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Dinner For Architects: A Collection Of Napkin Sketches
$35.95$14.95 (Paperback book / W W Norton )
A cadre of internationally recognised architects were invited to a dinner where each would be represented by a sketch on a dinner napkin. This book presents their ‘colorful and whimsical’ responses. More »
Nothing To Be Frightened Of
$55.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
I don't believe in God, but I miss him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art... More »
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Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life
$39.95$14.95 (Paperback book / New Press )
The definitive biography of a man and an age, an intimate portrait of a complex life. More »
Oscar Wilde: A Biography
$19.95$12.95 (Trade paperback / Penguin )
Aesthete, dandy, poet, dramatist and philosopher, Oscar Wilde's wit and charm dazzled society in London, America and Paris in the late 1880's. But the year 1895 brought Wilde literary triumph - with two plays achieving p... More »
The Trial Of The Cannibal Dog
$54.00$17.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook’s great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they ‘discovered’. More »
Scented Gardens For The Blind
$24.95$9.95 (Paperback book / George Braziller )
An account of the troubles that befall a young girl when her parents' marriage collapses. Erlene Glace, a New Zealand schoolgirl, stops speaking altogether shortly after her father Edward leaves the family to settle in E... More »
After Tamerlane: The Global History Of Empire
$69.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
After Tamerlane is an immensely important and stimulating work. It takes a fresh look at our global past. Our idea of world history is still dominated by the view from the West: it is Europe's expansion that takes centre... More »
Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight To Save The World
$59.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Chasing the Flame, tells the life story of a remarkable man. Sergio Vieira de Mello was born in 1948 just as the post World War II order was taking shape. He died in a terrorist attack on UN Headquarters in Iraq in 2003,... More »
Arlington Park
$35.00$15.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the... More »
Three Empires On The Nile
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Free Press )
A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his mini... More »
Blood And Roses
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
In a span of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. The Wars of the Roses tore En... More »
Between Sea And Sahara An Orientalist Vision
$24.95$12.95 (Paperback book / I B Tauris )
"Between Sea and Sahara" is one of the great classics of travel-writing about the Middle East. Fromentin's masterpiece is a symbol of nineteenth century Europe's fascination with the Orient and a tale of passion and adve... More »
The Pursuit Of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
$29.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution ... More »
Max Perutz And The Secret Of Life
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )
This is the story of the father of molecular biology whose famous research team uncovered the structure of DNA. Georgina Ferry’s story brims with life, has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of fascinating charac... More »
Black Mass Apocalyptic Religion And The Death Of Utopia
$45.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
During the last century global politics was shaped by utopian projects. Pursuing a dream of a world without evil, powerful states waged war and practised terror on an unprecedented scale. From Germany to Russia to China ... More »
Aunty's Jubilee: Celebrating 50 Years of ABC TV
$59.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Abc Books )
From its (at times) not-so-smooth launch in November 1956 from a studio in Kings Cross, some of the best-loved, most iconic programs in Australian memory have been seen on the ABC. Here are some memories you are sure to ... More »
Ambassadors
$39.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harcourt )
We think of ambassadors as simply diplomats-but once they were adventurers who dared an uncertain fate in unknown lands, bringing gifts of greyhounds and elephants to powerful and unpredictable leaders. In vivid detail, ... More »
Margaret Helfand Architects
$49.95$19.95 (Paperback book / )
In a collection of projects developed during the 1990s, Margaret Helfand Architects argues for an architecture of logic, simplicity, and sensuality. Presented chronologically, nineteen projects ranging from showrooms, re... More »
God's Grace
$23.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company )
"God's Grace "(1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood-a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's prota... More »
Hidden Assassins
$39.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harcourt )
The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building in Seville confirms everybody's terrorist fears. As more bodies are dragged from the rubble, the media interest and political pressure intensif... More »
Gay Love Poetry
$19.95$9.95 (Paperback book / )
This wide-ranging and superbly entertaining anthology of poetry stretches from Catullus and Ovid through Marlowe and Michelangelo, on to Wait Whitman and Oscar Wilde, and finally to such modems as Thom Gunn, J. R. Ackerl... More »
Living In The Maniototo
$24.95$8.95 (Paperback book / George Braziller )
A comic fantasy portraying the fortunes of a wandering novelist. Mavis Halleton, the heroine, is a woman of some fortitude and no small independence who manages to survive writer's block and widowhood as she makes her wa... More »
Agape Agape
$19.95$9.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
The late William Gaddis wrote four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination ... More »
Conquest Of Nature Water Landscape And The Making Of Modern Germany
