in the book, each description supported by a clear colour photograph taken where possible in the bird's natural Costa Rican habitat. As well as the commoner species likely to be encountered - colourful birds such as the Blue-grey Tanager, Social Flycatcher, Kiskadee, Clay-coloured Robin and Rufous-collared Sparrow - the guide also focuses on endemics, such as Bl...
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Series:
Digital Crafts
Industrial Technologies for Applied Artists and Designer Makers
Paperback
Ann Marie Shillito
9781789940114
$64.00
DESIGN
Dec 03, 2019
This book showcases ground-breaking methods and techniques that have been adapted from industry and are now being applied by designer-makers. To the uninitiated, these technologies may seem complex, but this book explains simply and clearly how they have developed, how they work, and their application. Packed full with case studies of artists using these processes, this book demonstrates that outstanding work is possible with the right equipment and know-how, and argues that designer makers have the mindset, skills and knowledge to creatively e...
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Series:
The Glorious Adventure
Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus
Paperback
Richard Halliburton
9781838601843
$19.00
TRAVEL
Aug 25, 2020
It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Halliburton, such a romantic, imaginative wanderer, would follow in the footsteps of another legendary traveller - Odysseus. Halliburton's second book, The Glorious Adventure describes his journey through the Mediterranean in the shadow of his mythical hero. In Greece, Halliburton charged Mount Olympus 'in order to visit the gods that dwelled there'; he swam the Hellespont as Byron had before him and journeyed on to Troy, where Odysseus's long adventure began. He sailed to Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian Sea, ...
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Series:
An Officer's Manual of the Western Front
1914-1918
Hardcover
Stephen Bull
9781472841360
$20.00
HISTORY
Oct 08, 2019
Many people have the idea that the 'Great War' on the Western Front was simple, if ghastly, to fight – with few tactics, and unbroken, monotonous, trench lines as the main feature of the battlefield. In such a scenario the archetypal image of battle is of soldiers with rifles and bayonets charging each other in blind obedience to stupid repetitious orders.Though undeniably bloody the war was in fact a ferment of new ideas and new weapons. Gas, flame throwers, super-heavy artillery, concrete bunkers, tanks, aircraft and other innovations were al...
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Series:
Assessment of Gifted and High-Ability Learners
Documenting Student Achievement in Gifted Education
Paperback
Yara Farah Ph.D.
9781618218810
$49.95
EDUCATION
Sep 15, 2019
Assessment of Gifted and High-Ability Learners equips readers with the knowledge and skills to evaluate and document student progress using a cyclical systematic process. This book:Highlights and explains the importance of curriculum-based assessments.Connects classroom content with the assessment process.Includes sample assessments for use with gifted and high-ability students.Illustrates the best methods for evaluating gifted students based on standards in each content area.Describes how students' progress can be improved through formative an...
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Series:
Case Studies and Case-Based Learning
Inquiry and Authentic Learning That Encourages 21st-Century Skills
Paperback
Todd Stanley
9781618218858
$42.95
EDUCATION
Sep 15, 2019
Case Studies and Case-Based Learning brings authentic, real-world learning to the classroom and:Transforms students' thinking and fosters 21st-century skills.Provides strategies, examples, and resources for implementing case-based learning across the disciplines.Features a step-by-step process for creating case-based lessons.Includes connections to inquiry-based, problem-based, and project-based learning.Builds off of a prominent educational strategy used in medicine and law.Case-based learning has long been an effective way to master knowledge...
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Series:
Not Now
The Procrastinator's Playbook
Paperback
Benjamin English
9781616898427
$18.95
HUMOR
Apr 14, 2020
Struggling to realize your full procrastination potential? Finally, a primer for procrastinators has arrived.Not Now is an illustrated instruction manual that teaches novice and advanced procrastinators how to dally, dawdle, and lollygag their way to expert-level procrastination. Starting with simple exercises, such as "sit" and "pace," instructions gradually advance in complexity and futility---"learn how to write in your non-dominant hand," "color coordinate your bookshelves to look like a Pantone color guide"–and eventually reach master leve...
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50.
Series:
The Island Kitchen
Recipes from Mauritius and the Indian Ocean
Hardcover
Selina Periampillai
9781526601384
$48.00
COOKING
Sep 10, 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD 2019'The Island Kitchen has lifted my spirits and made me hungry and happy in equal measure' Nigella LawsonThis ravishing cookbook will take you on a journey around the Indian Ocean islands, to taste the flavours of the colourful markets of Mauritius, the aromatic spice gardens of the Seychelles, the fishing coasts of the Maldives, the lagoons of Mayotte and the forests of Madagascar. Selina Periampillai, born in London but of Mauritian descent, celebrates the vibrant home-cooking of the islands, wit...
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51.
Series:
Warsaw 1944
Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising
Paperback
Alexandra Richie
9780374538910
$30.00
HISTORY
Oct 08, 2019
The full untold story of how one of history's bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimesIn 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan community a thousand years old was facing its final days—and then opportunity struck. As Soviet soldiers turned back the Nazi invasion of Russia and began pressing west, the underground Polish Home Army decided to act. Taking advantage of German disarray and seek...
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52.
Series: Rose Gallagher Mystery
A Golden Grave
A Rose Gallagher Mystery
Hardcover
Erin Lindsey
9781250620927
$38.50
FICTION
Sep 17, 2019
The follow-up toMurder on Millionaires' Row, Erin Lindsey's second historical mystery follows Rose Gallagher as she tracks a killer with shocking abilities through Gilded Age Manhattan.Rose Gallagher always dreamed of finding adventure, so her new life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. Only a few months ago, she was just another poor Irish housemaid from Five Points; now, she’s learning to shoot a gun and dance the waltz and throw a grown man over her shoulder. Better still, she’s been recruited to the ...
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