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Biography
Paperback. Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BT; TTVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250. Good copy with some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KTG0004015
- ISBN
- 9780552151467
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. A unique combination of social history and style bible Num Pages: 224 pages, 150 colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMR; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 297 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1472.
- Publisher
- Pimpernel Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910258774
- ISBN
- 9781910258774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 54.31
€ 59.42
€ 54.31
Paperback. A biography of Lennie Tristano, the blind pianist who was one of jazz's most extraordinary innovators. Series: Popular Music History. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVRG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845532819
- ISBN
- 9781845532819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.84
€ 40.84
Paperback. Whether it is coping with ageing parents, divorce, dating, teenagers, wavering libidos or your saggy bits, this book tells you how to deal with the obstacles while living life to the full. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFSJ1; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967836
- ISBN
- 9780241967836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Hardback. Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, was both a brilliant and controversial man. This biography offers a nuanced account of this morally ambiguous man. Drawing on Hamsun's extraordinary private archives and on his psychoanalyst's notes, it delves into Hamsun's personal life and character. Translator(s): Skuggevik, Erik; Dawkin, Deborah. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 b/w. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 169 x 36. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300123562
- ISBN
- 9780300123562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.31
€ 43.99
€ 31.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill.M. BIC Classification: 1FMB; BGHA; HBJF; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824816285
- ISBN
- 9780824816285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.69
€ 20.99
€ 19.69
Paperback. Biography of Harold Lowe, Fifth Officer of RMS Titanic, who was described by another survivor as 'the real hero of the Titanic.' After taking an active role in the evacuation, Lowe took command of a raft of lifeboats, distributing passengers among them so he could return to the wreckage and look for survivors - the only officer to do so. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752469966
- ISBN
- 9780752469966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Hardcover. Originally published in German under the title Im Einsatz 'uber Europa. Num Pages: 299 pages, over 100 bw images. BIC Classification: BM; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 832. The Memoirs of Luftwaffe Figher Pilot Gunther Scholz. illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BM; HBW. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 28. Weight: 856.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764337604
- ISBN
- 9780764337604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 28.26
€ 43.99
€ 28.26
Paperback. * Ingrid Betancourt's astonishing, powerful and deeply moving account of her six-year ordeal in the Colombian jungle as a hostage of the terrorist organisation FARC Num Pages: 608 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; BG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 41. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844086139
- ISBN
- 9781844086139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. The definitive biography of one of the great heroes of the Second World War Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGH; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- MacLehose Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848665965
- ISBN
- 9781848665965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.54
€ 23.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. This biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226730240
- ISBN
- 9780226730240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.17
€ 24.99
€ 20.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Dalaker, Ingrid Loe. Num Pages: 410 pages. BIC Classification: BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 171 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Akademica Publishing Norway
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788232102617
- ISBN
- 9788232102617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.34
€ 50.99
€ 36.34
Paperback. A fascinating study of the Queen's life and her reign, as seen through her own speeches over the last 75 years Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 x 8pp colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; BGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471150982
- ISBN
- 9781471150982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. A powerful first-person account from a child of the Lebensborn: the Nazis' programme to create an Aryan master race Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Elliott & Thompson Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783963188
- ISBN
- 9781783963188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. A New York memoir of an unfettered childhood in the Lower East Side of the 1980s Num Pages: 464 pages, Integrated b&w photos supplied and cleared for our use by the US publisher. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349005638
- ISBN
- 9780349005638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. In this joyful, moving, and often funny memoir, Ira Berkow describes his path from Maxwell Street marketplace hawker to Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Timeswriter. "A master of his trade."-Studs Terkel. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566637558
- ISBN
- 9781566637558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.78
€ 17.99
€ 17.78
Hardback. Recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, of early peacetime adventures in the air, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record beating flights. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; BM; HBJD1; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612001500
- ISBN
- 9781612001500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.63
€ 32.99
€ 27.63
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Casemate Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932033991
- ISBN
- 9781932033991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.21
€ 32.99
€ 27.21
Paperback. If running extreme distances is as much about mental endurance as physical, how do you keep going when your internal monologue turns against you? That was the simple question Ira Rainey faced when the darkness of depression cast its long shadow over his life. The answer it turned out was far from straightforward. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWS; BM; WSKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 307 x 21. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Tangent Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910089538
- ISBN
- 9781910089538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.70
€ 13.99
€ 11.70
Hardback. Collects the fascinating memories of some of radio's most vivid personalities: Himan Brown, Axel Gruenberg, Fletcher Markle, Arch Oboloer, and Robert Lewis Shayon. They explain in their own words their journey through radio broadcasting, how it affected their lives, and how they saw it impacting upon the consciousness of a country. Series: Directors Guild of America Oral History S. Num Pages: 236 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APW; BG; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834729
- ISBN
- 9780810834729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.63
€ 112.63
Paperback. Collects the fascinating memories of some of radio's most vivid personalities: Himan Brown, Axel Gruenberg, Fletcher Markle, Arch Oboloer, and Robert Lewis Shayon. They explain in their own words their journey through radio broadcasting, how it affected their lives, and how they saw it impacting upon the consciousness of a country. Series: Directors Guild of America Oral History S. Num Pages: 236 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APW; BG; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834835
- ISBN
- 9780810834835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 85.50
€ 85.50
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Tyndale House Publishers United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781414339368
- ISBN
- 9781414339368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.88
€ 17.88
Paperback. An eyewitness and harrowing account of the brutal life in a Soviet labour camp. An unwavering determination to survive against the odds. The heroic sacrifice and bravery of the Polish Resistance and the Warsaw Uprising. The role of Polish soldiers in the Italian campaign, notably the Battle of Monte Cassino. Num Pages: 160 pages, including 32pp colour section, numerous photos and documents. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Whittles Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849952644
- ISBN
- 9781849952644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.48
€ 24.99
€ 21.48
Hardcover. Describes Purdue's travels to diverse places where she lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. This book examines her beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. It describes the destitute family's journey into Ohio and her ascent from local entrepreneur to national figure. Num Pages: 180 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Edition
- Limited Ed (150)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534576
- ISBN
- 9781557534576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.14€ 80.09
€ 94.14
€ 80.09