Academic & Professional

Oliver James / They F*** You Up : How to Survive Family Life

 Clinical psychologist Oliver James demonstrates that who we are is largely the result of the way we were cared for during our first six years, rather than our genes and other environmental factors...

Ursula Markham / How to Deal With Difficult People

   This guide is designed to help the reader understand and handle over-aggressive, negative, ineffectual or generally disagreeable people who seem to enjoy making a person's life difficult. The book...

Loreto Todd / Celtic Names for Children

   A dictionary of over 2,000 Celtic names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. But more than that, it gives the origin and meaning of each name plus traditional...

Michael Argyle / The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour

 The first edition of this book outlined what amounted to a breakthrough in the analysis of social behaviour. Since then it has become widely used as an introductory textbook of social psychology. It...

Richard Carlson / Stop Thinking Start Living

 Revolutionary in its simplicity and accessible to all, this bestselling book offers commonsense methods that allow you to let go of depression and tap into natural joy.In this indispensable...

Graham Allcott / How to be a Productivity Ninja

   In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don't cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings...

Nicola Morgan / Know Your Brain

 Find out everything there is to know about your brain in this fascinating grey-matter guide! There is nothing more amazing than the human brain. It will be with you for your entire life, it will...

John Allen Paulos / A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

 With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made "Innumeracy" a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages ofthe daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a...

Christopher Knight / The Hiram Key : Pharoahs,Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Christ

 Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight and Bob Lomas into and extraordinary investigation of 4,...

Bill McLain / Do Fish Drink Water? : Puzzling and Improbable Questions and Answers

 Have you ever wondered why cats purr or whether it can really rain frogs? Bill McLain answers and expands upon these problems, leaving you knowing much more than just a simple answer to the puzzling...

Mary Kotsonouris / Talking to Your Solicitor

 If you have ever had a problem that has made you think about engaging a solicitor, this book is designed to be of interest. It looks at the ways in which solicitors can help people, examines the...

Sean Sheehan / Dictionary of Irish Quotations

 This dictionary of quotations contains a varied selection of interesting, informative, intriguing, infuriating - and sometimes even witty - remarks made by Irish people on a number of topical...

Stephen Jay Gould / Eight Little Piggies

 This collection of essays ranges from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always with Gould, the...

Anthony Storr / Solitude

 This study challenges the widely-held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. It argues that we pay far too little attention to some of the other great...

Robert Bly / Iron John : A Book About Men

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Colin Robson / Experiment, Design and Statistics in Psychology

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Simon Singh / Fermat's Last Theorem

 In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across a great mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can now understand, but which has baffled...

Carmen Renee Berry / Girlfriends : Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties

 Almost any woman will tell you that her friendships with other women are among the most rewarding relationships she has. In this remarkable book, real-life girlfriends Carmen Renee Berry and Tamara...

Arthur S. Reber / The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology (4th Edition)

 The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology has become a byword for demystifying the language of this complex subject. Now fully updated for its fourth edition, this wide-ranging and accessible dictionary...

Edward Tenner / Why Things Bite Back : Predicting the Problems of Progress

 This work contends that with every great advance in science and technology, there is a corresponding revenge effect. Yesterday's asbestos curtain, for example, which used to be used for protection,...

Melissa Rossi / The Armchair Diplomat on Europe

 It happens all the time: you're watching the Champion's League, pondering Robert Kilroy Silk's unnatural glow, reading the latest newspaper debate about EU bendy banana laws, and thinking: what's...

John Murray / That's What I Call Jargon

 The Financial Regulator has a team of people whose task is to translate the language of the banking world in to understandable English. This book conducts a campaign to try and stave off the...

Edward O. Wilson / Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge

 In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition...

Bronwyn Whitlocke / Chinese Medicine for Women : A Common Sense Approach

 This book guides you to an understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine, an ancient method of describing and analysing the human body. Among the health issues addressed are stress, diet and...

Walden Howard / Exploring the "Road Less Travelled"

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Tim Flannery / The Weather Makers : Our Changing Climate and what it means for Life on Earth

 The Weather Makers tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate, of how it has changed, how we have come to understand it, and of what that means for the future. Tim Flannery's gripping narrative...

