CONSTABLE & ROBINSON

(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF TATTOO ART
Over 700 full-colour photographs of the work of leading tattoo artists from all over the world, including: Horiyoshi III, Filip Leu, Louis Molloy, Hannah Aitchison, Jime Litwalk, Mike DeVries, Buena Vista Tattoo Club, Adam Collins, Face the Fact, Kore Flatmo, Jeff Gogue, Dan Gold, Good Times, Barba Kari, Cecil Porter, Sarah Schor, Bob Tyrrell, Motomichi Nakamura, Holy Cow and Mick from Zurich. As jam-packed with the very best in tattoo art as the bestselling first volume, The Mammoth Book of Tattoos, this is a must-have for any fan of skin...
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(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY
A brand-new, stunningly produced collection of over 500 erotic art photographs, featuring the work of over 70 leading photographers from the US, UK and elsewhere, who have made a name for themselves with their nude and erotic work. Photographers include Alva Bernadine, Steve Diet Goedde, Chas Ray Krider, John Santerineross, Michele Serchuk, Peter Gorman, Dave Naz, Charles Gatewood, Luis Durante, Rebecca Tillett, Aaron Hawks, Craig Morey, Eric Kroll, Richard Kadrey, Christine Kessler and many more. These excitingly original images represent...
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(P/B) THE EIGHTY DOLLAR CHAMPION
Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry's modest farm on Long Island, he ultimately taught Snowman how to fly. Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo. One show at a time, against extraordinary odds and some of the most expensive thoroughbreds alive, the pair climbed to the very top of the sport of show jumping. Their story capture...
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(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST CRIME COMICS
The 24 greatest crime comics ever produced! Here is the first ever popular collection of crime comics - the 24 best graphic short stories in the crime genre,spanning all the colours of noir, from classic American newspaper strip serials and notorious uncensored comic books to today's global graphic novel masterpieces. This must-have collection is fully loaded with some of the greatest writers and artists in comics publishing, including Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Will Eisner, Max Allan Collins, Johnny Craig, Alex Toth, Bernie Krigstein - pl...
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(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT
The true story of the Witch craze - Demons, Folklore, and Superstition. The witch in history is very different from the image of Harry Potter or the modern day Pagan. A Brief History of Witchcraft sets out to explore how the witch phenomenon began in medieval Europe and how it has continued to haunt us for the next 500 years. In her fascinating history Lois Martin's looks at how folk tradition and religion clashed with devastating effect - one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all and the most brutal regime of persecution ever seen. F...
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(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW MANGA 3
The essential collection for every reader intrigued by manga, The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga continues to break new ground with this latest volume. Bursting with energy and imagination, it features the most exciting new work in 2007/08 by the brightest young talents in the manga field - comic strip stories and characters influenced or inspired by Japanese anime and manga, and now being produced worldwide. This year's collection is produced full colour throughout. Over 400 pages long, the anthology showcases more than 20 new stories, co...
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(P/B) LONDON CALLING
The first in a new series featuring John Carlyle, a Metropolitan Police Inspector working out of the Charing Cross station in central London Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey through the murky world of the British ruling classes which leads all the way to the top. In the middle of a General Election, a murderer is stalking the man poised to be the next Prime Minister. With power almost in his grasp, Edgar Carlton will not...
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(P/B) FOOTBALL HOOLIGANS
First-hand accounts of football violence, from infamous Millwall to Man U. Once dubbed 'the English disease', British match-day thuggery has spread right across Europe and beyond. Here is the inside story of that phenomenon from those that were there, taking part in the mayhem. 'Yob Laureate' Dougie Brimson and his brother Eddy offer a compelling description of match-day madness; Colin Ward goes steaming in, while other pieces detail the irresistible aggro of the local Derby, the tragedy inside Heysel Stadium and the violence surrounding E...
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(P/B) EMPIRE
In the international bestseller "Roma", Steven Saylor told the story of the first thousand years of Rome by following the descendants of a single bloodline. Now, in Empire, Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the Pinarius family, from the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, to the glorious height of Rome's empire under Hadrian. Through the eyes of the Pinarii, we witness the machinations of Tiberius, the madness of Caligula, the cruel escapades of Nero, and the chaos of the Year of Four Emperors in 69 A.D. The deadly ...
