Icon Books publishes a fantastic range of intelligent non-fiction.
101 Facts You Should Know About Food UK £ 6.99
An essential guide to the facts behind food.
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365 Modern History UK £10.99
The third book, now in paperback, in Icon's increasingly admired 365 series, revelling in the highs and lows of the world since the last year of the Second World War.
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365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year UK £ 9.99
Every day of the year has a story to tell. Who was assassinated, acceded to the throne, fled from their country? All this and more is in this browsable historical compendium.
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366: A Leap Year of Great Stories From History for Everyday of the Year UK £ 9.99
The unputdownable sequel to 365 - highly addictive, bite-size chunks of history.
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366: More Great Stories from History UK £16.99
The unputdownable sequel to 365 - highly addictive, bite-size chunks of history.
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50 Facts that Should Change the World UK £ 8.99
Revised and updated edition of international bestseller.
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50 Facts You Need to Know: Europe UK £ 9.99
A shocking, surprising and enjoyable guide to the Europe you thought you knew.
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50 Facts You Need to Know: USA UK £ 9.99
A Tour Through the Real America
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A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road UK £14.99
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A Mind of Its Own (paperback) UK £ 9.99
An enlightening tour of the less wholesome side of human psychology.
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A New Science of Life UK £ 8.99
A new edition of the first book, a controversial science classic that reinterprets the regularities of nature as beiung more like habits than immutable laws.
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A Time to Dance, A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 UK £ 8.99
The paperback edition of a true story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city.
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A Time to Dance, A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of The Dancing Plague of 1518 UK £12.99
The true story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city, and the terrifying supernatural beliefs from which it arose.
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A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy UK £11.99
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After Blair: Conservatism Beyond Thatcher UK £12.99
Proudly unofficial manifesto for the centre-right in the UK
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Alec Stewart's Cricket Companion UK £16.99
A straight-talking analysis of the game of cricket and the illustrious career of England's most capped player of all time.
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American Dream, Global Nightmare UK £ 7.99
Celebrity, politics and the American Empire.
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Another Alice: An inspiring true story of a young woman's battle to overcome rheumatoid arthritis UK £ 7.99
The heartbreaking and awe-inspiring true story of novelist Alice Petersons journey with rheumatoid arthritis.
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Another Alice: An inspiring true story of a young woman's battle to overcome rheumatoid arthritis UK £ 7.99
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Arena of Ambition: The History of the Cambridge Union UK £20.00
How has a student debating society at Cambridge thrived for nearly two centuries, and commanded such attention from the outside world?
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Atom UK £12.99
The official book accompanying the BBC TV series telling the incredible story of perhaps the most important discovery in the history of science.
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Atom UK £ 8.99
A BBC TV tie-in, Atom is the thrilling human story of atomic theory - modern science's most exciting, fundamental and mind-bending ideas.
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Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939 - 1949 UK £20.00
Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, Atomic is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon.
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Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-49 UK £ 9.99
The first fully realised popular account of the race between Nazi Germany, Britain, America and the Soviet Union to build atomic weapons.
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Barnes Wallis - Dambuster UK £14.99
The extraordinary story of Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb.
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Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Secret Lives of Animals UK £14.99
A truly incredible, scientific but intimate portrait of animals' inner worlds.
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Best of Enemies - Britain and Germany: Truth and Lies in Two World Wars UK £ 8.99
Richard Milton exposes the secrets of a relationship steeped in mutual admiration, blood and propaganda.
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Best of Enemies: Britain and Germany - 100 Years of Truth and Lies UK £14.99
A fresh and engrossing study of a turbulent history and a painful national rivalry.
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Between You and I (paperback) UK £ 6.99
A little book of bad English.
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Beyond Coincidence - new extended edition UK £ 7.99
New expanded edition of the bestselling account of coincidences
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Beyond Coincidence (hardback) UK £12.99
Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden in Staffordshire. It lands 140 miles away in Wiltshire, in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten. Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence?
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Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know UK £ 5.99
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Bob Wilson's Ultimate Collection of Peculiar Sporting Lingo UK £ 8.99
The comprehensive collection of sport's strangest terms encountered in the 50-year career of one of British sport's greatest sages.
