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1001 Quotations to inspire you before you die
Robert Arp We all love quotations-we use them to make our points, to plead our cases, and to justify our opinions, as well as to honor, glorify, motivate, incite, besmirch, bewitch, and beguile. 'An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.' Letitia Eli viac

A IS for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Kathryn Harkup Shortlisted for the Macavity Awards 2016 Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it more than any other mu viac

Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
Haruki Murakami   Seiji Ozawa An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer and a world-class conductor. ‘My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open and honest viac

An Appetite for Wonder
Richard Dawkins Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering viac

An Illustrated History of Military Helicopters
Francis Crosby From unstable and frightening machines, helicopters have evolved into incredibly sophisticated aircraft that can fly forward, backward, sideways and, of course, hover. This fully illustrated volume explores the history and evolution of these fascinating aircraft, from the earlies viac

Anatomy Drawing School: Human and Animal
András Szunyoghy   György Fehér For centuries, the study of anatomy has played an important role in the education of artists. An understanding of anatomy constitutes the basis for the precise representation of human and animal forms, whether at rest or in motion. With more thanone thousand detailed illustration viac

Art as Therapy
Alain de Botton   John Armstrong Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, re viac

Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists
Author unknown Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest artists - exclusively researched for this new book Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by artists through the ages and across the globe, this exquisite keepsake is the id viac

Bitten By Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home
Lucinda Hawksley Part social history and part design catalogue, this innovative book delves into the sinister historyof 19th-century wallpaper Beautiful to leaf through and compelling to read, 'Bitten by Witch Fever' is a highly original and captivating volume that interleaves facsimile sectio viac

Bob Dylan: Chronicles Vol. 1
Bob Dylan Winner of the NOBEL PRIZE in Literature 2016 This is the first spellbinding volume of the three-volume memoir of one of the greatest musical legends of all time. In CHRONICLES Volume I, Bob Dylan takes us back to the early 1960s when he arrived in New York to launch his phenomena viac

Bob Dylan: The Lyrics 1961-2012
Bob Dylan Winner of the NOBEL PRIZE in Literature 2016 For the first time, a comprehensive, definitive collection of lyrics of music legend and poet Bob Dylan. A major publishing event - a beautiful, comprehensive collection of the lyrics of Bob Dylan with artwork from thirty-three albums. viac

Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately viac

Chineasy Everyday: The World of Chinese Characters
ShaoLan ShaoLan Hsueh, a Taiwanese entrepreneur based in London, couldn't find an effective way of teaching her children Chinese, so she developed a groundbreaking visual method to make reading characters fun and easy. By learning the most commonly occurring characters ­ the building blo viac

Chineasy Workbook
Author unknown A workbook to practise writing Chinese characters based on the bestselling Chineasy method • Practise writing over 100 of the most commonly occurring Chinese characters and phrases, covering the essential building blocks on which the language is based • Guides show the correc viac

Create Your Own Brooches (A Craft Studio Kit)
Corinne Alagille Create your very own bespoke brooches, from the classically chic to the stylishly offbeat • 15 DIY projects and plenty of tips to create something beautiful with everyday materials – a scrap of fabric, a few coloured pencils, or even spare pieces of paper • Includes everythi viac

Critical Lives: Václav Havel
Kieran Williams Václav Havel claimed to want a quiet life dedicated to writing, but he lived exactly the opposite: as the most famous dissident in Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, he spent many years in jail as a political prisoner and, after leading a revolutionary movement in 1989, thirtee viac

David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell Why do underdogs succeed so much more than they should? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey to uncover the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. F viac

Design is Storytelling
Ellen Lupton Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. The latest book from award-winning writer Ellen Lupton is a playbook for creative thinking, showing designers how to use storytelling techniques to create satisfying graphics, products, services and experiences. Whether c viac

Dinosaurs
Emily Bone An exciting book about dinosaurs for young children to read aloud. Each page has colourful illustrations by Lee Cosgrove of a Tyrannosaurus rex, a Stegosaurus, a Diplodocus and lots more. The simple text describes what dinosaurs ate, where they lived, how they looked after their viac

Distraction Pieces
Scroobius Pip An illustrated collection of the best of the Distraction Pieces podcast by Scroobius Pip. A curated collection of the best of the Distraction Pieces podcast by Scroobius Pip, featuring new, exclusive material and illustrations by mr heggie. The Times Bestseller (Non-Fiction viac

Dreams and destiny: Dream Interpretation - Runes - Tarot - I Ching
David V. Barrett This intriguing book studies the world of dreams, their meanings, the symbols they may contain, and how we can use them to access our subconscious. Every culture in every historical period has interpreted the importance of dreams in different ways, but all agree that dreams have viac

Elite Fighting Forces
Jeremy Black Many of the most famous fighting forces in history have been elite units, specially trained and equipped for particular tasks – imperial guards, shock troops, fighter pilots or behind-enemy-lines special forces. This is the most authoritative and up-to-date account of such uni viac

English for Everyone Course Book: Level 2 Beginner
English for Everyone English for Everyone is an exciting and comprehensive self-study course for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course is a unique new series with a visual, engaging, and easy to follow style to make the English language easy to learn. Learn English by reinforc viac

English for Everyone Course Book: Level 3 Intermediate
English for Everyone English for Everyone is an exciting and comprehensive self-study course for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course is a unique new series with a visual, engaging, and easy to follow style to make the English language easy to learn. Learn English by reinforc viac

English for Everyone Course Book: Level 4 Advanced
English for Everyone English for Everyone is an exciting and comprehensive self-study course for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course is a unique new series with a visual, engaging, and easy to follow style to make the English language easy to learn. Learn English by reinforc viac

