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Hardback. Condition: Good. A moving, funny exploration of life as the parent of a lockdown baby, by illustrator Pia Bramley.

Paperback. Condition: Good. This book features quirky, enjoyable and entirely true instances of science going wrong, right and in totally unexpected directions from 600 BC onwards .Just how did the scientific discoveries that have changed our world come about? Surendra Verma investigates the eureka moments, the serendipities and the plain errors that have peppered science's last 2,000 years. The result is a wonderfully readable insight into the mysteries of human scientific endeavour. From the sixth century BC and Pythagoras' claims that the world was round, to the modern discovery of penicillin, Surendra Verma trawls through history in search of the more human side of science. Who discovered anaesthesia at a party? How did a sewage farm odour reducer benefit medicine? Why did the Cold War prevent the West understanding heart disease? Verma's account of philosophers, physicians, scientists and Nobel Prize winners is a highly informative and brilliantly light-hearted account of how often Lady Luck can play a part in the scientific process.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The paperback edition of one of this year's most exciting and influential political books.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Move beyond time management, get your inbox to zero and learn to think like a Productivity Ninja.

Hardback. Condition: Good. All things are made of atoms, little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. This is the first popular account of the fascinating story of the atom. No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its story is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius. John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later came one of the most important experiments in scientific history, by the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford. He showed the atom consisted mostly of space, and in doing so turned 200 years of classical physics on its head. It was a brilliant Dane, Neils Bohr, who made the next great leap - into the incredible world of quantum theory. Yet, he and a handful of other revolutionary young scientists weren't prepared for the shocks Nature had up her sleeve. Mind-bending discoveries about the atom were destined to upset everything we thought we knew about reality. Even today as we peer deeper and deeper into the atom, it throws back as many questions at us as answers.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The updated edition of Luca Caioli's brilliant biography of Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi, now covering the 2015/16 season.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Traces the origins of various schools of thought, from Enlightenment thinkers and the pioneering work of Auguste Comte to the subsequent developments of Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Also outlined in the text are the rapid expansion of sociology in 20th century America and Britain, the Chicago School and the rise of structuralism. The methods and concepts of the key social analysts are also examined. Loon, Borin Van (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This beginners guide introduces the complex ideas in Hawking's book, "A Brief History of Time". Hawking has made discoveries about where the two theories of relativity and quantum mechanics break down or overlap, such as at the edge of a Black Hole or the Big Bang origin of the universe.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. The Bunny Suicides of the 1800s extraordinary, bizarre and often morbidly funny stories from the depths of the Victorian press.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Boost performance, improve focus and eat your way to success.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The updated edition of Luca Caioli's brilliant biography of Barcelona star Lionel Messi, now covering the 2017/2018 season and 2018 World Cup.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Published in association with the Telegraph, an enjoyable book on gardening the cleverer way.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Published in association with the Telegraph, an enjoyable book on gardening the cleverer way.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the relentless building of more and more pretexts for future wars.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is the dramatic story of the ups and downs of a born entrepreneur.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First published in 1970, The Pendulum Years argues that many of the striking features of the preceding decade stemmed from an underlying tension between the pull of the past and the pull of the future. Coruscating and often hilarious, it is an unparalled examination of epochal times.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The paperback edition of one of this year's most exciting and influential political books.

Paperback. Condition: Good. When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn't know why, she wrote: 'I want to be thin.'Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was hospitalised, and finally swung the other way towards bulimia nervosa. She left school, rejoined school; went in and out of therapy; ebbed in and out of life. From the bleak reality of a body breaking down to the electric mental highs of starvation, hers has been a life held in thrall by food.Told with remarkable insight, dark humour and acute intelligence, The Time in Between is a profound, important window into the workings of an unquiet mind - a Wasted for the 21st century.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It is through phantasy that we as humans see, recognise and comprehend the world. Phantasy colours and moulds behaviour, thoughts and feelings. Constantly changing, phantasies move and develop with growth and, like dreams, are created through our desires, our hopes, our fears, conflicts and anxieties. Arising from real experience interlaced with emotional reality, with lies we tell ourselves or with a deep knowledge of inescapable truths, phantasies can both enrich and confuse. Phantasy adds not only pleasure and emotional resonance but also fear and anxiety to everyday experience, and as such is a defining characteristic of what it means to be human. It is an essential - and contentiously debated - idea in psychoanalysis, punctuating the dialogue between ourselves and a world that we are forced both to live in and live through. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Acclaimed football writer Luca Caioli draws on invaluable testimonies to tell the inside story of football's greatest ever rivalry.

Paperback. Condition: Good. This work provides an introduction to quantam theory. It covers the key figures, including Planek, Einstein, Heisenberg and Schrodinger and explains the concepts of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, wave-particle duality, non-locality and Schrodinger's Cat.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 92-year activist and author of the acclaimed Harrys Last Stand presents a unique memoir.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In 1919, Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the physics of the universe with his General Theory of Relativity.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The people, ideals and events that have shaped a nation in comic book form. Scheele, Jules (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: Fair. Mayblin, Bill (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, this title reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. Mayblin, Bill (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. The most incredible places to relive humankinds deep past.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Presents many years of research by hundreds of scientists that reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have inner, secret lives. This title shows how animal 'friends' stay in touch, how they warn and help each other in times of danger, and how some animals problem-solve as or in some instances even more effectively than humans.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Compact INTRODUCING guide on the debates surrounding psychoanalysis's most contested figure. Freud is universally recognised as a pivotal figure in modern culture. Yet the man and his work continually attract scandal, outrage and scientific suspicion. Was he a psychological genius or a peddler of humbug? Despite his atheism, did he invent a new religious cult? Is he to blame for disguising the prevalence of sexual abuse? Is there an Oedipus Complex? Was he a drug addict? A wittily illustrated glimpse behind the demonised myths to the heart of a red-hot debate. Zarate, Oscar (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.