Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “tom scott”
Skip side bar filters

  • Lateral - Based on the Hit Podcast

    Wonderful Answers to Weird Questions

    by Tom Scott, David J. Bodycombe ...
    The first book based on Tom Scott's hit podcast, LATERAL! Unlock a world of mind-bending brainteasers.This massive collection of lateral thinking puzzles features 100 questions with unexpected, fascinating answers. Figuring them out will require you to challenge your assumptions and find new perspectives—but whether you find the solutions or not (even Tom has been stumped!), the answer notes will ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Drawn Out

    A seriously funny memoir

    by Tom Scott ...
    Drawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his fallings out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and Murray Ball, his travels to the ends of the earth with his close friend Ed Hillary, and more...'A ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Searching For Charlie

    In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham, VC & Bar

    by Tom Scott ...
    A gripping biography of a reluctant hero. Discover the extraordinary life of Charles Upham, the only combat soldier to win the Victoria Cross twice during WWII. From a humble New Zealand stock worker to a legendary war hero, Upham's courage and leadership defied all odds in Crete and the Western Desert.Follow Upham's journey through intense battles, capture, and daring escapes from Colditz POW ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fragments of Home

    Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter

    by Tom Scott-Smith ...
    Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to stay. Governments and charities have adopted a ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • On an Empty Stomach

    Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief

    by Tom Scott-Smith ...
    On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian "scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement, but rather is profoundly shaped ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Early Reformation in Germany

    Between Secular Impact and Radical Vision

    by Tom Scott ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically toward an interest in the ’long’ or ’delayed’ Reformations, and the structure and operation of the Holy Roman Empire. Whilst this focus has resulted in many fascinating new insights, it has also led to the relative neglect of the early Reformation movement. Put together with the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • This is Far Enough

    by Tom Scott ...
    Homeland Security Agent Ben Stafford is sent to Italy by a secret CIA artificial intelligence computer program. His job there is to find a shipment of heat-seeking missiles that were smuggled into Italy from Libya on an Egyptian cargo ship, along with a missing shipping of South African nuclear reactor fuel. While bullets are flying, time is running out. He has the help of a good woman, a Guardian ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Structures of Protection?

    Rethinking Refugee Shelter

    Edited by Tom Scott-Smith, Mark E. Breeze ...
    Series Book 39 - Forced Migration
    Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Structures of Protection?

    Rethinking Refugee Shelter

    Edited by Mark E. Breeze, Tom Scott-Smith ...
    Series Book 39 - Forced Migration
    Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Last Secret Agent

    My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines

    by Pippa Latour, Jude Dobson ...
    After decades of silence, the last surviving World War II spy operating in the deadly world of Nazi France, reveals the real, untold story of her time as a secret agent.From a unique and singular voice comes the incredible true story of the last surviving undercover British female operative in WW2. Pippa Latour parachuted into occupied France in 1944 to conduct sabotage and subversion behind enemy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier

    by Doug Gold ...
    A prisoner of war's daring escape from a speeding train . . . a Greek resistance heroine's fateful decision to harbour the fugitive . . . and a young dressmaker's curiosity spark a chain of events that has consequences none of them could ever have imagined.The Dressmaker & the Hidden Soldier is based on the extraordinary true story of Peter Blunden, the New Zealand soldier, and Thalia Christidou, ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • Black Silk and Sympathy: The captivating first novel in a new historical fiction series from the popular bestselling author of FROM THE ASHES, for fans of Jackie French, Tea Cooper and Kirsty Manning

    by Deborah Challinor ...
    Series Book 1 - Tatty Crowe
    A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker.'Men have been undertakers for hundreds of years. Not women, men. You don't belong.'Sydney, 1865. Seventeen-year-old Tatiana Caldwell travels from London to make a new life. Her path leads her to Crowe ... Read more

    $5.99 USD