English for Everyone Practice Book: Level 1 Beginner
English for Everyone English for Everyone is an exciting and comprehensive self-study course for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course is a unique new series with a visual, engaging, and easy to follow style to make the English language easy to learn. Learn English by reinforc viac

English for Everyone Practice Book: Level 2 Beginner
English for Everyone English for Everyone is an exciting and comprehensive self-study course for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course is a unique new series with a visual, engaging, and easy to follow style to make the English language easy to learn. Learn English by reinforc viac

English for Everyone Practice Book: Level 3 Intermediate
English for Everyone English for Everyone is an exciting and comprehensive self-study course for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course is a unique new series with a visual, engaging, and easy to follow style to make the English language easy to learn. Learn English by reinforc viac

English for Everyone Practice Book: Level 4 Advanced
English for Everyone English for Everyone is an exciting and comprehensive self-study course for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course is a unique new series with a visual, engaging, and easy to follow style to make the English language easy to learn. Learn English by reinforc viac

Eureka!: An Infographic Guide to Science
Tom Cabot iscover how the world really works in this spectacular journey through space and time that shows the fundamentals of science in groundbreaking visuals, from the Big Bang to Artificial Intelligence. Following each stage of the development of the material Universe, from the firs viac

Great Aircraft of World War II
Alfred Price   Mike Spick The five aircraft described in this book – the Spitfire, Lancaster, Messerschmitt, Mustang and Flying Fortress – emerged from World War II as the truly outstanding designs of that period. This book examines the course of these planes’ construction, development, introduction into viac

Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness
Marie Tourell Söderberg Other books will tell you how to be hygge. This is the only book that will show you. Though we all know the feeling of hygge instinctively few of us ever manage to capture it for more than a moment. Now Danish actress and hygge aficionado Marie Tourell S?derberg - star of B viac

James Lovelock et al. The Earth and I
Jack Hudson   James Lovelock “We are buried beneath mountains of fast-accumulating data. In such circumstances, this book, rather than adding to the data load, aims to offer real understanding.” —James Lovelock Human beings are extraordinary creatures. Intelligent, agile, and curious, we have adapted and viac

John le Carre: The Biography
Adam Sisman Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carré a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glim viac

Liquid
Mark Miodownik The delightful and dangerous substances that flow through our lives viac

Live Lagom: Balanced Living, The Swedish Way
Anna Brones You’ve had hygge, now live lagom; the Scandinavian art of creating a greener and more balanced life. You’ve had hygge, now live lagom. Live Lagom is a guide to life based on the Swedish philosophy of lagom, meaning ‘not too little, not too much, just right’. Celebrated viac

Lives of the Great Gardeners
Stephen Anderton The lives of 40 men and women behind some of the world’s most exciting and influential gardens Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an international practice. Som viac

Management of Art Galleries
Magnus Resch The art world is tough, the rules are a mystery, and only the lucky few make money’ – so how can galleries succeed? What makes a commercial art gallery successful? How do galleries get their marketing right? Which potential customer group is the most attractive? How best shoul viac

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
A. Scott Berg The talents Maxwell Perkins nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe among numerous others. But the man himself remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor but as critic, career manager, moneylende viac

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler Get ready to change the way you think about economics. Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the s viac

Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What it is and Why it Matters
Charles Wheelan It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? In the third volume of his best-selling Naked series, Ch viac

Perpetual Disappointments Diary
Nick Asbury Perpetual Disappointments Diary is a downbeat journal for pessimists, cynics and losers everywhere. You'll love it. Ground yourself with a weekly demotivational proverb ('If ignorance is bliss, why are you so sad?', 'Crappe diem') and reminders of Notable Deaths. Travel the wo viac

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—and How to Make Them Work for You
Sangeet Paul Choudary   Geoffrey G. Parker   Marshall W. Van Alstyne A practical guide to the new economy that is transforming the way we live, work, and play. Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when they launched. Today they are industry leaders. What’s the secret to their success? These cutt viac

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
Joseph E. Stiglitz It’s time to rewrite the rules—to curb the runaway flow of wealth to the top one percent, to restore security and opportunity for the middle class, and to foster stronger growth rooted in broadly shared prosperity. Inequality is a choice. The United States bills itself as t viac

Say Ja to Hygge! A parody: How to find your special cosy place
Magnus Olsensen The Danish hygge (pronounced 'huhhpg-ghuhrr') lifestyle is all about feeling snug, gentle, warm and satisfied - ideally, self-satisfied. Find out in this essential guide how you too can achieve this cosy nirvana. 'Dr Magnus Olsensen has done the decent thing. He has punctured viac

Science: A History in 100 Experiments
John Gribbin   Mary Gribbin A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments – epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. The history of science is a fascinating and long one, covering thousands of years of history. The development of scientific expe viac

Seeing Science
Marvin Heiferman Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing science and building human knowledge--from micro to macro levels and everything in between. Photography and science have long been intertwined, hel viac

Squares & Other Shapes: with Josef Albers
Josef Albers An introduction to shapes through the acclaimed art of Josef Albers The influential art of Josef Albers is used to teach shapes in this stylish read-aloud board book, which takes children through Albers' range of geometrics, one artwork per page, beginning with squares and ret viac

Television: A Biography
David Thomson In Television, David Thomson – whom Michael Ondaatje has called ‘the best writer on film in our time’ – turns his attention to the ubiquitous small screen and delivers a history of its revolutionary transformation. In just a few years, this piece of living room furniture – in fro viac

The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
Louisa Thomsen Brits The most beautiful guide to the Danish custom of hygge, the everyday life philosophy for better living. Hygge is a feeling of belonging and warmth, a moment of comfort and contentment. This beautiful little book will help you to find hygge and embrace it every day. Make a pot viac