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Can You Trust the Media? UK £12.99
The insider's view on whether we really can believe what we read in the papers - with some surprising conclusions.
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China: Friend or Foe? UK £ 7.99
An accessible exploration of one of the biggest issues in the world today.
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Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie: The World's Most Unusual Museums UK £ 9.99
A quirky and uplifting celebration of some of the world�s oddest and most interesting museums.
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Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw UK £12.99
The thrilling, warts-engine-oil-and-all autobiography of the only racing driver Ayrton Senna ever feared - the 200mph flawed genius of Tommy Byrne.
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Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw UK £ 7.99
THE WILLIAM HILL IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008
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Creating Classics: The Golf Courses of Harry Colt UK £40.00
Beautifully illustrated coffee-table tour of the golf courses of legendary course architect Harry Shapland Colt
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Crunch Time: How Everyday Life is Killing the Future UK £ 9.99
Two award-winning journalists argue about the impact of our everyday actions on the future of our world.
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Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest UK £ 7.99
Updated edition of the international bestseller on the savage scientific battle over evolution.
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Dear All ... A Collection of Round Robins UK £ 9.99
A hilarious spoof of the round robins sent and received by many of us at Christmas
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Diagnosis: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical Mysteries UK £17.99
Real-life medical mysteries from the doctor whose New York Times column is the basis of the Channel Five show House, M.D. starring Hugh Laurie.
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Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War? 50 Facts You Need to Know: Europe UK £ 7.99
An engaging and quirky portrait of contemporary Europe.
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Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism UK £12.99
Iconoclastic and provocative as ever, Steve Fuller makes us think again about Intelligent Design and Evolution.
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Do Animals Have Rights? UK £ 7.99
Are some animals more equal than others?
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Do You Think You're Clever? The Oxbridge Questions UK £12.99
A wonderful collection of oddly brilliant questions and answers taken from the infamously challenging Oxbridge interviews.
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Don't Get Fooled Again: The Sceptic's Guide to Life UK £ 8.99
The paperback release of the Sceptic's Guide to life - in perfect time for April Fool's Day 2009.
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Don't Get Fooled Again: The Sceptic's Guide to Life UK £12.99
Turned off by pseudo-science, moral panics, conspiracy theories or 1,001 ways to 'discover the inner you'? Richard Wilson offers a balm - sceptics of the world, unite!
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Enchantress of Nations: Pauline Viardot, Soprano, Muse and Lover UK £20.00
A portrait of one of the history of music?s most magnetic, colourful and brilliant female stars.
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Every Woman's Book of Love and Marriage and Family Life UK £ 9.99
The brilliant - and equally hilarous - sequel to Every Woman's Luck book
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Every Womans Luck Book UK £ 9.99
Hilarious dating advice, 1930s style!
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Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment UK £ 9.99
The stories of three men who were lured by nature's strangest power.
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City UK £14.99
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Forty-fied UK £ 9.99
An hilariously wry, observant guide for today's fortysomethings.
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Forty-fied: How to be a Fortysomething UK £ 7.99
A riotous A-Z of the realities of life in your forties today. Riotous, that is, like having your iPod on in the house ...
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Foul Play: What's Wrong with Sport UK £ 8.99
An acerbic, passionate and witty crusade for a sporting 'reformation'.
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From Atoms to Infinity: 88 Great Ideas in Science UK £ 6.99
Mary and John Gribbin take you on a mind-expanding trip to infinity and back.
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From Democrats to Kings: The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexander the Great UK £17.99
A thrilling history of radical upheaval and bitter power struggle in the ancient world.
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Future Proof: The Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos Ever Imagined UK £10.99
Charts from prototype to realization the real-life technical evolution of 50 of the most popular science-fiction inventions. Essential reading for the technology addict or SF film fan.
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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science UK £17.99
A powerful and thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world.
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Good Taste: How What You Choose Defines Who You Are UK £16.99
An accessible and delightfully esoteric cultural history of taste.
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Googlies, Nutmegs & Bogeys: The Origins of Peculiar Sporting Lingo UK £ 9.99
A perfect companion to the glorious absurdities of sporting vocabulary that will enlighten and amuse.
