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Paperback. In his own words Jonny Wilkinson opens up about what it is like being a national icon and the world's most famous rugby player Num Pages: 256 pages, 16pp colour photos. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747242789
ISBN
9780747242789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. This title explores the lives of a community caught up in a battle to survive the ravages of the plague, the African AIDS epidemic. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099524199
ISBN
9780099524199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.41

Paperback. When Asad was eight years old, his mother was shot in front of him. With his father in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that has scattered the Somali people throughout the world. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; BG; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099563778
ISBN
9780099563778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; BGX; HRLM; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 109 x 15. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vida
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Condition
New
SKU
V9780829707748
ISBN
9780829707748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.86

Paperback. Eareckson. Fine copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
PICKERING I
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
SKU
KST0003348
ISBN
9780720804324
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 6.44

Hardback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: AJCR; BG; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Insight Editions
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608877522
ISBN
9781608877522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.72

Paperback. Kim Ku was highly involved in the struggle for Korea's independence from Japan, and now the autobiography of this celebrated national figure, before only available in Korean, Chinese, or Japanese, has been translated into English. Kim's writings detail the rise of Korea, from inception to the modern 'Two Koreas.' Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BG; G; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
University Press of America
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761821588
ISBN
9780761821588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 110.39

Hardback. You Belong to the Universe documents Buckminster Fuller's six-decade quest to "make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity." Jonathan Keats sets out to restore Fuller's good name, placing Fuller's philosophy in a modern context. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; TBY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199338238
ISBN
9780199338238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 34.28

Paperback. 'Moving - at times almost unbearably so - and fascinating' Antonia Fraser A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; BTP; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008158064
ISBN
9780008158064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.87

Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008158033
ISBN
9780008158033
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.69

Paperback. The final word on Brian Clough. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Orion Paperbacks
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753828717
ISBN
9780753828717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

paperback. You think you know about Darwinism and intelligent design, but did you know: there is no overwhelming evidence for Darwinism; intelligent design is based on scientific evidence, not religious belief; and, what many public schools teach about Darwinism is based on known falsehoods. This book attempts to look at the correct portrayal of Darwinism. Num Pages: 273 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 185 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Regnery Publishing United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781596980136
ISBN
9781596980136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.68

Hardback. Although Irene Nemirovsky was Jewish, she frequented authors and politicians on the extreme right. This biography analyzes the discrepancy between Nemirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a different way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of persecuted people. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804754811
ISBN
9780804754811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.66

Paperback. Tales, dreadful and delightful, from the disaster-prone world of international opera. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8pp colour photos. BIC Classification: AVGC9; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
SPCK Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857211699
ISBN
9780857211699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.33

Paperback. A revelatory memoir from an outstanding cricketer that brilliantly illustrates the pressures faced by modern day professional sportsmen. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751565164
ISBN
9780751565164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

hardcover. When Jonathan Taylor was eight he began to find his father puzzling. Doctors diagnosed Parkinson's disease, and Jonathan became one of his father's carers, taking it in turn with his family to look after him. This is the story of a son's struggle for recognition from a father who is being transformed mentally and physically by the disease. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BTP; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372. Good clean copy with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Granta Books London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001219
ISBN
9781862079557
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. Num Pages: 600 pages, 16pp black & white plates, 3 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 231 x 45. Weight in Grams: 916.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
600
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199642427
ISBN
9780199642427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.83

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Hawthorn Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903458907
ISBN
9781903458907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.17

Hardcover. Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived. Num Pages: 672 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFCX; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liveright
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871404671
ISBN
9780871404671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. A biography that penetrates Mao's rhetoric and infamous self-will to distil an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn and mysterious as the emperors he disdained. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753810712
ISBN
9780753810712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

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