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Petticoat Pilots: Biographies and Achievements of Irish Female Aviators, 1909-1939

Petticoat Pilots: Biographies and Achievements of Irish...

Author: Michael Traynor
ISBN: 9780954919429
Format: Hardback
$77.60

The seven chapters in this second of two volumes contain biographies of Irish women who were at the cutting edge...  Read More >>

Mau Mau Interrogator

Mau Mau Interrogator

Author: Ken Lees
ISBN: 9781911072331
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Unique personal memoir by man responsible for interrogation and release of seventy thousand detainees during the...  Read More >>

Old Bloke Goes Running

Old Bloke Goes Running

Author: Paul Murdoch
ISBN: 9781908898890
Format: Paperback
$20.67

A Tongue-in-cheek look at trying to get fit in your fifties. A diary... a log... an adventure that opened up a new...  Read More >>

Swisstory: Die Verbluffende, Blutige Und Ganz Und Gar Wahre Geschichte Der Schweiz

Swisstory: Die Verbluffende, Blutige Und Ganz Und Gar...

Author: Laurie Theurer ,  Michael Meister
ISBN: 9783038690832
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Hier endlich die wahre Geschichte der Schweiz fur kluge Kinder und alle, die im Herzen Kinder geblieben sind: Wir...  Read More >>

Nine Lives To Eternity

Nine Lives To Eternity

Author: Scott D Gottschalk ,  Marcus B Webb
ISBN: 9781733291118
Format: Paperback
$34.18

Nine Lives To Eternity is one man's true chronicle of cheating death a miraculous twenty-seven times.  Read More >>

Apollo Confidential: Memories of Men On the Moon

Apollo Confidential: Memories of Men On the Moon

Author: Lukas Viglietti
ISBN: 9781642795868
Format: Paperback
$47.39

An extraordinary insight into the journey from the Earth to the Moon inspired by the extraordinary personal stories...  Read More >>

Nine Lives To Eternity

Nine Lives To Eternity

Author: Scott D Gottschalk ,  Marcus B Webb
ISBN: 9781733291149
Format: Hardback
$46.55

Nine Lives To Eternity is one man's true chronicle of cheating death a miraculous twenty-seven times.  Read More >>

Hinterland Summer 2019

Hinterland Summer 2019

Author: Richard Beard ,  Bart Van Es
ISBN: 9781911343868
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Hinterland is a quarterly, print and digital magazine dedicated to the very best new creative non-fiction writing....  Read More >>

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

Author: Helen Jukes
ISBN: 9781471167744
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper's year of keeping a colony of honeybees, which...  Read More >>

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

Author: Michael Collins
ISBN: 9781509896578
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A special anniversary edition of the classic account of the Apollo 11 trip to the moon.  Read More >>

The Chimpanzee & Me

The Chimpanzee & Me

Author: Ben Garrod
ISBN: 9781528873239
Format: Audio
$47.53

This is a unique look at conservation of the species and Ben's life-long love of chimps, illustrated with full colour...  Read More >>

Letters from Alice: A Tale of Hardship and Hope. a Search for the Truth.

Letters from Alice: A Tale of Hardship and Hope. a Search...

Author: Petrina Banfield
ISBN: 9780008329914
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Two women. One secret. Will they be able to keep it under wraps?  Read More >>

Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs

Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs

Author: Brian J. Ford
ISBN: 9780008218935
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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For The People

For The People

Author: Anelia Schutte
ISBN: 9780263277463
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid  Read More >>

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 9780008329402
Format: Paperback
$18.09

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Author: Mary Shelley
ISBN: 9780008329372
Format: Paperback
$18.09

In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human...  Read More >>

Zerreissprobe?: Rustungsforschung an Der Abteilung Maschinenbau Der Mpa Stuttgart Von 1933 Bis 1945

Zerreissprobe?: Rustungsforschung an Der Abteilung Maschinenbau...

Author: Jens Klein
ISBN: 9783832549237
Format: Paperback
$179.52

"Wahrend des ""Dritten Reiches"" wurden technisch-wissenschaftliche Institutionen in wachsendem Umfang in die Rustungsforschung...  Read More >>

The Great Mathematicians

The Great Mathematicians

Author: Raymond Flood ,  Robin Wilson
ISBN: 9781788886949
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus...  Read More >>

Two Sisters: The international bestseller by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul

Two Sisters: The international bestseller by the author...

Author: x Asne Seierstad
ISBN: 9780349009063
Format: Paperback
$27.99

In October 2013 two teenage sisters left Oslo for Syria. A powerful and gripping true account of a family torn apart...  Read More >>

Titanic

Titanic

Author: Stuart Robertson
ISBN: 9781910821190
Format: Hardback
$19.99

This book is brimming with facts about the Titanic and its passengers, the history of the Titanic, strange stories...  Read More >>

Hinterland: Spring

Hinterland: Spring

Author: Andrew Kenrick ,  Freya Dean
ISBN: 9781911343851
Format: Paperback
$25.88

First issue of a new anthology of creative non-fiction publishing out of University of East Anglia.  Read More >>

The Loch Ness Mystery: Band 06/Orange

The Loch Ness Mystery: Band 06/Orange

Author: Sarah Rice ,  Collins Big Cat
ISBN: 9780008339685
Format: Paperback
$16.17

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Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope, and Heritage of Astronomy

Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope, and Heritage of...

Author: Martin Harwit (Cornell University, New York)
ISBN: 9781108722049
Format: Paperback
$106.06

Cosmic Discovery is rereleased after more than thirty-five years, with a new preface. Martin Harwit chronicles the...  Read More >>

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