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In 1911 Alice Day Pratt, single and nearing forty, boarded a train and left the east coast to file claim on 160 acres of land in the Central Oregon high desert. She was one among tens of thousands of people who took up homesteads in the arid West in the...

Richard L. Neuberger is a consequential but often forgotten figure in Oregon history, largely due to his early death at forty-seven, near the end of his only term in the United States Senate. But his life and legacy continue to inspire Oregonians and...

W. E. B. Du Bois: Pioneer American Sociologist highlights the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois on the field of sociology.Robert A. Wortham shines a light on Du Bois's role in shaping the scientific scope of the sociological perspective through his...

My Life in the Law is a rich, personal reflection on Robert J. Sharpe's long, varied, and influential career as a lawyer, scholar, and judge. After giving an account of his early life and education, Sharpe examines his time as a law student in the late...

As if recovering from a raucous dream of the 1960s, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek arrived on 1970s American radio with a sound that echoed disenchanted hearts of young people everywhere. The three American boys had named their band after a...

Jim McConnell was one of the first Americans to serve with the French during WWI, first as an ambulance driver and then as a pilot. On the University of Virginia campus, one can find a winged, 12-foot-tall bronze statue titled The Aviator...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962603270Author Yue-Sai KanFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo PublicationsDimensions(mm) 215mm * 152mm * 33mm

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the U.S., looms large over the history of the nation and the world. Serving in office for an unprecedented 12 years, he, along with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, guided the nation through two of the 20th...

Offloading - Tackling My Truth is the powerful and deeply personal memoir of former Wales and Lions rugby international Dafydd James, who poignantly and courageously reveals the human cost of achieving success in an elite sport that demanded everything...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781965766309Author John A. AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Stoney Creek Publishing GroupPublisher Stoney Creek Publishing Group

The first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist into sharp focus Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. She is known for a body of...

The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), philosophy is a "battle...

An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her uncomfortable. Maybe she would rather not know. Instead,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953691996Author Simmons, SonnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Blank Forms EditionsPublisher Blank Forms Editions

As a young boy Michele was destined for the priesthood, but he later became a celebrated drag queen and stripper. With no formal training Michele also became a hairstylist to the Who's Who of Johannesburg. The late Jane Engelhard sent Michele to work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896360148Author Barbara CaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896360162Author Janet KintnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614299646Author Sandra FernandezFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586424169Author Bruce GoldfarbFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

The third of three volumes, this book offers to English readers, for the first time, the memoirs of Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii, which rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature. Radozhitskii, a distinguished Russian artillery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441344Author Sheena KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Meet the Spanish player who scored the game-winning goal in the 2023 World Cup: Olga Carmona. Her skill with the ball makes her shine bright in every game, and her defensive work has saved club and country from countless attacks over the years. Olga's...

The Line of the Ball reveals the extraordinary life journey of Dr. Beh Chun Chuan, who transformed a single medical laboratory into one of Malaysia's largest healthcare groups while becoming an accomplished international polo player.Dr. Beh's story...

A freewheeling and riveting memoir from media honcho Tom Freston that takes us behind the scenes of his global adventures-from hitchhiking around the world, to running a clothing export company out of India and Afghanistan, to cofounding MTV, to becoming...

The coming-of-age memoir of a homebirth midwife in the desert Southwest. Within these birth stories is a larger story of Wrankle leaving her childhood religion and raising her three children in the culturally harsh and unforgiving landscape of southern...

The literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in an annotated English translation. Born in Jaffa in 1870, Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche grew up within a notable Sephardi family in the local Jewish community. He went on to...

Elizabeth Lowe charts her journey to becoming a translator through a series of vignettes relating her life as a " third-culture kid" and living and working abroad in a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages. She lived in Germany as a young child...

Back in print: the playful and personal memoir of Meredith Willson's creative tribulations and triumphs before The Music Man Composer, musical director, writer, lecturer, and piccoloist Meredith Willson laid many eggs throughout his career-but not all...

The extraordinary story of costume designer Phyllis Dalton (1925-2025), filled with insights, recollections, and revelations from a life spent on the great film locations of the twentieth century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967751105Author Soren Ulrik ThomsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Reviled by his contemporaries and historians alike, 'the monstrous Titus Oates' masterminded the fabricated Popish Plot of 1678-1681, a conspiracy that led to the wrongful execution of 27 Catholics. His story is one of staggering ambition, lies, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896360087Author Stephanie L. MaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

No other player is quite like Lauren James. As a unique force to be reckoned with on the pitch, she is a star for both Chelsea and England. Known for being cool, calm and collected, she always finds a way to score! Her strength and skill played a very...

Lena Oberdorf is one of Germany's true talents. She astounds fans at Bayern Munich with her confidence and skill, often besting every opponent she comes up against. Nobody gets past Lena! Her quick and clever style of play make her the perfect...

"It was the summer of 1977, and I was at the Texas Capitol researching voting patterns for the political campaign I was working for," writes author Norma Schreiner as she describes her meeting with rancher Charles Schreiner III. "I decided to drop by the...

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher focuses on the life and efforts of Keir Hardie, one of the founders of the UK Labour Party and one of the foremost figureheads of trade unionism. Drawing upon the work of two contemporary and significant American...

Derek Jarman's place in the history of film is assured by virtue of his vibrant, defiant films that experiment with the very process of film-making and create new forms. His paintings, their excitements and their profundity, are less well known. Michael...

Wes Anderson is a true icon of contemporary cinema. His films are consistent cult favourites, starring a cast of top actors and have made indie films popular again. With his inimitable and idiosyncratic style, Anderson's cinematic universe includes The...

This is a fascinating insight into a macho, male-dominated world where reality is so grotesquely distorted from the public perception. Read it, believe it, because sometimes the truth is far more incredible than fiction.TERRY BUTCHER, Captain of England...

Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature"It is difficult to overstate Taha Hussein's contribution to the...