Biography
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Biography
This collection of 171 letters, most never before published, finally makes the fascinating Shaw/Murray correspondence available. Editor(s): Carpenter, Charles A. Series: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643826
- ISBN
- 9781442643826
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
George Washington became president of the newly formed United States just as the French Revolution erupted in 1789, a moment that would pave the way for Napoleon and his eventual empire. In this momentous year, the Americans consolidated the gains of their rebellion, and the French embarked upon a more radical transformation of their own. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597972789
- ISBN
- 9781597972789
Condition: New
€ 33.72
€ 33.72
Paperback. This is an account of the life and times of Te Whiti o Rongomai set against the politics and Crown policies of the nineteenth century. It traces the forces that shaped his life's journey from Ngamotu, where he was born, to his settling at Parihaka and his evolving sense of the injustices and disempowerment Maori experienced and his response. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JH; BGH; HBJM; JFSL9; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Huia Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781775501954
- ISBN
- 9781775501954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 31.02
€ 46.99
€ 31.02
A chilling wartime diary of the destruction of the Lithuanian/Polish Jews, recorded by a non-Jew Editor(s): Arad, Yitzhak. Translator(s): Weinbaum, Laurance. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUF; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300108538
- ISBN
- 9780300108538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.35€ 41.62
€ 52.35
€ 41.62
How the son of an innkeeper with a flair for making money became the richest commoner in nineteenth-century England, and what he did with his extraordinary success Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 black-&-white + colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BGB; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300112207
- ISBN
- 9780300112207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.38
€ 40.99
€ 29.38
The first book on the life and work of the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMC; BG; TNC; TNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 211 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1060.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393730159
- ISBN
- 9780393730159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.16
€ 41.99
€ 35.16
An annotated edition of a memoir that relates a fascinating life story and contains a wealth of historical information about late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jewish life in Eastern Europe, America, and Israel. Translator(s): Weissbach, Lee Shai. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HBT; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783637
- ISBN
- 9780804783637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
A valuable resource for understanding Canadian literary modernism, diasporic Judaism, and the culture of Montreal, A.M. Klein: The Letters is a remarkable portrait of an important Canadian literary figure of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Popham, Elizabeth A. Num Pages: 504 pages, 1 frontispiece. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 42. Weight in Grams: 960.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442641075
- ISBN
- 9781442641075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.18
€ 96.18
These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his reflections on family, sport, and art. Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Num Pages: 640 pages, 56. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BG; LAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1110.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442648302
- ISBN
- 9781442648302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.85
€ 52.85
Paul Rexton Kan demonstrates that the ongoing war in Mexico, now in its sixth year, is a mosaic war, with several wars occurring at once: cartels battle each other, cartels suffer violence within their own organisations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people and gangs combat gangs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 table; 2 figures; 4 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BTC; HBJK; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597977074
- ISBN
- 9781597977074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.27
€ 36.27
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 503
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612345772
- ISBN
- 9781612345772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.84
€ 43.99
€ 38.84
George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself - no family of his own and no real home in music. This book presents the story of this legendary American composer. Num Pages: 216 pages, 33 photographs. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252034442
- ISBN
- 9780252034442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.65
€ 33.65
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067211
- ISBN
- 9780252067211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father's striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen's work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self--each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072831
- ISBN
- 9780674072831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
* This is the first biography to be written about the life of Martha Freud, the wife of the father of psychoanalysis. * This is the first biography to be written about the life of Martha Freud, the wife of the father of psychoanalysis. * Fully illustrated with halftones of the Bernays and Freud Families. Translator(s): Glasgow, R.D.V. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 251 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633381
- ISBN
- 9780745633381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241853
- ISBN
- 9780812241853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt's remarkable life and the creation of the Associated Country Women of the World. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647725
- ISBN
- 9781442647725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Scotland's Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; RGV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649286
- ISBN
- 9781442649286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.79
€ 75.79
Dimension: 163 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442650336
- ISBN
- 9781442650336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Num Pages: 254 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589880221
- ISBN
- 9781589880221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 23.86
€ 34.99
€ 23.86
On the afternoon of August 19, 1997, John Harrigan-owner and publisher of the News and Sentinel newspaper in Colebrook, New Hampshire-arrived at his building to find the woman he loved lying dead in the parking lot. Lawyer Vickie Bunnell had been shot and killed by an itinerant carpenter wielding an assault rifle. Num Pages: 344 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611687156
- ISBN
- 9781611687156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.05
€ 32.99
€ 26.05
Long before it became the slogan of the Obama campaign, Dr. Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto "Yes, We Can." An African American elite descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and possibly a white governor of Virginia, Ferebee was an obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington, D.C. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 35. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612345055
- ISBN
- 9781612345055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37
Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; BGH; HBTB; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Truman State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612481432
- ISBN
- 9781612481432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.51
€ 47.99
€ 37.51
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848270602
- ISBN
- 9781848270602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.86
€ 21.99
€ 15.86