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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903529126Author Terry BrevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Glyndwr PublishingPublisher Glyndwr Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903529126Author Terry BrevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Glyndwr PublishingPublisher Glyndwr Publishing

This authoritative biography of John Ruskin, the most influential nineteenth-century critic of art and society, is the fruit of almost twenty years of research and the first to return to the original sources. It draws on the complete text of Ruskin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385520508Author Liam ClancyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451626001Author Patricia NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 611gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'For more than twenty years, Katharine Hepburn imparted many of the details of her life to me suggesting that I weave them into a book - one that would appear upon her death. Sad to say, the time has come to publish that book. But I find comfort in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645022247Author Aloysius AseervathamFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Aloysius AseervathamPublisher Aloysius AseervathamWeight(grams) 148g

George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Arizona Young Reader's Award 2022 and Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award 2022 and Rhode Island Children's Book Award 2022.Book InformationISBN...

Notre siecle connait-il encore Flavius Josephe, ce pretre ne a Jerusalem qui, il y a pres de deux mille ans, fut au centre de l'affrontement entre le monde juif et le monde romain? Un homme au destin exceptionnel: apres avoir ete l'un des chefs de la...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480884571Author Project MeitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Adolf Galland began World War II in Poland, as a lieutenant and squadron commander, flying obsolescent biplanes. He ended the war as a Lieutenant General a and was again a squadron commander a this time flying Me 262 jet fighters. In all of aviation...

Hollywood's first sex symbol, the ' It ' girl, Clara Bow was born in the slums of Brooklyn in a family plagued with alcoholism and insanity. She catapulted to fame after winning Motion Picture magazine's 1921 " Fame and Fortune" contest. The greatest...

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Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut college boy who entered outlaw culture on a university trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. ...

Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called "The Fallen Astronaut," along with a plaque bearing a list of...

Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking--but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have brought to a keenly curious and questioning mind...

J. Hudson Taylor was one of the most successful Christian missionaries in China during the 19th century - this is his story, in his own words, with his own photographs. Choosing to focus on life as a gifted and diligent mission worker, Taylor spends only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800993785Author Gwenfair GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528914819Author Yvy DeLucaFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology. She and her husband packed their bags and their children, and headed for Dublin.When Caroline first started...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101971444Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The Return to Me after ME is the incredible story of how a once superfit distance runner and Personal Trainer became too ill to walk even just a few steps having been diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). But refusing to accept that she faced an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942665199Author Michele PoagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Bent Briar Publishing LLLCPublisher Bent Briar Publishing LLLCWeight(grams)...

Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) directed the Platonic Academy in Florence, and it was the work of this Academy that gave the Renaissance in the 15th century its impulse and direction. During his childhood Ficino was selected by Cosimo de' Medici for an...

These are the Journals of Francis Davies Leading Shipwright RN when on board Captain Scott's "Terra Nova" British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - 1913, Never seen before photos and historical artefacts, kept safe by his decadences, for over 100 years. ...

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an...

'If the United States does not lead, there will be no leadership. If the US instead turns inward, there will be a price to be paid later.' - George H. W. Bush Marking thirty years since the end of George H. W. Bush's presidency, Robin Renwick paints a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398449619Author Elaine Merrikin Trimlett GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854186065Author Robert LindsayFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint ThorogoodPublisher Thorogood

The life and work of Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was dangerously bold and deeply enigmatic. This controversial biography opens up the secrets and contradictions of this globally renowned Polish journalist and writer.Artur Domos?awski travels the globe, following...

In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he...

How often in life does convenience triumph over 'doing the right thing? And what is 'ethical living' anyway? When it comes down to it, most people fight shy of giving up their cars, or their toxic household products, their cheap washing machines, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244873424Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

In "The Riddle of the Sands", a gripping spy story set amongst the shoals and mists of the North Sea coast in the years before the First World War, Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy adventures, as well as writing a great yachting classic...

A riveting and hugely entertaining memoir of post-war London told through the eyes of a hilariously opportunistic little boy.'This warm and witty autobiography lovingly evokes the community spirit of a Britain emerging from war and will have you...

A riveting and hugely entertaining memoir of post-war London told through the eyes of a hilariously opportunistic little boy.'This warm and witty autobiography lovingly evokes the community spirit of a Britain emerging from war and will have you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062467003Author Abby WambachFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

'If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom they would perhaps choose.' So commented The Times in 1978 on the 500th anniversary of More's birth. ...