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Paperback. A biography of comic genius Spike Milligan, who died in February 2002, by one of Britain's leading biographers. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 or 24 pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: APB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 314.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
paperback / softback
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KNW0008917
ISBN
9780340826126
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very 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. The author records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 310 pages, photographs (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; BM; HBJF; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434. A Memoir. 310 pages, illustrations. The author records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. This title tells her story. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPC; BM; HBJF; WQY. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition, 15th Anniversary Edition with a New
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276024
ISBN
9780520276024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752487366
ISBN
9780752487366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 36 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300226416
ISBN
9780300226416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.55

Paperback. In the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage. It was described by Aldous Huxley as 'the one genuinely modern pleasure', and one of the fastest and most thrilling ways to attain it was through the new sport of bobsledding. This book tells stories of the fastest men on ice. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; BGS; WSBB; WSBX; WSW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 200 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780857502650
ISBN
9780857502650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Spokesman Books United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851248103
ISBN
9780851248103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.60

paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405918558
ISBN
9781405918558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Hardcover. BIC Classification: BG. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Alfred Publishing Co.(UK)Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780399172083
ISBN
9780399172083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.67

Paperback. On the night of 7 May 2015, Ed Balls thought there was a chance he would wake up the next morning as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead, he woke up without a job. Twenty-one years earlier he had left a promising career in journalism to work for Labour in opposition. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; BGHA; JPFF; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784755935
ISBN
9781784755935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Hardback. The contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia-from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists-construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memoirs, poetry, novels, and diaries. Editor(s): Malhotra, Anshu; Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822359838
ISBN
9780822359838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.89

Paperback. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 18.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762778546
ISBN
9780762778546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.18

Paperback. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 18.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762772407
ISBN
9780762772407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.18

paperback. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 18.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Globe Pequot United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780762779154
ISBN
9780762779154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. Each volume in this series features approximately fifteen short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given state. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 19.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762728152
ISBN
9780762728152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.18

Paperback. Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the 57 years of their life together. Written solely for each others eyes, their letters serve as a revealing portrait of their characters and their relationship, and as a unique political and social history, as international affairs were rarely absent from their thoughts. Num Pages: 768 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1012.
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
768
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552997508
ISBN
9780552997508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.99

Paperback. Keywords: Cherie Blair
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Little Brown
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KNW0006373
ISBN
9781408700990
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Keywords: Cherie Blair
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Little Brown
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KNW0006371
ISBN
9781408700990
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardcover.
Publisher
Verso
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition (1st printing)
Condition
New
SKU
9781844674374
ISBN
9781844674374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 2ADT; 3JH; 3JJ; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183220
ISBN
9780141183220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. An autobiographical volume covering Nabokov's first 40 years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War II, telling of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, his passion for butterflies and his lost homeland. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151886
ISBN
9781857151886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.78

Paperback. This compelling true-life story deals with a single parent making the discovery that her 1-year-old son is deaf. Num Pages: 153 pages. BIC Classification: BG; VFJD; VFXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 231.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
153
Condition
New
SKU
V9780930323684
ISBN
9780930323684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.96

Hardback. The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth-making in his own time and of movie-making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system. Translator(s): Carden, Jeremy. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 218 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 123 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
218
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057784
ISBN
9780674057784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.52

Paperback. From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the most-launched astronaut in history, as well as a NASA veteran whose career spanned the entire US Space Shuttle program. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: B; PDZ; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557537850
ISBN
9781557537850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.01

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