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Biography: general
Hardback. This is a study of the author, illustrator, and radio personality, Daniel Pinkwater. It discusses nearly all of Pinkwater's books, and emphasises his young adult fiction. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810839946
- ISBN
- 9780810839946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.64
€ 96.64
Paperback. Anna Akhmatova was a great Russian poet of the 20th century. Lydia Chukovskaya, an admirer who became the poet's close friend, kept intimate diaries that reveal the life of a passionate artist forced to endure sorrow and oppression. This volume contains the journals kept between 1938 and 1941. Translator(s): Michalski, Milena; Rubashova, Sylvia; Norman, Peter. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; 3JJG; 3JJH; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810119406
- ISBN
- 9780810119406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.91
€ 34.91
Hardcover. Editor(s): Miller, Rhena Schweitzer; Woytt, Gustav. Translator(s): Lemke, Antje Bultman. Series: The Albert Schweitzer Library. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: BGA; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629948
- ISBN
- 9780815629948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.07
€ 41.07
Paperback. Though canonized as a saint and a fully enlightened buddha, the eleventh-century Ra Lotsawa's life story presents a darker path than those taken by Siddhartha Gautama or Milarepa. This book presents an account of one of the most colourful and memorable figures in Tibetan Buddhist history. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HREX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780142422618
- ISBN
- 9780142422618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Hardback. Enchanted by the Hollywood movies she watched while growing up in affluent Tehran, Shohreh Aghdashloo dreamed of becoming an actress, despite her parents more practical plans. When she fell in love with her husband, Aydin, a painter thirteen years her senior, she made him promise he'd allow her to follow her passion. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8-Page Color and Black and White Photo Insert. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062009807
- ISBN
- 9780062009807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.96
€ 29.99
€ 24.96
Paperback. Translator(s): Cameron, Professor Euan. Series: Pushkin Blues. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: AKB; AKTH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782273677
- ISBN
- 9781782273677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.43
€ 17.99
€ 15.43
The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown. A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His W...
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Paperback. Biography of Robert Carlton "Bob" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSB; DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823271467
- ISBN
- 9780823271467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.61
€ 29.99
€ 26.61
Hardback. Biography of Robert Carlton "Bob" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSB; DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823271450
- ISBN
- 9780823271450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
hardcover. A title that deals with a world created by two awkward guys who share their lives on the internet. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGFA; JFCA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 195 x 25. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785031090
- ISBN
- 9781785031090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.00
€ 8.00
hardcover. A title that deals with a world created by two awkward guys who share their lives on the internet. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGFA; JFCA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 195 x 25. Weight in Grams: 850. Good clean copy showing minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KGS0000111
- ISBN
- 9781785031090
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. The truly remarkable life of the notorious Manchester-born Ethel Livesey, a serial fraudster and confidence trickster who became a media sensation after she ran out on her society wedding in 1945 and was later arrested for obtained goods by false pretences. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16pp b&w photos. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 311 x 28. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781760290146
- ISBN
- 9781760290146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.00
€ 21.99
€ 21.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 40 b/w and colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; 1DBKESK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 278 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Lasse Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780993306907
- ISBN
- 9780993306907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.64
€ 25.99
€ 22.64
paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JPFB; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Black Rose Books Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551641843
- ISBN
- 9781551641843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.64
€ 25.99
€ 22.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447283522
- ISBN
- 9781447283522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.80
€ 15.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Offers documented accounts of Disney's childhood and young adulthood in rural Missouri and Kansas City. This book sheds light on such episodes in Disney's life as the devastating 1941 strike at his studio, when his ambitions as artist and entrepreneur first came into serious conflict. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256194
- ISBN
- 9780520256194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.64
€ 33.99
€ 24.64
Paperback. The complete letters, dispatches and chronicles that tell the real story of Anne Boleyn. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445612881
- ISBN
- 9781445612881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.83
€ 26.83
Hardcover. No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment. Harold Holzer and Thomas Horrocks explore his writings on slavery, emancipation, racial equality, the legality of secession, civil liberties in wartime, and the meaning of the terrible suffering caused by the Civil War. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504837
- ISBN
- 9780674504837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.26
€ 45.99
€ 38.26
Paperback. Debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. This work reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 1QSP; BGH; HBJM; HBTQ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised
- SKU
- V9780691057521
- ISBN
- 9780691057521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.91
€ 54.99
€ 39.91
Paperback. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this story of one young man's personal suffering finally reveals the human suffering in North Korean concentration camp, with its forced labour, frequent public executions, and near-starvation rations. Translator(s): Reiner, Yair. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 262. Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. 256 pages. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this story of one young man's personal suffering finally reveals the human suffering in North Korean concentration camp, with its forced labour, frequent public executions, and near-starvation rations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPKN; BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVR. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight: 266. Translator(s): Reiner, Yair.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843544999
- ISBN
- 9781843544999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.53
€ 15.99
€ 11.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, highly illus. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; BGH; HBJF1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845198046
- ISBN
- 9781845198046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03