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Groovy Old Men: A Spotter's Guide UK £ 8.99
Meet the generation of men who are happy they didn't die before they got old in Nick Baker's original, humorous and acutely observed Groovy Old Men - in paperback for Father's day.
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Groovy Old Men: A Spotter's Guide UK £12.99
Meet the generation of men who are happy they didn't die before they got old in Nick Baker's original, humorous and acutely observed Groovy Old Men.
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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink UK £17.99
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How Big is Your Brain? UK £ 5.99
Ingenious puzzles to test your brainpower.
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How I Caused the Credit Crunch UK £ 8.99
A vivid, personal, and all too true story of 21st century banking excess
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How to Give to Charity UK £ 6.99
All your moral and practical questions about giving to charity answered by the bestsellig author of 50 Facts that Should Change the World.
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Human Being to Human Bomb: Inside the Mind of a Terrorist UK £12.99
Suicide bombing is the most terrifying phenomenon of our times. This book gets beneath the skin in an attempt to explain - and then to cure.
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I Hate the Office UK £ 9.99
An A to Z journey through the daily grind that offers the reader the chance to fight back!
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I Hate the Office (paperback) UK £ 7.99
The essential weapon in the war against the angst of modern office life.
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Improve Your Memory Today UK £ 8.99
GMTV's Dr Hilary Jones and Rob Eastaway present a practical guide to memory, with strategies and tips on how to improve it.
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In Search of Superstrings: Symmetry, Membranes and the Theory of Everything UK £ 7.99
An exhilarating trip along the cutting edge of modern science.
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In the Red: The Diary of a Recovering Shopaholic UK £ 7.99
The bestselling diary of shopaholic Alexis Hall's quest to get back in the black, now in compact paperback and with a brand new introduction.
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In the Red: The Diary of a Recovering Shopaholic UK £10.99
An hilarious diary - full of fashion and frustration ? in which Alexis battles to transform herself from spending junkie to scrupulous saver.
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Introdcing Sociology (pocket-sized version) UK £ 6.99
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Introducing Buddha (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing further titles from Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide UK £ 6.99
A brand-new title from Icon's much-imitated but never-bettered series of graphic guides to big ideas in the new, mass-market format.
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Introducing Chaos (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing further titles from Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (pocket sized edition) UK £ 6.99
A further title from Icon's much-imitated but never-bettered series of graphic guides to big ideas in the new, mass-market format.
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Introducing Ethics (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing further titles from Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide UK £ 6.99
Published on the 25th anniversary of Foucault's untimely death in 1984.
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Introducing Fractals (pocket-sized version) UK £ 6.99
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Introducing Freud - Special extended edition UK £ 7.99
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Introducing Freud (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Islam (pocket-sized version) UK £ 6.99
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Introducing Jung (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing further titles from Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Keynes: A Graphic Guide UK £ 6.99
A newly re-formatted title in Icon's much-imitated but never-bettered series of graphic guides to big ideas in the new, mass-market format.
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Introducing Linguistics (pocket-sized version) UK £ 6.99
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Introducing Logic (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing further titles from Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
A further title from Icon's much-imitated but never-bettered series of graphic guides to big ideas in the new, mass-market format.
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Introducing Mind and Brain (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Nietzsche (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing further titles from Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Philosophy (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Postmodernism (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Psychology (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Quantum Theory (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
Introducing Icon's brand new compact and cheaper format.
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Introducing Relativity: A Graphic Guide (pocket-sized edition) UK £ 6.99
A further title from Icon's much-imitated but never-bettered series of graphic guides to big ideas in the new, mass-market format.
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Introducing Statistics UK £ 6.99
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Introducing Wittgenstein (pocket-sized version) UK £ 6.99
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Iran: Everything You Need to Know UK £ 5.99
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Irony and Crisis - A Critical History of Postmodern Culture UK £11.99
Our culture is mired in irreversible decline, so postmodern theory tells us. Stuart Sim sifts through the evidence in a compelling investigation into the critical background to postmodernity.
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Isabel's World: Autism and the Making of a Modern Epidemic UK £ 8.99
Anthropologist and father Roy Richard Grinker's heartfelt, deeply touching quest to understand autism - and his powerful, compelling conclusions.
