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Be Useful: Seven tools for life

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THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolu

9781529146530
$33.15 excluding shipping

Who Really Owns Ireland?: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we ca

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Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownership - who really controls the valuable land where we live, work and play and how did they acquire it? Who are the new foreign investors and why are t

9780717196012
$26.65 excluding shipping

Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989

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Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition aga
9780520283152
$38.35 excluding shipping

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really

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From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no

9780241454930
$38.94 excluding shipping

Sport in Modern Irish Life

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9781785374548
$24.05 excluding shipping

Topographia Hibernica

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You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind.

Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking bra

9781529371628
$31.85 excluding shipping

Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

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'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.'

There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, band

9781838858407
$33.15 excluding shipping

An Eye on Ireland: A Journey Through Social Change - New and Selected Journalism

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'For those of us around from the beginning, this collection jolts like jump-leads to the complacent heart. For the many who were not, dive into these columns from an Ireland of not so long ago. It's an eye-opener.'
MIRIAM LORD

9781399729161
$31.85 excluding shipping

We Need to Talk

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Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the public during the Covid 19 pandemic. During this time his remarkable leadership skills came to the fore and he became the public face of t

9781804182499
$34.45 excluding shipping

Facilitating Collective Intelligence: A Handbook for Trainers, Coaches, Consulta

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Chantal Neve-Hanquet and Agathe Crespel provide an accessible and ground-breaking guide to genuinely effective group work, sharing excellent hands-on assistance for coaches and facilitators. Offering a unique selection of guidelines and illustrati

9780367209674
$52.00 excluding shipping

Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings

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Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English l

9781399811675
$23.40 excluding shipping

Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

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*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 START THE WEEK* An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next 'A must-read' Psychologies 'Radical, incisive, thoughtful . . . I can't recommend
9781800817920
$16.25 excluding shipping

Social Capital: Life online in the shadow of Ireland's tech boom

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A David and Goliath story about Ireland's role as prime real estate for the world's largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals.

At the start

9780008524234
$24.50 excluding shipping

Abolition Revolution

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George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around the world. Shortly after, Sarah Everard's murder by a serving police officer sparked a national abolitionist movement in

9780745346519
$23.08 excluding shipping

Awareness

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De Mello's spiritual classic remains at the top of the Fount bestsellers more than five years after its original publication.
9780006275190
$19.44 excluding shipping

What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live

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In the 20th century humanity consumed products faster than ever, but this way of living is no longer sustainable. This new and important book shows how technological advances are driving forms of 'collaborative consumption' which will change forev

9780007395910
$22.42 excluding shipping

Beautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions

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In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to give us all a bit of good news.

We are living

9780007448371
$39.65 excluding shipping

Who Gets What - And Why: Understand the Choices You Have, Improve the Choices Yo

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This book shows how our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.
From dating, school and university applications to the job market, understand the most important decisions you'll ever make with insights fr

9780007520787
$11.69 excluding shipping

War on Peace: The Decline of American Influence

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A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow.

'This is one of the most important books of our time.' Walter I
9780007575657
$16.25 excluding shipping

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An outstanding expose of Putin and his criminal pals ... [A] long-awaited, must read book' SUNDAY TIMES 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has surpassed them all. Her much
9780007578818
$17.55 excluding shipping

Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019 TIME's #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A NEW YORK TIMES
9780008159269
$17.55 excluding shipping

Superior: The Return of Race Science

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Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year
9780008293864
$16.90 excluding shipping

Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next?

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An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features

9780008342623
$20.15 excluding shipping

The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It

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'Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ... The Status Game might be his best yet' James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times

What drives our political and mo

9780008354640
$24.05 excluding shipping
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