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Paperback. Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Analysing Darwin's major insights and arguments, this work reasserts the importance of his work for the development of modern biology. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, halftones and drawings. BIC Classification: BGH; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192854544
ISBN
9780192854544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

paperback. Paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear. ROBINSON
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KRF0022515
ISBN
9780751532685
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
656
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KLN0017091
ISBN
9780751532234
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. A completely revised and updated biography of Uri Geller in which the world famous man of mystery opens up about his work as a psychic spy for the CIA and Mossad - tying in with the release of a new documentary exploring this previously unknown area of Geller's past Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; VXP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Watkins Media Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780287614
ISBN
9781780287614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 'A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness .. A masterpiece' Financial Times Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 340 x 25. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857029055
ISBN
9781857029055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, 48 black & white photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 135. .
Publisher
Seren
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781724019
ISBN
9781781724019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. Suitable for those interested in true-crime history and the shadier side of Buckinghamshire's past, this title includes cases such as the slaying of a family of seven in Denham in 1870, the killing of a butcher's wife in Victorian Slough for which no one was ever found guilty, and an apparent suicide in Chesham which turned out to be murder. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESU; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 247 x 11. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752470238
ISBN
9780752470238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

Paperback. Cases of child homicide are rare but they are especially horrific. The author goes behind the sensationalist headlines to investigate why these crimes happen and examines child homicide in our modern violent world. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 109 x 17. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Virgin Books London
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753507582
ISBN
9780753507582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Offers an account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. Taking the lessons of Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in fifteenth-century Florence, this title shows how these lessons can still apply today. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMC; BM; HBJD1; HBLX; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099546092
ISBN
9780099546092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theatre. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 610.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252079054
ISBN
9780252079054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. 'This is Raban at his best, which is saying a great deal' Ian McEwan Num Pages: 448 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1KBC; 1QSPN; BG; TRLN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330346290
ISBN
9780330346290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. Fittingly it is in boxing's capital, in a faded downtown Vegas casino with a hooker for company, that the author, a boxing writer and sometime boxer's agent, reflects on his own exit from the scene. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315987
ISBN
9780571315987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.50

Paperback. Tells the story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. This title delves into the intricacies of his sermons, speeches, storytelling, exhortations, jokes, jeremiads, taunts, repartee, eulogies, confessions, lamentation, and gallows humor. It explores his performances. Num Pages: 408 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; CFG; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPH; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046986
ISBN
9780674046986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, 13 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 42. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300212341
ISBN
9780300212341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Hardback. Two Owls at Eton - very British, very witty, yet always close to the rawness of the natural world - is a story to delight everyone - whether they ever trod those playing fields, or have never wished to set eyes on the place. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPG; BM; JNLP; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786060303
ISBN
9781786060303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.90

Paperback. The first biography of Churchill to focus on the Christian motivation behind his style of leadership, his inspiring speeches and his eventual success in preventing the collapse of Christian civilization in Europe. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD1; HRCV; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780281075393
ISBN
9780281075393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. The Following Game is about passion and obsession. It's about cricket, family and poetry, but most of all it's about a father following his son's career in the public eye and the close relationship they share. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; JNK; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
John Catt Educational Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908095695
ISBN
9781908095695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.49

Hardcover. The Following Game is about passion and obsession. It's about cricket, family and poetry, but most of all it's about a father following his son's career in the public eye and the close relationship they have. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; BJ; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420. 232 pages. The Following Game is about passion and obsession. It's about cricket, family and poetry, but most of all it's about a father following his son's career in the public eye and the close relationship they have. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGSA; BJ; WSJC. Dimension: 212 x 153 x 24. Weight: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Catt Educational Ltd,
Edition
1st
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908095015
ISBN
9781908095015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.31

Paperback. A biography that penetrates Mao's rhetoric and infamous self-will to distil an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn and mysterious as the emperors he disdained. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753810712
ISBN
9780753810712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived. Num Pages: 672 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFCX; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liveright
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871404671
ISBN
9780871404671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.81

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Hawthorn Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903458907
ISBN
9781903458907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.17

Paperback. A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. Num Pages: 600 pages, 16pp black & white plates, 3 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 231 x 45. Weight in Grams: 916.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
600
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199642427
ISBN
9780199642427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.92

hardcover. When Jonathan Taylor was eight he began to find his father puzzling. Doctors diagnosed Parkinson's disease, and Jonathan became one of his father's carers, taking it in turn with his family to look after him. This is the story of a son's struggle for recognition from a father who is being transformed mentally and physically by the disease. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BTP; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372. Good clean copy with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Granta Books London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001219
ISBN
9781862079557
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A revelatory memoir from an outstanding cricketer that brilliantly illustrates the pressures faced by modern day professional sportsmen. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751565164
ISBN
9780751565164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.89

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