Biography
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Biography
Paperback. A biography of Paul Bowles, the famously enigmatic writer-composer. It questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of 'truth' in the telling of a life. It talks of Bowles' difficult childhood and of his grief over his wife's - the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973 - illness, of exile, dreams, and madness. Num Pages: 354 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AVH; BGF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520224933
- ISBN
- 9780520224933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Colin Miller chronicles developments of the 1940s and '50s through the eyes of a Norfolk schoolboy and teenager. Series: In Old Photographs. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; 3JJPG; BT; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172 x 10. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750942478
- ISBN
- 9780750942478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.52
€ 19.99
€ 18.52
Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has some wear and tear to edges but remains good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Parragon Book Service Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOC0021761
- ISBN
- 9781407562612
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Nice copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Parragon Book Service Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0246904
- ISBN
- 9781407562612
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: BGXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345495792
- ISBN
- 9780345495792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.01
€ 18.99
€ 14.01
Hardback. Here we have the compelling biography of Lady Lucy Houston DBE, campaigner for women's rights, ardent champion of Winston Churchill and devoted Royal Air Force patron. Num Pages: 248 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473879362
- ISBN
- 9781473879362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.56
€ 33.99
€ 24.56
Hardback. Cleopatra - a brave, astute, and charming woman - continues to fascinate centuries after she ruled Egypt. This title includes essays that explore such topics as Cleopatra's controversial trip to Rome, her suicide by snake bite, and the afterlife of her love potions. Editor(s): Miles, Margaret M. Num Pages: 250 pages, 28 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; BGH; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472. A Sphinx Revisited. 250 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Miles, Margaret M. Cleopatra - a brave, astute, and charming woman - continues to fascinate centuries after she ruled Egypt. This title includes essays that explore such topics as Cleopatra's controversial trip to Rome, her suicide by snake bite, and the afterlife of her love potions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; BGH; HBJH; HBLA. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 21. Weight: 472.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520243675
- ISBN
- 9780520243675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.23€ 45.72
€ 58.23
€ 45.72
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781416556305
- ISBN
- 9781416556305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.29
€ 19.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 148 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; BGH; HBJD; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Progressive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780930852863
- ISBN
- 9780930852863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.54
€ 23.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. Editor(s): Gleason, Mildred Diane; Tarver, H. Micheal, Ph.D. Num Pages: 153 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; HBJK; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626184633
- ISBN
- 9781626184633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.00€ 70.11
€ 101.00
€ 70.11
Paperback. In late 1942, along with so many others who signed up to support the war effort, thirty-year-old Mildred Radawiec left a comfortable position as a nurse at the University of Michigan Hospital and postponed her marriage to a soon-to-be doctor to volunteer as a surgical nurse in the major battle theaters of the war. Num Pages: 454 pages, 43 b&w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; HBWQ; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 454
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472033317
- ISBN
- 9780472033317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.12
€ 36.12
Hardcover. Mil Penner was brought up on a Mennonite family farm in Section 27 in McPherson County, Kansas. In this collection of vignettes, he traces the influence of pioneer roots on the present generation as he chronicles the transformation of the land from untouched prairie to productive farm. Num Pages: 232 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; HRCZ; KNAC; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700611966
- ISBN
- 9780700611966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.33
€ 43.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; BGH; GTJ; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Just World Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781682570029
- ISBN
- 9781682570029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.79
€ 20.99
€ 19.79
Paperback. When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous Angel of Death: Dr Josef Mengele. Translator(s): Kremer, Tibere; Sevear, Richard. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 200 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392219
- ISBN
- 9780141392219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
paperback. * This is the autobiography of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the world's most famous gun, the AK-47. * Offers a fascinating history of the weapon's development and spread throughout the world, as well as a window into the turbulent history of Russian in the twentieth century. * Contains over 30 halftones. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 202 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636924
- ISBN
- 9780745636924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.62
€ 24.62
paperback. Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initiative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era's most symbolic events, the demolition on the Berlin Wall; his reforms that set in train events leading to the fall of Communism. This book tells the human story. Num Pages: 1056 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 61. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Number of pages
- 1056
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385613293
- ISBN
- 9780385613293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.22
€ 25.99
€ 18.22
Paperback. Translation of: Undulbas kerees; originally published in 1864 in Radlov's anthology Samples of the national literatures of the Turkic peoples; published in 1894 in an expanded version in the Moscow missionary journal Orthodox news (no. 5). Translator(s): Warden, John. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGA; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Holy Trinity Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884651840
- ISBN
- 9780884651840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.38
€ 12.38
Paperback. This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 222 x 33. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496058
- ISBN
- 9781847496058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Gypsy Boy is the first commercial memoir written by someone on the inside of the notoriously secretive culture of the Romany Gypsies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340977989
- ISBN
- 9780340977989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. The follow-up to the Number 1 bestseller, GYPSY BOY. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444720228
- ISBN
- 9781444720228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09