Biography
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Biography
paperback. * Fascinating and perceptive new biography of one of the most brilliant writers of his age: novelist, essayist and born-again mystic Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), author of BRAVE NEW WORLD and EYELESS IN GAZA Num Pages: 512 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 366. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038689
- ISBN
- 9780349113487
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Signed and inscribed by the author. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Matador
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038764
- ISBN
- 9781848764958
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1HF; 3JF; BTP; HBJH; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038821
- ISBN
- 9780571210725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. They are one of the world's legendary couples. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre - those passionate, free-thinking Existentialist philosopher-writers - had a committed but notoriously open union that generated no end of controversy. Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Hazel Rowley portrays them up close. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038832
- ISBN
- 9780099455547
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
hardcover. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038849
- ISBN
- 9780370003856
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Good clean copy showing a little age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039122
- ISBN
- 9780140212105
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
hardcover. A deeply moving meditation on dying, and a joyful and wise tribute to life Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJB; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 251 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039175
- ISBN
- 9781782119760
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Presents the biography of Napoleon who lived one of the extraordinary of all human lives. This book shows how after seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. Num Pages: 976 pages, 32pp. colour. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 201 x 51. Weight in Grams: 710. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear to covers, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039191
- ISBN
- 9780141032016
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Presents stories which are based on the author's own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. This title describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; and, where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup. Translator(s): Kandel, Michael; Vedder, Barbara. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039249
- ISBN
- 9780140186246
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039272
- ISBN
- 9780330351690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust and was the subject of the documentary "Till The Tenth Generation", gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVKS; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 412. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039274
- ISBN
- 9781847172273
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.47
€ 5.47
paperback. Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; MN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039287
- ISBN
- 9781846681325
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has minor wear to edges but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOC0021854
- ISBN
- 9780316861014
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A vivid and moving memoir of a young nurse who left behind an idyllic rural life in post-war Britain to work in the world's most hostile places. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8xpp colour. BIC Classification: BGA; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302. A vivid and moving memoir of a young nurse who left behind an idyllic rural life in post-war Britain to work in the world's most hostile places. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8xpp colour. BIC Classification: BGA; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302. Good, clean copy. Covers showing minor shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0005965
- ISBN
- 9781847397898
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.59
€ 4.59
Paperback. 40pp. Keywords: Biography
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KHS1006811
- ISBN
- 9780522841558
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a larger than life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 pp plate section. BIC Classification: BM; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear to the cover
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KIN0034943
- ISBN
- 9780340922101
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Used hardback, with dustjacket, in very good condition. Some light shelf wear. CULLEN
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The Mercier Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF0043471
- ISBN
- 9781856353816
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness (Mark H Ingraham P...
University Of Wisconsin Press
paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; RGR; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299097240
- ISBN
- 9780299097240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.75
€ 25.99
€ 23.75
Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet (Wisconsin St...
University Of Wisconsin Press
paperback. A portrait of Frank Marshall Davis, prominent poet, journalist, jazz critic and civil rights activist on the Chicago and Atlanta scene in the 1920s through the 1940s. Davis was an intimate of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright and an influential editor at a number of American newspapers. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299135041
- ISBN
- 9780299135041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.21
€ 30.99
€ 27.21
paperback. Jurgen Herbst's account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 1928 to 1948 is an understated tale of moral awakening. He illustrates how easy it was for a German boy without strong convictions to climb into a position of leadership in the Nazi Jungvolk. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299164140
- ISBN
- 9780299164140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.73
€ 19.99
€ 18.73
Paperback. Blending poetry, prose and autobiographical details, "Development" and "Two Selves" together constitute a compelling bildungsroman that follows a young woman's process of coming out. Through the fictionalized character Nancy, the novels trace Bryher's life through her childhood and young adulthood. Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 5SL; BG; DCF; DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299167745
- ISBN
- 9780299167745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.14
€ 28.14
paperback. The simple idea - a day set aside to focus on protecting our natural environment - was the brainchild of US Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. This book presents the life of Nelson, a small-town boy who learned his values and progressive political principles at an early age, is woven through the political history of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 704 pages, 29 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BG; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Edition
- Large Print
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299196462
- ISBN
- 9780299196462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.27
€ 28.27
Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online (Wisconsin Studies...
. Ed(S): Poletti, Anna; Rak, Julie
paperback. Editor(s): Poletti, Anna; Rak, Julie. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; GTC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299296445
- ISBN
- 9780299296445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.41
€ 45.41
Paperback. Examines the life of the androgynous nineteenth-century American actress and her work on the Anglo-American stage Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472087495
- ISBN
- 9780472087495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.95
€ 49.95