Biography
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Biography
Paperback. Presents author's journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. This title provides details of the horrors and sacrifice of war, painting a portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defence of their country. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1M; 3JJH; BM; HBJM; HBWQ; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091937515
- ISBN
- 9780091937515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. Updated with a chapter on his 50th anniversary celebrations Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 b/w and colour photo sections. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Updated ed.
- SKU
- KNW0010782
- ISBN
- 9780755315895
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. By the bestselling author of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, an inspiring story about one woman's quest to find herself after fleeing Afghanistan. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751555967
- ISBN
- 9780751555967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Hardback. James Sowerby (1757-1822) was an outstanding artist and natural historian, renowned for his discoveries and prodigious output of beautiful, scientific books of plants, fungi, animals, fossils and minerals, all during the age of Enlightenment in Great Britain. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AGN; BGT; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 256 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1416.
- Publisher
- Royal Botanic Gardens
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842465967
- ISBN
- 9781842465967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 57.99
€ 58.80
€ 57.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408849453
- ISBN
- 9781408849453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.63
€ 19.99
€ 14.63
Paperback. Drawn from interviews with people who knew Sir Keith Park, and illustrated with maps and photographs, this is a biography of one of the world's greatest unsung heroes. It charts the history and contributions of one man who was responsible for the air defence of London and South-East England. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16pp b&w photographs, maps. BIC Classification: BG; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Grub Street United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902304618
- ISBN
- 9781902304618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.84
€ 19.99
€ 15.84
Paperback. Father and Daughter provides an unique 'insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science, combining biography of Richard Titmuss and autobiography by his daughter Ann Oakley. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447318101
- ISBN
- 9781447318101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.68
€ 21.68
Paperback. This work is a personal reminiscence and a guide to solving crossword puzzles. Each chapter starts with a clue and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it, in the process describing something of what it means to love England. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BG; WDKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843540892
- ISBN
- 9781843540892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
Paperback. An analysis of Wagner, his music, stage directions, prose and his influence on the culture of our age, with a discussion of the reasons for the reactions his work has provoked. Magee sheds light on Wagner's anti-semitic ideas and the way these were used by the Nazis for their own ends. Num Pages: 112 pages, index. BIC Classification: AVGC9; BGF; BGH; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 173 x 7. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Revised & enlarged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192840127
- ISBN
- 9780192840127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.01
€ 14.99
€ 12.01
Paperback. An inspiring, tragi-comic memoir about the relationship between a paralysed French aristocrat and his immigrant care-worker Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 124 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226. A very good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- KLJ0019582
- ISBN
- 9781471110481
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. This book tells the story of this women from medieval world. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; BGX; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571284634
- ISBN
- 9780571284634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.91
€ 17.99
€ 12.91
Paperback. Lyrical visionary, enduring style icon and one indispensable fifth of post- Peter Green megaband Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is one of the most recognisable figures in rock 'n' roll history - very much Fleetwood Mac's 'Queen Bee', as Mick Fleetwood himself describes her. Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 x 8pp. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 2. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- Omnibus Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785583421
- ISBN
- 9781785583421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.47
€ 21.99
€ 17.47
Paperback.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- SKU
- KLN0017927
- ISBN
- 9781840185782
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. In 1845, the author went to live in the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. In this book, he documents his passion for the landscape and wildlife of Walden Pond, and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; BM; JFSF; JFSS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872410
- ISBN
- 9781784872410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
€ 10.99
€ 9.41
Paperback. Library markings to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains in a good to very good condition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Killynon House Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KI20002231
- ISBN
- 9781905706181
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The story of four sisters, Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, great-grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period from 1740 to 1832. Underlying the drama of their aristocratic existence is a story of everyday life. Winner of the 1995 Fawcett Book Prize. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 195 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 403.
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Book Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099477112
- ISBN
- 9780099477112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. Dermot charts his story through the songs that were playing at each key moment as life unfolded. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 Plates. BIC Classification: APT; AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444790214
- ISBN
- 9781444790214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. In "The Adventures of Henry Thoreau," the years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond are a prism through which to view the ideas and forces that inspired him, and his huge impact on American thought. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620401972
- ISBN
- 9781620401972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.45
€ 14.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? This account illuminates scenes of life and death. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BM; MN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099520696
- ISBN
- 9780099520696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. The untold story of the Pathfinders, one of the most secretive units in the British military. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BTM; JWH; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 209 x 24. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409148500
- ISBN
- 9781409148500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Dr Rosemary Leonard shares her incredible stories from a 25-year career as a GP Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BT; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755362066
- ISBN
- 9780755362066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. 'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine.. a country where we can grow.' 'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?' 'Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 111 x 20. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 320
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951460
- ISBN
- 9780241951460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.11
€ 11.99
€ 10.11
Hardback. Part biography, part history, part critical examination of Babel's legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural context, The Enigma of Isaac Babel offers the first comprehensive view of the great Russian Jewish author since the opening of Soviet archives. Editor(s): Freidin, Gregory. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759038
- ISBN
- 9780804759038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.88
€ 86.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMC; BM; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Monday Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- KNW0008762
- ISBN
- 9780955285417
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49