Biography: general
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Biography: general
Hardback. Offers the study of a largely ignored legacy. Scouring archives, discovering diaries, and memoirs in private houses and forgotten drawers, this title recovers the voices of the generation - bootblacks and poets, film directors and farmers, miners, anarchists, and seamstresses - compelled to tell their stories. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; BGA; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226788
- ISBN
- 9780823226788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.67
€ 115.67
Hardcover. Features a biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E M Cioran that focuses on his formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. Editor(s): Johnston, Kenneth R. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 b&w photos, 1 maps. BIC Classification: BG; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 252 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253352675
- ISBN
- 9780253352675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.97
€ 44.99
€ 44.97
Paperback. Segatashya was a shepherd born into a penniless and illiterate pagan family in the most remote region of Rwanda. He never attended school, never saw a Bible, and never set foot in a church. Then one summer day in 1982 while the 15-year-old was resting beneath a shade tree, Jesus Christ paid him a visit. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8-page colour plate section. BIC Classification: BGXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Hay House Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781401935825
- ISBN
- 9781401935825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.07
€ 23.99
€ 17.07
Hardback. A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna". He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the intellectual centre of Vilna. This text sheds light on aspects of the Vilna Gaon's "real" character. Translator(s): Green, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; BGH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520223943
- ISBN
- 9780520223943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.00€ 49.08
€ 63.00
€ 49.08
Paperback. Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGXA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 33. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Brandeis University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611683080
- ISBN
- 9781611683080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.64
€ 43.99
€ 33.64
Paperback. Translator(s): Zweig, Arnulf. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; BG; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 283.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226423616
- ISBN
- 9780226423616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.09
€ 52.99
€ 41.09
Paperback. A memoir, which talks about the author (and her husband's) trials and tribulations with IVF. Poked and prodded by endless doctors, pumped full of an exotic cocktail of drugs and forced to try to have sex at the most inopportune moments, she pulls no punches in her account of this process. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BG; VFDW; VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KLN0018241
- ISBN
- 9780552154383
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A biography of Lennie Tristano, the blind pianist who was one of jazz's most extraordinary innovators. Series: Popular Music History. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVRG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845532819
- ISBN
- 9781845532819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.84
€ 40.84
Hardback. Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, was both a brilliant and controversial man. This biography offers a nuanced account of this morally ambiguous man. Drawing on Hamsun's extraordinary private archives and on his psychoanalyst's notes, it delves into Hamsun's personal life and character. Translator(s): Skuggevik, Erik; Dawkin, Deborah. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 b/w. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 169 x 36. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300123562
- ISBN
- 9780300123562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.31
€ 43.99
€ 31.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill.M. BIC Classification: 1FMB; BGHA; HBJF; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824816285
- ISBN
- 9780824816285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.69
€ 20.99
€ 19.69
Paperback. Biography of Harold Lowe, Fifth Officer of RMS Titanic, who was described by another survivor as 'the real hero of the Titanic.' After taking an active role in the evacuation, Lowe took command of a raft of lifeboats, distributing passengers among them so he could return to the wreckage and look for survivors - the only officer to do so. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752469966
- ISBN
- 9780752469966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. * Ingrid Betancourt's astonishing, powerful and deeply moving account of her six-year ordeal in the Colombian jungle as a hostage of the terrorist organisation FARC Num Pages: 608 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; BG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 41. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844086139
- ISBN
- 9781844086139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. The definitive biography of one of the great heroes of the Second World War Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGH; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- MacLehose Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848665965
- ISBN
- 9781848665965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.54
€ 23.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. This biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226730240
- ISBN
- 9780226730240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.17
€ 24.99
€ 20.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Dalaker, Ingrid Loe. Num Pages: 410 pages. BIC Classification: BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 171 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Akademica Publishing Norway
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788232102617
- ISBN
- 9788232102617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.22
€ 50.99
€ 36.22
Paperback. A fascinating study of the Queen's life and her reign, as seen through her own speeches over the last 75 years Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 x 8pp colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; BGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471150982
- ISBN
- 9781471150982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. In this joyful, moving, and often funny memoir, Ira Berkow describes his path from Maxwell Street marketplace hawker to Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Timeswriter. "A master of his trade."-Studs Terkel. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566637558
- ISBN
- 9781566637558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.78
€ 17.99
€ 17.78
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Casemate Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932033991
- ISBN
- 9781932033991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.21
€ 32.99
€ 27.21
Hardback. Collects the fascinating memories of some of radio's most vivid personalities: Himan Brown, Axel Gruenberg, Fletcher Markle, Arch Oboloer, and Robert Lewis Shayon. They explain in their own words their journey through radio broadcasting, how it affected their lives, and how they saw it impacting upon the consciousness of a country. Series: Directors Guild of America Oral History S. Num Pages: 236 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APW; BG; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834729
- ISBN
- 9780810834729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.63
€ 112.63
Paperback. Collects the fascinating memories of some of radio's most vivid personalities: Himan Brown, Axel Gruenberg, Fletcher Markle, Arch Oboloer, and Robert Lewis Shayon. They explain in their own words their journey through radio broadcasting, how it affected their lives, and how they saw it impacting upon the consciousness of a country. Series: Directors Guild of America Oral History S. Num Pages: 236 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APW; BG; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834835
- ISBN
- 9780810834835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 85.50
€ 85.50
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Tyndale House Publishers United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781414339368
- ISBN
- 9781414339368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.88
€ 17.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. An eyewitness and harrowing account of the brutal life in a Soviet labour camp. An unwavering determination to survive against the odds. The heroic sacrifice and bravery of the Polish Resistance and the Warsaw Uprising. The role of Polish soldiers in the Italian campaign, notably the Battle of Monte Cassino. Num Pages: 160 pages, including 32pp colour section, numerous photos and documents. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Whittles Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849952644
- ISBN
- 9781849952644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.48
€ 24.99
€ 21.48
Hardcover. Describes Purdue's travels to diverse places where she lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. This book examines her beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. It describes the destitute family's journey into Ohio and her ascent from local entrepreneur to national figure. Num Pages: 180 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Edition
- Limited Ed (150)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534576
- ISBN
- 9781557534576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.84€ 80.09
€ 93.84
€ 80.09
Paperback. CZ;SK Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: BGT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788024623795
- ISBN
- 9788024623795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.92
€ 18.99
€ 15.92