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In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who...

Gilles Deleuze, the person and philosopher, was both singular and multifaceted. Frida Beckman traces Deleuze's remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life and work emerged. She considers how his life and philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorFrank E. Vandiver, president of Texas A&M University until September, 1988, directs the Mosher Institute of Defense Studies at Texas A&M University. He is also...

This volume, the second in a mulit-volume history of German aviation, discusses the life work of one of Germany's greatest aircraft designers in pictures, tables, drawings and in his own words discussing flight testing of his airplanes. Examined are the...

If there's anyone who knows about the darker side of online dating, it's Nev Schulman. The 29-year-old rose to fame after his documentary Catfish, about an online flirtation of his which turned sour, became a breakout hit. He followed it up with a series...

'This is an important book. It is written by an expert who probably knows more about wildlife crime in the UK, and especially in Scotland, than anyone else. It is important because so little is known and understood about a widespread and deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789671061756Author LatFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Editions Didier MilletPublisher Editions Didier MilletWeight(grams) 758gDimensions(mm) 238mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244872465Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister Amy wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. 'If I am gone or dead', it read, 'question Ron'. By the time the letter was found, Amy was already missing. Helicopters and 'missing' posters...

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister Amy wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. 'If I am gone or dead', it read, 'question Ron'. By the time the letter was found, Amy was already missing. Helicopters and 'missing' posters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101907313Author Shaka SenghorFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 219g

'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead.' Claire Messud, Harpers Magazine'As...

In his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz-#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most influential legal scholars-explores the implications of the increasing tendency in...

"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of...

Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over. But the adult world was a dangerous place for a naive adolescent. From the Dublin Catholic boys' home to arriving alone in London, again...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769131Author Gary MackayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd

Visitors to the Blalock Building at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center are greeted by portraits of two great men. One, of renowned heart surgeon Alfred Blalock, speaks for itself. The other, of highschool graduate Vivien Thomas, is testimony to...

In The Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diary-a sprawling tale of earthly wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is an exquisite, lyrically told travel story. Translated by Simon Pare, this unique account follows...

The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785546372Author Simon MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Frankie Valli, born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio on May 3rd, 1934, Newark, New Jersey, U.S., is a singer, musician and actor, known as the frontman of The Four Seasons from 1960. Valli is known for his unusually powerful tenor/lead, he had 29 US Top 40...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781973946762Author Anna GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

"A New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diary - a long-lost treasure that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamourous, forgotten time. For decades it languished in an unclaimed trunk in the basement of a prewar building on...

"A New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diary - a long-lost treasure that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamourous, forgotten time. For decades it languished in an unclaimed trunk in the basement of a prewar building on...

A beloved film comedienne who worked alongside the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and dozens of others, Thelma Todd was a rare Golden Age star who successfully crossed over from silent films to talkies. This authoritative new biography traces Todd's...

Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory against Portuguese colonialism in 1974, and the following year became independent Mozambique's first President. He died eleven years later in a mysterious plane crash. Drawing on...

'We need more warriors like Carrie' TARANA BURKE, founder of the MeToo movement'In the age of doxxing, revenge porn, and misogynist trolls, this book is required reading' ESQUIRENobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't...

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society' Observer ...

One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. Winston Churchill's attitude towards the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244571580Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Some of these epithets were true. Yet, even when compared to the most significant figures of the...

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Founded in the 1970s and today active in more than 40 countries, the Animal Liberation Front has in recent years been considered a domestic terrorist group by the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center-despite the ALF's official stance of nonviolence. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528915434Author Vera MertensFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

After learning to play guitar at the age of ten, Shawn Colvin was determined to make a life in music - a decision that would send a small-town girl out on the open road for good. In 1997, two decades after she started, she got her big break. Like the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244266226Author Gemma HoefkensFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398416192Author Carole PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

More tales of a country fireman, from the author of ALL FIRED UP. Perfect for fans of HEARTBEAT or the brand new TV series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL.It's the early 1980s and rookie fireman Malcolm Castle is set to take on the biggest challenge of his...

Winifred Phillips was born in Ilford, Essex, in 1926, one of four children. Sent to a convent boarding school, which she loathed, she trained as a nursery nurse and met George Wheeler, a 19-year-old RAF trainee wireless operator. The pair fell in love...

In this biographical novel, Gladys Malvern shares the incredible story of Anna Pavlova, one of the most revered and celebrated ballerinas of all time. Malvern presents Pavlova's life in enchanting prose, allowing the reader to experience Pavlova's...