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Issigonis: The Official Biography (paperback) UK £12.99
The definitive biography of the designer of the Mini and the Morris Minor cars
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It's Only Money UK £ 6.99
An accessible, humorous money miscellany
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Lewis Hamilton: The Full Story UK £16.99
The remarkable in-depth story of F1 phenomenon Lewis Hamilton - the man and the driver.
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Life in the Beautiful Game UK £16.99
A very personal look at 'the beautiful game' and its greats by one of football's most respected ambassadors.
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Life in the Beautiful Game UK £ 8.99
The paperback edition of a very personal look at 'the beautiful game' and its greats by one of football's most respected ambassadors.
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Lisa B's Lifestyle Essentials: Get the most out of life UK £12.99
A modern woman's guide to attaining an aspirational lifestyle.
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Love @ First Site UK £ 5.99
The essential guide to the brave new world of internet romance.
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Mafia Son: the Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal UK £11.99
A sensational, epic true story of a modern Mafia dynasty, by an author with incredible inside access to both the Mob and the FBI.
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Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal UK £ 8.99
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Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control It UK £ 8.99
Why does time seem to speed up as we get older? Steve Taylor's genre-busting, gripping book explores this all-too-familiar question ...
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Masters of Design: The Golf Courses of Colt, Mackenzie, Alison and Morrison UK £40.00
A lavish, full-colour essential addition to any golfer's coffee table, capturing the timeless spirit of the game through its greatest-ever course designers, from the authors of Creating Classics.
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Match Wits with the Kids UK £ 9.99
Relive your schooldays and gen up on the topics kids are learning with this enjoyable, easy-reading revision guide for adults.
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Messi: The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend UK £ 7.99
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Nervous System: The Story of a Novelist Who Lost His Mind UK £12.99
The deeply personal, compelling memoir of a writer?s journey through mental illness.
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New World Order: Every Country on Earth. Sorted. UK £ 9.99
The guide that nails down the essence of every single country on the planet.
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New World Order: Every Country on Earth. Sorted. UK £ 7.99
And nation shall rise against nation. And the nation with most words for 'moustache' shall win.
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Nobel Lectures: 20 Years of the Nobel Prize for Literature Lectures UK £12.99
Twenty years of powerful lectures from previous Nobel Laureates.
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Not Fade Away: The Life and Music of Buddy Holly UK £12.99
A new, popular biography of Buddy Holly, published on the 50th anniversary of his tragic death - and pop science legend John Gribbin's first ever non-science book.
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Number Freaking: The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life UK £ 7.99
The answers to all the essential questions you've never asked
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On a Darkling Plain - Journeys into the Unconscious UK £16.99
Freud shocked his contemporaries and is still controversial. But he and his followers? vision is now often forgotten. Ten vibrant essays on psychoanalysis and the modern world.
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Perfect Copy - Unravelling the Cloning Debate UK £ 7.99
Religion finds it abhorrent; many politicians and scientists agree. But cloning is the most exciting science of our time. Perfect Copy explores this most vexed issue.
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Places to Hide ... In England, Scotland and Wales (paperback) UK £ 7.99
A guide to the ultimate rural, coastal, urban and mountainous getaways for when life gets a bit too much ...
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Places to Hide: In England, Scotland & Wales UK £ 9.99
The essential guide for those who want to dissapear for a bit.
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Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain UK £14.99
Follow the incredible journey of the brain of the 20th century's greatest scientist as it roamed the world in mayonnaise jars and car boots...
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Pride Restored: The Inside Story of Lions in South Africa 2009 UK £20.00
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain UK £12.99
A pop science masterpiece on a subject that anyone who loves reading will be sure to find fascinating.
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain UK £ 8.99
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality UK £20.00
Dramatic, powerful and superbly-written history of the most important and challenging scientific revolution of the 20th-century - and the ferocious debate at its heart.
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality UK £ 9.99
Paperback edition of the first book to tell the story of the dramatic history of quantum theory and of the complex lives of the men behind it.
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Rucks, Pucks & Sliders: More Origins of Peculiar Sporting Lingo UK £ 9.99
The sequel to the bestselling Googlies, Nutmegs & Bogies by veteran BBC presenter and football legend Bob Wilson.
