Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, Vol. I (Gilbert Allan)(Paperback)

Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, Vol. I (Gilbert Allan)(Paperback)

From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan

Machiavelli: The Prince (Machiavelli Niccolo)(Paperback)

Niccol Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the most iconic names of the Renaissance. The Prince remains his best-known work, and is the first place that Machiavelli presented his fundamental belief that rulers must always

Understand Your Temperament!: A Guide to the Four Temperaments (Childs Gilbert)(Paperback)

How can we better understand ourselves and others? The classical concept of the four temperaments--the four personality types characterized as the fiery choleric, the airy sanguine, the watery phlegmatic and the earthy melancholic--has been revered by many significant thinkers over the ages. In a

The Portable Machiavelli (Machiavelli Niccolo)(Paperback)

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli's

Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.’ This ultimate collection of the infamous

Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs Vol. 10 (Miura Tadahiro)(Paperback)

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN... Kogarashi and the others are on a mission: to explore the Seven Wonders of Yukemuri High School! First up, a mysterious staircase that always seems to show girls' underwear. What strange powers are at play here? Then the gang takes off on a seaside adventure, exploring a

Mrs Vole the Vet (Ahlberg Allan)(Paperback / softback)

Mrs Vole the vet has one son, two daughters, three cats, four dogs and no husband. Really, she has everything she needs and she works very hard - no job is too big, too small or too high - but her children think that what she really needs is a

The Art of War (Machiavelli Niccolo)(Paperback)

Florentine statesman, writer, and political theorist, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) considered The Art of War his most important work. Five centuries later, after serving as a guide to Frederick the Great, Napoleon, and countless other military leaders, it remains an authoritative treatise on the

Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights (Klein Gary)(Paperback)

Insights -- like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA -- can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve

Switchback Turns - Amusement Park Science (Allan John)(Paperback / softback)

Switchback Turns looks at the fast and fascinating rides to explain how gravity works even when youare thrown upside down, how a pendulum swings, the dizzy science behind spinning and more...Amusement Park Science a series of 4 books that explain science, using the thrills and spills of rides that

Natural History of Selborne (White Gilbert)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of Gilbert White's letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home. This title presents an evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century

Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (Kaprow Allan)(Paperback)

Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation. His sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning

Classroom of the Elite (Light Novel) Vol. 3 (Kinugasa Syougo)(Paperback)

CRUISING FOR A BRUISING Having survived their final exams, Ayanokouji and the others are looking forward to an idyllic school-sponsored summer vacation aboard a cruise ship. But nothing is ever quite as it seems with the Tokyo Advanced Nurturing High School, and the cruise turns out to be the cover

Tales of Terror: Edgar Allan Poe and Others (Various Authors)(Paperback)

This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. A terrifying collection of short stories for horror fans: the heart of a dead man won't stop beating; a girl's strange new employer holds a dark secret; a tree hides

Im: Great Priest Imhotep, Vol. 5 (Morishita Makoto)(Paperback)

The ancient queen Cleopatra is after something hidden inside Chapter Chief Yata's body, and it seems to be tied to the tragedy that took place at Harugo Misora's family shrine fifteen years ago. Imhotep, Harugo, and their teammates must uncover the truth and thwart the queen's plans before the past

The Everyday and Everydayness: Two Works Series Vol. 3 (Lefebvre Henri)(Paperback)

A new, affordable edition of French Marxist and proto-Situationist Henri Lefebvre's classic text on the everyday, illustrated by Julie MehretuThe work of French Marxist sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre radically transformed the discourse of political geography. Witness to the rapid

The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Vol. 2 (Kavanaugh Kieran)(Paperback)

The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern literature. Although chiefly remembered for his short

Dogs and Others (Jovanovic Biljana)(Paperback)

The protagonist in Dogs and Others is the first openly lesbian character in modern Serbian literature, but she is also so much more than that, as she encapsulates the zeitgeist of her generation. Coming of age in 1970s Belgrade, then the capital city of thriving, socialist Yugoslavia, we follow

The Green London Way: Walking the City's History and Wildlife (Gilbert Bob)(Paperback)

Fiance of the Wizard, Vol. 2 (Kazuka Masaki)(Paperback)

Filimena's cranky fianc Egiedeyrus, having graduated from the academy, is now the court's Chief Enchanter. He expects his new position to allow him more time to spend with his fianc e, until terrible news reaches the court, and he must set out on a quest to protect the

The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Penny Louise)(Paperback)

The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro--including a

The Best of Wonder Wart-Hog (Shelton Gilbert)(Paperback)

Gilbert Shelton is the creator of the multi-million selling Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat. Wonder Wart-Hog was his earliest creation and probably still his favourite. The character has appeared over the years in publications varying from Drag Cartoons to Zap Comix as well as several comics of

The October Faction, Vol. 1 (Niles Steve)(Paperback)

Soon to be a Netflix Original Series Meet the Allan family in this tale about the typical challenges that a very atypical family encounters while fending off the attacks of vampires, werewolves, demons, and more. From Steve Niles, the co-creator of 30 Days of Night, and artist Damien Worm comes a