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Paperback. Num Pages: 450 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA; HBTB; JH; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Univ of Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824817848
ISBN
9780824817848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.34

Paperback. They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ..Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This autobiography, tells of a young, disenfranchised man whose descent into drug addition, robbery and prison was only reversed by his belief in the rights struggle for black America, and his conversion to the Nation of Islam. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141032726
ISBN
9780141032726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.27

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Whitaker House,U.S.
Condition
New
Edition
Revised, Updated
SKU
V9780883681596
ISBN
9780883681596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.33

Paperback. Cecelia Ferrazzi's inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her preceding testimony are here transcribed and translated into English, allowing the reader an insight into an unfamiliar sector of the past. Editor(s): Schutte, Anne Jacobson (Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA). Translator(s): Schutte, Anne Jacobson (Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA). Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 134 pages, 1 halftone, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGHA; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 168 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244471
ISBN
9780226244471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.24

Paperback. First printed in 1918, Ralph Werther's ""Autobiography of an Androgyne"" charts his emerging self-understanding as a member of the ""third sex"" and documents his explorations of queer underworlds in turn-of-the-century New York City. This work also traces how this autobiography engages with the invention of homosexuality across class lines. Editor(s): Herring, Scott. Series Editor(s): Verter, Bradford J.M. Series: Subterranean Lives Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, figures. BIC Classification: BGA; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813543000
ISBN
9780813543000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 40.36

Paperback. 8 August 1963; a railway track in Buckinghamshire. The Great Train Robbery has entered British folklore as one of the most audacious and extraordinary crimes of the twentieth century. This title features a story that is brought to include the return of Ronnis Biggs to the UK, the deaths of Buster Edwards, Roy James and Taters Chatham. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 32. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Virgin Publishing
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753539170
ISBN
9780753539170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.51

Paperback. This is a series of dispatches from the frontline of childhood. The reader is given an insight into the world of a one year old, a world where you're left in the charge of totally inept parents, where everything is the wrong height and where nobody understands a word you say. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JMC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 124. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ebury Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001725
ISBN
9780091880699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Sayo Masuda was a geisha at a hot springs resort, where the realities of sex for sale are unadorned by the trappings of wealth and power. Remarkable for its wit and frankness, the book is a moving record of a woman's survival on the margins of Japanese society -- in the words of the translator, "the superbly told tale of a woman whom fortune never favored yet never defeated." Translator(s): Rowley, G. G. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; BGA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129510
ISBN
9780231129510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.13

Paperback. Chronicles a harsh world in which young women faced the realities of sex for sale and were deprived of their freedom and identity. This work also tells of the author's life after leaving the geisha house, painting a panorama of the grinding poverty of rural life in wartime Japan. Translator(s): Rowley, G. G. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; BGA; HBJF; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KOC0012729
ISBN
9780099462040
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 203 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679722137
ISBN
9780679722137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.11

Hardcover. "An important contribution to the study of American life writing and an invaluable reassessment of the work of Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez."--Robert J. Butler, coeditor of The Richard Wright Encyclopedia Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826355270
ISBN
9780826355270
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.74

Hardcover. This is the first investigation of the roles of autobiography in teacher education to be informed by concepts and examples from China, Europe, and North and South America. Unique and timely, this volume addresses multiple movements of teacher education reform worldwide. Editor(s): Pinar, William F.; Zhang, Hua. Series: Curriculum Studies Worldwide. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JNA; JNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137382399
ISBN
9781137382399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.52
€ 84.74

Paperback. These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity. Editor(s): Ashley, Kathleen M.; Gilmore, Leigh; Peters, Gerald (all Professors of English, University of Southern Maine, USA). Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870239007
ISBN
9780870239007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Editor(s): Seavey, Ormond. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199554904
ISBN
9780199554904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Editor(s): Peterson, Linda (Yale University Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University Yale University Yale University, Connecticut). Series: Nineteenth-Century British Autobiographies. Num Pages: 744 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGA; BGHA; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 759.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
741
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551115559
ISBN
9781551115559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 34.51

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480614
ISBN
9780801480614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.11

Paperback. Examines the lives and selected writings of five major contemporary French women writers: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde. Part literary criticism and part biography, this book seeks mainly to shed light on how these writers' works illustrate the fine line that separates fact from fiction. Num Pages: 259 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803272583
ISBN
9780803272583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.31

Hardcover. The 43th volume of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin consists of Voegelin's Autobiographical Reflections, reprinted from the 1989 edition with additional annotations; a glossary of terms used in Voegelin's writings, illustrated with examples from throughout the Collected Works; a volume index; and a cumulative index. Editor(s): Sandoz, Ellis. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 592 pages, illustrations, index, glossary. BIC Classification: BGHA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1052.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
Second Edition, with a Voegelin Glossary and Cumul
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826215895
ISBN
9780826215895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.22
€ 86.22

Hardcover. This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFD; JFSF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137325266
ISBN
9781137325266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.89

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFD; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349459292
ISBN
9781349459292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.28

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