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"100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's birth"--Front cover. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APB; BGA; BGFA; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501124495
ISBN
9781501124495
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.55

Paperback. An account of survival is told by a Budapest lawyer who secured fake Christian identities for himself, his wife and his two children following the invasion of the Germans in March 1944. Translator(s): Tonkin, Humphrey. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVH; BGHA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841951805
ISBN
9781841951805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.54

Hardback. A biographical history of Aleister Crowley's activities in Berlin from 1930 to 1932 as Hitler was rising to power. Num Pages: 432 pages, Includes 16-page color insert and 55 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620552568
ISBN
9781620552568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.40

Hardback. Beyond Meetings with Remarkable Men into the truth behind the self-crafted mythology of Gurdjieff's life Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620556382
ISBN
9781620556382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.15

Paperback. Blowing the myths wide open, this exciting exploration of the notorious Aleister Crowley, packed with previously unpublished information, is the true story of a poet, explorer, mystic, mountaineer, philosopher, prophet and spy Num Pages: 496 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGX; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 796.
Publisher
Watkins Media Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780283845
ISBN
9781780283845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.02

Paperback. One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. This book deals with this true crime case. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPR; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571274963
ISBN
9780571274963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.46

Paperback. A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190. 256 pages. A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 128 x 198 x 18. Weight: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747546016
ISBN
9780747546016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.00

Paperback. A sweeping narrative of the greatest craftsman that ever lived and what became of the instruments he made Num Pages: 295 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVRL1; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Pan Books
Number of pages
295
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330492591
ISBN
9780330492591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War. Num Pages: 400 pages, col. Illustrations, ports., map. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 1FCA; 3JMC; BTM; HBWS4; JWD; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 198 x 52. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781849164238
ISBN
9781849164238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 76 black and white photos. BIC Classification: APF; BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 774.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231145664
ISBN
9780231145664
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.30

Paperback. An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler. Num Pages: 424 pages, 46, 41 black & white illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230278660
ISBN
9780230278660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.14
€ 58.72

Paperback. * After the international success of HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE Toby Young returns with another hilarious memoir about social and professional failure Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New edition
SKU
KST0007074
ISBN
9780349118529
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same time engaging in substantial political and social commentary. This book presents an examination of Spike Lee's oeuvre. Series: Contemporary Film Directors. Num Pages: 184 pages, 20 b&w photographs, filmography. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252079610
ISBN
9780252079610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.88

Paperback. One of the finest British poets of this century, Roy Fuller was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the C.B.E., and was elected to the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. The achievements of the late poet, novelist, critic and autobiographer are honoured here in essays and poems by writers who were his friends. Editor(s): Tolley, A.T. Num Pages: 137 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230. . Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Biography - Novelists, Poets & Playwrights - Poets,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Poetry & Poets,Subjects - Biography"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Carleton University Press,Canada U.S.A.
Number of pages
137
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
SKU
KHS0038618
ISBN
9780886292102
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 19.99
€ 17.52

Hardcover. Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen did not return home. Tom A. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b+w photographs. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 37. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597970013
ISBN
9781597970013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764339424
ISBN
9780764339424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.80

Paperback. Born into poverty, Bernie Ecclestone has made himself a billionaire by developing the world's second most popular sport - Formula One racing. In this book, he reveal his secrets: the deals, the marriages, the disasters and the successes in Formula One racing, in Downing Street, in casinos, on yachts and in the air. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: BGS; KJH; WSPC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571269365
ISBN
9780571269365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.03

Paperback. When Tony Blair became prime minister in 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest to hold that office since 1812. With a landslide majority, his approval rating was 93 per cent and he went on to become Labour's longest-serving premier. So what went wrong? This book uncovers the full story of Blair's decade in power. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; 3JM; BGH; HBJD1; JPHL; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 49. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571314225
ISBN
9780571314225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.51

Paperback. The Book the Brothers tried to stop Num Pages: 532 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
532
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007292875
ISBN
9780007292875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.88

Paperback. Illuminating the life of Simon Cowell and delving into backstage scandal, tabloid rumour and the cut-throat worlds of music and television, this book presents a detailed insider's account of entertainment mogul Simon Cowell's rise to meteoric fame and all of the controversial highs and lows along the way. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 200 x 31. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571278374
ISBN
9780571278374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 4.99

Hardback. This is a remarkable story, not just about the extraordinary achievements of a family, but about the power of the individual to spur innovation, even when the consen Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: BGHA; BK; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Short Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780720890
ISBN
9781780720890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.04

Paperback. By the age of nine, Taylor had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. And by fourteen, Taylor had built a reactor which produces temperatures hotter than the sun, becoming the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. How did Taylor manage all this? This is the story of a boy whose world seems to have no limits. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; JNSP; PHN; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298143
ISBN
9780571298143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Hardcover. Folio. Very good copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Wordwell
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
KEX0284648
ISBN
9781869857868
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

paperback. The inside story of a lifetime spent fighting crime, from local Garda in Kildare to Detective Superintendent, tackling everything from small local crimes to major national and international investigations. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 225 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781847177728
ISBN
9781847177728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.58

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