Biography: general
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Biography: general
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, photos. BIC Classification: BGL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Pelican Publishing Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455620944
- ISBN
- 9781455620944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.39
€ 33.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; HBJK; HBLW; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Trine Day United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937584542
- ISBN
- 9781937584542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.52
€ 27.99
€ 25.52
Paperback. John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on 'Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living wild on the streets. An incredible, heart-wrenching story of a child who refused to give up. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BTP; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230. Good, clean copy. Showing minor shelfwear to covers and some stains on page edges
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KSG0007641
- ISBN
- 9780007222018
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Fearless memoir of a forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases that shaped her as both a physician and mother. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; MMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781476727264
- ISBN
- 9781476727264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.52
€ 19.52
Paperback. The contributors to this text who talk about their lives represent late-20th-century Ireland's creative substratum. They are artists, writers, map-makers, weavers, dreamers, water-diviners, environmentalists, wood-cutters, gardeners, travellers and urban independents. Num Pages: 176 pages, 16 colour illustrations & 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
- Publisher
- Lilliput Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901866223
- ISBN
- 9781901866223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.09
€ 19.99
€ 17.09
Paperback. William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter? Judy Golding recalls growing up with a brilliant, loving, sometimes difficult parent. The years of her childhood and adolescence saw her father change from an impecunious schoolteacher to a famous novelist. This title is her memoir. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571273423
- ISBN
- 9780571273423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.54
€ 14.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. A memoir of a woman's life on a remote Scottish island - from 19-year-old girl to wife of one to mother of five, hotelier, domestic miracle worker, to empty nester to writer. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHL; 3JJP; 3JM; BGA; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444759600
- ISBN
- 9781444759600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
Hardback. This book is an appreciation of and a close analysis of the films of Stuart Erwin, a versatile, complex actor whose work has for many years been unfairly neglected. Additionally, this study places Erwin's career within a social, cultural, literary, and historical context. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810840225
- ISBN
- 9780810840225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.76
€ 113.76
Hardback. Virginia d'Albert-Lake risked her life saving downed airmen along the Comet escape line that stretched from Belgium to Gibraltar. What distinguished her from other resisters was that she was an American citizen who had the option to return to the safety. This work tells the story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Editor(s): Litoff, Judy Barrett. Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 322 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225811
- ISBN
- 9780823225811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.77
€ 128.77
Paperback. Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during WWII. This memoir tells how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life. Editor(s): Yung, Judy. Num Pages: 227 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJF; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 15. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987545
- ISBN
- 9780295987545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.57
€ 27.99
€ 23.57
Paperback. How far would you go to be the perfect mother? In this title, the author recounts one woman's attempt to move her family and her life from cosmopolitan London to rural Northumberland. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KNW0010502
- ISBN
- 9780141033433
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. A history of American women activists. It features biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a chapter on women environmental activists. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520229655
- ISBN
- 9780520229655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Paperback. The story of the splendidly unpredictable Russian dancer who ruffled the feathers of the Bloomsbury set and became the wife of John Maynard Keynes Num Pages: 496 pages, 50. BIC Classification: ASDL; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- W&N
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753825785
- ISBN
- 9780753825785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Hardcover. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; ACX; AMKH; BGF; BK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500518663
- ISBN
- 9780500518663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.32
€ 26.99
€ 20.32
Paperback. Mary Tudor is often written off as a twisted queen who tried desperately to pull England back to the Catholic Church that was so dear to her mother, and sent many to burn at the stake in the process. This biography argues that Mary, neither boring nor basically bloody, was a hard-working, 'hands on', and decisive queen than is commonly recognized. Series: Routledge Historical Biographies. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415327213
- ISBN
- 9780415327213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.34
€ 51.34
Hardback. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; BGH; JFSJ1; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821422328
- ISBN
- 9780821422328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; BGH; JFSJ1; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821422335
- ISBN
- 9780821422335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.14
€ 27.99
€ 26.14
Hardcover. A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of the 90th birthday of Judith Kerr, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AN; BGL; YNL. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 307 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1332.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007513215
- ISBN
- 9780007513215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 25.85
€ 40.99
€ 25.85
Paperback. In the 1950s, shortly after her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. Far from being cared for, Judith found herself in a savage institution where physical, emotional, and sexual abuse was the daily norm. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KRF0037359
- ISBN
- 9780747587149
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This is the extraordinary saga of Countess Evelina van Millingen Pisani, a modern woman who lived in the age of Queen Victoria. A friend of Henry James and Isabella Stewart Gardner, she led a rich but turbulent life that spanned from Rome to Constantinople and Venice. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; BGH; HBTB; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781555934
- ISBN
- 9781781555934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.22
€ 21.99
€ 17.22
Hardback. A celebration of the work of Anne Alvarez, an enormously influential psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose work on autism and severe personality disorders in children has been important internationally. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583911303
- ISBN
- 9781583911303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.34
€ 168.34
Paperback. Simon Forman was one of the extraordinary personalities of Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Like most doctors, he was also an astrologer, reading the stars for all and sundry. This book uncovers Forman's private world, that of a compulsive womaniser who kept a coded diary, a record of promiscuity as colourful as the journals of Pepys and Boswell. Num Pages: 240 pages, facsimiles, , portraits. BIC Classification: BGH; MBX; VXFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. Light shelf wear, else as new.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KTG0021070
- ISBN
- 9780099289623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. The untold tale of Mathilde Wesendonck, the muse of many of Richard Wagner s greatest works Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Amadeus Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574674910
- ISBN
- 9781574674910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Paperback. This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five years after being found guilty of a lesbian relationship with another nun. Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Dimension: 203 x 134. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195042252
- ISBN
- 9780195042252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.49
€ 23.49