Biography
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Biography
Paperback. A portrait of the intimate way in which violence pulls lives apart, of an American family caught on the stage of Middle East politics, and of the moral choices required in seeking justice. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 202 pages, 17 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JJPN; BM; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609544
- ISBN
- 9780815609544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.95
€ 20.99
€ 19.95
Hardback. The author of Beyond the Notes demonstrates how a working musician draws energy from the events of daily life, and sometimes seeks a refuge from them in music. Num Pages: 276 pages, 8, 8 black and white. BIC Classification: AVRG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 480. A Pianist's Yearbook. 276 pages, 8, 8 black and white. The author of Beyond the Notes demonstrates how a working musician draws energy from the events of daily life, and sometimes seeks a refuge from them in music. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVRG; BM. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 29. Weight: 494.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843835578
- ISBN
- 9781843835578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.87
€ 40.99
€ 33.87
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Bntam Edition
- SKU
- KKD0001275
- ISBN
- 9780553405699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241954461
- ISBN
- 9780241954461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141045191
- ISBN
- 9780141045191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. In 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. This volume finishes the tale of Scott and his British expedition, depicting the staggering 900-mile trek to the South Pole and resolving the debate over the journey's failure. Num Pages: 416 pages, 77 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BGH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300099218
- ISBN
- 9780300099218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.59
€ 30.99
€ 22.59
Paperback. How did Tennessee become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women recognizes the women who shaped the "Volunteer State." Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies and archival photographs and paintings. Series: More Than Petticoats Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BG; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 12.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762769810
- ISBN
- 9780762769810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.15
€ 18.99
€ 15.15
"Women of Privilege" traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family whose neighbors were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelts. Based on diaries and journals, and written by a family descendant, it combines biography and memoir with social history. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFSC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Academy Chicago Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780897336802
- ISBN
- 9780897336802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.06
€ 37.99
€ 31.06
Paperback. A poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead hand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries Editor(s): Gilman, Sander L. Series: Texts and Contexts. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; BG; DSA; HBJD; HBLW3; JFFN; JPFC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803292611
- ISBN
- 9780803292611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.72
€ 20.72
Hardback. A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irene Nemirovsky Num Pages: 376 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300171969
- ISBN
- 9780300171969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 7.41
€ 19.99
€ 7.41
Paperback. These two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country's turbulent journey to independence. Editor(s): Rodgers, Susan. Num Pages: 348 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; BGHA; HBAH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520085473
- ISBN
- 9780520085473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.91
€ 41.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BM; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 18.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762788194
- ISBN
- 9780762788194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.18
€ 18.99
€ 15.18
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BM; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 25.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762780389
- ISBN
- 9780762780389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.85
€ 26.99
€ 20.85
Hardback. Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Num Pages: 322 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3JH; AMB; BJ; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783272068
- ISBN
- 9781783272068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.02
€ 62.02
Paperback. 'Rin Tin Tin is a remarkable book.. A wonderfully entertaining account of one of the strangest partnerships in a very strange milieu' John Banville, Guardian Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 x 8pp b/w plate sectons. BIC Classification: BGF; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781843547099
- ISBN
- 9781843547099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.16
€ 19.99
€ 15.16
Paperback. The story of orchid thief and obsessive, John Laroche, and the bizarre world of the orchid fanciers of Florida. The world of the orchid hunters, breeders and showmen, their rivalries, vendettas and crimes, smuggling, thefts and worse provide the backdrop to an exploration of one of the byways of human nature, the obsessive world of the collector. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BG; WMPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099289586
- ISBN
- 9780099289586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Canada
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927330708
- ISBN
- 9781927330708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 23.63
€ 34.99
€ 23.63
Paperback. The first major biography of 18th century France's most mysterious woman, the daughter of Marie Antoinette, who vanished from public view during the tumultuous last days of the ancien regime Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747596660
- ISBN
- 9780747596660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.27
€ 23.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. The Whitlams' wasn't just a love story - it was a dynamic and enduring partnership that shaped our nation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hachette Australia
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780733632440
- ISBN
- 9780733632440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.04
€ 26.99
€ 19.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 122 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 122
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926613307
- ISBN
- 9781926613307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Fine copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0014058
- ISBN
- 9780717127979
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Well-read paperback in acceptable to good condition. Some shelf wear. Ex library with usual stamps and markings. Mylar dustjacket.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRF0009801
- ISBN
- 9780717127979
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: ASD; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816638024
- ISBN
- 9780816638024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Paperback. The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; MJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409129172
- ISBN
- 9781409129172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25