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Biography
Paperback. An exciting and marvellously readable biography of Captain James Cook, the last of the great navigators. Num Pages: 528 pages, 16pp b/w. BIC Classification: 3JF; BGH; HBG; HBLL; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340825563
- ISBN
- 9780340825563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; BGR; HBJD; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300228700
- ISBN
- 9780300228700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.71
€ 19.71
Paperback. A romantic account of the several years that the author spent working behind the counter at Bristol's Revolver Records - a business run from the heart rather than the head. It evokes a golden moment in British cultural history, and celebrates the magical abandon that music offers us. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWS; 3JJPN; AVGP; BM; KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571311804
- ISBN
- 9780571311804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 608 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; VXW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1322.
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556438998
- ISBN
- 9781556438998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.33
€ 36.99
€ 26.33
Paperback. The author goes in search of his old childhood haunts and instead finds an England changed beyond recognition. This book takes you on a poignant journey to a time and a place we will never see again. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAX; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099569282
- ISBN
- 9780099569282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. The natural world - which since childhood had been a source of joy and inspiration for him - became meaningless. Then, cared for by friends, he moved to East Anglia and he started to write again. This book deals with his life and work. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BG; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099531821
- ISBN
- 9780099531821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Hardcover. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KEX0204852
- ISBN
- 9781847370839
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 21.99€ 19.12
€ 21.99
€ 19.12
Paperback. A remarkably honest and moving account of fathering over the past century, with a particular focus on Richard Madeley's own turbulent family history. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 pages colour plates. BIC Classification: BGFA; VFVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847391063
- ISBN
- 9781847391063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843513223
- ISBN
- 9781843513223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.00€ 20.49
€ 25.00
€ 20.49
Hardcover. Based upon private diaries kept over the long life and disjointed times of the poet Richard Murphy. Born (1927) he won an Oxford scholarship at 17. There he encountered Ken Tynan (a bit older) and C.S. Lewis in extraordinary circumstances. One life story follows another in a continuous, witty, ironical narrative of surprising events. Num Pages: 36 photographs. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782052340
- ISBN
- 9781782052340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.71
€ 19.99
€ 17.71
Paperback. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. This work presents the taped conversations that Feynman's had with his friend Ralph Leighton over a period of years. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Edition
- First Vintage edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099173311
- ISBN
- 9780099173311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. The author was no ordinary genius. He upset those in authority, gave captivating lectures, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints and touched countless lives everywhere. This title collects letters of Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: PDZ; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141021133
- ISBN
- 9780141021133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Headline Book Publishing
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755316267
- ISBN
- 9780755316267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Hardcover.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843511656
- ISBN
- 9781843511656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.00€ 23.89
€ 30.00
€ 23.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 PP Black and White. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 204 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307742957
- ISBN
- 9780307742957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.00
€ 21.99
€ 18.00
Paperback. From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. This is a biography that looks at the man and his art in the context of the social, political, and cultural environments in which he lived and worked. Num Pages: 576 pages, 16 pages black and white photographs. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 203 x 53. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060955120
- ISBN
- 9780060955120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.19
€ 18.99
€ 15.19
Paperback. Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist Num Pages: 160 pages, ill. BIC Classification: BGH; JP; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Verso
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844679904
- ISBN
- 9781844679904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.51
€ 13.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. Mixing fiction and nonfiction, Skinner breathes new imaginative life into the story of a twentieth century icon. Bewitched by the beauty of a troupe of native dancers and the strange music of the gamelan, Margaretha changes her name to Mata Hari and goes to Paris, where she is drawn into a web of espionage resulting in her death by firing squad. Num Pages: 240 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; BTM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001295
- ISBN
- 9780571209347
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Mixing fiction and nonfiction, Skinner breathes new imaginative life into the story of a twentieth century icon. Bewitched by the beauty of a troupe of native dancers and the strange music of the gamelan, Margaretha changes her name to Mata Hari and goes to Paris, where she is drawn into a web of espionage resulting in her death by firing squad. Num Pages: 240 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; BTM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001310
- ISBN
- 9780571209347
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Rich Smith undertook a daring crime spree across the United States - a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books. Here, it is illegal to: lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota); play a trumpet with the intention of luring someone to a store (California); and, catch a fish with a lasso (Tennessee). Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Corgi London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KNW0007921
- ISBN
- 9780552154062
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49