Biography: general
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Biography: general
Hardback. This autobiography by a prominent physicist covers key developments in physics from the 1930s to the 1990s. Frederick Seitz's book also includes many anecdotes and photographs. Num Pages: 430 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; BGA; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics United States
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563961977
- ISBN
- 9781563961977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.02
€ 56.02
Hardcover. Weinberg was probably the most influential nuclear engineer/physicist in the US. His autobiography is peppered with first-hand accounts of major historical events. It describes the first nuclear era, but also exposes its downside risks. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGA; PDX; PHM; PHN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Edition
- 1994th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563963582
- ISBN
- 9781563963582
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 45.70
€ 49.99
€ 45.70
hardcover. A collection of 37 articles on Albert Einstein. It debunks many of the old myths about Einstein and offers novel insight into his life and work. It also discusses Einstein's troubled relationship with his first wife, his friendships with other physicists such as Eddington, Bose, and Pauli, and his Jewish identity. Series: Einstein Studies. Num Pages: 567 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BG; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 973.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser United States
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 567
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817641436
- ISBN
- 9780817641436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 260.58
€ 260.58
paperback. A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBLW3; HBWQ; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Phoenix London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0023898
- ISBN
- 9781857992137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 6.23
€ 6.23
paperback. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and other archival sources, this biography of Philip of Spain places him within the social, cultural, religious and regional context of his times. In doing so the author aims to reveal much about Philip the youth, the man, the husband and often troubled King. Num Pages: 400 pages, 32 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; BGH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 664. Good clean copy. Covers showing a little shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0030976
- ISBN
- 9780300078008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 6.23
€ 6.23
hardcover. Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 93 colour illustrations, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JB; 3JD; BGT; PBB; PBF; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 573.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493931606
- ISBN
- 9781493931606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Hardcover. What it means to eat, sleep and bleed GAA, from a legend of the game. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780717169344
- ISBN
- 9780717169344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 6.93
€ 22.99
€ 6.93
Hardcover. Bringing together a who's who of Marshall scholars, this volume examines the major roles assumed by Marshall over his five-decade career - soldier; statesman and peacemaker; and leader and manager - to illuminate key issues and themes surrounding the man and his era. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 216 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114883
- ISBN
- 9780230114883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.29
€ 105.29
Hardcover. This volume of more than twenty essays reflects the intersections between biography, autobiography and literature. Several pieces focus upon the contentious sub-genre of literary biography, while others examine the autobiographical threads that are detachable in literary writing and a variety of other forms. Editor(s): Bradford, Richard. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538. Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature. 336 pages. Editor(s): Bradford, Richard. This volume of more than twenty essays reflects the intersections between biography, autobiography and literature. Several pieces focus upon the contentious sub-genre of literary biography, while others examine the autobiographical threads that are detachable in literary writing and a variety of other forms. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 28. Weight: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202528
- ISBN
- 9780230202528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.43
€ 139.43
Hardcover. This is the first collaborative biography of Hayek. Some of the world's most distinguished scholars will integrate the archival evidence with Hayek's published writings to illuminate the process by which Hayek changed the direction of world history. Editor(s): Leeson, Robert. Series: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BG; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301122
- ISBN
- 9780230301122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Palgrave ed
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294458
- ISBN
- 9780312294458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Paperback. This volume is a selection of recollections on Thomas Hardy by his friends and fellow writers including Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. It should be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about Hardy's life, thoughts and writings. Editor(s): Gibson, James. Series: Interviews & Recollections. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First edition. Paperback
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333247884
- ISBN
- 9780333247884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.75
€ 71.75
Hardcover. These 60 recollections present some of the many facets of Conrad the writer, the adventurer and the recluse, the Polish gallant and the neurotic modernist, the Edwardian country gentleman and the penniless beggar. Editor(s): Ray, Martin. Series: Interviews & Recollections S. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333437858
- ISBN
- 9780333437858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.87
€ 195.87
Hardcover. Part of the "Macmillan Interviews and Recollections" series, this book reviews Doyle's life and career through a compilation of memoirs by contemporaries, interviews, and selections from his autobiography "Memoirs and Adventures". Editor(s): Orel, Harold. Series: Interviews & Recollections. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 501.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333510223
- ISBN
- 9780333510223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.60
€ 194.60
Paperback. Presenting 40 interviews and recollections, this book is a record of what was said about Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan during and shortly after their lifetimes, by friends, musicians, theatrical managers, singers, actors and actresses, journalists and authors. Editor(s): Orel, Harold. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AVGC9; AVH; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333639054
- ISBN
- 9780333639054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.08
€ 194.08
A biography that situates Lady Mary Wroth in her family and court context, emphasizing the growth of the writer's mind in the sections on her childhood and youth, with a focus on her learned aunt, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, as literary mentor, and on her Continental connections, Louise de Coligny, Princess of Orange. Num Pages: 430 pages, Includes 28 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 247 x 182 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1128.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754660538
- ISBN
- 9780754660538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 175.17
€ 175.17
hardcover. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 340 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 663.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802050014
- ISBN
- 9780802050014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.04
€ 87.04
When Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton, she was 76 years old and had lived most of her life in the mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina. This work traces the relationship between them, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and by the gatherings of family. Num Pages: 192 pages, 134 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JJP; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1170.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807827420
- ISBN
- 9780807827420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.71
€ 61.71
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lackey, Professor Michael. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813934860
- ISBN
- 9780813934860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.65
€ 51.65
He was a trailblazing 20th-century British photojournalist but George Rodger lived in the adventurous tradition of 19th-century explorers. Co-founding Magnum Photos in 1947 with Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, the modest Rodger was eclipsed by his partners. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 b&w photographs, notes, index. BIC Classification: AJB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607625
- ISBN
- 9780815607625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.95
€ 39.95