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Paperback. From the magical Beauty and the Beast to the surreal Orpheus films, Jean Cocteau is renowned as a leading figure in European cinema as well as a creative force collaborating with artists as diverse as Picasso, Diaghilev and Edith Piaf. Evaluating Cocteau's career and his personal life, this title focuses on Cocteau's constant self-questioning. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861893543
ISBN
9781861893543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.37

Paperback. A native of Boston and a physician by training, Samuel G. Howe (18011876) led a remarkable life. He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children. Married to Julia Ward Howe, author of Battle Hymn Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558499591
ISBN
9781558499591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.34

Hardcover. Examining two realms of sports and autobiography, this work looks at recurring patterns found in athletes' accounts of their lives and sporting experiences, examining language, metaphor, rhetorical strategies, and other elements to analyze sports from the inside out. It shows that the meaning of sports is intertwined with the telling. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGSA; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826217790
ISBN
9780826217790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.70

Paperback. A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 684. The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. 480 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight: 646.
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580463362
ISBN
9781580463362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.47

Paperback. How one small sailboat taught the Kennedys about life, family, leadership, and winning Num Pages: 272 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
University Press of New England
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688658
ISBN
9781611688658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99

paperback. Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-54) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. This title features archival material - including correspondence between Fermi and physicist Leo Szilard and a letter from Harry Truman. Editor(s): Cronin, James W. Num Pages: 296 pages, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGT; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226100883
ISBN
9780226100883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.33

Hardback. Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton's early years shaped him into the statesman he became. Num Pages: 497 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 978.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
497
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217892
ISBN
9780823217892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.91

Hardback. This autobiography provides an insight into the life of James Thomas Flexner, a writer of biographies and studies of many well-known individuals, and details the influences of such friends as Bernard Berenson, Edward Hopper and Harry Hopkins. Num Pages: 510 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1027.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
510
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823216604
ISBN
9780823216604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.92

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

€ 42.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; BGH; JPHL; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pegasus Books United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781605984094
ISBN
9781605984094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.32

Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; BGHA; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 470. Fine in fine dust jacket
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KRC0005695
ISBN
9781605982854
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A chronicle of the lives of three men, John Fitch, James Rumsey and Robert Fulton, all striving to invent the first steamboat. The author shows the pattern of their interwoven fates in this tale of "anguished pioneering". Num Pages: 406 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; TBX; TTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 33. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780823213764
ISBN
9780823213764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.45

Hardcover. The volume gathers together, and allows the reader to explore, the diverse experiences of a group of quite unconnected young, wealthy travellers as they made their way through eighteenth-century Europe towards Rome and conveyed their views by letters to friends and family at home. Editor(s): Boulton, James T.; McLoughlin, T. O. Series: Eighteenth Century Worlds. Num Pages: 293 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; BJ; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318504
ISBN
9781846318504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.21

Paperback. K E Tsiolkovskii was a science popularizer, novelist, technical inventor, and visionary, whose science fiction writings included futuristic drawings of space stations long before they appeared on any engineer's drawing board. This title shows that Tsiolkovskii was more than either a rocket inventor or a propaganda tool. Series: Centennial of Flight Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 b&w photos, 6 line art illustrations, bib, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BGT; TRP; TTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603441681
ISBN
9781603441681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HRCG; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 231.
Publisher
Zondervan Publishing Company United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780310441816
ISBN
9780310441816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.27

Paperback. Balanced and hugely readable, Bette David tells the complete story of one of the most enduringly popular movie stars. Num Pages: 736 pages, 16pp photographs. BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 48. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751509403
ISBN
9780751509403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.18

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGB; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 28.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762770458
ISBN
9780762770458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.35

Paperback. Presents the history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of literature. In this one year, we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw, and who he worked with as he creates four of his most famous plays - "Henry V", "Julius Caesar", "As You Like It", and "Hamlet". Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports.,. BIC Classification: BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 31. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571214815
ISBN
9780571214815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.01

Hardback. Tells the story of Paraguay's most notorious ruler Francisco Solano Lopez. Despite the heroic stature he gained after his death, Lopez was a monumentally flawed leader who made the disastrous decisions in 1864 and 1865 to invade Brazil and Argentina. This work offers an analysis of Paraguayan politics and Lopez's life and erratic rule. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 252 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSP; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742537545
ISBN
9780742537545
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.47

