Books from Profile Books(GB)

  • Concise 48 Laws of Power
    Concise 48 Laws of Power
    By Robert Greene, Joost Elffers

    The Concise Edition of this huge international bestseller - the 48 laws are illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures of great figures from the past who have wielded - or been victimised by - power.

  • Smut: Two Unseemly Stories
    Smut: Two Unseemly Stories
    By Alan Bennett

    Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) is altogether more startling, perhaps shocking, and ultimately more true to people's predilections.The Greening of Mrs DonaldsonMrs Donaldson ...

  • A Box of Alan Bennett
    A Box of Alan Bennett
    By Alan Bennett

    A quirky, wry and ironic tale.

  • Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics
    Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics
    By David Smith

    But why not? What does economics tell us about the price of lunch - and everything else? Set out like a good lunch-time conversation, this book guides you through the mysteries of the economy.

  • The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
    The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
    By Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson

    Includes material on the market crisis. This book presents models where the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved.

  • Kitty and the Prince
    Kitty and the Prince
    By Ben Shephard

    The story of the love affair between Kitty Jewell and Prince Lobengula.

  • Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
    Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
    By Mary Beard

    This remarkable book by Britain's best known classicist rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains as well as exploding many myths.

  • Dolly Signed
    By Hill Susan

    The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer.

  • The Small Hand: A Ghost Story
    The Small Hand: A Ghost Story
    By Susan Hill

    At first unperturbed by the odd experience, Snow begins to be plagued by haunting dreams, panic attacks, and more frequent visits from the small hand which become increasingly threatening and sinister .

  • The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
    The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
    By Michael Haag

    In little more than a century Acre would be destroyed, the Franks driven from Outremer, and the Templars themselves, reviled and disgraced, would face their final immolation.Michael Haag's new book explores the rise and fall of the Templars ...

  • The Uses and Abuses of History
    The Uses and Abuses of History
    By Margaret MacMillan

    This book is a powerful and vital call to arms for us all to use history - and its lessons - with care and respect.

  • Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD
    Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD
    By Martin Kemp

    A journey through the history of art from religious painting to postmodernism by one of the world's greatest art historians

  • Turned Out Nice Again: On Living with the Weather
    Turned Out Nice Again: On Living with the Weather
    By Richard Mabey

    An exploration of our preoccupation with the weather, as heard on BBC Radio 3: Changing Climates.

  • The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
    The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
    By Richard Mabey

    Six personal essays on natural science and romanticism.

  • The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
    The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
    By Al Ries, Laura Ries

    'The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding will enlighten many, and it attacks the jargon of the marketing professional with common sense.' - Independent

  • A Drama in Time: The New School Century
    A Drama in Time: The New School Century
    By John Reed

    The book design is reflective of the change-making, status-quo pushing attitude of the school: dynamic and unexpected while remaining elegant. --Publisher's website.

  • Da Vinci's Ghost: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Drawing
    Da Vinci's Ghost: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Drawing
    By Toby Lester

    In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester examines the forces that converged in 1490 to turn an idea that had been around for centuries into this iconic image, bringing the ghost of an unknown Leonardo da Vinci back to ...

  • The Dirty South
    The Dirty South
    By Alex Wheatle

    Dennis Huggins drifts into the dangerous life of drug dealer and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is, the struggle for love is harder still.

  • Who was that Man?: A Present for Mr Oscar Wilde
    Who was that Man?: A Present for Mr Oscar Wilde
    By Neil Bartlett

    Many books have been written about Oscar Wilde. Who Was That Man? is unique - the acting out of a love-hate relationship between Wilde and a gay Londoner of today. Neil Bartlett has grabbed history by the collar and made bitter love to it.

  • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
    The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
    By Al Ries, Jack Trout

    Ries and Trout share their rules for certain successes in the world of marketing.