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Time Management And The Telephone: Making It A Tool And Not A Tyrant

Dru Scott · 1988

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Crisp Publications 1988 Paperback 73 Improve your work day by learning to control your time on the telephone. This friendly, easy-to-use book helps you identify telephone time stresses, communicate a message more effectively, and get more done. Large. Back cover quite faded. Good

A Private Spy: The Letters Of John Le Carré

Tim Cornwell and John Le Carre · 2022

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Viking 2022 Paperback 713 John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the p...

The Celts: A Sceptical History

Simon Jenkins · 2022

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Profile Books 2022 Hardback 290 The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, race or tribe claiming the name of Celtic, though remnants of different languages and cultures remain throughout Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall...

Every Third Thought: On Life, Death And The Endgame

Robert McCrum · 2017

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Picador 2017 Hardback 243 "In 1995, at the age of forty two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year Off. Ever since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, unavoidably aware of his own mor...

True To Ireland : Éire's 'Conscientious Objectors' In New Zealand In World War II

Peter Burke · 2019

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Cuba Press 2019 Paperback 270 "Irish men and women came to New Zealand in the 1930s to seek a better life, many carrying bitter memories of atrocities committed by the British. With WWII came the threat of conscription, but many Irish refused to betray their neutral homeland t...

The Manor Reborn: The Transformation Of Avebury Manor

Sian Evans · 2011

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

National Trust 2011 Hardback 260 Avebury Manor in Wiltshire, one of the most beautiful houses in England has been empty for years. Its owners, the National Trust, have teamed up with the BBC and an enthusiastic team of experts and volunteers to transform the house and bring it...

Return To Harikoa Bay: New Work From The Master Of Short Stories

Owen Marshall · 2022

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Penguin Random House New Zealand 2022 Paperback 304 "So begins one of Owen Marshall's superbly subversive stories. He offers up a wide range of subjects, from untimely deaths to unusual discoveries made about friends or neighbours, from burnishing an overseas trip to a tale ab...

Life : Selected Writings

Tim Flannery · 2019

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Text Publishing Company 2019 Hardback 528 Tim Flannery is one of the world’s great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being ‘in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone. ’ This definitive col...

The Amazing Book Of Magic (Amazing book series)

Jon Tremaine · 1994

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

TIGER BOOKS INTERNATIONAL 1994 Hardback 125 A Step-By-Step Illustrated Guide To A Host Of Simple Yet Spectacular Tricks. Heavy; Large; No DJ. Good

Milestones Of The Twentieth Century : The Events That Shaped Our Lives

Reader's Digest · 1981

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Reader's Digest 1981 Hardback 367 Large; Heavy; No DJ. Foxing on front and back pages and on page edges. Good

The Forbidden City (Wonders of Man)

Roderick MacFarquhar · 1972

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

newsweek 1972 Hardback 172 Traces the history of the imperial Chinese city, focusing on the rulers who have contributed to its grandeur since the thirteenth century. Large; Heavy; DJ. Good

The Atlas Of Beauty: Women Of The World In 500 Portraits

Noroc, Mihaela · 2017

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Particular Books 2017 Hardback 351 Photographs and stories of 500 women from around the world, based on the author's hugely popular website. Since 2013 Mihaela Noroc has travelled the world with her backpack and camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the diversity ...

The Cheese Room

Patricia Michelson · 2001

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Michael Joseph 2001 Hardback 214 "Every day I open the door to the cheese room and roll up the protective blinds to reveal my "treasures", sitting on their aged wooden shelves on straw mats. And every day I learn a little more about cheese". Patricia Michelson is passionate ab...

Delicious Fish

Claire Macdonald · 1986

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Grafton 1986 Paperback 208 AN INSPIRING CATCH OF FISH RECIPES FOR THE CREATIVE COOK 'Delicious Fish' is the essential fish-eater's handbook. The 150 recipes have been enjoyed for some time by delighted guests at Kinloch Lodge, Claire Macdonald's celebrated hotel on the Isle of...

Celebrations

Claire Macdonald · 1991

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Corgi 1991 Paperback 382 " Celebrations is written for anyone who likes to eat and drink well, and to celebrate the milestones in their lives. Almost any event can be an excuse for a party or a feast - birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, christenings, or even just a summer pa...

Lunches

Claire Macdonald · 1997

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Corgi 1997 Paperback 244 This is a collection of ideas for lunchtime meals, whether it be a formal business lunch, a family get-together, a picnic or something for the kids. There is also a selection of puddings. Pages tanned. Good

Understanding Critical Social Psychology

Keith Tuffin · 2005

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

SAGE Publications 2005 Paperback 204 Understanding Critical Social Psychology is an exciting new textbook providing a comprehensive and reader-friendly approach to the theories and methods surrounding Critical Social Psychology. For students taking a course in Critical Social ...

Six Years

Harlan Coben · 2013

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Orion 2013 Paperback 351 Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, a...

Into The Arms Of Pushkin: Poems Of St. Petersburg

Carol V. Davis · 2007

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Truman State University Press 2007 Paperback 86 Carol V. Davis is the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia. Her fascination with Russia, aided by a Fulbright grant, drew her to St. Petersburg in the mid 1990s. Over the next decade, she divided her time between the U....

Nizhny Novgorod Guide Book

Franziska Rinke · 2017

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

BoD – Books on Demand 2017 Paperback 124 With almost 1,25 million inhabitants Nizhny Novgorod is the fifth-largest city in Russia. From 1932-1990 the city was named Gorky, after the well-known author who was born there. The view of the confluence of the Oka and the Volga is br...