The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (Simler Kevin)(Paperback)

Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616 (Porter Stephen)(Paperback)

Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to curb its expansion. From contemporary letters, journals and

Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas in Bargaining (Kolb Deborah M.)(Paperback)

Everyday Negotiation shows how to recognize the shadownegotiation-- where the unspoken attitudes, hidden assumptions, andconflicting agendas that drive the bargaining process play out--and how to put that knowledge to work. Originally titled The ShadowNegotiation and named by Harvard Business

Tree of Yoga - The Definitive Guide to Yoga in Everyday Life (Iyengar B.K.S.)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive guide to yoga in everyday life from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga

The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy in Everyday Life (Lyons Minna)(Paperback)

The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy in Everyday Life summarizes the latest research on how these personality traits (psychopathology, narcissism, Machiavellianism) are defined and displayed, while also exploring the impact they have on individuals and

Skin in the Game - Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Taleb Nassim Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility | | Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we

Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance (Guyon Etienne)(Paperback)

The hidden elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles. Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life--crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile--but looks at them with a physicist's eye, revealing a hidden elegance in mundane

How Not to Be Wrong - The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life (Ellenberg Jordan)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the mathematician's method of analyzing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore and when to change the equation entirely. This book tells us that maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the

Hidden Kingdom: The Insect Life of Costa Rica (Naskrecki Piotr)(Paperback)

Encounter some of the most beautiful creatures in Costa Rica in Piotr Naskrecki's Hidden Kingdom. This book is a visual journey into the world of the insects and their relatives that dominate all terrestrial habitats in Costa Rica through their sheer numbers, biomass, and the ecological functions

Jesus said, 'I am' - Finding life in the everyday (Skevington Andrea)(Paperback / softback)

Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback / softback)

A brand new transaction of the 'Psychopathology of Everyday Life' - one of 15 volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for the Penguin classics. This edition aims to reach beyond the institiutional/clinical

Daily Life in the Maya Civilization (Hunter Nick)(Paperback / softback)

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in the Maya Civilization. Supported by timelines, maps and references to important events and people, children will really feel they are on a time-travelling journey when reading this

From the Colonies to Katherine Mansfield (Boon Kevin)(Paperback)

In this comprehensive and probing story of the life of Sir Harold Beauchamp, Kevin Boon traces the path of a remarkable self-made man who rose from humble beginnings to become a leading figure in the development of banking, commerce and the arts in New Zealand. From his origins as an immigrant to

Day in the Life of the Brain - The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk (Greenfield Baroness Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Fitzpatrick Sheila)(Paperback)

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future

Rebuilding Life After Brain Injury: Dreamtalk (McDonald Sheena)(Paperback)

Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury: Dreamtalk tells the survival story of Sheena McDonald, who in 1999 was hit by a police van and suffered a very severe brain injury. Sheena's story is told from her own, personal standpoint and also from two further unique and invaluable perspectives. Allan

Daily Life in the Islamic Golden Age (Nardo Don)(Paperback / softback)

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in the Islamic Golden Age,including Baghdad around AD900. Supported by timelines, maps and references to important events and people, children will really feel they are on a time-travelling journey when reading this

Remembering Utopia: The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia (Luthar Breda)(Paperback)

This collection of essays helps uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia, such as leisure, popular culture, consumption, sociability and power. This volume attempts to uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia from

Divine Conspiracy - Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God (Willard Dallas)(Paperback / softback)

First published in 1998, The Divine Conspiracy captured the attention of Christians across the world, by offering a timely and challenging call back to the true meaning of Christian

Anonymous: Jesus' Hidden Years... and Yours (Chole Alicia Britt)(Paperback)

In Anonymous, learn to recognize the riches in the uncelebrated seasons of your life. When your potential is unseen and your abilities are unappreciated, use those times as opportunities to develop an unshakable identity and to find rest in God's timing--just as Jesus did.Unsettling spaces are

Hidden (Chamberlain Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Her heart died in the war - can she breathe new life to

Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life (Czerski Helen)(Paperback)

Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski's lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee stains, and fridge magnets, to big

The Hidden Wife, 2 (Rees Joanna)(Paperback)

The Hidden Wife by Joanna Rees is the second novel in A Stitch in Time - a sweeping historical trilogy.Paris, 1928Having fled London and been on the run around Europe, Vita Casey has established a new life for herself, keeping a low profile as a dresser at a cabaret hall where Nancy is part of the

Elephant (Mrozek Slawomir)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a collection of short stories that satirizes the life in Poland under a totalitarian

My Life in Football: The Autobiography (Keegan Kevin)(Paperback)

The autobiography of the iconic, hugely influential and well-loved former English football player and