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Biography

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hot Press Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954551681
ISBN
9780954551681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.21

Discusses the life and work of the twentieth-century English author, Virginia Woolf. Series: Women in the Arts S. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 900.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Chelsea House Publications
Condition
New
SKU
V9780791074596
ISBN
9780791074596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Paints seven scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. This title presents a memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
40 Anv
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520268128
ISBN
9780520268128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.35

Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DNF; DSB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474862
ISBN
9781611474862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.01

paperback. Deals with the history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty. This title also shows the portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. It shows how their power waned as conflicts from Crimea to the Second World War repeatedly threatened the stability of their worldwide empire, and more. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; BGB; KFFK; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780140286625
ISBN
9780140286625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 17.70

Kenneth Milton Chapman was instrumental in the establishment of the Museum of New Mexico, the School of American Research, and the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe. This biography focuses on his professional development as artist and archaeologist, and tracks his life from his midwestern upbringing through to his seventy years in New Mexico. Num Pages: 344 pages, 13 colour photographs, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; AFPC; BG; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1021.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826344243
ISBN
9780826344243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.51

Paperback. The story of the disintegration of a family, set against the collapse of a country, a sequel of sorts to Peter Godwin's award-winning and bestselling memoir, Mukiwa. Num Pages: 352 pages, map, ports. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330448185
ISBN
9780330448185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.58

Paperback. Growing up, Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA's most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time he began to have doubts. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393349436
ISBN
9780393349436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.14

Paperback. Editor(s): Harris, Nigel; O'Malley, Joseph J. Num Pages: 445 pages, 22 colour and 44 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJ; 3JMC; BGHA; HPCF; HRC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Marquette University Press United States
Number of pages
445
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626000506
ISBN
9781626000506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.60

Hardback. Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes-from saving lives to social control-while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFG; JFSK; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362760
ISBN
9780822362760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.81

Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Blackwater Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOC0017071
ISBN
9781841319063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Samuel C Dellinger (1892-1973) made it his life's work to ensure that future Arkansans would remember their state's pre-historic past. He gathered nearly eight thousand prehistroic artifacts in order to keep them from going to out-of-state museums. This book includes a detailed biography of Dellinger, as well as a discussion of his work. Num Pages: 229 pages, 219 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSR; BG; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Edition
2008 No other Dates
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557288868
ISBN
9781557288868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.54
€ 49.66

Hardback. Art Pepper (1925-1982) is generally considered the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Editor(s): Selbert, Todd. Series: Writings on a jazz original. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815410676
ISBN
9780815410676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ1; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607812494
ISBN
9781607812494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.46

Hardback. Editor(s): Katz, Esther; Hajo, Cathy Moran; Engelman, Peter C. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; JFMX; JFSJ1; MBNH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252040382
ISBN
9780252040382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.95

Hardback. Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. This work offers a portrait of this man, revealing how his private life and public works made him a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 halftones, 23 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226793603
ISBN
9780226793603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.26

Paperback. Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. His travels take him from hippy conventions to war-torn Liberia Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413772756
ISBN
9780413772756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.28

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062297112
ISBN
9780062297112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.18

Paperback. The story of Irvin S. Cobb is a fascinating one for many reasons. His life was not unusual at the time: a Horatio Alger rise from poor boy to world authority through hard work. Associate of celebrities of all kinds for two decades, he died in Hollywood virtually forgotten, having outlived the world he grew up in and which appreciated him. Num Pages: 270 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Popular Press 1
Condition
New
SKU
V9780879722753
ISBN
9780879722753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Cartography of high literary order, plotting routes, real and imagined, and putting an alternate landscape on the map Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803239852
ISBN
9780803239852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.71

Paperback. Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement. Translator(s): Kendall, Stuart; McHale, John. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: AB; BJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350552
ISBN
9781584350552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.26

paperback. Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson Editor(s): Lobb, John. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGXA; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
UNC at Chapel Hill Library United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780807869611
ISBN
9780807869611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Riverhead Trade
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594485695
ISBN
9781594485695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.18

Hardcover. This work reconstructs the career of Hammatt Billings, one of the most versatile artists of the 19th century. Skilled in a wide range of media, Billings designed furniture, statuary, monuments, architecture, and public and private gardens, was a painter, and a private and public artist. Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 291 pages, 101 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AGB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558491489
ISBN
9781558491489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.62

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