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Prime Minister Gordon Brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figures, in order to better understand courage. These eight heroes are very different people, with very different strengths and frailties, but all share an...

In pursuit of the oneness of scripture's scope, Brevard Childs (1923-2007) ranged across the Christian Bible, writing Introductions to the Old and New Testaments before attempting a landmark Biblical Theology of the same. For him the canon is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619471214Author Richard a LupoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Spatterlight PressPublisher Spatterlight PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Focusing on Augustine's personal transformation and dependence on the the Word of God, author Gerald Bray shows us how this ancient theologian can sharpen and encourage Christians today."Gerald Bray accomplishes an improbable task with this remarkable...

This volume provides an introduction to the Life and thought of Rene Girard.Book InformationISBN 9780232525267Author Michael KirwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Darton, Longman & Todd LtdPublisher Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd

Frank Russell was the grandson of Prime Minister Lord John Russell and elder brother of philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell. He was, in his own right, a radical political reformer and outspoken self-determined moralist. He was also the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527287815Author Pam SkeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint Pam SkeltonPublisher Pam SkeltonWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781433540745Author John BoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crossway BooksPublisher Crossway BooksWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525620Author Jamaica KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

J.M. Coetzee: a life in writing is the first biography of Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee. A global publishing event of the rarest kind, the book has been written with the full cooperation of Coetzee, who granted the author interviews and put him in touch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780910109Author Trevor KeaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992991708Author Tony HannanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scratching Shed Publishing LtdPublisher Scratching Shed Publishing LtdDimensions(mm)...

John Tyrrell's biography of the Leos Janacek is the culmination of a life's work in the field. It stands upon his existing documentary studies of Janacek's operas and translations of other key sources and his examination of thousands of still unpublished...

On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighbourhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin's name would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545420Author Charlie HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.

In February 2018, Kiko Matthews set out to row solo and unsupported, 3000 miles across the Atlantic. She not only added her name to the handful of women who had successfully made the crossing solo, but did so in a world record time of 49 days, 10 hours...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876122655Author Sananda Lal GhoshFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.Publisher Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S...

'Jurgen Habermas', wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker's eightieth birthday, 'is not only the world's most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.' Now, after many years of intensive...

Pete Jackson was the youngest child in a missionary family, who struggled with separation, loneliness and boarding school before emerging as a vibrant young Christian man. Through the letters he wrote home and later the journal he kept, we see Pete as a...

Pete Jackson was the youngest child in a missionary family, who struggled with separation, loneliness and boarding school before emerging as a vibrant young Christian man. Through the letters he wrote home and later the journal he kept, we see Pete as a...

Today Vincent Cable is best known as 'the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament' (Robert Peston), revered for his prescience and authority on the world economic crisis. But his journey to become Britain's most respected...

Today Vincent Cable is best known as 'the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament' (Robert Peston), revered for his prescience and authority on the world economic crisis. But his journey to become Britain's most respected...

By the age of eight Carrie Evans had lived in eight different places in the UK. The various schools she attended were not always happy places and some of her teachers, if not actually psychotic, verged on the unstable and sadistic. Although it came as no...

'This is how I was born. At 7.30 a.m. at the Istituto Annunziata in Napoli on 1 May 1925...' So begins a manuscript, handwritten by Carlo Contini, which lay forgotten and unread for years. The scrawling script unfolds an incredible tale of poverty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800550094Author David SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

'A simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a poor white family life in the twilight of apartheid' Richard E. Grant'Funny, never self-pitying and a pleasure to read' Guardian'Both haunting and funny. [Ecott] writes with compassion and...

'A simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a poor white family life in the twilight of apartheid' Richard E. Grant'Funny, never self-pitying and a pleasure to read' Guardian'Both haunting and funny. [Ecott] writes with compassion and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800165342Author Ivor JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

The Von Bock memoirs, which appear here for the first time, allow the reader to see the entire drama of the Second World War through the eyes of one of Germany's most important military commanders. After the attacks on Poland and Western Europe,...

Effortless humour and bucketloads of charm. It's impossible not to be bowled over by the ending. Most definitely my favourite celebrity memoir in a long time. Brilliant. - The SunThe **Sunday Times bestselling** memoir from the star of I'm a Celebrity...

Effortless humour and bucketloads of charm. It's impossible not to be bowled over by the ending. Most definitely my favourite celebrity memoir in a long time. Brilliant. - The SunThe **Sunday Times bestselling** memoir from the star of I'm a Celebrity...

The sequel to the popular Kicking the Habit! When Eleanor Stewart abandoned her vows and her life as a nun, she found herself in the middle of the swinging Sixties - and soon joined in. Boyfriends, parties, and mini-skirts took the place of silence and...

The sequel to the popular Kicking the Habit! When Eleanor Stewart abandoned her vows and her life as a nun, she found herself in the middle of the swinging Sixties - and soon joined in. Boyfriends, parties, and mini-skirts took the place of silence and...

James Roderick Moir, born on 24th January 1959, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK, better known by his stage name Vic Reeves, is a comedian, artist, musician, actor and TV presenter, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer as 'Vic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739697600Author Tony AnthonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Great Commission SocietyPublisher Great Commission SocietyWeight(grams)...

With a small population, it is remarkable that so many people from the county of Caithness have had such a huge impact, not only in Scotland but worldwide. The sheer hard work and determination of people from the county, both past and present, has...

Seasoned Traveller, Dominic Reeve, writer of many acclaimed books on the Travellers' way of life - as it is, not romanticised - here tells us of the period when Travellers were more or less universally changing from the horse drawn waggon to the age of...

Winner of the Adult Non-Fiction section of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2006, and Overall Winner of the Holyer an Gof Trophy, this gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in paperback, explores the immensely complicated relationship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910719862Author Heather HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Verite CM LtdPublisher Verite CM Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449905616Author Germaine GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...