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(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR
A terrifying East-West confrontation - but what historical significance? The Cold War was an undeclared war, fought silently and carefully between ideological opponents armed with the most fearsome weapons mankind has ever seen. Hughes-Wilson takes a cool look at this war, from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the USSR thereafter. He examines the suspicion and paranoia - on both sides - of the greatest stand-off in history. Written by one of Britain's leading, popular, mili...
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(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIFE IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slum, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of paradoxes. The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine, and their world would have felt very different from our own and it was only during the long reign of the Queen that a modern society emerged in unexpected ways. Using character portr...
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(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DYNASTIES OF CHINA
Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a T'ang horse or a Ming vase in its social or cultural context? By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilization. His bird's-eye view starts on the borders of myth. It moves swiftly on to the greatest achieveme...
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(P/B) 100 HEADLINES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
The 100 greatest newspaper headlines - from the Californian Gold Rush in 1848 to the Death of Steve Jobs in 2011. Accessible, readable history for today Newpapers are a form of instant history, capturing forever the awe and fascination that great historical events inspire. They are also an intriguing source to return to as they reveal the contemporary view of world-changing events, before it can be shaped by subsequent developments. While newspapers have been around for centuries, it was only when the Industrial Revolution encouraged mass...
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(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW MANGA (VOLUME TWO)
The essential collection for every manga fan - the latest inspirational new manga. Here is the second volume of the world's premier annual showcase of international manga. Bursting with energy and imagination, the collection features the most exciting new work by the brightest young talents in the field. Over 500 pages long, the anthology showcases more than twenty new stories, complete and unabridged - in every genre you can think of, and quite a few more besides. True-to-life drama, sci-fi parable, medieval fantasy, updated Chinese myth,...
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(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF TATTOOS
It is now estimated that as much as 10% of the population in the UK and USA carries a tattoo. The huge recent growth in tattoo culture has in turn led to an influx of new talented artists, advancements in pigments and refinement of the equipment used. This giant volume includes the very best of the new work made possible by modern improvements in tattoo art. Here are 500 striking photographic images of tattoos, covering all styles from bold 'tribal' pieces, Chinese characters and hieroglyphs to delicate air-brushed designs, and from all-ov...
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(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PIRATES
Piracy might not be the world's oldest profession, but it has a long and dishonourable history. There were pirates in Ancient Greece; Cicero was eloquent in his diatribes against the pirates who infested the Roman seas. The Vikings were snatch-and-row rovers on a nightmarish scale (indeed, 'Viking' is the Old English for 'pirate'), yet it is the sea-robbers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who come foremost into the mind's eye when the word 'pirate' is hoisted. It is the exploits of these pirates -Captain Avery, Blackbeard, Kidd,...
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(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST HORROR COMICS
50 of the greatest horror comics and graphic short stories ever produced. In over 500 pages this book collects the finest tales of terror from the past sixty years of comic book publishing. It encompasses all eras of the genre, from the 'weird menace' horror of the perennially popular 1950s pre-Code comics published by EC, to the dark modern gems of the 90s and 2000s. Discover the tales that drove the American youth of the 1950s into a frenzy and resulted in legislation to put an end to their gruesome content - the pre-Code comic book maca...
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(P/B) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF SUDOKU
Here's the biggest and most exciting book of Sudoku puzzles ever compiled. Over 400 new puzzles designed to satisfy all levels from beginner to expert. With all kinds of challenges, all levels of difficulty, and more varieties of number-placement (and letter-placement) puzzles than any other collection available. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PERSONAL POWER
Carl Rogers was one of America's most pioneering and influential psychotherapists and this is one of his most important books. Throughout his working life, he sought to develop the creative potential - the natural tendency towards growth - within a person, and a person's capacity for self-understanding and ability to cope constructively with life. For when an individual comes into contact with and accepts his inner strength, exciting new ways of living can emerge. And when he is trusted to make choices and finds the courage to make respons...
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(P/B) ROMA
"Roma" is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world. Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way station among seven hills for traders and merchants and the founding of the city itself by Romulus and Remus, critically acclaimed historical novelist Steven Saylor tells the epic saga of a city and its people, its rise to prominence among the city-states of the area, and, ultimately, do...
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