New Hardback Books

Graeme Macrae Burnet / Case Study (Hardback)

“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.”London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic...

Clive James / The Fire of Joy (Hardback)

Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death...

Daniel Wallace / The Bounty Hunter Code (Hardback)

Discover the crucial tools and techniques all bounty hunters need to master. Get the basics on making a living at the margins of galactic law. Delve into the history, philosophy, and gear of Death...

Jennifer Ackerman / The Bird Way (Hardback)

'A celebration of the dizzying variety of bird life and behaviour, one that will enthral birders and non-birders alike' The ObserverFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds,...

Marcus du Sautoy / Around the World in 80 Games (Hardback)

An award-winning mathematician explores the math behind the games we love and why we love to play themWhere should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi...

Craig Unger / House of Trump, House of Putin (Hardback)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A bombshell.' Daily Mail 'Damning, terrifying and enraging.' The Spectator 'The story Unger weaves with his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming...

John Banville / Prague Pictures (Hardback)

Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, 'devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art', who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all...

Max Decharne / Vulgar Tongues (Hardback)

Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honor, a sign of identity or a...

Benjamin Myers / Cuddy (Hardback)

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England. Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Talented Teenagers (Hardback)

Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young...

Craig Donaghy / Doctor Who: How to Be a Time Lord (Hardback)

This ancient Time Lord manual has been kicking around the TARDIS for over 1200 years, giving the Doctor plenty of time to 'improve' it with scribbles, doodles and post-it notes as a gift for his...

Janet Frame / Owls Do Cry (Hardback)

This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of "The Carpathians", which won the Commonwealth Prize...

Peter Doggett / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Hardback)

At 3 a.m. on Monday, 18 August 1969, the final night of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, four men armed only with acoustic guitars faced the gaping darkness of a vast open-air audience. An hour later,...

John C. Polkinghorne / Belief in God in an Age of Science (Hardback)

Focuses on the collegiality between science and theology, arguing that the two are intellectual cousins, since both are concerned with a quest for truth and reality   This book is second hand, and...

James Lee Burke / Harbor Lights (Hardback)

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post), the New York Times  bestselling James Lee BurkeHarbor Lights  is   a story collection from   one of the...

Sam Lee / The Nightingale (Hardback)

Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale.Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the...

Michael Ende / The Night of Wishes (Hardback)

From the author of The Neverending Story, a book that reminds us that “magic—be it good or bad—is no simple matter.”It's New Year’s Eve at the Villa Nightmare but Beelzebub Preposteror is in no mood...

Kevin Gardiner / Making Sense of Markets (Hardback)

Since the financial crisis, there have been numerous reports, articles and books highlighting the gloomy future ahead. Making Sense of Markets makes the case that received wisdom is still far too...

Josephine Wilkinson / Mary Boleyn (Hardback)

The scandalous true story of Mary Boleyn, infamous sister of Anne, and mistress of Henry VIII. Mary Boleyn, 'the infamous other Boleyn girl', began her court career as the mistress of the king of...

Julia Kristeva / Nations Without Nationalism (Hardback)

Underlying Julia Kristeva's latest work is the idea that otherness - whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political - needs to be understood and accepted in order to guarantee social harmony...

Ivan T. Berend / History Derailed (Hardback)

There is probably no greater authority on the modern history of central and eastern Europe than Ivan Berend, whose previous work, Decades of Crisis, was hailed by critics as "masterful" and "the...

George Konrad / Stonedial (Hardback)

The year 1993. Janos Dragomán, a wandering scholar, a world-famous and world-weary Hungarian writer, returns to his native town to visit three old friends. They are Aba Kuno, the almost saintly,...

Peter Hanak / The Garden and the Workshop (Hardback)

A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was...

Tom Gjelten / Sarajevo Daily (Hardback)

  Using the intrepid, multiethnic staff of the city newspaper--where people are risking their lives to get the paper out--as a microcosm of the city itself, the author offers an account of war in...

Gunter Grass / My Century (Hardback)

Germany's most critically acclaimed writer presents his latest collection of stories--one for every year of this century, offering an interlocking history of murder, war, wondrous technological...

Anthony Loyd / My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Hardback)

A former soldier who fled depression and drug addiction in England to cover Europe's bloodiest conflict since the Second World War recounts stories of brutality and compassion he recorded while in...

