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A beautifully, uniquely illustrated nautical guide to how to trim your sails and rig for maximum performance. With a revolutionary approach, this guide tackles the practical and realistic elements of tuning your boat, plus the theory of sail aerodynamics...

An odyssey into life's challenging philosophical questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions.One of the most influential books written in...

"Outstanding ... among the most important books about whisky ever written." Charles MacLean BRINGING TOGETHER LANDSCAPES, geology, history, people and their whisky, and addressing the key role of peatlands in mitigating climate change, Peat and Whisky:...

Inspired by true historical events in the Caribbean, River Sing Me Home will break your heart and then lift you up. A soaring story of courage and sacrifice, this novel reminds us of the remarkable strength of hope. A Good Morning America Book Club Pick...

"Accomplishes what few other books have-helping growers use mycorrhizae to improve the immune systems of plants. This natural union between plants and fungi is the foundation of our food web." -Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can...

'A brilliantly written and incisive account of gay life' Colm Toibin 'Each page made me yearn for the dance floor... I'm so glad that someone has written this definitive book about gay bars' Amelia Abraham, author of Queer Intentions Propulsive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938485060Author Alexander LowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Alexander Lowen FoundationPublisher Alexander Lowen FoundationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592403356Author Brene BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 134mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852399Author Hans Jurgen KoehlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 442g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939438034Author William CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Dauphin PublicationsPublisher Dauphin Publications

In The Grand Chessboard , renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The task facing the United States, he argues, is to become the sole political...

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip...

Learn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) with these six classic and beloved lessonsIt was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of...

How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state...

A BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERGAnil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology...

The hangman's paradox, cat's cradle, gambling, peg solitaire, pi and e - all these and more are back in Martin Gardner's inimitable style, with updates on new developments and discoveries. Read about how knots and molecules are related; take a trip into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684856025Author Loren ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles Killer Su Doku poses an even greater challenge than the Fiendish Su Doku puzzles.Here are 110 previously unpublished puzzles for hard-core Su Doku addicts. Published to...

'I was born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington - a small apartment atop my parents' grocery store on First and Seaton Street. During my...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty, brilliance, compassion and ultimately, hope' Robin DiAngeloThe consequences of racism can be found in...

In 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio - an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861716012Author Shohaku OkumuraFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

A playful and accessible guide to fermenting at homeJames Read is on a mission to smuggle bacteria into our kitchens. In Of Cabbages & Kimchi, he takes the ten greatest 'living' ferments - fermented foods that are neither cooked nor pasteurized - and...

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography'. 'I...

'A Masterful guide' YUNG PUEBLO'If human beings came with a manual, It's On Me would be it' SIMON SINEKA revolutionary guide to identifying self-loss and discovering the freedom that comes from taking responsibility for how we live.So many of us feel...

How four of Europe's most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind.Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology,...

Them is an eye-opening, outrageously funny exploration of extremism, which makes both author and reader think twice about the looking-glass world of 'us' and 'them' . . .A Sunday Times bestseller and the book that launched Jon Ronson's inimitable career...

How Does That Make You Feel? obliterates the boundaries between the shrink and the one being shrunk with unabashedly candid writers breaking confidentiality and telling all about their experiences in therapy.This revelatory, no-punches-pulled book...

From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times...

Rooted in the position that being a scientist is fun, Activate Student Book 2 further explores key scientific concepts in a way that is engaging and accessible. The structure from Activate Student Book 1 continues, with separate units for Biology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916021501Author Rachel FoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Soul Fed WomanPublisher Soul Fed WomanWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the...

"Policing is a uniquely dangerous, harrowing and challenging profession where officers are expected to do far more than prevent and detect crime. To be a police officer is also to be a social worker, marriage guidance counsellor, mental health worker and...

*FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED and HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST* WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?Waging war?Sex for pleasure?Creating art?Mastery of fire?In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells...

'A visionary book' Philip Pullman'Essential and magnificent' George Monbiot'Deft and wonderfully poetic' Grace BlakeleyThe right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be reclaimed?With the UK more divided than ever, England has re-emerged as a potent force...

#1 on AMAZON, TWENTY WEEKS on the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST, and a WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLEROver 1,000,000 copies sold despite censorship, boycotts from bookstores and libraries, and hit pieces against...

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.Penguin Modern: fifty new...

Wilcox takes us from the coast of Indonesia to the rain forests of Peru in search of the secrets of these mysterious animals. We encounter jellyfish that release microscopic venom-packed darts known to kill humans in just two minutes, a two-inch...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the...

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Parenting doesn't come with a manual, but if it did, it would be this one.' MYLEENE KLASS'How to Be the Grown-Up has already become my favourite parenting handbook. Every parent needs this.' DAISY LOWEDrawing on her years...