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Paperback. Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In this autobiography, she tells of her studies with Catholic missionaries. It deals with her life and work. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGA; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099493099
ISBN
9780099493099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations (col.), map. BIC Classification: BGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Blacksmith Books Hong Kong
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9789881613813
ISBN
9789881613813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Editor(s): Wang, Hui-Zhong; Tian, Miao. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781621007777
ISBN
9781621007777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 100.99
€ 70.85

Hardback. Translator(s): Young-nan, Yu; Epstein, Stephen. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJG; 3JJH; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148986
ISBN
9780231148986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. A superbly written personal account of fighting years on the Western Front. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 page plate section plus maps etc in text. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Lion Hudson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745970301
ISBN
9780745970301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. More outrageous than Julia Phillip's 'You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again', more star-studded than Robert Evans's 'The Kid Stays in the Picture', this is the soul-baring memoir of the record industry's most outspoken - and self-destructive - music mogul. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16pp of b/w. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349118901
ISBN
9780349118901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Hardcover. Keywords: Subjects - Biography - General
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Publisher
Nimrod Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
SKU
KEX0178458
ISBN
9780947647155
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. "Professionally rebound in attractive quarter leather over modern marbled boards binding, raised bands, gilt tooling, brightly gilted twin leather title labels on the spine, top page edges gilted, clean and crisp pages with bright text." Keywords: Authors - Ireland - Biography
Format
Hardback
Publisher
John Murray London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHS0037588
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 320.27
€ 260.00

Paperback. Sir Walter Scott's two-volume biography of the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), first published in 1826. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Cambridge University Press Cambridge
Number of pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KMR0005956
ISBN
9781108034197
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself - no family of his own and no real home in music. This book presents the story of this legendary American composer. Num Pages: 216 pages, 33 photographs. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252034442
ISBN
9780252034442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.72

Paperback. The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MK; 3JJH; BGH; HBJM; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316405331
ISBN
9780316405331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.28

Paperback. A largely autobiographical account of the author's life as one who fell in love first with physics and then with teaching physics to students. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: BGTA; PDZ; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 214 x 20. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451607130
ISBN
9781451607130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.57

Hardcover. A memoir by a prominent and highly respected historian and political commentator Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584657989
ISBN
9781584657989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.39

Paperback. An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; BG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Publication date
2014
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
SKU
KSS0008460
ISBN
9781472119353
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472115898
ISBN
9781472115898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BJ; BK; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847086419
ISBN
9781847086419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

paperback. When the author wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. This title offers an account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HPCD; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 146 x 38. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
With a New foreword by Alexander Nehamas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160269
ISBN
9780691160269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.99

Hardback. * An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the way we live today Num Pages: 656 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGB; KNTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 168 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408703748
ISBN
9781408703748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. The author of the massively bestselling Steve Jobs biography writes the whole history of the digital age Num Pages: 560 pages, Integrated & illustrated timeline. BIC Classification: BGT; BK; UY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471138805
ISBN
9781471138805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius. Num Pages: 704 pages, 16pp b-w plates. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847390547
ISBN
9781847390547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

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