Biography
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Biography
Hardcover. Seventeen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Shackleton Bailey; James Barr; William Beasley; Lord Blake; Julian Budden; Lord Bullock; Robert Carson, Laurence Cohen; Charles Feinstein; Henry Gifford; Peter Holt; Emrys Jones; Robert Megarry; Edward Oates; Maurice Wiles; Brian Woledge; Austin Woolrych. Series: Proceedings of the British Academy. Num Pages: 420 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: DS; HB; HP; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1024.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197264348
- ISBN
- 9780197264348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.13
€ 133.13
hardcover. The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life. Series: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. Num Pages: 468 pages, 20 halftone portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BK; BM; GTN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265857
- ISBN
- 9780197265857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.19
€ 177.19
Hardcover. Brings together Manetti's famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca, which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period. Translator(s): Baldassarri, Stefano U.; Bagemihl, Rolf. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011342
- ISBN
- 9780674011342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.05
€ 50.05
Hardback. Provides more than 500 sources of information on scientists for young and adult general readers and for scholars. These sources explain scientists' accomplishments in the context of the personal and career developments that made those accomplishments possible Series: Magill Bibliographies S. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; GBCR; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810833845
- ISBN
- 9780810833845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.15
€ 115.15
Hardback. While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling life-and-lettersA" biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic structures, institutions, and organizations.. Editor(s): Berghahn, Volker R.; Lassig, Simone. Series: Studies in German History. BIC Classification: 1DF; BGH; HBAH; HBJD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455187
- ISBN
- 9781845455187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.60
€ 147.60
Hardcover. Includes index. Commissioning organisation: by John Bainbridge. 381 p. ill. 22 cm. Original cloth. A good clean copy. Library marked internally and externally. 1st ed. Keywords: Subjects
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1952
- SKU
- KEX0059279
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 101.88€ 10.00
€ 101.88
€ 10.00
Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Free...
. Ed(S): Law, Robin; Lovejoy, Paul E.
paperback. Editor(s): Law, Robin; Lovejoy, Paul E. Num Pages: 290 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Markus Wiener Publishers United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558764309
- ISBN
- 9781558764309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.61
€ 37.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Hazelden Information & Educational Services United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592853076
- ISBN
- 9781592853076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.72
€ 18.72
Paperback. For thousands of years we have recorded real lives - the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues to confound biographers today? This title answers these questions. Num Pages: 360 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 140 x 48. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674034716
- ISBN
- 9780674034716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Paperback. Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This Very Short Introduction examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how they are compared with history and fiction. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 b&w halftone. BIC Classification: BG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199533541
- ISBN
- 9780199533541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.49
€ 13.99
€ 11.49
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; BGTA; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631745
- ISBN
- 9780691631745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 238.54
€ 238.54
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGTA; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 265 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691602202
- ISBN
- 9780691602202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 104.04
€ 104.04
paperback. The author spent the best part of the 1940s and 1950s incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in the Irish Midlands. 'Mentally well, but unclaimed' - this sums up her horrendous situation. In those days, there was no way out for an unclaimed patient. This title intends to recount the terrible suffering she endured there. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180 138pp. This new edition of Hanna Greally's now classic memoir has an important new foreword by Dr Eiis Ward
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cork University Press Cork
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781855942103
- ISBN
- 9781855942103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.08
€ 16.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 colour plates, 37 colour illustrations, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BGH; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752494449
- ISBN
- 9780752494449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.33
€ 21.99
€ 17.33
Paperback. Derek Niemann draws on original diaries, letters and drawings, to show how Conder, Barrett, Waterston and Buxton were forged by their wartime experience into the giants of postwar wildlife conservation. Their legacy lives on. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: BTP; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780721361
- ISBN
- 9781780721361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVGS; BM; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241981658
- ISBN
- 9780241981658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
€ 14.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves? This title presents a meditation on the variety of human responses to birds. Num Pages: 384 pages, 8 color illus. 32 halftones. 25 line illus. BIC Classification: BM; JHBS; JHMC; PSVW6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154282
- ISBN
- 9780691154282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.10
€ 26.99
€ 24.10
Paperback. Alex Horne is not a birdwatcher. But his dad is, so with the prospect of fatherhood looming on his own horizon, Alex decided there was no better time to really get to know both his father and his father's favourite hobby. So he challenged his dad to a Big Year: from 1 January to 31 December they would each try to spot as many birds as possible. Num Pages: 384 pages, Integrated line drawings. BIC Classification: BM; WH; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ebury Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753515761
- ISBN
- 9780753515761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.79
€ 21.99
€ 15.79
Hardback. Num Pages: 372 pages, 29, 27 black & white halftones, 1 maps, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 187 x 29. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801448881
- ISBN
- 9780801448881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.63
€ 55.63
Paperback. Features letters that are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom the author was married. This book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 214 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571194735
- ISBN
- 9780571194735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.81
€ 17.99
€ 12.81
Paperback. "Ekirch out-kidnaps Stevenson in this thrilling, thoroughly documented story." -Booklist, starred review Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 black-and-white illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: BTC; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393340013
- ISBN
- 9780393340013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.22
€ 23.22
Hardback. English author and philosopher, Bishop Thomas Burgess' career was concerned with advocating for the emancipation of slaves and evangelistic work among the poor. This book uses his life as a starting point to uncover the links between the academic, religious and social cultures of Britain, Europe and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3JF; 3JH; BGX; HBTB; HRCC91. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 33. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780708320754
- ISBN
- 9780708320754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 28.99
€ 28.99
Paperback. Provides up-to-date assessment of one of the key figures in modern European history. Includes new chapters on Bismarck and militarism, and on Bismarck as chancellor. Substantially expanded throughout to take account of recent historiography. Series: Historical Association Studies. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631203278
- ISBN
- 9780631203278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.58
€ 55.58
Paperback. A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. Num Pages: 600 pages, 16pp black & white plates, 3 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 231 x 45. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 600
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199642427
- ISBN
- 9780199642427
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32