Biography
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Biography
Paperback. A laugh-filled, fictional daily chronicle of family and church exploits, featuring Adrian Plass's literary alter ego and a memorable cast of supporting characters. Num Pages: 128 pages, B & W Line. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Zondervan United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310269120
- ISBN
- 9780310269120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.44
€ 13.99
€ 11.44
paperback. This portrait of Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the great British architect, aims to show us the man behind the legend - a man who was the Surveyor of the King's Works, a pioneering anatomist and mathematician, who devised new navigational instruments and lectured on planetary motion. Num Pages: 480 pages, 24pp halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; AMB; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712673648
- ISBN
- 9780712673648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.56
€ 38.99
€ 27.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BM; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894759908
- ISBN
- 9781894759908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.89
€ 17.89
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813533896
- ISBN
- 9780813533896
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.23
€ 45.99
€ 40.23
Paperback. Draws upon feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, and searches out various incarnations of Queen Victoria in the minds of her subjects. Num Pages: 272 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104814
- ISBN
- 9780231104814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.38
€ 45.38
paperback. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC, inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. This title tells the story of Mithradates. Num Pages: 472 pages, 10 color plates. 75 halftones. 9 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 32. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780691150260
- ISBN
- 9780691150260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.60
€ 19.99
€ 13.60
Paperback. The highly acclaimed memoir of growing up with Dylan Thomas Editor(s): Campomar, Andreas. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188. 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to settle and work. This book contains a portrait of growing up and an insight into Dylan Thomas' poetry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSC. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849013642
- ISBN
- 9781849013642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.48
€ 14.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JJG; BJ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007460687
- ISBN
- 9780007460687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.49
€ 16.99
€ 12.49
Paperback. Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' - her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 197 x 45. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007314669
- ISBN
- 9780007314669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.88
€ 19.99
€ 13.88
Paperback. Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b/w plates. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007487240
- ISBN
- 9780007487240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.71
€ 13.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. A memoir that shares the true story behind "The Sound of Music". Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJG; 3JJH; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061998812
- ISBN
- 9780061998812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.34
€ 13.99
€ 10.34
Hardcover. An abbess in the Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, Agnes of Harcourt wrote a biography of Isabelle of France and a letter detailing Louis IX's involvement with the abbey, both of which provide a window on 13th-century religious life. This translation also contains an introduction to her life and work. Editor(s): Field, Sean L. (Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont, USA). Translator(s): Field, Sean L. (Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont, USA). Series: Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; BG; DN; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044039
- ISBN
- 9780268044039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.94
€ 111.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: ASD; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590179086
- ISBN
- 9781590179086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.51
€ 18.99
€ 17.51
Paperback. 'Agnes Humbert bears devastating witness to her time An insider's account of the germination of the French Resistance' William Boyd Translator(s): Mellor, Barbara. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280. Memoirs of Occupied France. 384 pages. 'Agnes Humbert bears devastating witness to her time An insider's account of the germination of the French Resistance' William Boyd. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JPWQ. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight: 284. Translator(s): Mellor, Barbara.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747596745
- ISBN
- 9780747596745
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.62
€ 16.99
€ 14.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FMNX; 1FPJ; 3JJH; BGHA; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 214 x 21. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Eland
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871286
- ISBN
- 9780907871286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.23
€ 19.99
€ 14.23
Hardcover. In 1793 the Witts family arrived in Edinburgh for a stay of five years. A well-to-do family they were brought to near penury brought the failure of Edward Witts business. Within a few months Edward and Agnes had built a wide circle of friends and acquaintance in the upper echelons of society where Agnes's magnetic personality worked its magic. Editor(s): Sutton, Alan. Num Pages: 416 pages, 60 illustrations, 30 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JF; BGHA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 260 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1328.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781554845
- ISBN
- 9781781554845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 28.54
€ 28.54
paperback. A collection of letters that chronicles a long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their lives in exile as writers, academics, and political activists in the United States. Translator(s): Morgan, Bridget M. Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series. Num Pages: 198 pages, 15 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705067
- ISBN
- 9780292705067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.12
€ 21.99
€ 21.12
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408830505
- ISBN
- 9781408830505
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.77
€ 16.99
€ 13.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fons Vitae,US United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781887752206
- ISBN
- 9781887752206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.98
€ 26.99
€ 22.98
Hardcover. Tamerlane ruled over one of the largest empires in history - an empire that stretched from Syria in the east to the fringes of China, and from southern Russia to northern India. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDM; 3H; BGH; HBJF; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784531706
- ISBN
- 9781784531706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.98
€ 124.98
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Saqi Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 151
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863563072
- ISBN
- 9780863563072
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.98
€ 10.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. The Algerian warrior and Sufi saint, Emir Abd el-Kader, shows his spiritual qualities in the fight against the French colonial authorities. "The New York Times" called the Emir "one of the few great men of the century," while Abraham Lincoln and Pope Pius IX both commended the Emir for rescuing 15,000 Christians while in exile in Damascus. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JH; BGX; HBJH; HBLL; HRHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- World Wisdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936597178
- ISBN
- 9781936597178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.01
€ 25.99
€ 23.01
Paperback. On 11 September 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day. This book makes you rethink what it means to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JM; BGHA; JPVR; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099572299
- ISBN
- 9780099572299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.93
€ 11.99
€ 9.93
Paperback. Finally in paperback comes Mo' Meta Blues Questlove's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed psychedelic, punch-drunk memoir Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 x 8pp insert. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; AVGR; BGFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455501373
- ISBN
- 9781455501373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.77
€ 18.99
€ 16.77