Biography
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Biography
Hardcover. Rare is the man with the force of character, powers of leadership, and variety of cultural, scientific and spiritual interests of Elihu Yale (1649-1721). This book explores Elihu Yale's life in the society of Madras and London, and his interests, including musical and scientific instruments and books, and then turns to a study of Yale. Num Pages: 288 pages, 140 illustrations, 120 in colour. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; BGB; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 234 x 34. Weight in Grams: 944.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500517260
- ISBN
- 9780500517260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.61
€ 43.99
€ 39.61
Paperback. In this collection Elia Kazan discusses his social themes, his relationship with his actors, his collaborations with writers, and his film style. Editor(s): Baer, William. Num Pages: 277 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578062249
- ISBN
- 9781578062249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
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€ 14.95
€ 18.99
€ 14.95
Paperback. During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. This book tells the story of a preacher's kid from North Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative leaders of our time. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; VSC; WSD; WSJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Virgin Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780753556382
- ISBN
- 9780753556382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.05
€ 19.99
€ 15.05
Hardback. Eleonora Abbagnato is the prima ballerina at the Opera de Paris. This volume reveals her artistic versatility through the photographs of four celebrated ballets. It opens with an original interview by Valeria Crippa, journalist and ballet critic. Num Pages: 160 pages, 105 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ASDL; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 247 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1226.
- Publisher
- Skira Italy
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857217871
- ISBN
- 9788857217871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.61
€ 40.99
€ 33.61
Paperback. In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the Communist guerrillas who occupied their village. Her son, Nicholas Gage, was then eight years old. Num Pages: 640 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJPG; BG; BTC; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860463464
- ISBN
- 9781860463464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Hardback. This study of Eleftherios Venizelos, a towering figure in European diplomacy and Greece's greatest statesman in the twentieth century, brings together a narrative of the drama of high politics with critical political analysis and judgement. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624782
- ISBN
- 9780748624782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.00€ 118.85
€ 125.00
€ 118.85
Paperback. This is the oral account of the city's most influential bands, including Kraftwerk, NEU!, DAF, Die Krupps and many more. Num Pages: 448 pages, 25 x black & white images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; AVGV; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Publisher
- Omnibus Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785581199
- ISBN
- 9781785581199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.45
€ 25.99
€ 19.45
Paperback. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, Loie Fuller attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. This book demonstrates that Fuller was an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 44 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: APFB; ASD; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141091
- ISBN
- 9780691141091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.79
€ 43.99
€ 30.79
Paperback. Biography...Eleanor, Countess of Desmond. 232pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780717148288
- ISBN
- 9780717148288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.86
€ 14.99
€ 11.86
Hardcover. The first book devoted to Eleanor Roosevelt's 1933-1945 tenure in the White House the longest of any first lady. Provides an insightful account of how she merged her private and public lives to transform the ambiguous role of first lady into an important institution of the American political system." Series: Modern First Ladies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700617272
- ISBN
- 9780700617272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.50
€ 50.99
€ 50.50
paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Pearson United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780321342324
- ISBN
- 9780321342324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Paperback. Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages, and also one of the most controversial. Having inherited a vast feudal domain stretching from the Loire to the Pyrenees, she was one of the greatest heiresses in history. This biography offers a perspective on this woman. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16pp b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099523550
- ISBN
- 9780099523550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age. Series: Women in History. Num Pages: 448 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 3H; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842126189
- ISBN
- 9781842126189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 x 16 page B&W plate. BIC Classification: BGH; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 36. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408852897
- ISBN
- 9781408852897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.28
€ 17.99
€ 13.28
Paperback. This is the first and the only authorized biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897 1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution." Series: Studies in Legal History of the South. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JPVH; LAZ; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820347455
- ISBN
- 9780820347455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.87
€ 49.87
Paperback. El Sicario, a fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head. He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. This title offers a series of his confessions. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BGA; JKVG; JPZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099559955
- ISBN
- 9780099559955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.78
€ 11.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. "Gato's head snapped back.. We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn't look back." Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tritton was no mule or dupe. He had planned and organised everything. The consequence.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; BM; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785035616
- ISBN
- 9781785035616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. Diego - a poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius with a ball took him to the heights of European and World football, and his struggle with the pressures of life inside and outside the game pulled him right back down again. This is the story of Diego Armando Maradona in his own words. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yellow Jersey
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224071901
- ISBN
- 9780224071901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd India
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788120768420
- ISBN
- 9788120768420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.13
€ 7.13
Paperback. In Einstein: A Biography, Jurgen Neffe presents a clear and probing portrait of the man behind the myth. He recounts Einstein's life with detail and accuracy, presenting a comprehensive account of the educational, religious, psychological and historical conditions that enabled Einstein to become the ber-physicist of all time. Translator(s): Frish, Shelly. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGT; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 37. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745642215
- ISBN
- 9780745642215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. From the bestselling author of E=mc^2, Einstein's Greatest Mistake is a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern science. Num Pages: 304 pages, Integrated b/w photos and diagrams. BIC Classification: BGT; PDZ; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349142029
- ISBN
- 9780349142029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691605364
- ISBN
- 9780691605364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.05€ 53.89
€ 69.05
€ 53.89
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; BGT; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691634333
- ISBN
- 9780691634333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.56
€ 210.56