Biography: general
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Biography: general
Paperback. Collects the accounts that provide a narrative of the author's voyages in the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Translator(s): Cohen, John M. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JB; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442175
- ISBN
- 9780140442175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
€ 13.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. This concise and elegant contribution to the Very Short Introduction series reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they made, and what history has made of them. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780190273514
- ISBN
- 9780190273514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.61
€ 12.99
€ 11.61
Hardback. Documents the literary friendship between the English novelist EM Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet CP Cavafy. This book includes extant letters, the earliest published Cavafy translations, facsimiles of Cavafy's authorial revisions, poems by EM Forster, archival photographs, and related letters. Editor(s): Jeffreys, Peter. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774162572
- ISBN
- 9789774162572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.00
€ 34.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, illustrations, maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGA; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133. .
- Publisher
- Signal Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904955016
- ISBN
- 9781904955016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.14
€ 22.14
Hardcover. The Following Game is about passion and obsession. It's about cricket, family and poetry, but most of all it's about a father following his son's career in the public eye and the close relationship they have. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; BJ; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420. 232 pages. The Following Game is about passion and obsession. It's about cricket, family and poetry, but most of all it's about a father following his son's career in the public eye and the close relationship they have. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGSA; BJ; WSJC. Dimension: 212 x 153 x 24. Weight: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Catt Educational Ltd,
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908095015
- ISBN
- 9781908095015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.40
€ 20.99
€ 20.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BJ; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780804171441
- ISBN
- 9780804171441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.90
€ 20.99
€ 17.90
hardcover. From 1885 until his death in 1931, Thomas Alva Edison and his family wintered in the sleepy Gulf Coast town of Fort Myers, south of Tampa. This book presents the story of his professional and leisure time while on holiday. It reveals how the Edisons' legacy influenced women's history, environmental history, black history, and Florida history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 44 b/w illustrations, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; BGT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813032597
- ISBN
- 9780813032597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.20
€ 36.99
€ 33.20
Hardcover. A book on Virginia Woolf that contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. It demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Num Pages: 362 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520072800
- ISBN
- 9780520072800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.04€ 49.52
€ 62.04
€ 49.52
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 color + 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; ABQ; ACND; AGC; BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 264 x 200 x 31. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300209686
- ISBN
- 9780300209686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.38€ 51.27
€ 64.38
€ 51.27
Paperback. When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; BGA; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099577263
- ISBN
- 9780099577263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
€ 14.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. Published in 1994, this is a paperback edition edition of a study of the life and writings of literary pioneer, Lydia Maria Child. Her writing made and impact on American life as she addressed the issues of her time: slavery, women's rights, treatm Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 832 pages, 10 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 254 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1429.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 832
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KEX0212593
- ISBN
- 9780822321637
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- City Lights Books United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Revised, Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872860056
- ISBN
- 9780872860056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.58
€ 17.99
€ 17.58
Paperback. For a million soldiers, sailors and marines, Hawaii was the "first strange place" on a journey to war - and to the new American post-war society. Drawing on documents, diaries, memoirs and interviews, this book shows how these changes were tested and explored in the environment of wartime Hawaii. Num Pages: 296 pages, 37 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBJM; HBTB; HBTD; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801848674
- ISBN
- 9780801848674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.17
€ 37.17
Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: BGB; HBJD1; KC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691163482
- ISBN
- 9780691163482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.77
€ 45.99
€ 33.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782392323
- ISBN
- 9781782392323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.05
€ 17.99
€ 13.05
Hardback. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231179720
- ISBN
- 9780231179720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
The First Lady of Radio: Eleanor Roosevelts Historic Broadcasts
Blanche Wiesen Cook Stephan Drury Smith
Hardcover. Editor(s): Smith, Stephen Drury. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 211 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New Press, The
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620970423
- ISBN
- 9781620970423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.09
€ 26.99
€ 25.09
Paperback. The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam were the first in which women over the objections of many, including Pope Pius XI and the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin were allowed to run in the marquee track events." Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGS; WSBB; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810129580
- ISBN
- 9780810129580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.09
€ 31.09
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€ 23.30
€ 30.99
€ 23.30
Hardcover. By the time Eunice Grayson played James Bond's girlfriend she had already become one of the first reality TV stars. Her leading men included Sean Connery and Roger Moore, and she co-starred in a record-breaking run of 'The Sound of Music'. This is the inside story of an original Bond girl and some of the best-loved films ever made. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- Signum
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956653475
- ISBN
- 9780956653475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.25
€ 26.99
€ 18.25