Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance (Bryant Tom)(Paperback)

Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance (Bryant Tom)(Paperback)

My Chemical Romance is the most significant band in alternative rock in the last decade. Inspirational, original, and stunningly creative, they forged an extraordinary connection with their fans. Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance is their definitive biography.Author Tom

Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant (Lazenby Roland)(Paperback)

The definitive portrait of Kobe Bryant, from the author of Michael Jordan. 'Lazenby's detailed research and fantastic writing paint a complex, engaging picture of one of the NBA's greats' (Kurt Helin, NBC Sports). Eighteen-time All-Star, scorer of 81 points in a single game, MVP, and one of the

Reality Is Not What It Seems - The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Rovelli Carlo)(Paperback / softback)

From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing

Extraordinary: The Life You're Meant to Live (Bevere John)(Paperback)

Satisfy your intrinsic desire to rise above the norm. Isn't it true that we long to see the extraordinary, experience the extraordinary, do the extraordinary? Yet, so often we settle for mediocrity when greatness is within our grasp. Why are we drawn to stories of heroic triumph over seemingly

The Metamorphosis of the World (Beck Ulrich)(Paperback)

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more

Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Nepo Mark)(Paperback)

A deeply heartfelt weave of reflections and poems about what it means to live the creative, expressive life. 'I cherish the wisdom and embrace the practices offered in this luminous book.' --Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy 'Meaningful art, enduring art--and the

Duchess If You Dare: A Dazzling Historical Regency Romance (Bryant Anabelle)(Paperback)

From the glittering ballrooms of the ton to the city's grittiest corners, London has no shortage of wrongs in need of righting--and the Maidens of Mayhem are prepared for the challenge. United by secrecy and sisterhood, these daring women from all walks of life aim to fight injustice wherever it

The History of William Marshal (Bryant Nigel)(Paperback)

The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight - indeed it is the first biography of a layman in the vernacular in European history. Composed in verse in the 1220s just a few years after his death, it is a major primary source not simply for its subject's

The Water-Babies (Kingsley Charles)(Paperback)

'this is all a fairy tale...and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true' The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's stories ever written. In describing the underwater adventures of Tom, a chimney-sweeper's boy who is transformed into a

Critique of Forms of Life (Jaeggi Rahel)(Pevná vazba)

For many liberals, the question 'Do others live rightly?' feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: 'Who am I to judge?' Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint from morally evaluating our peers. But Rahel Jaeggi sees the situation differently

Showboat - The Life of Kobe Bryant (Lazenby Roland)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive biography of global superstar and basketball icon Kobe

The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction (Eagleton Terry)(Paperback)

The phrase the meaning of life for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own surprising answer. Eagleton

The Lives of the Surrealists (Morris Desmond)(Paperback)

Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the World War I. In The Lives of the Surrealists, surrealist artist and celebrated writer Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people--as

The Amazing Secret of Purgatory (Sister Emmanuel)(Paperback)

An Unbelievable True Account of Purgatory Told by the Souls Who Are There It is not often that a book touches the soul so deeply. From day one, it has been a best seller Maria Simma, a devout Catholic, lived humbly in the hills of Austria. At 25, she was graced with a special charism: Souls from

The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma (Epstein Helen)(Paperback)

This intrepid memoir tracks sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma 'invents its own genre,' wrote Sherry Turkle. 'The author suspects sexual abuse in her

Tales of a Midwife (Anderson Maria)(Paperback / softback)

The true story of life on the maternity

Periodic Table (Levi Primo)(Paperback / softback)

Assesses author's life in terms of the chemical elements. This title reflects on the difficult course of his life from his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its

Find Your Why: How to Discover Your True Purpose and Live Life to the Full (Mallon Joanne)(Paperback)

Demon Headmaster Takes Over (Cross Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

It seems too good to be true. The Hyperbrain: a super intelligent computer that works by accessing the human brain. However, someone wants to use it for accessing people's minds and taking control of them! It can't be the Demon Headmaster, because he's been defeated. Hasn't

Inspiring Faith Communities: A Programme of Evangelisation (Hurley Michael)(Paperback)

The great value of this book is that it helps people to explore together how they can live life more fully and with authentic freedom. Part one outlines three convictions that guide its direction and the programme it describes. Firstly, God desires what is best for all people and invites each one

The Sculptor in the Sky (Scott Teal)(Paperback)

'You can not have a life, you can not lose a life... You are life. It is you who hold the power to decide yourself back onto the path you intended...the path of welcoming and becoming your own bliss.' The Sculptor In The Sky, the new book by spiritual catalyst, Teal Scott takes you on a journey of

Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere (Sterner Robert W.)(Paperback)

All life is chemical. That fact underpins the developing field of ecological stoichiometry, the study of the balance of chemical elements in ecological interactions. This long-awaited book brings this field into its own as a unifying force in ecology and evolution. Synthesizing a wide range of

Civilization: The Way We Live Now - William A Ewing, Holly Roussell

We hurtle together into the future at ever-increasing speed – or so it seems to the collective psyche. Every day and every hour, human civilization expands, evolves and mutates. While we frequently lapse into celebrating the individual at the expense of the group, in science and art, at work and

Skinhead... The Life I Chose (Pitt Spike)(Paperback)

This is a true account of the skinhead cult, told by a man who was really there and still is. It is NOT about Nazism, or Neo-Nazism, and definitely not about politics; it is the story of how the ebullience of youth can be corrupted and misinterpreted by propaganda and the media. Warning This story