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Tete A Tete: Simone De Beauvoir And Jean Paul Sartre
$53.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
"Though Rowley identifies her engaging and accessible chronicle as the 'story of a relationship,' it is in fact the story of the many relationships forged by two of the most brilliant, unorthodox and scandalous intellect... 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 »
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 »
Tell Me No Lies
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
A wide-ranging anthology of investigative journalism from the liberation of Dachau in 1945 to the Florida elections scandal of 2000. Taken together they form a “secret history” of the last fifty years, revealing the trut... 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 »
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 »
Nigella Bites
$65.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )
To tell the truth, I didn’t intend to write another book so soon. Not that this is by way of an apology: I am too evangelical about the food I like eating (and cooking) not to want to present the recipes from the new ser... More »
The Battle Of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle Of World War 2
$33.95$16.95 (Paperback book / W W Norton )
"An unsentimental and unaffected account of how the outnumbered RAF fought the Luftwaffe to a standstill during the summer and early autumn of 1940 ...A wide-ranging, painstakingly documented and comprehensive appreciati... More »
The Cambridge History Of Seventeenth Century Philosophy 2 Volume Hardback Set
$499.00$235.00 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge hi... More »
Memory An Anthology
$54.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our act... More »
Katherine Swynford
$59.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
In her remarkable new book, Alison Weir recounts one of the greatest and most remarkable love stories of medieval England. It is the extraordinary tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who became first the mi... 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 »
Peeling The Onion
$49.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. Gr... More »
Be Near Me
$49.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Harcourt )
In a small Scottish parish in a post-industrial town by the sea, an English priest with secrets in his own past becomes stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred, and lost ideals.
When Father David Anderton takes over... More »
Vittorio The Vampire
$35.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.
Educated i... More »
Blink Thin Slicing Snap Judgements And The Power Of Thinkingwithout Thinking
$49.95$18.95 (Hardcover book / Little Brown )
How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? Thats the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing... More »
How To Eat: The Pleasures & Principles Of Good Food
$59.97$29.95 (Paperback book / Chatto & Windus )
Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next. It’s about developing an understanding of food, a sense of assurance in the kitchen, about the simple desire to m... More »
Bringing The Plague
$75.00$19.95 (Paperback book / )
This collection proposes no rigid definition of postmodernism, but rather highlights the persistence of modernist ideas at the heart of postmodern psychoanalytic theories and pratices.. More »
Handbook Of Personality Disorders Theory And Practice
$155.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Wiley )
Edited by one of the leading experts in the field, the Handbook of Personality Disorders offers authoritative coverage of personality disorder etiology, theory, psychopathology, and assessment. It provides detailed, full... More »
Forever Summer
$49.95$29.95 (Paperback book / Chatto & Windus )
n the ideal world inhabited by the chef, there may indeed be a place for the lyrical insistence on using only those ingredients that the month in hand offers up to the market place, but my kitchen, my home, the way I coo... 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 »
Collected Poems Of Ted Hughes
$99.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. The Collected Poems represents his poetry of five decades, including such ... More »
Encyclopedia Of Organic Gardening Hb
$49.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Rodale Press )
Take an active role in the movement against genetically modified foods by creating your very own natural, chemical-free garden environment. J.I Rodale’s 1,152-pagedThe Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has stood out as t... More »
Thomas The Tank Engine Classic Library
$340.00$199.95 (Hardcover book / )
The Railway Series has been delighting children with the adventures of Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends since 1945. All twenty-six of the Rev.W.Awdry’s books are collected in this classic library, each containing a... 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 »
Anna Of All The Russias A Life Of Anna Akhmatova
$59.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
NoAnna Akhmatova is recognised as the greatest woman poet of Russian literature. Her work has a classical perfection, drawn from Pushkin, and a passionate voice, which rises directly out of the drama of her own life. Man... More »
Constantinople
$49.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on
Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing
the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium.
During the siege that followed, a small band of... More »
Beyond Black
$52.00$17.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
Hailed as a "writer of subtlety and depth," (Joyce Carol Oates) Hilary Mantel turns her dark genius on the world of psychics in this smart, unsettling novel.
A paragon of efficiency, Colette took the next natural step af... More »
Exuberance The Passion For Life
$39.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
The author of the bestselling An Unquiet Mind–and internationally renowned authority on mood disorders–now gives us something wonderfully different: an exploration of exuberance and how it fuels our most important crea... More »
Possibility Of An Island
$45.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / Orion )
'Who among you deserves eternal life?' Houellebecq's dazzling new novel, which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarotte, and between the near and far-distant future, is a thought provoking, sometimes shocking, and u... More »
Heart Of Things
$35.00$17.95 (Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
In this new collection A.C. Grayling extends the range of his previous two books to show how much understanding people can gain about themselves and their world by reflecting on the lessons offered by science, the arts (... More »
History Of The English Speaking Peoples Since 1900
$59.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples in four volumes ended in 1900. As Churchill himself wrote in the preface: 'Every nation or group of nations has its own tale to tell ... it is in the hope tha... 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 Of Subversion A Secret History Of Women And Tattoo
$46.95$19.95 (Paperback book / Powerhouse Books )
An indelible account of an indelible piece of cultural history. -- Barbara Kruger, artist
An outstanding read, and long-overdue addition to the growing body of literature on tattooing -- Intertnational Tattooing
Bodies o... More »
Inescapable Self Introduction To Western Philosophy
$29.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
The ultimate nightmare scenario: everything is a nightmare. Reality itself is part of a dream - nothing is real and nothing can be trusted. The stuff of science-fiction? Yes, but the problem of the 'inescapable self' - t... More »
Dream Life Of Sukhanov
$29.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Viking )
At the age of fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want: a glittering career, a beautiful wife and two children, a grand apartment in the smartest part of Moscow. He thinks he has achieved his dream - t... More »
Niccolos Smile A Biography of Machiavelli
$61.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / I B Tauris )
This biography traces Machiavelli's life from humble beginnings to his appointment as representative of foreign affairs for Florence, his subsequent fall from grace, torture and final exile, where, in the gardens of the ... More »
Mark Knight Collection The (Limited Edition)
$295.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / )
Mark Knight has been capturing the politics, culture, soul and history of Australia and beyond in his political cartoons, illustrations and caricatures for two decades.
