Bookmark the site

Return to Homepage


US Shopping
UK Shopping



 










Related Items: Search



Search Related Items: - select a category

1.Frommer's Italy 2008 (Frommers Complete) by: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
September 07, 2007


>>More Details
 : Frommer's Italy 2008 (Frommers Complete)
List Price: £15.99
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £14.39
You Save: £1.60 (10%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £5.44


2.Frommer's Germany 2008 (Frommers Complete) by: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
November 30, 2007


>>More Details
 : Frommer's Germany 2008 (Frommers Complete)
List Price: £15.99
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £10.55
You Save: £5.44 (34%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £0.93


3.Frommer's France's Best-loved Driving Tours (Best Loved Driving Tours) by: British Automobile Association
August 14, 2008
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

>>More Details
 : Frommer's France's Best-loved Driving Tours (Best Loved Driving Tours)
List Price: £12.99
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £11.69
You Save: £1.30 (10%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £12.35

Great book that has France broken down by areas that one can easily tour in short 3-5 day trips. Lists major sites to see along suggested routes. Gives clear directions and small, well detailed maps. Highlights walks, special sites, and recommendations for children. No wineries, hotels, or restaurants.

4.Accelerate (digipack) by: REM
March 31, 2008
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

>>More Details
 : Accelerate (digipack)
List Price: £15.99
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £5.68
You Save: £10.31 (64%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £2.99

Really enjoyed this fast-paced exhilerating album. It's actually the exactb album they promised after automatic but they gave us monster instead. Monster would be an interesting avant-guard sort of thing to be doing these days. Instead we get something so good we just don't deserve it. Unbelievably good and so reminiscent of lots of pre-green albums.

5.Frommer's Spain 2008 (Frommers Complete) by: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
October 19, 2007
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

>>More Details
 : Frommer's Spain 2008 (Frommers Complete)
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £15.99
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £8.86

I love their best lists - the best small towns, the best beaches, the best luxury hotels... It's a really great idea. The worst thing is that they don't even mention Murcia and the Costa Cálida at all! Come on guys, 704 pages and you still manage to miss a whole region out of the guide. They say they update it every year so let's see what the 2008 update brings!

6.Frommer's Portugal (Frommers Complete) by: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
March 18, 2008
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

>>More Details
 : Frommer's Portugal (Frommers Complete)
List Price: £14.99
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £9.89
You Save: £5.10 (34%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £10.04

I love their best lists - the best small towns, the best beaches, the best luxury hotels... It's a really great idea. The worst thing is that they don't even mention Murcia and the Costa Cálida at all! Come on guys, 704 pages and you still manage to miss a whole region out of the guide. They say they update it every year so let's see what the 2008 update brings!

7.Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
May 03, 2007
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

>>More Details
 : Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
List Price: £9.99
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £6.49
You Save: £3.50 (35%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £4.00

I would suggest that this book is NOT for someone who has a clear view of where they are going in life, and how they will get there. For in both the large and small events in life, there are unpredictable events. Nassim Taleb talks about how we handle those events, and more importantly, how we can use them in our favour. If you are one I recommend not to start the book, the reading may change your outlook. Permanently.

Taleb is a market trader, with experience of having survived several severe financial storms - `difficult trading conditions'. The book is peopled with real and composite characters from his trading life. Most are no longer working in the market, a result of having `blown up'. The essence of the volume is in the title, ... Read More:

8.The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
February 28, 2008
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

>>More Details
 : The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
List Price: £8.99
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £5.29
You Save: £3.70 (41%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £3.51

I originally bought this book last year, I read about half of it but gave up in disgust at the general pretentiousness and repetition.
I picked it up again this year after the credit crunch had hit and it seemed to be a different book, funny with some insight into current market turmoil! Assuming the book hadn't changed while on my shelf, presumably I had.

The core idea is very simple, Gaussian (Normal/ bell curves) distributions are overused in finance and they critically underestimate the chances of high impact relatively rare events which are best modelled as Power laws (see the The Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand for another take). Taleb covers the slightly strange beat where finance/ statistics/ epistemology ... Read More:

9.BREAD MATTERS: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own by: Andrew Whitley
September 04, 2006
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

>>More Details
 : BREAD MATTERS: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own
List Price: £20.00
Off The Bookshelf's Price: £14.00
You Save: £6.00 (30%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £13.56

I don't doubt the sincerity of the author and his passion (dread word) for 'good' bread (never ever bad bread) but I could have done without page after page of rants about the state of the food industry. I can find that free of charge in any newspaper, magazine or TV programme and it's all become very smug and boring. I guess I should have been alerted by the title.

The non-ranting bits of the book are engagingly written and all the recipes that I've tried have been good. I do wish however that some simple line drawings of the techniques could have been provided as the prose can be a tad confusing when you are up to your elbows in dough. Try this for size "...roll the dough into a sausage about twice as long as the longest side of the tin. Flatten this sausage ... Read More:


 



Off The Bookshelf.co.uk gives you a unique shopping experience, you can find all the Related Items: products you like within a few minutes online, locate the latest charting CD's, DVD's & Games, read Related Items: reviews on the bestselling Related Items: Books and Related Items: products. All Related Items: are available to buy Used (at a greater saving) or New (at a great discounted RRP). Add the Related Items: items you would like to your shopping basket, pay securely online and we send these products to be delivered to your door. We take great pride in being able to offer you the great savings partnering with Amazon, offering you cheaper prices than the high street retailers, we have thousands of discounts on all the the Related Items:'s you can buy off the shelf and hope you find the website easy to use.

Thanks for visiting and browsing Off The Bookshelf.co.uk


 

In association with Amazon.co.uk
SME-WS
HolidayHavens - Holiday Rental Accommodation