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£14.00
A charming, illustrated guide for dog lovers all over the world.
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£12.95
The Little Book forIntroverts is an exploration of all the joys of being an introvert.
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£22.00
This volume contains details of bizarre happenings in the human, material and natural world. It examines all facets of extraordinary human life, from space and the universe to prophecies and coincidences, from birth and growth to the mysterious mind, from accidents to events that simply defy belief.
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£16.99
‘You Don’t Have to Have a Dream’ offers Tim Minchin’s inimitable thoughts and advice on life, art, success, kindness, love, and thriving in a meaningless universe. Drawn from three of his iconic commencement addresses, it’s a rallying cry for creativity, critical thinking, and compassion in our daily lives.
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£14.99
“This delightful book is a tribute to the genius of the human mind for conceptual precision and the beauty of the English language in capturing it. It resolves a great deal of puzzlement over confusable terms, and its endearing illustrations and lighthearted explanations multiply the satisfaction.” ?Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and Rationality What’s the difference between mazes and labyrinths? Proverbs and adages? Clementines and tangerines? Join author Eli Burnstein on a hairsplitter’s odyssey into the world of the ultra-subtle with Dictionary of Fine Distinctions. Illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck, this humorous dictionary takes a neurotic, brain-tickling plunge into the infinite (and infinitesimal) nuances that make up our world. The perfect gift for book lovers, word nerds, trivia geeks, and everyday readers, this illustrated gem is more than just a book?it is an indispe
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£18.99
History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the renaissance master, the servant who oversaw the Tudor’s toilet time, or the famous horse who thrilled the miserable old monarch. These supporting cast members have been waiting in the wings for too long, and Adrian Bliss thinks it’s high time they join their glory-hogging contemporaries in the spotlight. Equal parts fascinating and hilarious, this book is a surreal love letter to life’s forgotten heroes featuring hitherto undocumented accounts from Ancient Greece to the frontlines of the Great Emu War.
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£10.99
From declaring my love to Vanessa Redgrave to being fed cockroaches by Steve Buscemi, from turnip-based comedy with ‘Blackadder’ to being farted on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Graham Norton’s sofa to Alan Cumming’s campervan, my life has been (and continues to be) a riotous adventure. ‘Oh Miriam!’ has been such a constant refrain in my life, said in all kinds of tones – laughs, surprised gasps and orgasmic sighs (I’m hoping for all those from you as you read on!) – that it had to be the title of this book. And with a castlist that stretches from Churchill to di Caprio, Dahl to Dietrich, Princess Margaret to Maggie Smith, I’ve got so much more to tell you and so much more to say.
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£9.99
The most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present day.
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£22.00
A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father’s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny
‘Heartbreaking and devastatingly funny’ HADLEY FREEMAN
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£24.85
What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? What did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle. Humans have been using triangles for thousands of years to build structures, measure the earth, make music, paint vanishing points, pot snooker balls and much, much more. But trigonometry is not a thing of the past – triangles underpin all of modern data technology. When someone Snapchats a photo, the light travels into the camera as electromagnetic sine waves, Fourier analysis compresses the image and then trigonometry is used to send the data to someone else’s phone; when you listen to a track on Spotify, triangles remove the sounds which a human ear can’t perceive and reassemble the song so that it’s small enough to stream.
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Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning Love, Nina comes the author’s diary of her return to London in her 61st year.