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Science and Islam: A History UK £14.99
The official tie-in to the BBC television series.
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Science and Islam: A History UK £ 8.99
The story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science: the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400 AD.
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Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard UK £11.99
A breezy, accessible re-introduction to the greatest writer of plays, who turns out to be responsible for EastEnders, Coronation Street, Friends ...
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Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard UK £ 7.99
In the words of Judi Dench, this is a 'brilliantly enjoyable look at Shakespeare which dispels the myths and makes him accessible to all' and it's now in paperback.
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Shakespearean Afterlives UK £ 8.99
Ten characters with a life of their own.
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Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece UK £ 8.99
The award-winning true story of an audacious art theft, 'with all the pace and verve of a rollicking heist flick' (The Times).
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Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece UK £12.99
The incredible story of the theft of a great painting and the brilliant detective who gets it back.
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Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business UK £ 8.99
Former US Secretary of Labour Robert Reich's hugely lauded and timely treatise on the ills of 21st century turbo capitalism.
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Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business UK £12.99
Capitalism should be made to serve democracy and not the other way around, argues Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labour.
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Surveillance Unlimited: How We've Become the Most Watched People on Earth UK £10.99
Nineteen Eighty-four's all-seeing eye is now a reality. Britain is a surveillance society, but in ways that Orwell could never have imagined.
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The Armchair Naturalist: How to be Good at Nature Without Really Trying UK £ 7.99
A nature guide for people to whom nature doesn't always come naturally.
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The Armchair Naturalist: How to be Good at Nature Without Really Trying UK £ 9.99
A nature guide for people to whom nature doesn't always come naturally.
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The Battle of Waterloo: A New History UK £14.99
A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians.
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The Captain's Challenge: Winning the Ryder Cup UK £12.99
One of golf's most respected analysts takes a measured look at how to win one of the biggest sporting events in the world.
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The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow: Beginnings, Blunders and Breakthroughs in Science UK £ 7.99
A fascinating investigation into the defining eureka moments that have changed our world.
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The Chilling Stars: A Cosmic View of Climate Change UK £ 7.99
Controversial, compelling and necessary, The Chilling Stars has become, in the words of The Times, the new totem of the climate-change sceptics.
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The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change UK £ 9.99
A brilliant, daring and controversial new theory that will provoke fresh thinking about global warming.
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The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition UK £ 9.99
The engrossing story of Britain?s first female professional scientist.
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The Devil's Children: A History of Childhood and Murder UK £14.99
A unique true crime history - from medieval society to Jamie Bulger - of children who kill and how adults have tried to make sense of them.
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The Euro - Should Britain Join: Yes or No? UK £ 3.99
Whether to join the euro will probably be the most important economic decision Britain will make in the first half of the 21st century. This book asks all the big questions and explains both sides of all the arguments.
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The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI UK £ 8.99
In the vein of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Colin Evans' book brilliantly explores how Sir Bernard Spilsbury, a superstar detective in 1920s Britain, solved a catalogue of gruesome, unexplained murders.
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The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI UK £12.99
The fascinating story of the life and work of Bernard Spilsbury, history's greatest medical detective.
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The Girl on the Wall: One Life's Rich Tapestry UK £17.99
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The Globalisation Myth UK £ 7.99
Globalisation increases inequality, crushes dissent and subjugates government to the will of global capital. Right? Wrong, argues Alan Shipman
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The Grand Prix Companion UK £ 9.99
Essential reading for any Formula 1 fan.
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The Great Books - From the Iliad and the Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature UK £20.00
A lavishly produced and beautifully illustrated work of both reference and general reading.
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The Great Books - From The Iliad and the Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A Journey through 2,500 years of the West's classic literature UK £10.99
Anthony O'Hear presents a personal tour of the most impressive,
influential and era-defining books mankind has ever produced.
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The History of Britain Revealed (paperback) UK £ 7.99
A book to change the way you think about history, language and much else besides.
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The History of England UK £ 9.99
David Starkey introduces histories of England by Austen and Dickens, brought together here for the first time.
