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Never Feel a Stranger

Peter Biddlecombe · 2001 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Abacus 2001 Paperback, 448pp. Having visited over 170 countries, businessman Peter Biddlecombe is the most well-travelled travel writer around. In his eighth collection of his international escapades, he once more brings his journeys hilariously to life, and lets of steam about …

Strange Fits of Passion

Anita Shreve · 2003 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Abacus 2003 Paperback, 336pp. A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen's husband, a highly respected fellow reporter, has in private a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When the situ…

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among The Converted Peoples

V. S. Naipaul · 1999 · Book Haven

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.71 | ¥1,836)

Abacus 1999 Paperback 437 This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and stories. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arab…

Wealth And Power: China's Long March To The Twenty-First Century

John Delury and Orville Schell · 2016 · Book Haven

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Abacus 2016 Paperback 478 By examining the lives of eleven influential officials, writers, activists and leaders whose contributions helped create modern China, Wealth and Power addresses these questions. This fascinating survey moves from the lead-up to the first Opium War thro…

The Athenian Murders

SOMOZA, JOSE CARLOS · 2003 · Kalamos Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

London, Abacus. 2003. (ISBN: 0349116180) Soft cover. Book, "When the body of a young man is discovered on the slopes of Mount Lycabettus, it is initially assumed that a pack of wolves is responsible for his death. But Tramachus, an aspiring student at Plato"s academy, has been m…

Long Walk To Freedom - the Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela · 1995 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Abacus 1995 Paperback, 784pp. The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, A LONG WALK TO …

The New Builder's Magazine, and Complete Architectural Library, for Architects, Surveyors, Carpenters, Masons, Bricklayers, &C., As Well As for Every Gentleman Who Would Wish to Be a Competent Judge of the Elegant and Necessary Art of Building

HEBERDEN, WILLIAM · 1820 · William Glynn

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

London, H Hogg & Co. 1820, Revised Edition. Marbled Boards. iv. 12, 48, 19 (of 26) plates, 5 in-text figures. ABACUS to AXIS. Engravings reprinted from the plates of the original Builder's Magazine, published between 1774 and 1786. Colvin p151. Half bound over marbled boards. Bo…

Surviving the Sword Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45

MACARTHUR, BRIAN · 2006 · Little Lane Books

A$38.00 (€23.36 | $25.75 | £19.49 | ¥4,111)

Abacus. 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book, In this important book, Brian MacArthur draws on the diaries of American, British, Dutch, and Australian Fepows (Far Eastern prisoners of war), some of whose recollections are published here for the first time. These soldiers wrote…

Morality for Beautiful Girls

Alexander McCall Smith · 2003 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Abacus 2003 Paperback, 256pp. In this third volume of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.With her detective agency in financial difficulty, Mma Ramotswe takes the hard decision to share office…

Alligator Strip

Chris Haslam · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Abacus 2005 Paperback, 352pp. At the end of TWELVE STEP FANDANGO, Martin Brock, the book's hilarious anti-hero, escaped by jumping on a ship bound for Africa. Now in Morocco, we join him as he runs at full pelt through the streets of Marrakesh being pursued by an angry restaurat…

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith · 2003 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Abacus 2003 Paperback 250 This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in…

The Full Cupboard of Life

Alexander McCall Smith · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Abacus 2004 Paperback, 212pp. Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiancé. For indeed he has other…

The Full Cupboard of Life

Alexander McCall Smith · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,102)

Abacus 2004 Paperback, 212pp. Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiancé. For indeed he has other…

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

James Le Fanu · 2000 · Book Haven

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Abacus 2000 Paperback, 501pp. The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug manufacture vanquished in three short decades mos…

Carthage

Ross Leckie · 2001 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Abacus 2001 Paperback, 258pp. Set in the second century B.C. Carthage recounts, after three hundred years of acrimony and two bitter wars, the final, fateful clash between the two superpowers of the ancient world -- Rome and Carthage. Completing Leckie's superb trilogy, Carthage…

Cavedweller

Dorothy Allison · 1998 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Abacus Uk 1998 Paperback, 434pp. Dorothy Allison’s Cavedweller tells the story of Delia Byrd and her three daughters: Amanda, Dede, and Cissy. Prior to the start of the novel, Delia had lived in the fictional town of Cayro, Georgia and was married to a man named Clint Windsor, w…

Detail 1/1993. THEMA: Einfaches Bauen.

1993 · Antiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Institut für internationale Architektur-Dokumentation München 1993. ca. 114 S. Standardeinband. Bibl.-Ex. INHALT: Christian Schittich: Einfaches Bauen mit Bambus - Wohnhäuser im Goldenen Dreieck. Mobiles Zelt in London (Future Systems, London, Jan Kaplicky, Amanda Levete, Mark …

Revenge of the Tipping Point SIGNED

Malcolm Gladwell · 2024 · Denton Island Books

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.38 | ¥4,852)

Abacus, 2024. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Near Fine. 9780349147185 Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author. First Edition, first printing. Inscription to previous owner on half-title page, minor damage to page 99 , small stain on side closed page block (please s…

Science Preserved : A Directory of Scientific Instruments in Collections in the United Kingdom and Eire

HOLBROOK, MARY L. ; ANDERSON, ROBERT GEOFFREY WILLIAM; BRYDEN, D. J. · 1992 · Horsham Rare Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: HMSO, 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0112900607. Illustrated with 139 black & white photographs. Fine black cloth hardback with a fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions. "The Domesday Book of historical scientific instruments …

Masada : Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand

Yadin, Yigael; Pearlman, Moshe · 1979 · Bookbarrow

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Abacus/Sphere, London, 1979. Reprint, Paperback, Illustrated by: Photo's. Near Fine/N/A. 9780349137759 white titles spine; cover illust. shows air view of the rock of Masada from south to north; illustrated throughout by colour & b/w. photo's.; "'Masada is associated with some o…