Biography: general
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Biography: general
Paperback. A candid and rich account of gay life as a poet in San Francisco since the 1960s. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 185.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- City Lights Books United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872864900
- ISBN
- 9780872864900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.38
€ 18.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. An eloquent, honest tribute to a sports genius. Publishers Weekly, Best 100 Books of 2013" Num Pages: 736 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871408549
- ISBN
- 9780871408549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.77
€ 20.77
Paperback. A 17-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public image, the BossNdriven by a compassionate inner voiceNreclaims the teen at a time when the Bronx is literally burning. Thus begins the unlikeliest of baseball stories. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 photographs. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871406866
- ISBN
- 9780871406866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.90
€ 17.99
€ 15.90
Hardback. A renowned cultural critic tells his own deeply engaging story of growing up in the turbulent American culture of the postwar decades. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871404312
- ISBN
- 9780871404312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.93
€ 30.99
€ 26.93
Paperback. Gilbert A. Harrison, for many years editor in chief of the New Republic, was one of Stein's publishers. For this volume, he selected excerpts from her essays, novels, plays, poems, lectures, and interviews, to introduce readers to a little-known aspect of her work. Editor(s): Harrison, Gilbert A. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DNF; WT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871401632
- ISBN
- 9780871401632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.14
€ 11.14
Paperback. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 47. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Avalon Travel Publishing United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871134530
- ISBN
- 9780871134530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.69
€ 20.69
Hardback. Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a 'foreigner'. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition. Num Pages: 278 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; BGL; DSC; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898478
- ISBN
- 9780859898478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.25
€ 138.25
Paperback. This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialist reader. All quotations are fully translated. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898454
- ISBN
- 9780859898454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.21
€ 41.21
Paperback. This gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in paperback, explores the immensely complicated relationship that existed between A.L. Rowse and his native Cornwall. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; BG; GTB; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897983
- ISBN
- 9780859897983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.42
€ 38.42
Hardback. This gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in paperback, explores the immensely complicated relationship that existed between A.L. Rowse and his native Cornwall. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; BG; GTB; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897440
- ISBN
- 9780859897440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.97
€ 138.97
Paperback. In 1659, Luis de Haro met with Cardinal Jules Mazarin to conclude a peace treaty that would end over twenty years of war. The hitherto unpublished letters sent by Haro to Philip IV offer an account of the negotiations that diverges from Mazarin's reports. This edition offers a mix of the original letters and summaries, as well as explanatory notes. Editor(s): Williams, Lyn. Series: Exeter Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 147 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JD; BGH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 147
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896924
- ISBN
- 9780859896924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.60
€ 39.60
Paperback. Based on fact, Historie de Louis Anniaba was first published in 1740 but has never before been reprinted. The story allows a degree of narrative and geographical fantasy, but the legal context of the period, in this volume brought into play for the first time, throws into relief the author's free-thinking stance. Editor(s): Little, Roger. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDU; BGH; BT; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 126 x 8. Weight in Grams: 175.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896702
- ISBN
- 9780859896702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.64
€ 40.64
Paperback. Remy Cazals provides a critical edition of this little-known text accompanied by a biography of its author, who became inflamed by the passions of the Revolution, and who was guillotined in 1794. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 104 pages, 80pp colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DCF; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 210 x 6. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895354
- ISBN
- 9780859895354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.62
€ 39.62
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
€ 39.42
€ 39.42
Paperback. Editor(s): Woods, Paul A. Series: Ultra screen. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 231 x 20. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Plexus Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859653558
- ISBN
- 9780859653558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.63
€ 21.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 200+ photographs. BIC Classification: AVGU; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 280 x 11. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Plexus Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859653169
- ISBN
- 9780859653169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.21
€ 26.99
€ 24.21
Paperback. Editor(s): Woods, Paul. Series: Ultra screen. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Plexus Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859652858
- ISBN
- 9780859652858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.93
€ 18.99
€ 17.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations (some colour) colour facsimiles, portraits (some colour). BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 170 x 12. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Plexus Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859652704
- ISBN
- 9780859652704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.14
€ 19.99
€ 19.14
Hardback. Series: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Num Pages: 390 pages, 10+ bw photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; BGH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 43. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857283498
- ISBN
- 9780857283498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.26
€ 134.26
Paperback. Editor(s): Goldberg, Esther Ann. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853036227
- ISBN
- 9780853036227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.12
€ 29.12
Hardback. From his humble theatrical beginnings in upstate New York, to Radio City Music Hall and on to Hollywood, Gavin MacLeod was on the fast track to success. However, a few hard life lessons---like dealing with a divorce---taught Gavin that the key to happiness was only through a deep faith in God. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780849947629
- ISBN
- 9780849947629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.31
€ 24.99
€ 22.31
Paperback. Gillis J. Harp places Brooks's religious thought in historical, cultural and ecclesiastical contexts while clarifying the sources of Brook's inspiration, thus making this a rich portrait of this figure and a transitional era in American protestantism. Series: American Intellectual Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HRCC2; HRCC9; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847699612
- ISBN
- 9780847699612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.30
€ 78.30
Hardback. A chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue, book of war reportage, and a biography of the imagination under siege, this narrative takes the reader along on the author's journey. Num Pages: 424 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVW; 3JJPR; BG; HBJD; JW; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847698202
- ISBN
- 9780847698202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.15
€ 33.99
€ 30.15
Paperback. Renowned scholar George Anastaplo describes a side of Abraham Lincoln that previous biographers have overlooked: the development and legacy of his legal and constitutional thought. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847694327
- ISBN
- 9780847694327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.21
€ 29.99
€ 25.21