Second Hand Books

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Green Carnation Prize 2014. 'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dre...

Synopsis Subtitled : Human Nature and the Reconstitution of the Social Order. Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in ...

Synopsis Winner - The Orwell Prize 2018. People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey aka Lo...

Synopsis A profound essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Housekeeping and Lila, now including Marilynne Robinson's conversation with...

Synopsis Yunus posits that the panacea to poverty is a new business paradigm. Social business, he calls it. As you read his description of it, the ...

Synopsis Editor : Tom Standage The Facts and Figures that Turn Our World Upside Down. Smart, savvy answers to universal questions, from the highly ...

Synopsis Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere else. But the reality of travel seldom matches our daydreams. The tragi-com...

Synopsis Popular pastor and chaplain to the St. Louis Cardinals, Darrin Patrick, offers simple, practical advice - one guy to another - on how to b...

Synopsis The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currentl...

Synopsis India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond is a book written by Shashi Tharoor that expresses the importance that India enjoys in t...

Synopsis An international team of geographers and cartographers has complied and edited an immeasurable amount of information for this volume. Stru...

Synopsis The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives Why do so many of us love o...

Synopsis It's all in here . . . the ultimate reference book for it's time (2000). The Physical World, The Political World, The Continents, World Ec...

Synopsis This is an exploration of the 21st Century. On the surface nothing seems to be changing, but behind the façade of normality the future is ...

Synopsis 'No Logo' was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For it’s 10th anniversary Naomi Klein has updated this...

Synopsis The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke’s brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this centur...