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Biography: historical, political & military

This memoir from his personal physician, friend, and confidante of more than 40 years, John C. Lungren, MD, portrays Richard Nixon as a paradoxical man - intense, compassionate, guarded, intelligent, resilient, deeply religious, enormously successful but ultimately tragic. Num Pages: 204 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122748
ISBN
9780813122748
Condition: New

€ 47.07

Hardcover. A historical memoir that offers a portrait of a remarkable life, told first from the perspective of a young girl in Erie, Pennsylvania, Paris, and Washington before World War I, and then from her husband's postings as US naval attache and then as US ambassador to Belgium, the Soviet Union, and Taiwan during the cold war. Editor(s): Kirk, Roger. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGHA; JFSJ1; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608912
ISBN
9780815608912
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.79

Hardcover. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9781600219610
ISBN
9781600219610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. This personal memoir tells the story of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a nurse. The story plunges the reader into the bloodiest aspects of the war itself, then continues after the end of the war as the author attempts to regain the love of her family. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press Boston
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558492981
ISBN
9781558492981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.85

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 266 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750967150
ISBN
9780750967150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.75

Paperback. This groundbreaking biography reveals the woman behind the myth. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: BGH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750970518
ISBN
9780750970518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JJPL; BGH; HBWQ; JWXR; JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153. .
Publisher
Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781863514958
ISBN
9781863514958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.12

Hardcover. Florence Nightingale is famous as the 'lady with the lamp' in the Crimean War, 1854-56. This title reports on Nightingale's correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. Num Pages: 1096 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; DN; HBTB; JW; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 63. Weight in Grams: 1630.
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
785
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889204690
ISBN
9780889204690
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 188.94

Hardcover. Relates the founding of Florence Nightingale's school at St Thomas' Hospital and her guidance of its teaching for the rest of her life. This title reveals her evolving views on nursing, and on germ theory. It presents material on the early years of the school. It covers the crisis of its near breakdown in the early 1870s. Editor(s): McDonald, Lynn. Num Pages: 944 pages, illus. BIC Classification: BGH; DN; HBTB; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
935
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889204676
ISBN
9780889204676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.59

Hardback. Born in 1852 in the last years of serfdom, Vera Figner came of age as Imperial Russian society was being rocked by the massive upheaval that culminated in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. At first champion of populist causes and champion of women's higher education, Figner later became a leader of the terrorist party The People's Will. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 362 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012845
ISBN
9780253012845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 564 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143127031
ISBN
9780143127031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.68

Paperback. Exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140183504
ISBN
9780140183504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.86

Paperback. Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with scepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation. Editor(s): Sutherland, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555017
ISBN
9780199555017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. One of the most famous and tortured romances in history - between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex - began in 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was nineteen. This title portrays Elizabeth and Essex's compelling attraction for each other, their impassioned disagreements and their mutual struggle for power. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAX; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
9781780760490
ISBN
9781780760490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. This important book brings together the previously unpublished letters of three women, Lilian Ngoyi, Bessie Head and Dora Taylor. These letters record the writers' joys and sorrows as they struggled to live principled lives in adversity. It invites readers to taste the intriguing and sometimes disturbing pleasures of reading personal letters. Editor(s): Daymond, M. J. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781431409488
ISBN
9781431409488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.49

paperback. On the morning of April 27, 1935, Louis N Hammerling fell to his death from the nineteenth floor of an apartment in New York City, where he lived alone. Hammerling was one of the most influential Polish immigrants in America and the leading voice and advocate of the Eastern Europeans who had come to the country seeking a better life. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJG; BGH; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875807218
ISBN
9780875807218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470604
ISBN
9781611470604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.71

Paperback. Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. This book features his life story. Translator(s): Desai, Mahadev. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGHA; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186863
ISBN
9780141186863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 halftones. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; BGH; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 16.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691175829
ISBN
9780691175829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.55

paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BGH; HBJD; HBLW3; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Open Gate Pr United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871871258
ISBN
9781871871258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.30

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