Biography: general
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Biography: general
Hardback. Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. A controversial political activist who stood for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this biography, the author uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett's family and Hellman's heir, to reexamine his life and works. Num Pages: 264 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 8 x 5 x 140. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611457841
- ISBN
- 9781611457841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.24
€ 23.99
€ 20.24
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
€ 151.47
€ 151.47
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611474886
- ISBN
- 9781611474886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.92
€ 147.92
hardcover. Lives are known textually, and this collection of new essays explores, corrects, and advances contemporary knowledge of historical lives and texts, particularly of the British eighteenth century. Complementing the essays is a complete translation and critical edition of a life of Hester Thrale Piozzi written in French by Frances Burney. Editor(s): Swan, Jesse G. Num Pages: 302 pages, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611485400
- ISBN
- 9781611485400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.26
€ 145.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ1; RGR; RNK; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493405
- ISBN
- 9781611493405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
Hardback. Editor(s): Podnieks, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 430 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 803.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493764
- ISBN
- 9781611493764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.73
€ 162.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; JFH; VXFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Trine Day
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634240000
- ISBN
- 9781634240000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.92
€ 19.99
€ 18.92
Hardback. Series: Border Lines S. Num Pages: 171 pages, Illustrationsports. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; BG; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854112606
- ISBN
- 9781854112606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.02
€ 26.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854113627
- ISBN
- 9781854113627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.87
€ 40.99
€ 34.87
Paperback. When Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of selected letters twenty-five years ago as a companion volume to "Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es'kia Mphahlele", the idea of Mphahlele's death was remote and poetic. That death has now come and we mourn it. This volume offers an account of Mphahlele's rich and varied life. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wits University Press South Africa
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868144891
- ISBN
- 9781868144891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.95
€ 36.99
€ 35.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages, Ill.tabs. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Addax Publishing Group,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781886110458
- ISBN
- 9781886110458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.22
€ 16.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: BG; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 163.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Parallax Press United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781888375039
- ISBN
- 9781888375039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.51
€ 10.51
Hardback. Editor(s): Wilson, Edward. Num Pages: 350 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 185 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1062.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Prospect Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903018484
- ISBN
- 9781903018484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.49
€ 46.99
€ 38.49
Hardback. A compilation of one hundred mini-biographies of outstanding aviators, including men like John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham, night fighter ace and test pilot; Ian Harvey, the BEA pilot who safely landed his airliner after a bomb had exploded onboard; Stanislaw Skalski, Polish Battle of Britain ace; Pierre Clostermann, French fighter ace; and others. Editor(s): Iliff, Jay. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; TRPS; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 37. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Grub Street United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904943839
- ISBN
- 9781904943839
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 37.34
€ 40.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Viva Editions United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936740321
- ISBN
- 9781936740321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.54
€ 18.99
€ 18.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 396 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Trine Day United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937584894
- ISBN
- 9781937584894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.76
€ 25.99
€ 22.76
Paperback. In his final years, R.D. Laing (1927-1989) was arriving at lectures addled with hashish and brandy. Yet, earlier in the 20th-century he was an influential psychiatrist. Still, the author points out he was a man of contradictions, and mystery, and this text explores and searches into this mystery. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JM; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674953598
- ISBN
- 9780674953598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.72
€ 46.99
€ 38.72
Paperback. A. N. Wilson's Tolstoy is a highly intelligent and accessible biography of the most famous writer in the Russian canon. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 44. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782390916
- ISBN
- 9781782390916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.77
€ 46.99
€ 32.77
Paperback. For the first time, this book brings to English-speaking researchers and the public detailed accounts of the crucial experiments carried out with Ossowiecki, which produced evidence of paranormal cognition. Num Pages: 200 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: BG; VXFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786421121
- ISBN
- 9780786421121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.69
€ 40.99
€ 40.69
paperback. As father and son, John and Dan Fante's relationship was characterized by competition, resentment, rages, and extended periods of silence. This title traces Dan Fante's family's history from the hillsides of Italy to the immigrant neighborhoods of Colorado to Los Angeles. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; VFVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 204 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780062027092
- ISBN
- 9780062027092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.78
€ 19.99
€ 18.78
paperback. Features the story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's pre-eminent international financial centre. It shows how this scholarly man brought wit, passion and high ethical standards to the world of finance, and more. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; BGB; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141022017
- ISBN
- 9780141022017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.50
€ 19.99
€ 18.50
paperback. Tells the story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. This book presents a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784700041
- ISBN
- 9781784700041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.37
€ 19.99
€ 12.37
paperback. Relates the author's childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. Num Pages: 452 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJP; BGA; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844673681
- ISBN
- 9781844673681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.44
€ 38.44
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- William Morrow United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062208316
- ISBN
- 9780062208316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.76
€ 33.99
€ 27.76