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The Intellectual (paperback) UK £ 6.99
Critically acclaimed essential guide to the life of a modern Intellectual.
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The Internet from A to Z UK £ 4.99
New and updated 2002 edition. Know your Dongle from your Node? Lost your SOCKS or your Bozo Filter? Frustrated with Craplets? Desperate for a Mappucino? Get the latest version of Icon?s best-selling Net introduction and dictionary.
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The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew UK £17.99
Brideshead Revisited meets Fight Club in this thrilling, first-hand account of a year in the life of Cambridge University's Boat Race squad.
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The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew UK £ 8.99
Mark de Rond's brilliant, acclaimed year in the life of the Cambridge Boat Race crew, published in paperback to coincide with 2009's race at the end of March.
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The Lives and Times of the Great Composers (new 2010 edition) UK £12.99
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The Lives and Times of the Great Composers (paperback) UK £16.99
A grand and panoramic biographical history of the giants of classical music.
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The Lucky Bugger's Casebook: Tales of Serendipity and Outrageous Good Fortune UK £12.99
From Newton's apple to the underwired bra that deflected a bullet: upbeat stories of real-life serendipity.
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The Lying Ape: An Honest Guide to a World of Deception UK £ 7.99
An amusing and revealing exploration of the natural deceit found everywhere in modern life.
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The Lying Ape: An Honest Guide to a World of Deception UK £ 9.99
Explores the psychology and history of lying.
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The Man Who Ate Bluebottles...and Other Great British Eccentrics UK £ 9.99
Meet the greatest ever British eccentrics here!
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The Man Who Ate Bluebottles...and Other Great British Eccentrics (paperback) UK £ 6.99
A celebration of true British loopiness through the ages.
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The Man Who Ran the Moon UK £16.99
The secret history of Project Apollo and the true cost of America?s victory in Space.
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The Man Who Ran the Moon (paperback) UK £ 8.99
The fascinating hidden story of the charismatic man who gave up everything to win the space race
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The New Rome: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America UK £14.99
Vanity Fair's US editor-at-large pits the modern USA against the might of the Roman Empire - and finds two very similar opponents.
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The Pendulum Years UK £12.99
Sex, lies and politics in Sixties Britain by one of the most brilliant commentators of the time.
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The Psychic Tourist: A Voyage Into the Curious World of Predicting the Future UK £ 8.99
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The Psychic Tourist: A Voyage into the Curious World of Predicting the Future UK £14.99
Journalist William Little travels into the world of the psychic, and discovers more than he'd ever imagined...
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The Real Oliver Twist UK £16.99
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, Robert Blincoe?s political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before.
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The Real Oliver Twist (paperback) UK £ 8.99
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, Robert Blincoe?s political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before.
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The Red Bodyguard: The Amazing Health-Promoting Properties of the Tomato UK £ 5.99
A deft mixture of fascinating popular science and practical health advice relating to the humble tomato.
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The Rich: A New Study of the Species UK £16.99
Insight into the lives and fortunes of the world?s wealthiest and most powerful people.
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The Science of Doctor Who UK £12.99
Discover the scientific reality behind the fiction of Doctor Who
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The Science of Doctor Who (paperback) UK £ 8.99
Explains the scientific reality behind the fiction in this highly acclaimed unofficial guide.
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The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy UK £12.99
Richard Dawkins for many years held the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. Yet, as a scientist, hes behind the times, argues Fern Elsdon-Baker.
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The Soldier: A History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood UK £25.00
A powerful, extensive, major world history of the fighting man by a former Army officer.
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The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time UK £14.99
Following in the success of The Top 100 Formula One Drivers, this is a rigorous assessment of cricketing legends from one of the game's foremost commentators.
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The Top 100 F1 Drivers of All Time UK £ 8.99
Updated paperback edition of Alan Henry's controversial chart of the best drivers from the history of Formula One, published as the new season gets going.
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The Top 100 Formula One Drivers of All Time UK £14.99
Sure to fire debate, a personal assessment of Formula 1's all-time best drivers from one of the sport's greatest sages.
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The Truth that Sticks: New Labour's Breach of Trust UK £ 8.99
One of the best-known names in TV journalism unleashes his fury - felt by millions - on New Labour's betrayal of trust.
