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Simon Garfield Maps have the most amazing stories. Suitable for mapophiles, this book offers narratives on everything from the challenge of mapping the oceans to spellbinding treasure maps to the naming of... | Andrew Blum Internet is a bunch of tubes. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre-optic cable, pulsing with trillions of photons of light, linking us via anonymous exchanges in secretive locations with... |
Maurice Nathan Saatchi; Maurice ... Simplicity looks easy. It's not. It's easier to complicate than simplify. This book presents simple examples of concepts that have changed the world - from the single piece of paper... | Stephen Greenblatt Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied... |
Tomas Sedlacek A historical tour of economic ideas in world literature to examine the way societies have reconciled their moral values with economic forces. | Peter Hessler Full of extraordinary encounters and details of life beyond Beijing, Country Driving is an unforgettable, unique portrait of the country that will likely shape all our lives in the century... |
Kevin Jackson Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered cultural... | Philip C. Almond The women who lived in the vicinity of Pendle, who were accused, convicted and hanged alongside the so-called Salmesbury Witches, were more than just wicked sorcerers whose malign incantations caused... |
Bryan Appleyard A clarion call against simplification in modern society Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £20.00 | £15.00 | 25% |  Despatched in 2 business days. |   Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £20.00 | £17.00 | 15% |  Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| Alfred I. Tauber Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, this title argues that Freudianism offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the... |
David Harvey Manifesto on the urban commons from the acclaimed theorist. | Matt Ridley Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. |
Graeber, David A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world--democracy--and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America
Democracy has been... Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £16.90 | £14.37 | 15% | Despatched in 5 business days from USA. | Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £16.90 | £14.37 | 15% | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| Pamela Moule; Gill Hek A short, basic text in a sea of complicated tomes, which focuses on where most courses start (i.e. developing research awareness rather than doing research). |
Avicenna; Jon McGinnis Part of the encyclopedia of science and philosophy, "The Healing", this first volume represents arguably the most brilliant mind of late antiquity grappling with and rethinking the entire tradition of... | Robert McCrum Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not be the Queen's English that you're hearing, but it is a form... |