Secret Life of Books - Why They Mean More Than Words (Mole Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Secret Life of Books - Why They Mean More Than Words (Mole Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Now in paperback: a beautiful gift book that will change the way you see books for

The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words (Mole Tom)(Pevná vazba)

We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on vacation. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. The

Secret Life of Words (Hitchings Henry)(Paperback / softback)

Journey into the history of English and discover how words have been absorbed into our language to make it what it is

No Mean City (McArthur A)(Paperback / softback)

No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the

The Secret of Letting Go (Finley Guy)(Paperback)

With more than two million copies of all of his books in print, Guy Finley's message of self-liberation has touched people around the world. Discover how to extinguish self-defeating thoughts and habits that undermine true happiness. Exploring relationships, depression, and stress, his inspiring

How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now (Dehaene Stanislas)(Paperback)

'There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and 'learning' is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it's more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.'--The New York Times Book Review

Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 - Adrian Mole Book 1 (none)(Paperback / softback)

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend is a modern classic - Adrian is as popular as ever. With a beautiful new package, this novel is perfect for long-time Adrian Mole fans or newcomers to the series. David Walliams contributes a foreword to this beautiful 30th Anniversary edition of The

Spirit Level - Why Equality is Better for Everyone (Pickett Kate)(Paperback / softback)

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? The answer: inequality. This book provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy - is affected not

Words and Buildings - A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (Forty Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

The words we use when we talk and write about architecture describe more than just bricks and mortar--they direct the ways we think of and live with buildings. This groundbreaking book is the first thorough examination of the complex relationship between architecture and language as intricate

False Economy - A Surprising Economic History of the World (Beattie Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Why do oil and diamonds lead to economic disaster more often than boom? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine? Why might believing in God be good for your balance-sheet? Using the stories of economic triumph and disaster, this title explains how some countries went wrong while others went

Oxford Children's Maths and Science Words (Dictionaries Oxford)(Paperback / softback)

The Oxford Children's Maths and Science Words includes more than 600 first science and maths words, as well as computing words, explained clearly and in alphabetical order. Matched to the curriculum, it is full of colourful illustrations and simple definitions to make learning new words fun and

Cracked - Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good (Davies James)(Paperback / softback)

Controversial and powerful - a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern

The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread But Can't Be Computed (Koch Christof)(Paperback)

An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack.In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to

The Adrian Mole Diaries: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 / The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Townsend Sue)(Paperback)

Practice of the Presence of God (Hodder Classics) (Lawrence Brother)(Paperback / softback)

There is not in the world a way of life more sweet, nor more delightful than continual converse with God. Those only who practise it, and savour it, can understand it.It was as a lay monk in a monastery kitchen that Brother Lawrence discovered the delight of a continual awareness of God's presence

Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Acemoglu Daron)(Paperback / softback)

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture,

Stark - Satirical Thriller (Elton Ben)(Paperback / softback)

Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. But EcoAction isn't in society: it just lives in the same place, along with the cockroaches. If you're facing the richest and most disgusting scheme in history, you have to do more than

Outliers - The Story of Success (Gladwell Malcolm)(Paperback / softback)

Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this book, the author looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more

Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words (Ayto John)(Paperback)

What is the link between map and apron, acrobat and oxygen, zeal and jealousy, flour and pollen, secret and crime? Did you know that crimson originally comes from the name of tiny scale insects, the kermes, from whose dried bodies a red dyestuff is made? That Yankee began as a nickname for

Wind in the Willows (Sims Lesley)(Paperback / softback)

Mole, Ratty, Badger and the infamous Mr Toad love nothing more than messing around on the river. But when Mr Toad develops an obsession with motor vehicles, will his friends be able to help before he loses everything? A delightful retelling featuring simple, engaging text and charming

Secret of Chimneys (Christie Agatha)(Paperback / softback)

A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house... Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing to

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Chenoweth Erica)(Paperback)

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience,

Secret of Crickley Hall (Herbert James)(Paperback / softback)

Would you stay in a haunted house for more than one night? The Caleighs had their reasons, but the secret of Crickley Hall soon fills their

Possessed - Why We Want More Than We Need (Hood Bruce)(Paperback / softback)