Biography
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Biography
Paperback. A collection of memoirs of eleven historians who, born around the time of World War II, helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. Editor(s): Banner, James M., Jr.; Gillis, John R. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HBAH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226036588
- ISBN
- 9780226036588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.38
€ 46.38
Hardback. An intimate, inside look at the life of Sarah Palin as told by those who know her best. Num Pages: 272 pages, 32 pags of colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455516285
- ISBN
- 9781455516285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.78
€ 26.99
€ 18.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Part-Opener Photos throughout. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 204 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780307717733
- ISBN
- 9780307717733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.98
€ 16.99
€ 14.98
Editor(s): Gates, W E B Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Director of the W E B Du Bois Institute for Afro American Research Henry Louis, Jr., Jr. (W E B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University); Gates, Jr Henry, Louis. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 173 x 41. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Signet
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780451532138
- ISBN
- 9780451532138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.74
€ 10.74
Paperback. Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, this work tells the story of one of the most mythical and misunderstood criminal organisation. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Virgin Books London
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753518205
- ISBN
- 9780753518205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.71
€ 26.99
€ 19.71
Paperback. Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, this book displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. It is written for the general public curious about China and for the student beginning to study its rich cultural heritage. Num Pages: 440 pages, 12 line illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 233 x 27. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155876
- ISBN
- 9780691155876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), ports. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Winterhouse Editions United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781884381263
- ISBN
- 9781884381263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.15
€ 40.99
€ 36.15
Hardback. In this wry and insightful memoir, distinguished American diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. describes his upbringing and wartime adventures in Asia, encounters with key twentieth-century figures from Mahatma Gandhi to Joseph Stalin, and how he carried on after his Foreign Service career was cut short by McCarthyism. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244014
- ISBN
- 9780812244014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.31
€ 60.31
Hardback. Chronicles one of the twentieth century's most dynamic personalities and one of the nation's greatest social struggles. This title conveys Martin Luther King, Jr's call for racial justice and his faith in the power of nonviolence to engender a major transformation of American society. Editor(s): Carson, Clayborne; Carson, Susan; Clay, Adrienne; Shadron, Virginia; Taylor, Kieran. Series: Martin Luther King Papers. Num Pages: 670 pages, 31 b/w photographs, 15 facsimiles. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL1; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 670
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520222311
- ISBN
- 9780520222311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.20
€ 100.20
Hardback. Few books explore in such a comprehensive fashion the political, economic, ideological, diplomatic, and technological dimensions of this defining moment in world history. Num Pages: 448 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; BGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897696
- ISBN
- 9780801897696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.75
€ 53.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 796 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 45. Weight in Grams: 865.
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812975703
- ISBN
- 9780812975703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.75
€ 25.99
€ 23.75
Hardback. Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-years-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. This narrative reveals that Wilde was underselling himself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066960
- ISBN
- 9780674066960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.34
€ 38.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726. Clean copy in dustwrapper. DW has some edge wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- SKU
- KRA0009984
- ISBN
- 9780674719583
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846689567
- ISBN
- 9781846689567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.41
€ 14.99
€ 11.41
Paperback. This sombre biography of an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's slave society, is presented in both Spanish and English. There is an introduction which sets the text in its historical and cultural context. Translator(s): Garfield, Evelyn Picon. Series: Latin American Literature & Culture S. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, 1 facsim. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; BGA; DSBD; HBTS; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual Ed
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814325384
- ISBN
- 9780814325384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.49
€ 36.49
Paperback. Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar. In this book, his son brings us the dramatic truth. It is about a man of contradictions - generosity and infinite love for his family; yet capable of the most extreme acts of cruelty and violence. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BTC; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785035142
- ISBN
- 9781785035142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.87
€ 18.99
€ 13.87
Paperback. A collection of autobiographical stories, which takes the reader on the author's journey of heartbreak, depravity and hilarity, deftly moving between his adult life and childhood growing up in a factory town outside of Detroit. It also captures the hardscrabble culture, language, and landscape of post-industrial Detroit. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: APW; AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785032202
- ISBN
- 9781785032202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.59
€ 13.99
€ 10.59
Hardcover. Num Pages: 392 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: BM; WDMG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 182 x 21. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Publisher
- Quality Chess
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907982514
- ISBN
- 9781907982514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.58
€ 26.99
€ 18.58
Paperback. This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five years after being found guilty of a lesbian relationship with another nun. Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Dimension: 203 x 134. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195042252
- ISBN
- 9780195042252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.99
€ 22.99
Hardcover. The untold tale of Mathilde Wesendonck, the muse of many of Richard Wagner s greatest works Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Amadeus Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574674910
- ISBN
- 9781574674910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.24
€ 46.24