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From his first feature film, Fear and Desire (1953), to his final, posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick excelled at probing the dark corners of human consciousness. In doing so, he adapted such popular novels as The Killing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804393024Author The Secret HeadmasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

For decades, a war to control Glasgow's streets has been waged. On one side are some of the most violent and dangerous criminals in the world and, on the other, a police force with officers as hard as the gangsters, striving to keep the city safe. In...

The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (1752-1818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the...

In We Flew over the Bridge, one of the country's preeminent African American artists-and award-winning children's book authors-shares the fascinating story of her life. Faith Ringgold's artworks-startling "story quilts," politically charged paintings,...

THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN. FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2018 UN PEACE PRIZE THE GUARDIAN: 'MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME A GLOBAL FIGUREHEAD OF A CAUSE THAT DREW THE ATTENTION OF GLOBAL LEADERS WHO URGED...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446512732Author William GoldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 798g

First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in-and stretching beyond-a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand...

"If we are to understand not only the direct impact of Marx on the development of German thought but also his sometimes extremely indirect influence, an exact knowledge of Hegel, of both his greatness and his limitation, is absolutely indispensable."-...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643543666Author Hafiz Ibn KathirFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint International Publishing HousePublisher International Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501153747Author Ray MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 53mm

Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard's own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to 'pass' in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York...

Chantemesle is a lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine. In this minutely observed landscape, where even the wind is a character in its own right, we meet blind Battouflet, the singing hermit of the hillside, solemn Clotilde, who lives...

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This fascinating publication presents the roles two men have played in turning a small workshop in nineteenth-century Paris into one of the most successful and recognized brands in the world. Known for both craftsmanship and must-have high design, Louis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244268381Author Philip R. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062365613Author Ted CruzFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. 'Poetry was his other world and he explored it as eagerly as he did the great Antarctic spaces,' said his friend, Mrs. Hope...

Having faced death head on, we wanted no regrets. It was time to go'. In 2005 Rob and Jo Gambi became the first married couple to achieve the ultimate adventurer's ambition when they climbed the 'Seven Summits' (the highest mountains on all seven...

Having faced death head on, we wanted no regrets. It was time to go'. In 2005 Rob and Jo Gambi became the first married couple to achieve the ultimate adventurer's ambition when they climbed the 'Seven Summits' (the highest mountains on all seven...

A gripping chronicle regarding the involvement of a mysterious French count in the greatest mystery in Rock 'n' Roll history - how did Jim Morrison actually die? Last Words, Last Words - Out. These were the final words written by rock icon Jim Morrison,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957261297Author Martin GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint PlashMill PressPublisher PlashMill PressWeight(grams) 203g

Air-route development in Africa was a result of Sir Alan Cobham's 1929 flight through and round Africa in a flying-boat. Lady Cobham accompanied her husband throughout the journey. This work features Sir Alan Cobham's account of his journey. First...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739746506Author Carol Madeline GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Wagtail PressPublisher Wagtail Press

Until the posthumous publication of the Millennium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson was probably best known for his commitment to left-wing causes, and his tireless work as an anti-fascist activist. Horrified by the rise of far-right extremism in Sweden, he threw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764822223Author Susan BrinkmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Liguori Publications,U.S.Publisher Liguori Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783596222797Author Stefan ZweigFormat PaperbackImprint Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbHPublisher Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . . . [Mavity is] good at conveying the experience of being in a room with Conran' Sunday TimesTerence Conran, a visionary and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956566246Author Jason NealFormat HardbackPage Count 446Imprint Idigital GroupPublisher Idigital GroupWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802801586Author Marvin R. O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439191804Author Rick SpringfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 461gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 156mm...

When his mother Joan was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Rory MacLean and his wife Katrin took her into their home. For five months, as their life fragmented and turned inward, they fought both to resist and to accept the inevitable. Each gave vent to...

When his mother Joan was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Rory MacLean and his wife Katrin took her into their home. For five months, as their life fragmented and turned inward, they fought both to resist and to accept the inevitable. Each gave vent to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061148767Author Jim LindbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904109150Author Helena WojtczakFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Hastings PressPublisher Hastings PressWeight(grams) 800g

Maurice El Medioni (born on 18 October 1928 in Oran, Algeria) is an Algerian Jewish pianist, composer and interpreter of Andalusian, Rai, Chaabi, Sephardic and Arab music. He is one of the few living artists to have performed with the great Chaabi...

The south of France, known for its beauty, perfect climate, fresh produce, excellent cuisine, fine wines and steeped in history - but what lurks behind? This is a humorous yet cautionary tale of 3 naive individuals, Abi, Marc and their daughter Beth who...

Thomas "Fats" Waller was a legendary stride pianist, a wildly entertaining comedic singer, and the composer of such classic melodies as "Honeysuckle Rose," "Ain't Misbehavin'," and hundreds more. This is the intimate, behind-the-scenes story of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648049576Author Irene ZisblattFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

This volume is an engaging and exceptional history of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry from its raw regional beginnings in the 1940s with R & B and hillbilly music through its peak in the 1950s and decline in the 1960s. John Broven combines...