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Biography: general
Hardcover. A wonderfully honest and deeply accomplished tribute to a complicated, talented mother and writer - 'An Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen' (Bookseller) - by her daughter. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16ppblack-and-white. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 362 x 33. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349007526
- ISBN
- 9780349007526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 6.23
€ 7.99
€ 6.23
Hardcover. This title revisits the years Sally Russell spent living in a remote farmhouse along the Mulberry River in Barrow County, Georgia. It contains essays about day-to-day living, the seasons and cycles of nature, the love of land and family, and one woman's ambition to make her home a place of refuge. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; BGA; JFSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322988
- ISBN
- 9780820322988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.14
€ 46.14
Hardback. This is the first biography of Abel-Smith. It takes a historical perspective to analyse the development of health and social welfare systems since the 1950s, exposing the critical impact of long-running debates on poverty and state responsibility, especially in Britain. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: BG; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447314844
- ISBN
- 9781447314844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.38
€ 55.38
Paperback. Celebrated as queen, politician, and lover, Cleopatra remains an object of fascination more than 2,000 years after her death. In this beautifully illustrated new study, Sally-Ann Ashton deconstructs the image of Cleopatra to uncover the complex historical figure behind the myth. Series: Blackwell Ancient Lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113908
- ISBN
- 9781405113908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.13
€ 45.13
Paperback. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 136 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099563440
- ISBN
- 9780099563440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
€ 17.99
€ 13.19
These are the recollections of a Jewish boy, Norman Salsitz, in a pre-war Polish village, of his scramble to survive the Holocaust and of his adventures in America. In America, Salsitz found that the very traits that saw him through the war enabled him to prosper in his adopted land. Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 408 pages, 54 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607342
- ISBN
- 9780815607342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.95
€ 40.99
€ 35.95
Hardcover. Salvador Novo (1904-1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. This book portrays the codes, intrigues, and dynamics of what, decades later, would be called "a gay ghetto." Translator(s): Feitlowitz, Marguerite. Series: Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series. Num Pages: 210 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; BGLA; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705418
- ISBN
- 9780292705418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.41
€ 40.41
Paperback. El ritmo is a collection of letters from Salvador Rueda to the Catalonian critic Jose Yxart, first published in Madrid in 1894. El ritmo sets out, in a sometimes ironical tone, a panorama of the state of poetry in Spanish at the end of the nineteenth century. Series: Exeter Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 66 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 5. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 66
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859894012
- ISBN
- 9780859894012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.45
€ 38.45
Paperback. A rollicking football memoir from one of the best-known figures in British football, who is now manager of England. Num Pages: 384 pages, 30 colour photos. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 252 x 28. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472232687
- ISBN
- 9781472232687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.60
€ 14.99
€ 11.60
Paperback. The diary of Sam Faiers' rise to fame as lead character in the hit TV series The Only Way is Essex. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471114212
- ISBN
- 9781471114212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.35
€ 9.99
€ 8.35
Hardcover. Num Pages: 262 pages, 35 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Tidewater Publishing
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870335129
- ISBN
- 9780870335129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 24.89
€ 36.99
€ 24.89
Paperback. Each volume in this series features approximately fifteen short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given state. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 19.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762728152
- ISBN
- 9780762728152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.08
€ 17.99
€ 15.08
Hardback. Short, fun, and thoroughly-researched profiles of amazing women who followed their passions in science, medicine, engineering, espionage, and exploration Num Pages: 240 pages, Spot black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; BK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Quirk Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594749254
- ISBN
- 9781594749254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.65
€ 20.99
€ 16.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, b/w photos, maps & letters. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; HBWN; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Granville Island Publishing Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926991108
- ISBN
- 9781926991108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.70
€ 26.99
€ 18.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 163 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BG; WSSN3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Canada
- Edition
- First Canadian
- Number of pages
- 163
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780920663707
- ISBN
- 9780920663707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.15
€ 24.99
€ 17.15
Paperback. Sam's Millar's story, from his childhood in Belfast, membership of the IRA, time spent in Long Kesh internment camps and the Brinks heist,one of the biggest robberies in U.S. history, and aftermath. Unputdownable. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- O´Brien Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847176400
- ISBN
- 9781847176400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.57
€ 13.99
€ 12.57
Paperback. In September 2008 Navi Pillay was appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Num Pages: 200 pages, ill. BIC Classification: BGH; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 113 x 17. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906413453
- ISBN
- 9781906413453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.62
€ 9.99
€ 8.62
Paperback. Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 x 8pp b&w. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444758399
- ISBN
- 9781444758399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Hardcover. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1217.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905847075
- ISBN
- 9781905847075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.59
€ 33.99
€ 28.59
mass_market. Num Pages: 272 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 116 x 27. Weight in Grams: 191.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553562835
- ISBN
- 9780553562835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05
Paperback. Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KNDH; UBJ. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 141 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- O´Reilly Media, Inc, USA United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781449324643
- ISBN
- 9781449324643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.60
€ 24.99
€ 18.60
Paperback. The stirring story of the life and 'last fight' of a forgotten British naval legend. Series: Hearts of Oak Trilogy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3 x colour plate sections and 2 illustrated appendices. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; BGH; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 34. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849160377
- ISBN
- 9781849160377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.85
€ 25.99
€ 17.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; APT; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hachette Australia
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780733633447
- ISBN
- 9780733633447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.64
€ 20.99
€ 15.64
Paperback. Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This biography of Parsons tells the story of her reign over Hollywood during the studio era. Num Pages: 426 pages, 25 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APF; BGF; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 426
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249851
- ISBN
- 9780520249851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.74
€ 30.99
€ 22.74