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
"A modern-day German magically transported back 250 years would barely recognize his own country, says Blackbourn, a professor of history at Harvard. Where today manicured fields, straight canals and windmills dominate, ... More »
On Ugliness
$95.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
This book is the follow up to the previous volume ON BEAUTY. Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the firs... More »
Triumph Of Numbers How Counting Shaped Modern Life
$35.00$18.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since antiquity (tax collection, head counts for military service) but not until the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century did social numbe... More »
Robert Motherwell
$45.00$16.95 (Paperback book / Reaktion Books )
Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book, written by a friend of the artist, the well-known writer and critic Mary Ann Caws, examines Motherwell’s way of... More »
Lost For Words: The Hidden History Of The Oxford English Dictionary
$34.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr )
Examining the vast archive of the text proofs of the OED, the author provides fascinating new perspectives on the arguments and controversies that surrounded the creation of the first edition in 1928 and on its creators,... More »
After Such Knowledge
$27.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Public Affairs )
As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects ... More »
The Economics Of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time
$29.95$15.95 (Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin )
John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this l... More »
Pathfinders A Global History of Exploration
$55.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
With characteristic flair, Felipe Fernández-Armesto gives us an entertaining and insightful history of world exploration. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pa... More »
Respect The Formation Of Character In A World Of Inequality
$49.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
The powerful case for a society of mutual respect. In Respect in a World of Inequality, distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett explores the need for respect—and the consequences of disrespect—in a highly competitive a... More »
Max Beckmann
$99.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art )
This book accompanies a retrospective of Max Beckmann's painting organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. That exhibition turns out to be the first Bec... More »
Paradise A History Of The Idea That Rules The World
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Constable & Co Ltd )
This is the story of the human quest for perfection. Brought up by parents who belonged to and were expelled from a fundamentalist Christian sect, Kevin Rushby learnt when young that promises of paradise are not always w... More »
Towards The Light The Story Of The Struggles For Liberty Andrights That Made The Modern West
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling places the liberation of the individual at the centre of the story of Western development between the Reformation and the late 20th Century. The Modern West, he argues, was formed by a... More »
Tearing Down The Wall Of Sound
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Over the course of that day, Spector spoke with extraordinary candour about his life and career; his mercurial rise to become the most successful record producer of the sixties; the genius which had been both a blessing ... More »
Promises Promises
$29.95$6.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
In a virtuoso collection of essays, Adam Phillips sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. More »
Imperial Vanities
$29.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
This is the entwined story of three Victorians. Two of these men were brothers - Sir Samuel Baker, the irrepressible explorer; and Valentine Baker, reckoned to be the leading cavalry officer of the British Army before di... More »
The Great Italian Painters From The Gothic To The Renaissance
$39.95$29.95 (Paperback book / Scala Group )
Over 600 pages of text and illustrations in a delightful small format. More »
Mighty Fortress A New History Of The German People 100 Bc To The 21 St Century
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Granta )
An award-winning historian gives us the fullest portrait possible of the German nation, holding a mirror up to an entire civilization - one that has been alternately Western Europe's most successful and most perilous. Ta... More »
Bodies Politic Disease Death And Doctors In Britain 1650 1900
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Cornell Univ Pr )
In ths work, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-17th to the 20th century. Porter's key assumptions are ... More »
Patrick Obrian The Making Of A Novelist
$54.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Century )
To many, Patrick O'Brian was the greatest British novelist of the twentieth century. The fifteen volumes of the series set in the Royal Navy of the beginning of the nineteenth century and featuring Aubrey and Maturin hav... More »
Tranquil Star Unpublished Stories Of Primo Levi
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Penguin )
Profound, moving and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Here, for the first time in English, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, is a landmark se... More »
Box 18 The Unpublished Spike Milligan
$65.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
The two previous anthologies‚ ′The Essential Spike Milligan′ and ′The Compulsive Spike Milligan′‚ brought together the very best of his stories‚ cartoons‚ poems and correspondence‚ and reminded his fans how deserved his ... More »
Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage
