Academic & Professional

John Travers / Green & Gold: Ireland as a Clean Energy World Leader

    While many agree Ireland can become a world leader in clean energy as conventional energy sources run out, there's little agreement on how. Travers captures the challenge and opportunity from...

Andy Cope / The Art of Being Brilliant

    A pep talk in your pocket This short, small, highly illustrated book will fill you to the brim with happiness, positivity, wellbeing and, most importantly, success! Andy Cope and Andy...

Patrick Holford / Say No To Cancer

    Cancer is on the increase. It is predicted that, within twenty years, half the population will be affected at some point in their lives. The single greatest cause of cancer - even greater...

Jeremy Wyndham / How Long Is a Piece of String? : More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

    Why do weather forecasters get it wrong? What are the best tactics for playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" and "The Weakest Link"? And what is the link between a tin of baked beans and a...

Nicholas Jones / Soundbites and Spin Doctors

   Written by an insider to the relationship between the media and politics, and shows how both manipulate the other.   All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

John Harvey-Jones / Troubleshooter

    This book is produced to accompany the second series of John Harvey-Jones' successful programmes investigating the health of individual British companies. Each chapter investigates an...

Julian Baggini / Do They Think You're Stupid? : 100 Ways Of Spotting Spin And Nonsense From The Media, Celebrities And Politicians

    This companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad...

Mark Brown / Successful Project Management in a Week

 This guide seeks to explain basic principles and provide practical steps for project managers. Topics covered include: understanding the nature of projects; setting up a project; planning projects;...

Paula Polk Lillard / Montessori A Modern Approach

    A presentation of the basic principles of the Montessori method, preceeded by an historical survey of its vicissitudes.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Jinny Ditzler / Your Best Year Yet! : How to Make the Next 12 Months Your Most Successful Ever!

    A self-help and personal development book. Based on a goal-setting programme used by thousands of people, the key is a set of ten questions which provide the impetus to self-knowledge and...

Joe Borgenicht / The Baby Owner's Manual

    You've programmed your VCR, you've reinstalled Microsoft Windows, you can even check your e-mail on your Palm Pilot. But none of this experience will prepare you for the world's biggest...

Eamonn Butler / Boost Your I. Q.

    This sequel to Test your IQ provides a sample IQ test containing 60 questions--logic puzzles, word questions, and diagram questions. The authors use a series of exercises to demonstrate how...

Maria Montesson / The Discovery of the Child

    Describing the nature of the child and her method, Maria Montessori explains in this text her beliefs - that once the general principles of her method have been grasped, the parts dealing...

Philip Ball / Critical Mass

    Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology...

Philippe Legrain / Open World : The Truth about Globalisation

   Globalisation is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. While protestors take to the streets at international summits, it is becoming conventional wisdom that companies are...

Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the words We Use

   Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod...

Ricardo Semler / Maverick

    Ricardo Semler inherited his family company, Semco - manufacturer of marine pumps, industrial dishwashers and mixing equipment - when he was 19. Soon, by 1980, it was on the brink of...

Natalie Angier / The Beauty of the Beastly

    For most people cockroaches, spiders, worms, dung beetles and hyenas are not paragons of beauty in a natural world; in fact, many would prefer that they were not there at all. But in this...

Brian Duncalf / How to Pass Any Exam

 A cheerful, practical guide for anyone taking an exam or test, from GCSEs and university degrees to vocational training exams and driving tests. It offers advice on revision techniques, overcoming...

Noah J. Goldstein / Yes! : 50 Secrets From the Science of Persuasion

 Most of us are only too aware that, whatever roles we have in today's fast-moving world, much of our success lies in getting others to say 'Yes' to our requests. What many people might not be aware...

John Button / How to be Green : The Definitive Guide on How Each and Everyone of Us Can Do Our Bit for the Maintenance of Planet Earth

 More and more people want to know what they can do to look after themselves and the planet. This book lists easy and practical ways of making changes in your everyday life to benefit yourself and...

A Very Short Introduction: Economics

 Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life,...

A Very Short Introduction: Sociology

 Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, work in bureaucracies, and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the...

G. Terry Page / The Wordsworth Book of Spelling Rules

   This work provides a guide to the rules of English spelling and a simple framework for the general improvement of spelling. It is suitable for self-instruction and as a resource for teachers,...

Jim Al-Khalili / What's Next?

   Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again.Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our...