Aleksandar Tisma / The Book of Blam (Hardback)

Miroslav Blam walks through the empty streets of Novi Sad, remembering. The war has ended, but for Blam the town is haunted with its presence, and memories of its Aaron Grün, the hunchbacked...

Dennis P. Hupchick / Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe (Hardback)

The return of Eastern and Central Europe to true independence, following the collapse of Communist rule, has retained an enormous number of historical and cultural issues largely dominant since the...

Elie Abel / The Shattered Bloc (Hardback)

A veteran journalist offers his views on the dramatic political changes in Eastern Europe, noting the differences among the individual countries and the factors that will determine the success of...

Gary Small / The Memory Bible (Hardback)

Clear, concise, prescriptive steps for improving memory loss and keeping the brain young—from one of the world's top memory experts.Everybody forgets things sometimes—from your keys to your lunch...

Alan Brinkley / The Chicago Handbook for Teachers (Hardback)

Unlike their counterparts on the high school or elementary school level, those who teach college students have extensive training in their various disciplines, but surprisingly little instruction in...

Jacques Derrida / The Other Heading (Hardback)

Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue...

H. Ramsey Fowler / The Little, Brown Handbook (Hardback)

Authoritative and accessible, The Little Brown Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. One of the best–selling handbooks on the market, it provides...

Hans Magnus Enzensberger / Civil Wars (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Alain Finkielkraut / The Defeat of the Mind (Hardback)

The Defeat of the Mind examines the opposition to Enlightenment thought from the eighteenth century to the present. Finkielkraut asserts that the ostensibly progressive cast of third world...

Peter Nadas / Love (Hardback)

  The hallucinatory, unforgettable account of a moment-or an eternity-in an uncertain love affairThe man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he...

Modris Eksteins / Walking Since Daybreak (Hardback)

Based on personal experiences the author offers this history of the Baltic nations describing their brief independence after World War I, their devastation during World War II, and their annexation...

Peter Schneider / Couplings (Hardback)

Eduard, a molecular biologist living in West Berlin, along with his friends Theo, a writer from East Berlin, and Andre, an international composer, scientifically examine every form of love and its...

Bev Williams / Let's Not Age, Let's Just Marinate (Hardback)

A collection of cartoons offering painless ways to age, from the author of  Older, Wiser . . . Sexier When a recipe says "add wine," never ask "to what?" This cheeky but charming book brings together...

Joel M. McMains / Advanced Obedience (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Adrian Geoffrey Gilbert / The Mayan Prophecies (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Simon Brett / A Reconstructed Corpse (Hardback)

While playing the part of missing property developer Martin Earnshaw on "Public Enemies," a true-crime television series, actor-sleuth Charles Paris begins to uncover the shocking truth about the...

Donald J. Trump / The Way to the Top (Hardback)

The host of the hit reality show The Apprentice presents an invaluable collection of grounded, hard-hitting advice on business success, from people who have made it to the boss’s chair at some of...

A.J. Baime / White Lies (Hardback)

A riveting biography of Walter White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial...

Henry Cavanna / Governance, Globalization and the European Union (Hardback)

This book is an edited version of the proceedings of a seminar held in 2000 and jointly sponsored by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and the Forum International des Sciences Humaines, Paris...

John Cassian / The Conferences (Hardback)

The first complete English translation of John Cassian's (c. 360-430) Conferences, a work that records dialogues between Cassian and his traveling companion, Germanus, and the great desert masters on...

Adam Maguire / The Bailout Babies (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Leo F. Buscaglia / Papa, My Father (Hardback)

The best-selling author of Love celebrates the wonder of fatherhood by paying tribute to his own father--a humble immigrant who was a self-styled educator, philanthropist, philosopher, patriot, and...

Michael Ondaatje / Handwriting: Poems (Hardback)

  Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler . It is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems of delicacy and power--poems about love, landscape, and the...

Nigel Harris / The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital (Hardback)

Nigel Harris argues that the notion of national capital is becoming redundant as cities and their citizens, increasingly unaffected by borders and national boundaries, take center stage in the...

Peter Nadas / The End of a Family Story (Hardback)

It is the 1950s, in Hungary, when Stalinist repression has reduced the populace to silence and deception. The narrator, a young boy, lives alone with his grandparents. His rebellious, talkative...

Joshua Dickson / The Highland Bagpipe (Hardback)

The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. But Scottish...