Biography: general
Results 10561 - 10584 of 12353
Biography: general
Paperback. The extraordinary life of the first celebrity chef, Alexis Soyer, who was the toast of London society in the 19th century. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Alexis Soyer, a Frenchman, was the most famous cook -- and one of the most famous men -- in London. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations , ports. BIC Classification: BG; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 191 x 26. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470869925
- ISBN
- 9780470869925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.45
€ 11.99
€ 11.45
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752455389
- ISBN
- 9780752455389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.18
€ 26.99
€ 23.18
Paperback. The definitive, fully authorised story of the record-breaking rivalry between London Olympics organiser Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, published to coincide with the 2012 games. Num Pages: 320 pages, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: BGS; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753819005
- ISBN
- 9780753819005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
€ 13.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. For centuries Edward III was celebrated as the most brilliant king England had ever had, and three hundred years after his death it was said that his kingship was perhaps the greatest that the world had ever known. This title shows how Edward personally provided the impetus for much of the drama of his fifty-year reign. Num Pages: 560 pages, 16pp b/w plates. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099527091
- ISBN
- 9780099527091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.67
€ 19.99
€ 14.67
Paperback. Drawing on a cache of personal documents, the author retraces Bruno Langbehn's journey from disillusioned adolescent to SS Officer to mysterious grandfather. He tries to understand how Langbehn and millions of others like him were seduced by Hitler's regime, and attempts to come to terms with this devastating revelation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Viking
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141024998
- ISBN
- 9780141024998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.61
€ 14.99
€ 11.61
Hardcover. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, the author uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition. Translator(s): Rosenthal, Raymond. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BG; FA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857152180
- ISBN
- 9781857152180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.50
€ 16.99
€ 11.50
paperback. Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York & Norfolk. This book looks at who Warbeck really was, how he was used by those in power in Burgundy, France, Italy, Scotland and Ireland, and the progress of the conspiracy itself. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750939898
- ISBN
- 9780750939898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.18
€ 19.99
€ 18.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 399 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FB; BGH; HBJF1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 399
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933823348
- ISBN
- 9781933823348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.59
€ 30.99
€ 22.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 564 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 2BXF; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 35. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933823034
- ISBN
- 9781933823034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.07
€ 26.99
€ 20.07
Hardcover. A study of David Octavius Hill (1802-70), pioneer photographer, painter and lithographer. It analyzes his photographic partnership with Robert Adamson, offering an understanding of its remarkable success, and explains the purpose and intelligence of this work in the context of Hill's life. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 105 b/w + 41 color illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JH; ACV; AJB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 284 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300095340
- ISBN
- 9780300095340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.95
€ 51.99
€ 36.95
Paperback. As sub-librarian at the University of Hull during Larkin's tenure there as librarian; and as an intimate friend for 30years, Maeve Brennan was well placed not only to observe Larkin as a poet, but equally in his capacity as a professional librarian. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719062766
- ISBN
- 9780719062766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.35
€ 31.99
€ 30.35
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691157306
- ISBN
- 9780691157306
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.71
€ 29.99
€ 21.71
Hardback. Examines philosophical autobiography as a literary genre and an alternative to Freudian psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780275977894
- ISBN
- 9780275977894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.72€ 77.34
€ 85.72
€ 77.34
Paperback. Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Editor(s): Yancy, George. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: BGA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742513426
- ISBN
- 9780742513426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.66
€ 73.66
hardcover. Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Editor(s): Yancy, George. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: BGA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742513419
- ISBN
- 9780742513419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.19
€ 186.19
Paperback. Published in 1975, this autobiography of private Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and America; and about himself - his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, good times and bad times in the Big Apple, the explosion of his career in the Sixties, and life among celebrities. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ1; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 4. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189109
- ISBN
- 9780141189109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 167 x 12. Weight in Grams: 166. 160 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG; HPCF. Dimension: 205 x 167 x 12. Weight: 166.
- Publisher
- Riverrun Pr
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714542836
- ISBN
- 9780714542836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.17
€ 13.99
€ 13.17
Paperback. The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1DVP; AVH; AVRG; BGFA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753814055
- ISBN
- 9780753814055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
CD-Audio. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 285 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Unabridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241977545
- ISBN
- 9780241977545
CD
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.85
€ 26.99
€ 18.85
Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION AND THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 170 x 43. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007213962
- ISBN
- 9780007213962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.00€ 16.98
€ 22.00
€ 16.98
Paperback. While going through a divorce, documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman took an antidepressant. She went into a four-day toxic psychosis with violent hallucinations, imagining she had killed her children, and in fact attacking herself with a knife. By publicising her story and making a film, Katinka made some startling discoveries.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; MBD; MMG; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786061331
- ISBN
- 9781786061331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.91
€ 11.99
€ 9.91
The Piozzi Letters V4: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-182...
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, Bloom, Lillian D.
Hardcover. Volume 4 describes one of the most traumatic periods of Hester Lynch Piozzi's life, when she could no longer believe that Gabriel Piozzi's attacks of gout were to be endured as a typically gentrified English condition. Editor(s): Bloom, Edward A. Num Pages: 358 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133936
- ISBN
- 9780874133936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.71
€ 149.71
Hardback. The letters in this volume record the last years of Mrs. Piozzi's life. Her correspondence from 1817 to 1821 reads like extensions of her private journals and may be seen as affirmation of hope and ambition as well as decelarations of frustration, grief, anger, and self-pity. Num Pages: 576 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; BJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 983.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133950
- ISBN
- 9780874133950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.46
€ 184.46
Paperback. Spending a week doing nothing but exploring the possibilities of Lego, risking yet another job; impulsively sinking all his savings into impractical self-employment ventures; sleepless nights, gripped by the need to write - these are just some manifestations of the often damaging periods of manic, uninhibited energy of bipolar disorder. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843101048
- ISBN
- 9781843101048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.90
€ 28.90