Biography
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Biography
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595555748
- ISBN
- 9781595555748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.27
€ 26.99
€ 23.27
Hardcover. This text recounts the varied literary achievements of one of Latin America's most acclaimed and prolific 20th-century writers. Structuring his assessment around metaphors drawn from boxing, the author considers Cortazar's plays, stories, novels, political essays and poetry. Series: Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570033902
- ISBN
- 9781570033902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.69
€ 46.99
€ 39.69
Paperback. Daniel O'Connell - 'The Liberator' - lived a big, great and graphic life. Born in Kerry in 1775, he witnessed some of the most pivotal events in Irish and European history. Simply told for a young adult audience, with lively text and striking illustrations, this book brings Daniel O'Connell and his world to life. Illustrator(s): Nowakowski, Mateusz. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; BGH; FXZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848892699
- ISBN
- 9781848892699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Clear Light Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574160956
- ISBN
- 9781574160956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.17
€ 23.99
€ 17.17
Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; JFSL3; JPFF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813140773
- ISBN
- 9780813140773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.63
€ 49.63
Paperback. A study of the importance of Salem, Massachusetts, in the life and career of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The author investigates Hawthorne's family, his education before college, his friends and acquaintances, and Salem's religious and political influences on him. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826213310
- ISBN
- 9780826213310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.72
€ 52.99
€ 41.72
Hardback. With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 32.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493001408
- ISBN
- 9781493001408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.62
€ 29.99
€ 22.62
Mixed media pr. Tom Talbert is a composer, arranger, bandleader and pianist. He has been a important influence on the jazz scene since the 1940s, when he formed his own band in Los Angeles. Later he moved to New York where he composed for Buddy Rich, Charlie Burnet and other giants of American jazz. Series: Studies in Jazz. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810848122
- ISBN
- 9780810848122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.69
€ 91.69
Paperback. A biography of Paul Bowles, the famously enigmatic writer-composer. It questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of 'truth' in the telling of a life. It talks of Bowles' difficult childhood and of his grief over his wife's - the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973 - illness, of exile, dreams, and madness. Num Pages: 354 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AVH; BGF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520224933
- ISBN
- 9780520224933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.46
€ 33.99
€ 24.46
Hardcover. Reinhardt owned The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1987, and smaller publishers like The Nonesuch Press and Reinhardt Books. This account of his life contains stories about his authors, among them Graham Greene, G.B. Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and his actor friends, illuminating the trajectory of British publishing in the second half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545427
- ISBN
- 9780230545427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
This series examines authors of the most popular children's books. It enables readers to discover new works by some of their favourite authors, while providing readers a more fully developed background of the author, his life and works. Ages 13+. Series: Who Wrote That?. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (J) Children / Juvenile; (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780791082331
- ISBN
- 9780791082331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.59
€ 38.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. A fresh, new look for the paperback edition in the genre of Shame and Ugly. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340943496
- ISBN
- 9780340943496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
€ 13.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Konopacki, Mike. Num Pages: 122 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Edition
- Second Edition, Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629630960
- ISBN
- 9781629630960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.72
€ 15.99
€ 14.72
paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Sidonie; Watson, Julia. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; DSA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816624904
- ISBN
- 9780816624904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
€ 28.95
Paperback. Contains twenty biographies of African American male and female athletes that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how these changes mirrored the transformation of sports, American society, and civil rights legislation. This collection includes: Marshall Taylor, William Henry Lewis, Tiger Woods, and Venus Williams. Editor(s): Wiggins, David K. Num Pages: 472 pages, 19 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGS; JFSL3; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557288769
- ISBN
- 9781557288769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Paperback. Editor(s): McElrath, Joseph R., Jr.; Leitz, Robert C. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 266 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691606613
- ISBN
- 9780691606613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.99
€ 55.99
Hardcover. Editor(s): Keatinge, Benjamin; Woods, Aengus. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 646. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0003209
- ISBN
- 9780716529101
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Butler Centre for Arkansas Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935106067
- ISBN
- 9781935106067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.42
€ 25.99
€ 22.42
Paperback. If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the '40s and '50s, then you knew there was one man you did not want to cross: Charlie Hudson. A solitary man, feared and respected by the gangsters of the time, Charlie was a boxer who never lost a fight, in or out of the ring - the most infamous of The Canterbury Warriors. Series: Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRA0009183
- ISBN
- 9780007542260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781517902278
- ISBN
- 9781517902278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.55
€ 21.55
Paperback. How a group of nonprofessional historians forced a reassessment of Abraham Lincolns life story Series: Public History in Historical Perspective. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BGHA; HBJK; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558499157
- ISBN
- 9781558499157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.41
€ 30.99
€ 26.41
hardcover. This a portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents a portrait the artist could not face, constructed as he would have constructed it, frank, without flattery. Num Pages: 195 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 22. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823216123
- ISBN
- 9780823216123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.93
€ 44.93
Features 30 profiles of notable people in the field of healthcare and allied health. In addition, an appendix consisting of 10 historical biographies of "Healthcare Greats" is included, as well as geographical and name indexes. Editor(s): Salem Press. Series: Contemporary Biographies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 30 photographs. BIC Classification: BK; GTC; JFD; JNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Grey House Publishing Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619252363
- ISBN
- 9781619252363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.54€ 129.15
€ 144.54
€ 129.15
Paperback. A shaman and visionary - not a poet in any ordinary sense - Maria Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jimenez. This work includes a presentation from Sabina's recorded chants and an English translation of her oral autobiography, her vida, as written and arranged in her native language. Editor(s): Rothenberg, Jerome. Series: Poets for the Millennium S. Num Pages: 225 pages, 3 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BG; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520239531
- ISBN
- 9780520239531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.84
€ 38.99
€ 28.84