The Iceberg
Marion CouttsRRP: £10.99
In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The tumour was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. He died …
Genre: Science, Health & Medicine
The Quest for a Moral Compass
Kenan MalikRRP: £12.99
In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern …
Wisdom For Your Life
Katrina CavanoughRRP: £8.99
As a therapist and frontline social worker in a busy emergency department, Katrina faces psychological trauma, death and grief every day of her working life. What makes her story so powerful is that K …
Moral Tribes
Joshua GreeneRRP: £12.99
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world’s tribes into a shared s …
The Luck of the Irish
Babette SmithRRP: £12.99
The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That’s how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 183 …
Happiness
Matthieu RicardRRP: £10.99
This step-by-step guide to achieving happiness is the most significant book of its kind since Daniel Goleman’s runaway bestseller, Emotional Intelligence.’A remarkable book. It is hard to imagine a mo …
The Internet is Not the Answer
Andrew KeenRRP: £10.99
In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. By tracing the history of the …
Hippocratic Oaths
Raymond TallisRRP: £9.99
Poet, philosopher, novelist and former physician, Raymond Tallis is one of the world’s foremost scientific philosophers. In this book, he brings together his diverse intellectual interests to address …
The Art of Meditation
Matthieu RicardRRP: £10.99
A Sunday Times bestseller, this new paperback is an elegant and inspiring short guide to the art of meditation: another instant classic from the bestselling author of Happiness.Wherever he goes, Buddh …
Prepared for the Worst
Christopher HitchensRRP: £25.00
‘I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive’ — Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as hav …
Unacknowledged Legislation
Christopher HitchensRRP: £25.00
A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are th …
Frank Zappa
Barry MilesRRP: £12.99
Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. This sparkling biography brings the Zappa the musician and composer, Zappa the controvers …
The Bottom Line Diet
Jessica IrvineRRP: £9.99
In this straightforward but groundbreaking new book, Jessica Irvine documents her own dramatic weight loss and equips you with easy-to-use tools and practical information to help you lose weight.Based …
The Pyramids
Miroslav VernerRRP: £12.99
How did a people who lived nearly five thousand years ago, who knew neither iron nor bronze and who lacked mastery of elementary rules of calculation, manage to construct enormous stone structures wit …
The Truth About Hormones
Vivienne ParryRRP: £8.99
Shortlisted for the 2006 Aventis PrizeHormones rule our internal world: they control our growth, our metabolism, weight, water-balance, body clocks, fertility, muscle bulk, mood, speed of ageing, whet …
Twins
Katrina BowmanRRP: £12.99
When Louise and Katrina discovered they were having twins, both had the same thought once they recovered from the shock: buy a book that explains what to expect in order to get organised and to prepar …
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