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The Truth That Sticks: New Labour's Breach of Trust UK £16.99
Martin Bell delivers the definitive critique of the Blair years with precision and great passion.
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The Tunguska Fireball UK £12.99
The 20th century's greatest mystery - what was the Tunguska fireball?
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The Unfair Sex UK £ 9.99
All is fair in love and war, and for Nina Farewell the two are more similar than you might think...
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The Z-Z of Great Britain UK £ 9.99
A surreal new look at hidden Britain.
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The Z-Z of Great Britain (paperback) UK £ 7.99
The highly acclaimed, unique travelogue of the hidden Britain of the letter Z
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Torres: An Intimate Portrait of the Kid Who Became King UK £17.99
A brand new biography of Liverpool and Premier League superstar, Fernando Torres, based on one-of-a-kind insider interviews with those closest to him ... and the player himself.
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Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights UK £ 9.99
The incredible story of how the CIA's darkest secret of the 'war on terror' - the 'extraordinary rendition' programme - was exposed.
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Unstrange Minds: A Father Remaps the World of Autism UK £12.99
Anthropologist and father Roy Richard Grinker's heartfelt, deeply touching quest to understand autism - and his powerful, compelling conclusions.
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Wacky Nation: 50 Unbelievable Days Out at Britain's Craziest Contests UK £12.99
An indispensible guide to the UK's most absurd, bizarre and even foolhardy 'sports'...
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Wacky Nation: 50 Unbelievable Days Out at Britain's Craziest Contests UK £ 9.99
An indispensable guide to the UK's most absurd, bizarre and even foolhardy 'sports', to be released in smaller B format.
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Walking in on Mum and Dad: Adventures in Embarrasment UK £ 9.99
Torrid tales of embarrassment providing enough real-life black humour to have you hiding behind your hands in horror.
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Websites from A to Z UK £ 4.99
Want information, but don't where to start? There are millions of Websites of varying quality and value. How do you know which are worthwhile and which don't bear a second look? This intelligent Net directory has the answers.
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What Every Man Wants UK £ 9.99
The ultimate guide to the world's most sought-after sporting prizes.
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What is Myrrh Anyway? Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Christmas UK £ 6.99
A hugely enjoyable, festive excursion through the history, science, music, culture and traditions of everyone's favourite winter holiday.
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Wholly Irresponsible Experiments! - Science That'll Blow You Away UK £ 7.99
Your chance to create some good honest mayhem in the name of science!
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Wholly Irresponsible Exploits! - 65 Ways to Muck About with Science UK £ 9.99
It's time for a return to the weirdest lab imaginable - your own kitchen and back garden. Science meets the imagination.
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Wholly Irresponsible Exploits: 65 Ways to Muck About with Science UK £ 7.99
Now in paperback, the hilarious, and just a little naughty, sequel to the bestselling Wholly Irresponsible Experiments.
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Wholly Irresponsible Science: 130 Daring Experiments to Do in Your Home and Garden UK £ 9.99
Brand-new experiments for turning your kitchen and garden shed into a homemade mad scientists laboratory ... child supervision recommended!
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Why Aren't They Here?: The Question of Life on Other Worlds UK £ 7.99
A brilliant outline of the historical, fictional, speculative and emerging scientific opinions on what alien life might be like.
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Why Aren't They Here?: The Question of Life on Other Worlds UK £12.99
A fast-moving book examining the history, dispelling myths and focusing on the possiblities lurking in space.
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Why Blame Israel? UK £ 8.99
Impartial expert Neill Lochery finds the truth behind the headlines about Israel
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Why Blame Israel? The Facts Behind the Headlines UK £12.99
A provocative new history of a troubled country at the centre of the world stage
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Why Do People Hate America? UK £ 7.99
A powerful and timely critique of the Land of the Free
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Will America Change? UK £ 8.99
The extensively rewritten, fully updated edition of Icon's biggest-ever selling book - 'Why do People Hate America?'
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X Marks the Box: How to Make Politics Work for You UK £ 7.99
What is politics? And why does it matter? Self-confessed born-again voter Daniel Blythe presents a popular, forceful argument designed to shake up anyone's apathy.
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