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Biography
Paperback. The story of one man's struggle to achieve his dream, a fast-paced adventure & paean to the power of self-belief. In May 2010 Cdr Dilip Donde earned his place in India's maritime history by becoming the first Indian to complete a solo circumnavigation under sail. The book chronicles Dilip's progress from building the boat to completing the voyage. Num Pages: 304 pages, 28 colour photos / 1 diagram. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BTP; HBTM; WSSN3; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Fernhurst Books Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909911499
- ISBN
- 9781909911499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.40
€ 14.99
€ 13.40
Hardcover. By the time Eunice Grayson played James Bond's girlfriend she had already become one of the first reality TV stars. Her leading men included Sean Connery and Roger Moore, and she co-starred in a record-breaking run of 'The Sound of Music'. This is the inside story of an original Bond girl and some of the best-loved films ever made. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- Signum
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956653475
- ISBN
- 9780956653475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 17.90
€ 26.99
€ 17.90
Paperback. Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This biography of Parsons tells the story of her reign over Hollywood during the studio era. Num Pages: 426 pages, 25 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APF; BGF; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 426
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249851
- ISBN
- 9780520249851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.74
€ 31.99
€ 22.74
Hardback. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231179720
- ISBN
- 9780231179720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.02
€ 40.99
€ 29.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782392323
- ISBN
- 9781782392323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.27
€ 16.99
€ 13.27
Hardback. A lively and accessible account of the lives and works of the great Greek poets. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; BK; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 243 x 54. Weight in Grams: 940.
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784975975
- ISBN
- 9781784975975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.30
€ 33.99
€ 22.30
Paperback. This is the first book to explain how Wales was transformed from a kingdom to a principality as the Norman Conquest forged modern Britain. Num Pages: 176 pages, 11 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 3H; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783169368
- ISBN
- 9781783169368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.18
€ 15.18
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904558934
- ISBN
- 9781904558934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.06
€ 54.99
€ 46.06
Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: BGB; HBJD1; KC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691163482
- ISBN
- 9780691163482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.15
€ 46.99
€ 33.15
Paperback. For a million soldiers, sailors and marines, Hawaii was the "first strange place" on a journey to war - and to the new American post-war society. Drawing on documents, diaries, memoirs and interviews, this book shows how these changes were tested and explored in the environment of wartime Hawaii. Num Pages: 296 pages, 37 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBJM; HBTB; HBTD; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801848674
- ISBN
- 9780801848674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.91
€ 35.91
paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- City Lights Books United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Revised, Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872860056
- ISBN
- 9780872860056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.29
€ 17.99
€ 16.29
Paperback. A groundbreaking and very personal insight into modern sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BT; VFVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848312401
- ISBN
- 9781848312401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.86
€ 16.99
€ 11.86
Paperback. Published in 1994, this is a paperback edition edition of a study of the life and writings of literary pioneer, Lydia Maria Child. Her writing made and impact on American life as she addressed the issues of her time: slavery, women's rights, treatm Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 832 pages, 10 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 254 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1429.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 832
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KEX0212593
- ISBN
- 9780822321637
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408859261
- ISBN
- 9781408859261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Paperback. When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; BGA; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099577263
- ISBN
- 9780099577263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 color + 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; ABQ; ACND; AGC; BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 264 x 200 x 31. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300209686
- ISBN
- 9780300209686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.68€ 49.91
€ 64.68
€ 49.91
Hardcover. A book on Virginia Woolf that contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. It demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Num Pages: 362 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520072800
- ISBN
- 9780520072800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.33€ 48.24
€ 62.33
€ 48.24
Paperback. The most comprehensive history yet of the last years of Russia's imperial family Num Pages: 448 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BGH; BGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465024636
- ISBN
- 9780465024636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.78
€ 29.78
Paperback. This book tells the story of Samuel Cody, who in the late 19th century experimented with manned flight andcreated the Cody War-Kites, which were used as a smaller alternative for balloons in World War I." Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752436593
- ISBN
- 9780752436593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.50
€ 29.99
€ 25.50
The Flying Greek. An Immigrant Fighter Ace's WWII Odyssey with the RAF...
Col. (Retd.) Steve N. Pisanos
hardcover. Steve N. Pisanos's The Flying Greek is both the classic tale of an immigrant's bond with America and an aerial adventure. When young Pisanos arrived in the U.S. in 1938, he worked, studied English, and learned to fly. Num Pages: 280 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597970785
- ISBN
- 9781597970785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.86
€ 41.99
€ 41.86