Paperback. An unforgettable book of passion, ambition, and what it means to become a writer. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447250708
ISBN
9781447250708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.01

Hardcover. "Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures for 2014." Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813939056
ISBN
9780813939056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 494 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Regnery Publishing Inc United States
Number of pages
494
Condition
New
SKU
V9781621573715
ISBN
9781621573715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.78

Paperback. Rubin Carter is the Hurricane. A pistol shot in a bar room ruined his chances of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. But he did not fire the gun. Nineteen long years in prison, a massively high profile campaign to release him that failed, and the persistence of an unlikely supporter finally saw him free. Num Pages: 368 pages, (1 x 8pp b/w). BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGS; JFFJ; JFSL; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 113 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Harpercollins Pb
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841151304
ISBN
9781841151304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.61

Hardcover. Luftwaffe commander Wolfram von Richthofen was a master of the tactical and operational air war and one of the key catalysts in the resurrection of Germany's air force. This biography reveals how, before WWII, von Richthofen played a central role in developing and building the Luftwaffe and such aircraft as the Me 109 fighter and He 111 bomber. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, 45 photographs, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700615988
ISBN
9780700615988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.22

Hardcover. Practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations Editor(s): Jackson, James S.; Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard; Sellers, Sherrill L. Num Pages: 321 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; JFSL3; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472117505
ISBN
9780472117505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.83

Paperback. First book to deal with de Vere's life and extraordinary career, during the Wars of the Roses and beyond. Num Pages: 294 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783270057
ISBN
9781783270057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.94

Hardback. It explains the system that Battaille devised from his laryngeal dissections and laryngoscopic observations, and includes translations (from the original French) of Battaille's two books in which he details his discoveries and teaching methods: Nouvelles recherches de la phonation and De la physiologie uppliquee a l'etude du mechanisme vocal. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21 figures. BIC Classification: AVG; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810835337
ISBN
9780810835337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, 33 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803259775
ISBN
9780803259775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.39

Hardcover. The author relates his unconventional career in the Foreign Office from the end of World War II until almost the end of the Cold War. The realities and flavours of diplomatic life are interwoven with the local colour of overseas assignments. Num Pages: 192 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: BGHA; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860644450
ISBN
9781860644450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.47
€ 53.60

Paperback. Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; BGH; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 248 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141979366
ISBN
9780141979366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.87

Hardback. Keywords: "Subjects - Biography - General,Subjects - Biography - Sport - General,Subjects - Sports, Hobbies & Games - General,Subjects - Sports, Hobbies & Games - Climbing & Mountaineering - General,Subjects - S"
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Reprint Society London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0185808
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 20.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. This text tells the success story of General Daniel "Chappie" James Jr, a much-decorated fighter pilot who overcame poverty and racism to become America's first African-American four-star general. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817313074
ISBN
9780817313074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.70

hardcover. A biography of Henry Stubbe, 1632-76, classicist, polemicist, physician and philosopher. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Dimension: 228 x 152. . Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034514
ISBN
9780521248761
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

paperback. Traces the political journey of a leading worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism's rise and fall in the United States. Integrating indigenous and international factors that determined the fate of American communism, this book provides an understanding of the basis for radicalism among twentieth-century American workers. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252070518
ISBN
9780252070518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.52

Hardcover. A portrait of the artist as a young man, an examination of the influence of his hometown Series: Studies in Mediaeval & Early Modern Civilization. Num Pages: 277 pages, 8 photographs, 2 maps, 1 drawing. BIC Classification: 1DST; BG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472113019
ISBN
9780472113019
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.56

Paperback. Editor(s): Simmons, James R. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 527.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112725
ISBN
9781551112725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.45

Paperback. Irish travellers live in a closed community. What we think we know about them is based on hearsay, rumour and stereotype. But not any more. Num Pages: 304 pages, (1x8pp plate). BIC Classification: BGS; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007467037
ISBN
9780007467037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.58

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Univ College Dublin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906359157
ISBN
9781906359157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.11

Paperback. The recollections of Joseph Prost, an Austrian priest who initiated the Redemptorist Parish Missionary Campaign in Ireland in 1851, provide a chronicle of the "devotional revolution" by one of its most earnest organisers. Editor(s): Freudenberger, Herman. Series: Irish Narratives S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; BGHA; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 87.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
9781859181607
ISBN
9781859181607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSR; 1KBBSX; 3JJPG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781605989471
ISBN
9781605989471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.67