Academic & Professional

Caroline Taggart / I Used to Know That : Stuff You Forgot From School

   This is a fascinating book... it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table' - SheA Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know...

Sandra Mara / Dead Men Talk

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Kenneth Blanchard / One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams

   With 50 to 90% of most managers' time spent in some form of group activity, the concept of teamwork is more important than ever before. The advice in this book is designed to increase any working...

Richard Wiseman / Did You Spot The Gorilla?

 In a recent series of ground-breaking psychological experiments, volunteers were shown a 30-second film of some people playing basketball and told to count the number of passes made with the ball...

Ellen Gunning / Ten Red-Hot Tips to Promote your Business

 If I was down to my last dollar, I'd spend it on public relations.' - Bill Gates PR techniques can be used by businesses of all sizes. In Ten Red-Hot Tips well-known PR guru Ellen Gunning reveals...

Alice Schroeder / The Snowball : Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

 Recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, The Snowball is the most fascinating financial success story of our time. Warren Buffett, the legendary Omaha investor...

Alan Sugar / The Apprentice

 Following the huge success of the first series on BBC2, The Apprentice will accompany the 2nd series planned for February 2006. Sir Alan Sugar is back with a new set of hopeful candidates battling...

Mark H. McCormack / What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

 McCormack, founder of the sports management industry and manager of Navratilova and Nicklaus, reveals the secrets of his business success and fills the gap between business school education and the...

Paul Collier / The Bottom Billion : Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

 In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world's...

Mark Little / The New America

 Mark Little's central thesis predicts a power shift from the east coast to the southwest of America, based on the stream of population migration in that direction, and explores the challenges ahead,...

David Bodanis / E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

 By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize...

Peter Collett / Book Of Tells

 A TELL IS AN ACTION THAT TELLS YOU WHAT SOMEONE IS THINKING, EVEN IF THAT PERSON DOESN'T KNOW IT THEMSELVES. AND TELLS ARE HIGHLY INFORMATIVE...The way you stand when you're talking to others, how...

Barbara Strauch / The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain : Discover The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind

 For many years, scientists thought that the human brain simply decayed over time and its dying cells led to memory slips, fuzzy logic, negative thinking, and even depression. But new research from...

Ian Ayres / Super Crunchers

   When would a casino stop a gambler from playing his next hand? How could a company use statistical analysis to blackball you from the job you want? Why should you worry when customer services pay...

Nicola Morgan / Blame My Brain

 Contrary to popular (parental) opinion, teenagers are not the lazy, unpleasant - frankly, spotty - louts they occasionally appear to be. During the teenage years the brain is undergoing its most...

Janet E. Sahafi / Healing the Past

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Stearn Robinson / The Dreamer's Dictionary

 The ultimate guide to understanding your dreams. This accessible and comprehensive guide has been a bestseller for almost twenty years.Do you want to know the secrets of your dreams?You remember...

Eric Berne / What Do You Say After You Say Hello

 What Do You Say After You Say Hello? explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined...

Tom Stoppard / Arcadia

 In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of...

Oliver James / They F*** You Up : How to Survive Family Life

 Clinical psychologist Oliver James demonstrates that who we are is largely the result of the way we were cared for during our first six years, rather than our genes and other environmental factors...

Ursula Markham / How to Deal With Difficult People

   This guide is designed to help the reader understand and handle over-aggressive, negative, ineffectual or generally disagreeable people who seem to enjoy making a person's life difficult. The book...

Loreto Todd / Celtic Names for Children

   A dictionary of over 2,000 Celtic names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. But more than that, it gives the origin and meaning of each name plus traditional...

Michael Argyle / The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour

 The first edition of this book outlined what amounted to a breakthrough in the analysis of social behaviour. Since then it has become widely used as an introductory textbook of social psychology. It...

Richard Carlson / Stop Thinking Start Living

 Revolutionary in its simplicity and accessible to all, this bestselling book offers commonsense methods that allow you to let go of depression and tap into natural joy.In this indispensable...

Graham Allcott / How to be a Productivity Ninja

   In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don't cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings...

