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'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Review Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth...

In 1930 pioneering female gallerist Lucy Wertheim opened The Wertheim Gallery in London. Wertheim challenged the established art scene conventions; she was a woman without formal art training, driven by intuition and a belief that young British artists...

In the first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. This sweeping and informative volume...

Born in London in 1890, Angela Thirkell was Sir Edward Burne-Jones's granddaughter, J.M. Barrie's goddaughter and a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. John Collier painted her portrait and she was drawn by John Singer Sargent and Thea Proctor...

'The tide spreads a mantle of silk Around the Great Blasket Island' So wrote Micheal O'Guiheen of his beloved island home. But by 1953 the authorities had evacuated the Great Blasket and its traditions were vanishing. Micheal O'Guiheen, 'the...

Allison DuBois first realised her abilities at six years old when she saw her great-grandfather - after his funeral. For many years she learned to downplay her talents but while working for the county attorney when at law school, her gift took a distinct...

Allison DuBois first realised her abilities at six years old when she saw her great-grandfather - after his funeral. For many years she learned to downplay her talents but while working for the county attorney when at law school, her gift took a distinct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800494459Author Jim ReesFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Independent Publishing NetworkPublisher Independent Publishing Network

Tom had always drunk. Initially it was to escape the drudge of school and the distress of his rapidly disintegrating family, but as his career in journalism took off, so his alcohol consumption turned into a full-blown obsession. Having first run amok in...

With a unique combination of dazzling intellect and touching simplicity, Feynman had a passion for physics that was merely the Nobel Prize-winning part of an immense love of life and everything it could offer. He was hugely irreverent and always...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171370Author Nina BerberovaFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244522438Author Doris CortiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528933445Author Doctor Jeff SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060539924Author Christopher John FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amistad PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077533Author Richard Lyman BushmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838234225Author Richard JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Edgar's GuidesPublisher Edgar's Guides

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375753978Author Ann WroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This informative book guides young readers through the early life, presidency, and legacy of George Washington. The book also includes an "Issue Spotlight" special feature, several "Did You Know" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary,...

Drawing heavily on Calvin's letters, commentaries, the Institutes, and other lesser-known writings, Horton explores the riches of Calvin's piety and its significance for contemporary Christian living."Be warned. This looks like a book on how Calvin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294987Author John ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562436Author Ha JinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

The historian R. H. Tawney famously wrote, 'The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp.' The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps of the seas - pirates. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It was a harsh life for those who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424694Author Graeme WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424694Author Graeme WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979616303Author Andy McCoyFormat HardbackPage Count 189Imprint Bazillion PointsPublisher Bazillion PointsWeight(grams) 426g

Beginning in 1966 as something a little out of the ordinary for prime-time TV, and suffering from shaky ratings throughout its entire run, "Star Trek" went on to spend the better part of the next three decades exploding into a worldwide, billion-dollar...

"Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."--Richard P. Feynman Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-88)...

In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022139Author Teodros KirosFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 189g

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Each volume is introduced by Fearghal McGarry who sets the scene of this important period in...

Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs. After failing her biology O-level she realised she'd have to start at the bottom, cleaning out kennels at Battersea Dogs Home. From frail old men looking for a four-legged companion to famous folk who've...

A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers 'The Tiger's Child' and 'One Child'. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could...

A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers 'The Tiger's Child' and 'One Child'. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could...

Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) was a choreographic giant in the modern dance world and a champion of African-American talent and culture. His interracial Alvin Ailey American Dance theatre provided opportunities to black dancers and choreographers when no one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898707748Author Gereon GoldmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 133mm...

Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew...

Rediscovered after 80 years gathering dust on a family bookshelf and first brought to public attention on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, A VERY UNIMPORTANT OFFICER is a detailed and intimate account of the experience of Captain Stewart, an ordinary...

Rediscovered after 80 years gathering dust on a family bookshelf and first brought to public attention on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, A VERY UNIMPORTANT OFFICER is a detailed and intimate account of the experience of Captain Stewart, an ordinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882705415Author E.G. CarreFormat PaperbackImprint Bridge Publishing Inc.,U.S.Publisher Bridge Publishing Inc.,U.S.

'Jack Kerouac died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven . . . Most of his friends survived him. Our idea was to seek them out and talk with them about Jack's life and their own lives. The final result, we hoped, would be a big, transcontinental...