Now, for the first time, the multi-award-winning ar... More »
Harmonia Mundi: 50th Anniversary Boxed Set
$149.95$79.95 (Compact disc / Harmonia Mundi )
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / Anonymous 4 / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie / Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel / Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel / Francis Chapelet / La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent &... 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 »
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 »
William Pitt: The Younger
$69.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Vintage )
William Pitt the Younger is an illuminating biography of one of the great iconic figures in British history: the man who in 1784 at the age of twenty-four became (and so remains) the youngest Prime Minister in the histor... 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The Shape Of Things To Come: Prophecy And The American Voice
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
In his latest book, music journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus examines the violence, eloquence and contradictions at the heart of America’s discourse with itself and untangles the convoluted narrative of America’... 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 »
Book By Book: Notes On Reading And Life
$34.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's often surprising meditation on those places where life and books intersect and what might be learned from both.
Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure.Yet there is another equa... More »
Triumph Of Practice Over Theory In Ethics
$31.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
Aristotelian ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarian ethics have been for some time now the main options within (Western) ethics, and the central task over the years has been to determine which of the three is right. Is ... More »
Earthly Powers: Religion And Politics In Europe From The Enlightenment To The Great War
$65.00$17.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
A major work setting out the inextricable link of politics and religion over the past two centuries, from the French Revolution to the Great War. In this dazzling and hugely relevant book Michael Burleigh explores the wa... More »
The Confident Hope Of A Miracle: True History Of The Spanish Armada
$69.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
The Confident Hope of a Miracle is a gripping account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada — the defining international event of the Elizabethan age. In 1588, determined to reclaim England for the Catholic Church, King Ph... More »
Assault On Truth
$29.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Ballantine Books )
In 1896, Sigmund Freud presented his revolutionary “seduction theory,” arguing that acts of sexual abuse and violence inflicted on children are the direct cause of adult mental illness. Nine years later, Freud completely... 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 »
Emerald Germs Of Ireland
$46.00$12.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
"...Mr. McCabe presents Pat's exploits not as a series of grim outrages but as...merry escapism....But too much jest does a disservice to the real darkness that haunts this material, and that erupts only suddenly and bit... 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 »
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 »
Museum Of Doubt
$25.00$11.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )
The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The strange and mysterious characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by parano... More »
Retreat From Love
$25.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Peter Owen )
Retreat from Love is one of the best of Colette's celebrated 'Claudine' novels. It was the first to be written under her own name, without the influence of her husband from whom she had recently separated. A tale of the ... More »
Deadly Space Between
$22.00$11.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a ba... 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Lore Of The Land A Guide To Englands Legends From Spring Heeled Jack To The Witches Of Warboys
$45.00$29.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Where can you find the 'Devil's footprints'? What happened at the 'hangman's stone'? Did Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, ever really exist? Where was King Arthur laid to rest? Bringing together tales of h... More »
Story Of A Life
$49.95$21.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )
When World War Two broke out, Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old, the child of an assimilated, middle-class Jewish family in Czernowitz. After losing his mother, murdered early on in the Nazi occupation, and then his f... More »
Universal Home Doctor
$29.95$9.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
Sean O' Brien has described Simon Armitage as 'the first poet of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity . . . it is possible that he will attain the sort of proverbial status Larkin now o... 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 »
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 »
Prosciutto Pancetta Salame
$35.00$14.95 (Trade cloth / National Academy Pr. )
The craft of curing meats has been handed down through generations by Italian artisan producers who follow these same careful techniques even today. In PROSCIUTTO, PANCETTA, SALAME, bestselling author of the Italian Arti... More »
Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Little Brown )
An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraord... More »
Leni The Life And Work Of Leni Riefenstahl
$65.00 (Hardcover book / Little Brown )
Leni Riefenstahl is one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. Best known as ‘Hitler’s filmmaker’, Riefenstahl made two documentaries, OLYMPIA and TRIUMPH OF THE WILL, acknowled... More »
Rape A History From 1860 To The Present
$69.95 (Hardcover book / Virago )
Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminolo... More »
Secret Life Of Water
$34.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Atria )
In The Hidden Messages in Water, Masaru Emoto described how water can absorb, hold, and even retransmit human emotions, and underlined his theory using high-speed photos of frozen water crystals that showed changes when ... More »