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Biography
Paperback. Very seldom does one come across so inspiring a volume. . . . It belongs in every Irish-American library. . . . Anyone with an interest in the Civil War and/or the history of the Irish in America should own a copy of this very fine work. -Irish Edition Editor(s): Kohl, Lawrence Frederick; Richard, M.C. Series: Irish in the Civil War. Num Pages: 170 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823211647
- ISBN
- 9780823211647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.82
€ 56.82
Hardback. Rebound in modern cloth. Keywords: Biography - Memories - Memoir - Irish Culture & Education
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- M. H. Gill and Son, Ltd. Dublin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0190679
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. In this frank memoir, John Bayley describes the life he has shared with his wife, Iris Murdoch, afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. He explains how he has coped emotionally and practically with the illness that has beset the woman he loves and cherishes. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 162. Weight in Grams: 519. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has some minor wear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KDK0016825
- ISBN
- 9780715628485
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.38
€ 5.38
Paperback. In this biography of Iris Origo, Caroline Moorehead has drawn on unpublished letters, diaries and manuscripts to provide a vivid picture of the life of one of the most intriguing and attractive women of the 20th century. Num Pages: 474 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749016562
- ISBN
- 9780749016562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Hardcover. Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes during the Second World War. Num Pages: 303 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJH; BJ; DSK; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First Edition - Later Print Run
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906021221
- ISBN
- 9781906021221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.07
€ 21.99
€ 16.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BG; MJNA; VFJB; WNGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405925020
- ISBN
- 9781405925020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.85
€ 11.99
€ 9.85
paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1900
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0006164
- ISBN
- 9780349113104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the life story of one of ballet's most glamorous stars, Irina Baronova (1919-2008), prima ballerina for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and later for Ballet Theatre in New York. Num Pages: 256 pages, 335 colour plates. BIC Classification: ASDL; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 282 x 240 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226167169
- ISBN
- 9780226167169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.94
€ 72.94
Hardback. Although Irene Nemirovsky was Jewish, she frequented authors and politicians on the extreme right. This biography analyzes the discrepancy between Nemirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a different way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of persecuted people. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804754811
- ISBN
- 9780804754811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.60
€ 32.99
€ 27.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 35 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; BTM; HBWN; JWTY; WS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 225 x 26. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Merrion Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785370182
- ISBN
- 9781785370182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.22
€ 19.99
€ 17.22
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900621687
- ISBN
- 9781900621687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.09
€ 21.99
€ 20.09
paperback. Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian human rights lawyer and activist. She is known for defending dissident figures, and for the establishment of a number of non-profit grassroots organisations dedicated to human rights. In 2003, she became the first Muslim woman, and the first Iranian, to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Here, she tells her story. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; BG; JFSR2; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Rider
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846040146
- ISBN
- 9781846040146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.75
€ 21.99
€ 15.75
Hardcover. This final volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography records the remarkable achievements and experiences of Ira Aldridge in the last years of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 364 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JH; ANB; BGF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 35. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580465380
- ISBN
- 9781580465380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.97
€ 65.97
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580463812
- ISBN
- 9781580463812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
paperback. Deals with a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mozoltuv Barukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year old child. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BTC; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 195 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300181708
- ISBN
- 9780300181708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.48
€ 18.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780892541577
- ISBN
- 9780892541577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.82
€ 22.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 218 x 26. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Nation Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568585284
- ISBN
- 9781568585284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.60
€ 26.99
€ 18.60
Paperback. Edited by Mark C. Carnes and published with the American Council of Learned Societies, "Invisible Giants" presents the architects of the USA's past through the eyes of the architects of its future. Editor(s): Carnes, Mark C. Num Pages: 336 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 356. Good copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KEX0241291
- ISBN
- 9780195168839
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Num Pages: 254 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589880221
- ISBN
- 9781589880221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 23.26
€ 34.99
€ 23.26
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Pacific Press U.S.A.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0182599
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 20.99€ 15.00
€ 20.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. A book about art, literature, science -- and meteorology Num Pages: 304 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: BGH; PDX; PDZ; WNWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Edition
- Reprints
- Publisher
- Picador
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330391955
- ISBN
- 9780330391955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.50
€ 14.99
€ 11.50
paperback. On October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot it out with a gang of cattle rustlers near the O K Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It was over in half a minute, but those thirty violent seconds turned the thirty-three-year-old Wyatt Earp into the stuff of legend. This biography tells Wyatt Earp's story. Num Pages: 39 images. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803220584
- ISBN
- 9780803220584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.20
€ 29.20
hardcover. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 340 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 663.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802050014
- ISBN
- 9780802050014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.23
€ 105.23
Hardback. This groundbreaking biography of Loreta Janeta Velasquez delves into the life of one of America's early celebrities. She claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy, but this book reveals a startling reality that's even more implausible than the myths she created. Num Pages: 277 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBWJ; JFSJ1; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809335220
- ISBN
- 9780809335220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.65
€ 40.99
€ 34.65