$24.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In these stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as her characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but als... More »
Mr Golightlys Holiday
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
The new novel from the best-selling author of Miss Garnet's Angel and Instances of the Number 3. Mr Golightly is much in need of a holiday. As successful as Golightly Enterprises has been, it has also taken up all his ti... More »
Trouble At Willow Gables And Other Fictions
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
The book opens with works written under the pseudonym 'Brunette Coleman', including the two novellas, Trouble at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Bride's, and the poem sequence Sugar and Spice.The remainder of the... More »
IOU: Story Of Debt And Why We Must Diffuse It
$29.95$7.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalizati... More »
Shrimp And The Anemone
$22.95$9.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepo... More »
Like A Rolling Stone
$29.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
For the fortieth anniversary of the recording of 'Like a Rolling Stone' - the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and overnight changed the rules of the possible in popular music ... More »
Winston Churchills Speeches
$39.95$16.95 (Trade paperback / Pimlico )
Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 Winston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his... More »
World On Fire
$79.95$25.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
We are running a race with Bolshevism and the world is on fire' - President Wilson, 1919 Paris Peace Conference While the Western leaders in Paris were drafting a peace treaty that would punish German militarism and 'mak... More »
The View From Castle Rock
$24.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advanta... More »
A Fringe Of Leaves
$27.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Great Wall
$35.00$16.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
The Great Wall of China is a wonder of the world. Hundreds of thousands of tourists every year take the five-mile journey from Beijing to climb its battlements. It is instantly familiar to millions more from the myriad p... More »
Thames: Sacred River
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )
*Thames: Sacred River: is about the river from source to sea. It covers history from prehistoric times to the present, the flora and fauna of the river, paintings and photographs inspired by the Thames, its geology, smel... More »
In England
$130.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
Don McCullin's view of England is rooted in his wartime childhood and growing up around Finsbury Park in the fifties. His first published photograph was a picture of a gang from his neighbourhood, which appeared in a new... More »
Through The Eyes Of The Gods
$79.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Nat Geographic Soc )
This remarkable vision of Africa from the air invites the reader to view this large and varied continent as if an invited guest on a private plane, with a dialogue between the photographer and the viewer. Aerial photogra... More »
Men For Men Homoeroticism And Male Homosexuality In The History Of Photography Since 1840
$160.00$49.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
As soon as the invention of photography made it possible to be photographed with one's loved one, early daguerreotypes - small, unique images housed in their cases - were made as tokens of enduring affection or intimacy.... More »
Dance of the Happy Shades
$23.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. Described by one of her peers as going around with a 'delicate, rueful smile and a wicked pen', she says of herself: 'I guess that maybe... More »
Ode Less Travelled
$23.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Arrow )
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and... More »
Turning Back The Clock
$55.00$24.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. Publisher Marketing: The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghan... More »
Moons Of Jupiter
$22.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
This is a collection of 11 stories, in which women make discoveries about love, men. relationships, families and life in their contemporary Canadian small- town. Reviews 'How does one know when one is in the grip of an, ... More »
John Constable: A Kingdom Of His Own
$59.95$15.95 (Paperback book / Pimlico )
Born in 1776 in East Anglia near the river Stour, John Constable was destined for his father's business of milling and grain-shipping. But he was obdurately opposed to this and persuaded his family he should become an ar... More »
Body The Complete Human
$69.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / )
Ideal for families, students, and anyone who's interested in maintaining good health, Body engagingly reveals the complex and fascinating systems of the human machine; from head to toe, cells to skin, inner workings to o... More »
The Twyborn Affair
$27.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many ... More »
Cosmic Imagery Key Images In The History Of Science
$65.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
Certain key images embody our understanding of life and the universe we inhabit. Some, like Robert Hooke's first microscopic views of the natural world, or the stunning images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, were ma... More »
Of Love and Shadows
$24.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, this magical novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for the sake of justice and truth: Irene Be... More »
Uncensored
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse an... More »
Somersault
$52.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / )
Kenzaburo Oe is internationally recognized as one of the world's finest writers, and has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Now, in the first new novel he has published since winning the Nobel Prize, he makes an immense... More »