Nicola Morgan / Know Your Brain

 Find out everything there is to know about your brain in this fascinating grey-matter guide! There is nothing more amazing than the human brain. It will be with you for your entire life, it will...

John Allen Paulos / A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

 With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made "Innumeracy" a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages ofthe daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a...

Christopher Knight / The Hiram Key : Pharoahs,Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Christ

 Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight and Bob Lomas into and extraordinary investigation of 4,...

Bill McLain / Do Fish Drink Water? : Puzzling and Improbable Questions and Answers

 Have you ever wondered why cats purr or whether it can really rain frogs? Bill McLain answers and expands upon these problems, leaving you knowing much more than just a simple answer to the puzzling...

Mary Kotsonouris / Talking to Your Solicitor

 If you have ever had a problem that has made you think about engaging a solicitor, this book is designed to be of interest. It looks at the ways in which solicitors can help people, examines the...

Sean Sheehan / Dictionary of Irish Quotations

 This dictionary of quotations contains a varied selection of interesting, informative, intriguing, infuriating - and sometimes even witty - remarks made by Irish people on a number of topical...

Stephen Jay Gould / Eight Little Piggies

 This collection of essays ranges from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always with Gould, the...

Anthony Storr / Solitude

 This study challenges the widely-held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. It argues that we pay far too little attention to some of the other great...

Robert Bly / Iron John : A Book About Men

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Colin Robson / Experiment, Design and Statistics in Psychology

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Simon Singh / Fermat's Last Theorem

 In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across a great mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can now understand, but which has baffled...

Carmen Renee Berry / Girlfriends : Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties

 Almost any woman will tell you that her friendships with other women are among the most rewarding relationships she has. In this remarkable book, real-life girlfriends Carmen Renee Berry and Tamara...

Arthur S. Reber / The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology (4th Edition)

 The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology has become a byword for demystifying the language of this complex subject. Now fully updated for its fourth edition, this wide-ranging and accessible dictionary...

Edward Tenner / Why Things Bite Back : Predicting the Problems of Progress

 This work contends that with every great advance in science and technology, there is a corresponding revenge effect. Yesterday's asbestos curtain, for example, which used to be used for protection,...

Melissa Rossi / The Armchair Diplomat on Europe

 It happens all the time: you're watching the Champion's League, pondering Robert Kilroy Silk's unnatural glow, reading the latest newspaper debate about EU bendy banana laws, and thinking: what's...

John Murray / That's What I Call Jargon

 The Financial Regulator has a team of people whose task is to translate the language of the banking world in to understandable English. This book conducts a campaign to try and stave off the...

Edward O. Wilson / Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge

 In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition...

Bronwyn Whitlocke / Chinese Medicine for Women : A Common Sense Approach

 This book guides you to an understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine, an ancient method of describing and analysing the human body. Among the health issues addressed are stress, diet and...

Walden Howard / Exploring the "Road Less Travelled"

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Tim Flannery / The Weather Makers : Our Changing Climate and what it means for Life on Earth

 The Weather Makers tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate, of how it has changed, how we have come to understand it, and of what that means for the future. Tim Flannery's gripping narrative...

Connie Robertson / A Book of Humorous Quotations

 From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always...

Margaret Donaldson / Children's Minds

 Margaret Donaldson's seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought. In this concise and brilliantly readable book,...

Constitution of Ireland / Bunreacht na hEireann (English and Irish Edition)

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Richard Preston / The Hot Zone

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The Penguin Pocket English Thesaurus

 A volume designed to increase your command of the English language and build up your reserves of word power. It features: a comprehensive working vocabulary which takes modern needs and priorities...

Edwina Currie / This Honourable House

 Politicians are amongst the most reviled and distrusted of all professionals. Nevertheless, honourable men and women do put themselves forward to help run the country, whether out of conviction,...

Graham King / Super Speller

  The plain guide to mastering the most difficult-to-spell words and names in the English language, such as ‘mispelled’ for ‘misspelled’. The Superspeller guide features: the 200 most misspelt words...