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The Seven Daughters of Eve
In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at over five thousand years old, fascinated the world. But w...
The Brothers Karamazov
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha...
Bushfire (Bindi Wildlife Adventures #3)
While on an early morning bushwalk, Bindi and her best friend, Rachel, notice smoke on the horizon. On a super-hot day, this can only mean one thing. Bushfire! The girls spend an exhausting day helping out at the Australian Wildlife Hospital, caring for the victims of the fire....
I Never Knew That About England
This is the ultimate journey around England. Christopher Winn takes us to each county, to see where history happened, where people and ideas were born, where dreams took flight and where men and women now rest from their labours. To tread in their footsteps, to touch and experience some of what inspired...
A Civil Contract
A brilliant Regency romance full of spirited heroines and dashing heroes, by the queen of the genre.Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is...
Nationalism
Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance. "Great Ideas": throughout history, some books have chan...
Breaking Up: A Self-help Guide to the Courts and the Law
The breakdown of a relationship can be one of the hardest things anyone can go through. This book endeavours to ease one of the stressful parts of the process by explaining the legal ramifications of separation and divorce. Breaking Up has been written to help you understand your legal rights after sepa...
Print Workshop Hand-printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects
This is a crash-course on printing with techniques, materials and surfaces that can all be done in the home. Every project features Yellow Owl Workshop's sought-after motifs and the author's art-school style illustrations. This title is full of original ideas for things to make and use, such as jar labe...
Byrne
Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tr...
Secret Agent
'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'. In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy workin...
Wicked Son
David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet con...
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Ma...
Eat Right 4 Your Type Personalized Cookbook Type O: 150+ Healthy Recipes For Your Blood Type Diet
MORE THAN 150 RECIPES CRAFTED FOR YOUR BLOOD TYPE O DIETBased on his revolutionary and highly effective Blood Type Diet ®, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo-- with personal wellness chef Kristin O'Connor--has written a set of practical, personalized healthy cookbooks, so you can eat right for your type every day!Pac...
Bombay Stories
This book comes with an introduction by Mohammed Hanif. Bombay in the 1930s and 1940s reigned as the undisputed cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent - an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, and a city bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. It was to be the favourite city a...
Beach Buddies (#5 Juliet, Nearly a Vet)
Hi! I'm Juliet. I'm ten years old. And I'm nearly a vet! It's the holidays and we're going camping by the beach. I'm bringing my vet-kit in case of any animal emergencies. Vets needs to be prepared for anything! I can't wait to toast marshmallows by the campfire, swim in the sea and explore the rock-poo...
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories
Leskov's short stories exploded the traditions of 19th-century Russian fiction. Innovative in form and playful in language, these 17 tales are peopled by outsized characters that include serfs, princes, military officers, Gypsy girls, wayward monks, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars, and garrulous storytel...
The Real Great Escape : The Story of the First World Wars Most Daring Mass Breakout
Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a POW camp in First World War Germany. Situated in Lower Saxony, Germany, Holzminden swung open its barbed wire gates to welcome its first guests in September 1917. It was here that the transient population of office...
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
Richard H. Thaler, Richard H Thaler
ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015. Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look in...
Complete Guide to the Tarot
For centuries, the strange and beautiful tarot cards have been an endless source of mystery and fascination. One of the foremost authorities in the field reveals the intricacies of this ancient art. With detailed explanations, Eden Gray offers explicit advice about the three different methods of readin...
Little Stars (#5 Hetty Feather)
Hetty Feather has begun a new chapter in her life story. Escaping from Tangle field's Travelling Circus with her dearest friend Diamond, Hetty is determined to find them positions as glamorous music hall artistes. Hetty and Diamond quickly become the Little Stars of Mrs Ruby's show, alongside many colo...
Dandy, the Mountain Pony (Showtym Adventures #1)
When nine-year-old Vicki Wilson's beloved lease pony is sold, she is heartbroken. Her family doesn't have much money, and she is desperate to have a pony of her own so she can keep riding. Then Vicki has the chance she has been waiting for, to tame and train her own wild pony How will she earn the trust...
A Wrinkle in Time
A New York Times BestsellerA Newbery Medal Award-winnerTime Quintet Series (Book 1)It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger."Wild nights...
The Kookaburra Creek Cafe
Welcome to the Kookaburra Creek Caf . For Hattie, the caf has been her refuge for the last fifty years - her second chance at a happy ending after her dreams of being a star were shattered. But will the ghosts of her past succeed in destroying everything she's worked so hard to build? For Alice, the caf...
You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this book, that combines cutting edge science with real world applications, Chopra and Kafatos redefine our nature of reality and what is possible. Here they ask 9 questions- What Came Before the Big Bang? Why Does the Universe Fit Together So Perfectly? Where Did Tim...
Under the Moon: a Catwoman Tale
Lauren Myracle; Isaac Goodhart (Illustrator)
When fourteen-year-old Selina Kyle, aka the future Catwoman, becomes homeless, she must confront questions of who she is and who she will become. She rejects human cruelty, but sometimes it seems as though brute force is the only way to "win." And if Selina is to survive on the streets, she must be tou...
Complete Language Pack Italian
Want to learn Italian fast? This practical, user-friendly, and uniquely visual Italian language course is perfect for busy people. Teach yourself Italian in just 12 weeks with DK's Complete Language Pack, which includes an easy-to-follow course, a pocket-sized Italian phrase book, and a guide to the ess...
How Technology Works
Have you ever asked yourself how the inventions, gadgets, and devices that surround us actually work? Discover the hidden workings of everyday technology with this graphic guide. How Technology Worksdemystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip fasteners an...
South Africa: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide (8th edition)
Your journey starts here. We've reimagined and updated our iconic DK Eyewitness travel guides. This brand new South Africa guide, now in a lightweight format, has been expertly curated with all new photography plus DK's much-loved illustrations and maps. - Gorgeous, all-new color photography so you can ...
The Wisdom of Wolves: Understand How Wolves Can Teach Us to Be More Human
In this unforgettable book, wolf expert and naturalist Elli Radinger draws on her 25 years of first-hand experience among the wolves of Yellowstone National Park to tell us their remarkable stories. Wolves aren't wolfish. They can die of broken hearts, show tenderness to their young and elderly, and the...
Zennor in Darkness: From the Women's Prize-Winning Author of A Spell of Winter
Spring, 1917 and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor- ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy-fever.Into this turmoil come DH Lawrence and his German wife Frieda, hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London. They befriend Cl...
Goodnight Mister Tom
A beautiful clothbound hardback with a new introduction and extra content by Michelle Magorian to celebrate the 40th anniversary of bestselling GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM. Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slow...
Ocean: The Definitive Visual Guide
A fully updated edition of this beautifully illustrated, encyclopedic guide to Earth's oceansAn enhanced edition of DK's exhaustive guide to the underwater worldThis authoritative, sumptuously illustrated encyclopedia is now in its third edition. Illustrated with a blend of beautiful and informative art...
The Cutting
A darkly humorous novel about modern Australia and what it means to be a good person. It's 2016. Lance Alcocke, sole heir to an iron ore fortune, forty-ish bachelor, has just lost control of his life's work. His newly opened mine, Madeleine's Monster, named after his pioneering, iron-fisted grandmother...
Destination Dancefloor
Travel the world exploring the cities that have influenced dance music and DJ culture and discovering the cutting-edge scenes taking club culture in new directions.Featuring incredible photography, insider recommendations, and some of the biggest names in dance music, Destination Dancefloor reveals how ...
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni...
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