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Paperback. aeo This is new in paperback. aeo This book is the first comprehensive discussion of the life and work of Americaa s finest comedian. aeo The hardback sold extremely well, and was widely and favourably reviewed. Num Pages: 230 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; BGF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745608907
ISBN
9780745608907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.93

Paperback. Hogarth Press exhibition catalogue highlights its international scope, genres, and diverse range of published titles. Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. Num Pages: 142 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551952406
ISBN
9781551952406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.13

Hardback. National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith writes of her childhood in this glittering memoir Num Pages: 96 pages, ill. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 188 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136. 96 pages, ill. National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith writes of her childhood in this glittering memoir. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BM. Dimension: 118 x 188 x 13. Weight: 162.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408832301
ISBN
9781408832301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.78

Paperback. Brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the Worcestershire county, and others which made national headlines, including the murders of the entire Gummary family at Berrow in 1780; Catherine Gulliver, killed by John Butler at Holt Fleet in 1864; and, Maria Holmes, slain by her husband at Bromsgrove in 1872. Series: Murders. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMT; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 173 x 11. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752448985
ISBN
9780752448985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. For many, Scrabble is merely a board game. For others it is an intellectual pilgrimage. This title chronicles the story of how Scrabble has grown from a diversion invented by an unemployed architect during The Great Depression into the successful, challenging and beloved game of today. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; WDMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 276. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Yellow Jersey
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001981
ISBN
9780224060615
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Rarely is a crime committed without there being some evidence in the form of language. This title features a series of chapters where gripping cases are described - involving murder, sexual assault, hate mail, suspicious death, code deciphering, arson and even genocide. It details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat the criminals. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286. Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics. 208 pages. Rarely is a crime committed without there being some evidence in the form of language. This title features a series of chapters where gripping cases are described - involving murder, sexual assault, hate mail, suspicious death, code deciphering, arson and even genocide. It details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat the criminals. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BTC. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 15. Weight: 230.
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441193520
ISBN
9781441193520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.15

Paperback. After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century. Translator(s): Clephane, Irene. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BG; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183466
ISBN
9780141183466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Paperback, very good condition. GRANT.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
324
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main Market
SKU
KRF0027300
ISBN
9780330518352
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Whether recalling Philip Glass experiences working at Bethlehem Steel, traveling in India, driving a cab in 1970s New York, or his professional collaborations with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar, Robert Wilson, Doris Lessing, and Martin Scorsese, this book affirms the power of music to change the world. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571323746
ISBN
9780571323746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.55

Hardback. * Looks at the impact of grief on Wordswortha s great poetry. * Explains the importance of the poeta s great, unfinished epic a The Reclusea to his work as a whole. * Includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks. * Contains the first annotated text of a The White Doe of Rylstonea . . Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 27. Weight in Grams: 728.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631206385
ISBN
9780631206385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781896300733
ISBN
9781896300733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.78

Paperback. Grant Stoddard left Britain for the States with the clothes on his back, a fascination with all things American, and a burning hope for something bigger. Then fate in the guise of an X-rated online contest intervened. Winning first prize - sexual intercourse with an infamous married sex columnist - changed everything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; VFVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 22. Weight in Grams: 266. Clean copy with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
VIRGIN BOOKS
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KST0017355
ISBN
9780753512715
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Fearless memoir of a forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases that shaped her as both a physician and mother. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; MMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476727264
ISBN
9781476727264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Working with the Curlew is an intimate and evocative account of an era before factory farming, when farmers worked closely with nature and the rhythm of the seasons, a smallholding could sustain a family, and there were enough small farms for a shepherd to climb the ladder to ownership. Num Pages: 128 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BG; TV; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Green Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903998342
ISBN
9781903998342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.91

Paperback. "Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are those books that serve as Schrand's signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho to a reasonable facsimile of manhood. Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th edition
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803243378
ISBN
9780803243378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.50

Paperback. For the first time, this book brings to English-speaking researchers and the public detailed accounts of the crucial experiments carried out with Ossowiecki, which produced evidence of paranormal cognition. Num Pages: 200 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: BG; VXFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780786421121
ISBN
9780786421121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.91

Paperback. 244 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 18. Weight: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Five Leaves
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905512331
ISBN
9781905512331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841653723
ISBN
9781841653723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.10

Num Pages: 300 pages, over 300 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGHA; HBJD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 226 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1682.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764318795
ISBN
9780764318795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.77
€ 53.79

hardcover. From real-life witches, to mad scientists and killer dwarves, this is a collection of twisted tales. It draws upon the material that has featured in the author's successful column, The murder file, in cult magazine "Bizarre". It is suitable for those who have got the stomach for the blood curdling, the deranged and the downright strange. Num Pages: 294 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 582. Good clean copy, with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000799
ISBN
9781844546671
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

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