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The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure of Chuang Tzu ...
Once known only by the elite – unwilling to share their knowledge of power –‘the secret’ of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent ...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2010
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie ...
Gavin Pretor Pinney is the chairman and founder member of the Cloud Appreciation Society. His book not only teaches us to recognise their different varieties ...
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory ...
New translation, and new to Classics
Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought ...
An indispensable guide to one of the world's most valuable natural resources. This new edition adds 17 important timber species not included before, bringing ...
What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and ...
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a ...
New translation by Robin Buss
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From ...
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades ...
A completely revised, redesigned and updated edition of the definitive woodworker's bible. Starting with the basics - the nature of wood, the tools required, setting ...
Status Anxiety has spent two and a half months in the Sunday Times top five bestseller list, selling over 50,000 copies.
We all worry ...
A rip-roaring swashbuckler about a forgotten 17th century English hero who, starting as a poor, piratical buccaneer, became a famed round-the-world explorer.
William Dampier, (1651-1715 ...
Another perfect walking partner! 'More Family Walks in Perth Outdoors' is the second of a series of walk books continuing in the footsteps of the ...