Connie Robertson / A Book of Humorous Quotations

 From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always...

Margaret Donaldson / Children's Minds

 Margaret Donaldson's seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought. In this concise and brilliantly readable book,...

Constitution of Ireland / Bunreacht na hEireann (English and Irish Edition)

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Richard Preston / The Hot Zone

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Robin Norwood / Letters from Women Who Love Too Much

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The Penguin Pocket English Thesaurus

 A volume designed to increase your command of the English language and build up your reserves of word power. It features: a comprehensive working vocabulary which takes modern needs and priorities...

Edwina Currie / This Honourable House

 Politicians are amongst the most reviled and distrusted of all professionals. Nevertheless, honourable men and women do put themselves forward to help run the country, whether out of conviction,...

Tony Humphreys / Leaving the Nest : What Families Are All About

 We don't all come from happy families. The reality is that families are a mixture of positive and hurtful experiences. Families are all about bringing children to a place of independence, so that as...

Graham King / Super Speller

  The plain guide to mastering the most difficult-to-spell words and names in the English language, such as ‘mispelled’ for ‘misspelled’. The Superspeller guide features: the 200 most misspelt words...

Graham King / Word Check

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Will Hutton / The State We're In

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John Gray / Mars And Venus Together Forever : Relationship Skills for Lasting Love

 This repackaged, retitled version of WHAT YOUR MOTHER COULDN'T TELL YOU AND YOUR FATHER DIDN'T KNOW brings the book firmly into line with John Gary's existing Mars and Venus classics, and has proved...

Ken Blanchard / The One Minute Manager

 With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard The original, bestselling blockbuster which has transformed businesses world wide. The blockbuster number one international bestselling phenomenon is back ...not...

Jack Black / Mindstore for Personal Development

 This work uses the techniques in "Mindstore", Jack's first book, and applies them to the arena of the more personal; memory and learning, tip of the tongue triggers, relationships, communications,...

W. Clement Stone / The Success System That Never Fails

 W. Clement Stone's classic three-point formula has been helping people achieve their dreams for more than 25 years. His practical text and inspiring stories teach readers how to chart their own...

Jacqueline Eames / The Best Best Man

   Are you the Best Man for the job? You will be - when you have read this easy guide to the duties and delights of BestManship. It's a great compliment to be chosen as a Best Man, so you want to...

Oxford Better Wordpower

 Increase your confidence, and improve your command of English Today, more and more emphasis is placed on successful communication, and on the correct and skilled use of words. Better Wordpower helps...

Graham Bannock / The Penguin Dictionary of Economics

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Maeve Byrne Crangle / Conquer Your Fear of Flying

 As many as one in ten people are simply terrified of flying; even the thought of boarding a plane can cause pure terror. Now updated with the latest information, this well-established book examines...

Anthony Clare / In the Psychiatrist's Chair: v. 2

 A collection of 12 soul-searching interviews with a range of celebrities, including Les Dawson and Joanna Lumley. Each is prefaced with Anthony Clare's thoughts on the tone of the encounter, on how...

M. Scott Peck / Denial of the Soul

Through a profound exploration of one of the most explosive issues of our age - euthanasia and the right to die - M. Scott Peck helps us determine the spiritual lessons that dying is meant to teach...

Tom McGuire / The Election Book

Your essential guide to the inside workings of politics, political procedures and elections in Ireland, from Ireland's leading commentators. Let RTE's political experts take you through the roles of:...

Robin Skynner / Life and How to Survive it

This is an investigative book which extends study beyond the family circle to relationships and group interaction in life outside it. It acts as a "map" to guide people through their everyday lives...

Miranda Hart / Is it Just Me?

Well hello to you dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that...

Frank McDonald / The Builders: How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled the Building Boom

In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world. Of all the factors in this extraordinary transformation, none has...

Max Landsberg / The Tao of Coaching

Based on the programme developed by management consultancy McKinsey & Co, this work shows how to enhance workers' performance through "coaching". Step-by-step, a parable takes the reader through the...