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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781433315985Author Stephanie MaccecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Teacher Created Materials, IncPublisher Teacher Created Materials, Inc

The most radical and divisive composer of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg remains a hero to many, and a villain to many others. In this refreshingly balanced biography, Mark Berry tells the story of Schoenberg's remarkable life and work,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114932Author Sudhir VenkateshFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398483729Author Russell WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This unique biography reveals how C. S. Lewis's adolescent years shaped his later writing-tracing themes such as his delight in literature, his key relationships, his suffering and struggles, and his intense pursuit of joy. Volume 1 of a new trilogy...

Why France and Britain are so different, and why they do things in opposite ways.A brilliant and vigorous observer of both French and British societies, which she knows intimately, 32-year-old Agnes Catherine Poirier has spent the last ten years...

The poet and musician Anthony Joseph met and spoke to Lord Kitchener just once, in 1984, when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in the heat of Port of Spain's Queen's Park Savannah, one Carnival Monday afternoon. It was a pivotal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882641508Author Voice of the MartyrFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Voice of the Martyrs BooksPublisher Voice of the Martyrs BooksWeight(grams)...

'Hope I die before I get old', sang Roger Daltrey over forty years ago, but it didn't quite work out like that.The wild and passionate lead singer for supergroup The Who is still very much alive. The premature deaths of fellow group members Keith Moon...

Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman's life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a...

James Sowerby (1757-1822) was an outstanding artist and natural historian, renowned for his discoveries and prodigious output of beautiful, scientific books of plants, fungi, animals, fossils and minerals, all at a key historical time; the age of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528989039Author Alan Dudley AlpassFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398424487Author Natalie BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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FORWEWORD by David Cameron Fleeing Idi Amin's regime, seventeen year-old Ugandan Indian immigrant Dolar Popat landed at Heathrow in 1971 with just GBP10 and a cardboard suitcase to his name - but with everything to prove. Fuelled by a tenacious...

FORWEWORD by David Cameron Fleeing Idi Amin's regime, seventeen year-old Ugandan Indian immigrant Dolar Popat landed at Heathrow in 1971 with just GBP10 and a cardboard suitcase to his name - but with everything to prove. Fuelled by a tenacious...

The story of the Dundee mill girl who, inspired by David Livingstone, became a missionary herself in Calabar, a part of Africa known as 'the White Man's Grave'. There she adopted many children who would otherwise have been left to die; when her mediating...

The Sunday Times BestsellerTHIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFEBut it might just help you change it yourselfOnly you can take the steps you need to help yourself become the strong, independent, fearless person you dream of being. It took me a long time - and...

The Sunday Times BestsellerTHIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFEBut it might just help you change it yourselfOnly you can take the steps you need to help yourself become the strong, independent, fearless person you dream of being. It took me a long time - and...

The definitive account, in his own words, of one of the most popular figures in British theatre. The second and concluding volume of Noel Coward's legendary autobiography includes Future Indefinite and the unfinished Past Unconditional. With his...

A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis...

A hugely entertaining contemporaneous account of the Napoleonic Wars by a young officer who was eventually promoted to General on the eve of Waterloo. Abridged from the two-volume original of The Adventures of Baron de Marbot, the Exploits are edited to...

The Man who Lost His Language is a unique exploration of aphasia - losing the ability to use or comprehend words - as well as of the resilience of love.When Sir John Hale suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk, write or speak, his wife, Shelia,...

From Art Blakey to Ziggy Modeliste, Cindy Blackman Santana to Sheila E, Drum Legends Alphabet rolls together an A to Z of the greatest, most influential drummers to ever sit behind a kit. Bombastically illustrated and written with flair, this celebration...

James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the...

Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - such as the 'Invisible Hand' of the market - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself...

An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the great masters-an extraordinary book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established...

"For a long time, it was not clear if I would become a writer or an artist," says Anselm Kiefer, whose paintings and sculptures have made him one of the most significant and influential artists of our time. Since he was awarded the Peace Prize by the...

Eddie Mair is, by his own account, one of Britain's most beloved broadcasters.Born in Dundee, Scotland, he has worked in radio all his adult life. From the foothills of commercial radio in his hometown, through the sunlit uplands of the BBC in Scotland,...

Eddie Mair is, by his own account, one of Britain's most beloved broadcasters.Born in Dundee, Scotland, he has worked in radio all his adult life. From the foothills of commercial radio in his hometown, through the sunlit uplands of the BBC in Scotland,...

This is an insightful and enlightening look at the life and works of the internationally renowned English garden designer. Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. Although she embraced gardening late in life, she quickly achieved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398420502Author Margaret MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Ever been talked into buying a camel? Or become a burglar by mistake? Or accidentally drugged a friend on a blind date? Keggie Carew has an unerring instinct for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of putting her foot in it, and making a hash...

A moving memoir following the author's own experience of psychosis What if psychosis is really a wake up call? Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs... until she decides to give them up... and that's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905914104Author Monty DartFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint William P.CrossPublisher William P.Cross

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955389429Author Paul MathieuFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Write First Time LimitedPublisher Write First Time Limited

Tracing his transformation from a young atheist studying at Oxford to an avowed Christian apologist defending the faith, Harry Lee Poe brings to life one of the most prolific Christian voices of the 20th century. Volume 2 in a biographical trilogy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491465561Author Rebecca Langston-GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374518448Author Christa WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc