Misc - Other

Ranging from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Plato to today's cutting-edge thinkers, this book offers a wealth of stimulation and amusement for everyone with a curious mind.

Author: Robert Arp

Publisher: Cassell

Paperback. 960pp. 16cm by 21cm.

ISBN: 9781788400886

Weight: 1.88kg

Original Price: £20.00

365 knot challenges for all abilities.

You won't escape this book without learning something, and you won't put it down without picking up an interesting fact or useful technique. Give it a month and you'll be a knot tying fanatic; give it a year and you'll be a knotting supremo!

Author: Nic Compton

Publisher: Adlard Coles

Paperback. 368pp. 20cm by 19.5cm.

ISBN: 9781472985163

Weight: 877g

Original Price: £17.99

New buildings from an old tradition.

The book offers both visual inspiration from the specially commissioned photography but also the human stories behind the creation and design of these treehouses.

Author: Jane Field Lewis

Publisher: Pavilion

Hardback. 223pp. 25.5cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781911595120

Weight: 1.32kg

Original Price: £25.00

Bicarbonate of soda is far more than a baking ingredient – it can be used in all manner of household tasks including cleaning, laundry, animal care, and health and beauty.

Author: Diane Sutherland, Jon Sutherland, Liz Keevill, Kevin Eyres

Publisher: Flame Tree Illustrated

Paperback. 256pp. 17cm by 16cm.

ISBN: 9781786645364

Weight: 511g

Original Price: £9.99

Father of the modern circus. The life and times of Philip Astley.

Author: Steve Ward.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 128pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526706874

Original Price: £12.99

Foreword written by Nick Baveystock, Director General and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers: David McFetrich has created a wonderful encyclopaedia. This is not just a list of British bridges: it is also a social history of a nation continually growing in industrial power and might, of engineers and architects striving to create beauty and purpose out of functionality, and of the real heroes of the tale, the bridges that underpin our very existence.

Author: David McFetrich

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 444pp. 22.5cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526752956

Weight. 1.885 kg

Original Price: £60.00

A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables. Purkiss uses the story of food as a revelatory device to chart changing views on class, gender, and tradition through the ages.

Author: Diane Purkiss

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. 549pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780007255566

Weight: 904g

Original Price: £30.00

Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard

Author: Kathryn Baird

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 128pp. 20cm by 21.5cm.

ISBN: 9781803990460

Weight: 354g

Original Price: £15.99

The new guidebook for outdoor adventurers, to brave the cold and reconnect with nature

Author: Richard Skrein

Publisher: Pavilion

Hardback. 144pp. 14cm by 19cm.

ISBN: 9781911682578

Weight: 372g

Original Price: £12.99

The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with this much-loved art has changed, evolved and progressed over time.

Author: Emma Kay

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 15.9cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526757487

Weight: 700g

Original Price: £25.00

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, it was Britain that first spread the beautiful game across the world.

Author: Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock

Publisher: History Press

Hardback. 320pp. 13.8cm by 21.6cm.

ISBN: 9780750998796

Weight: 536g

Original Price: £15.99

Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that weaves a fascinating tale.

Author: Theodore Papakostas, translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito

Publisher: William Collins

Paperback. 288pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780008596071

Original Price: £14.99