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Biography
A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi a...
Chih-P'ing Chou Susan Chan Egan
Paperback. Hu Shi's life touched virtually every important aspect of society in 20th century China. This title explores the lesser-known side of this supporter of John Dewey's philosophy and reconstructs his romance with Edith Clifford Williams, an American avant-garde painter, by delving into the correspondences the two exchanged over almost half a century. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BG; HPDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629963415
- ISBN
- 9789629963415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.34
€ 42.34
Hardback. Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive biography of Friendly, Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases, and how Friendly lived his life. Num Pages: 512 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 38. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674064393
- ISBN
- 9780674064393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.09
€ 38.99
€ 33.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Folklore Publishing Canada
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894864398
- ISBN
- 9781894864398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.18
€ 10.99
€ 9.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BM; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Exile Editions Canada
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550962604
- ISBN
- 9781550962604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.92
€ 24.99
€ 21.92
Paperback. When Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of selected letters twenty-five years ago as a companion volume to "Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es'kia Mphahlele", the idea of Mphahlele's death was remote and poetic. That death has now come and we mourn it. This volume offers an account of Mphahlele's rich and varied life. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wits University Press South Africa
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868144891
- ISBN
- 9781868144891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.68
€ 47.68
Paperback. From his memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume Abraham Lincoln was a national hero rather than a controversial president. Drawing on an array of material, this is a study of the role Lincoln's reputation and memory has played in American life. Num Pages: 382 pages, 48 halftones, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- University of Chicago Press, 2000
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226741987
- ISBN
- 9780226741987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.15
€ 33.99
€ 27.15
hardcover. Editor(s): Kuhn, Tom; Leeder, Karen. Translator(s): Kuhn, Tom; Leeder, Karen. Num Pages: 220 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Libris Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870352734
- ISBN
- 9781870352734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.64
€ 32.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 100 b/w images. BIC Classification: AVGL; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 10. Weight in Grams: 354. My Life in Country Music. 144 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGL; BM. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 10. Weight: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764342790
- ISBN
- 9780764342790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.33
€ 24.99
€ 19.33
Paperback. A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime - the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BTC; JFFE; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781472152145
- ISBN
- 9781472152145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.23
€ 6.23
Hardback. Robert W. Duemling offers "sketches" of notable figures whom he has befriended over the course of his thirty-year career in the U.S. State Department and service as director of the National Building Museum, luminaries in the arts, architecture, politics, and diplomacy. Num Pages: 128 pages, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442220133
- ISBN
- 9781442220133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.64
€ 38.64
Paperback. In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball. Here, Conroy takes the reader through his last year playing basketball, as point guard and captain of The Citadel Bulldogs, flashing back constantly to the drama of his coming of age, presenting the conflict and love that have been at the core of his novels. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 200 x 32. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099468325
- ISBN
- 9780099468325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.02
€ 21.99
€ 17.02
Paperback. This book contains 14 biographies written by people of all ages who have a learning disability. The authors discuss how these stories might be representative of other people with learning disabilities and what key themes may be identified from the stories. The pictorial form is accessible to people with learning disabilities. Num Pages: 144 pages, index. BIC Classification: BG; JFFG; JNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853026904
- ISBN
- 9781853026904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.05
€ 37.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583941478
- ISBN
- 9781583941478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.97
€ 17.99
€ 16.97
Paperback. The definitive account of Richard Nixon's congressional career, back in print with a new preface Num Pages: 624 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGH; JPHC; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300220209
- ISBN
- 9780300220209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 6.23
€ 29.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- None ed.
- SKU
- V9780813540726
- ISBN
- 9780813540726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 43.23
€ 48.99
€ 43.23
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Blackwater Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004085
- ISBN
- 9780861211241
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. In neo-Confucian thought, the ideal of the sage king was that of an ordinary man whose extraordinary virtue made him supreme. This work offers an introduction to traditional Korean culture through the story of the 18th-century monarch, Yongjo. Series: Studies in Asian Cultures. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJF; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231066570
- ISBN
- 9780231066570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.52
€ 49.52
Paperback. Provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930s and 1940s on a sharecropper's farm Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 genealogy. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JJG; BM; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803235366
- ISBN
- 9780803235366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.59
€ 24.99
€ 23.59
Hardback. Num Pages: 332 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810869264
- ISBN
- 9780810869264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.76
€ 130.76
Hardback. Samuel Taylor Darling (1872-1925), one of the world's leading experts in tropical diseases in the early twentieth century, investigated malaria, hookworm, amebiasis and other tropical diseases in Panama, the Far East, South Africa, Brazil and the southern United States. He is also credited with discovering histoplasmosis. This is his biography. Num Pages: 260 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGT; MMRT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191832
- ISBN
- 9781845191832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEN; BG; WSXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 205 x 17. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780811703536
- ISBN
- 9780811703536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.66€ 53.61
€ 65.66
€ 53.61
Paperback. From TV shows about building choppers and the motorcycle gang lifestyle to the phenomenal success of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company, no one can deny America has become fascinated with bikers. This firsthand look into the world of the Harley enthusiast takes you into the sinister and often misunderstood reality of the true one-percenters. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718030353
- ISBN
- 9780718030353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.78
€ 16.99
€ 16.78
Hardback. Opens in spring 1914 when Einstein takes up a research professorship at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and closes with the collapse of the German Empire four and one-half years later. The letters collected here touch on various aspects of Einstein's activities and shed light on his inner life. Editor(s): Schulmann, Robert; Kox, A. J.; Janssen, Michel; Illy, Jozsef. Translator(s): Hentschel, Ann M. Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Num Pages: 1232 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BGA; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 78. Weight in Grams: 2828.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691048499
- ISBN
- 9780691048499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 229.41€ 179.13
€ 229.41
€ 179.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; KNT; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing Australia
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781922235350
- ISBN
- 9781922235350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 25.52
€ 35.99
€ 25.52