Frank Delaney / The Celts

    This book, a companion volume to the BBC2 television series, aims to trace the origin, growth, flowering and eventual decline of the Celts, a people who are traditionally portrayed as wild,...

John Allen Paulos / Beyond Numeracy : An Uncommon Dictionary of Mathematics

    From the author of "Innumeracy", this book explores the beauty and fascination of mathematics. It can be seen as a dictionary (ranging from algebra to zeno), as a collection of brief...

Michael Brooks / 13 Things That Don't Make Sense : The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

   Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar...

H.W. Fowler / The King's English

    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...

Hadley Freeman / Be Awesome : Modern Life for Modern Ladies

   Hadley Freeman, Guardian features writer and author of the popular `Ask Hadley...' column, reminds the modern lady to `Be Awesome'.All women need to listen to Hadley. She might just have the...

Jonas Ridderstrale / Funky Business : Talent Makes Capital Dance

     BUSINESS AS USUAL? FUNK THAT "In a world of suits, Nordstrom and Ridderstrale's message is refreshingly different." "Business Strategy Review," The Greatest Business Books of All Time" "Funky...

George Monbiot / Heat : How We Can Stop the Planet Burning

   Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by the day, so does the amount of hot air and...

Maria Montessori / The Absorbent Mind

    Based on lectures given by Dr Montessori at Ahmedabad, this text is an analysis of the physical and psychological aspects of a child's growth during the most significant period of life...

Michael Foley / The Age of Absurdity : Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

   The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by...

Richard I. Lindley / Stroke

    Stroke is a common cause of disability and the third commonest cause of death but it fails to attract much public attention. This book seeks to redress the balance by describing who is at the...

Clay Shirky / Here Comes Everybody : How Change Happens when People Come Together

   Clay Shirky's international bestseller Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together explores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human...

Anna Kiernan / Voices for Peace

    The attack of 11 September was a terrorist atrocity of unprecedented scale, attracting near-universal condemnation from the international community. But was the bombing of Afghanistan, some...

Matt Ridley / The Origins of Virtue

    Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and...

Oliver Sacks / Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain

   `A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us.' Daily TelegraphOliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people...

Caroline Taggart / A Classical Education : The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School

   How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about...

Judy May Murphy / Sleeping Your Way to Success

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Dorothy Rowe / Dorothy Rowe's Guide to Life

    This is a distillation of Dorothy Rowe's insights on the main sticking points of life: identity and self-esteem, fear of death, depression, coping with other people, power, guilt and coming...

Lynn Grabhorn / Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting

   We all know how strong our emotions can be - but do we really appreciate that they can actually help us to achieve what we want?We sometimes disregard our feelings and carry on living life the...

Alok Jha / How to Live Forever : And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science

    How to clone a sheep. How to build a brain. How to boil a planet. How to save the world. From the microscopic to the cosmic, this book takes you on a glorious tour of the known universe and...

E.O. Parrott / How to Become Ridiculously Well-read in One Evening

    Humorous poems summarize great works of literature by Jane Austen, Anthony Burgess, Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Graham Greene, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Shakespeare, Mark Twain,...

Daniel and Jason Freeman / Use Your Head : A Guided Tour of the Human Mind

   What makes us tick? Why do we feel happy, sad or anxious? Does our IQ affect how successful we are at work? Why are we attracted to some people and not to others? Can our personalities influence...

Alice Walden Howard / Exploring the "Road Less Travelled"

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Michael Wolff / Burn Rate: How I Survived The Gold Rush Years On The Internet

    Michael Wolff was a journalist and writer; in 1998 he is a journalist and writer again. But in the first half of the '90s he was an Internet entrepreneur, Chairman and CEO of Wolff New Media...

Gael Lindenfield / Super Confidence

   A practical handbook aimed at all women who want to be in control of every situation they encounter. The book includes strategies for increasing self-knowledge and self-esteem, becoming more...

V. S. Naipaul / Beyond Belief : Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples

   This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and...

Benjamin R. Barber / Jihad Vs McWorld

    Designed for anyone who wants to understand the challenges facing us after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and in light of the conflict in the Middle East in 2003, "Jihad Vs McWorld"...

Aidan Macfarlane / Teenagers : The Agony, The Ecstasy - The Answers

    Ever felt you need to turn to a whole team of advisers for help in bringing up your wayward children? From psychiatrists to cooks, from laundry maids to substance abuse counsellors? Then this...