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Few champions have astonished the world as much as Lance Armstrong. A cancer survivor who went on to win the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times, he is an inspiration to millions. Now the full story can be told. With complete access to Armstrong,...

Twin sisters Amber and Serena Shine on strength, survival and a lifetime seeking adventure Amber and Serena Shine have wild in their blood. From their first steps, the twins set out from their family farm in rural Waiuku with the bush and mountains in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087643014Author Amanda Jackson GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Teacher Created MaterialsPublisher Teacher Created Materials

This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from his people.The author is Black Hawk himself - once...

Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, Five Lives in Music brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers. Elegantly guiding...

This is the first full-length study devoted to Roger Laporte, whose lifelong exploration of the stakes of writing has produced a body of work on the borderline of literature and philosophy. Charting the development of Laporte's writing in relation to the...

'Bellicose Dove' is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson for 150 years. It examines his life (1647-98), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of...

Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935-2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949515329Author Greg HealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint New Haven Publishing LtdPublisher New Haven Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 286g

The first full-length study dedicated to Schoenberg's life and music in the United States, Schoenberg's New World dispels many myths and fills significant gaps in the existing literature on Schoenberg. Drawing on much new information, the book traces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568463629Author Jan LowerFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Creative EditionsPublisher Creative EditionsWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 310mm * 237mm *...

Dorothy Wright Nelson was a prominent federal judge on the level just below the U.S. Supreme Court for over 40 years. One of the early tenured female law professors and one of the rare female deans in the U.S. legal academy in the 1960s and '70s, her...

When Abbie Morgan arrived with her husband Ed in the Alaskan village of Kulukak in 1931 to teach school, many of the Eskimos had never before seen a white woman. Kulukak could be reached by boat when the approach was not frozen over and by dogsled when...

This is the first published edition of the diary of Abraham Plotkin, an American labor leader of immigrant Jewish origin who lived in Berlin between November 1932 and May 1933. A firsthand account of the Weimar Republic's final months and the early rise...

Welcome to the School of Pranks!As the Professor of Pranks, I'm going to be dissecting the secret ingredients within my world famous viral pranks! In other words show you how to become the best prankster there ever was! I'm going to guide you through a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946746450Author P D MeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint ASA Publishing CorporationPublisher ASA Publishing CorporationWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354420641Author Nazia AkhtarFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

She's another Eleanor Roosevelt. You've got to meet her." - Sam From This evocative biography, written in verse coupled with sidebars and historical photographs, tells the story of Evelyn Hooker, the extraordinary woman behind the research,...

Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's "Up from Slavery" is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300032703Author Joseph FaringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 1460g

"Beyond the Border" sets the lives and work of Huguenot goldsmiths in the context of the different societies in which they lived and worked. Distinguished international scholars explore the contributions of individual goldsmiths drawing on new research...

Hu Shi's life touched virtually every important aspect of society in twentieth-century China. His most significant contributions were his support of Chinese liberalism and his advocacy for the use of vernacular Chinese. ""A Pragmatist and His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034612Author Spencer BrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall-how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986679Author Ariel LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky is three books in one: an impressionistic account of the dancer's homoerotic career, an analysis of his gay male reception, and an exploration of the limitations of that analysis. The impressionistic account, based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize 1982.Book InformationISBN 9780679722052Author Gabriel Garcia MarquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789990876451Author James McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Kachere SeriesPublisher Kachere SeriesWeight(grams) 233gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784614102Author D. Ben ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

In Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001, Debbie St Germain is found dead in her trailer, apparently murdered by her fifth husband. For her twenty-year-old son, Justin, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after. Long after...

Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, music, religion, and race...

Anyone suffering from the Global Warming Blues will cherish this uplifting account of the most ambitious environmental experiment of our time: Biosphere 2, a miniature Earth under glass and the world's largest laboratory for global ecology. John Allen's...

If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious, competitive, and courageous, Belinda Mulrooney was destined...

Written by an ex-prison governor, this book describes how a battle of wits goes on between the governor and his quarry. This can be dangerous for the unwary and those more orthodox.Each plots the downfall of the other and learns as they develop and...

Lost in Spain is the result of the dying wish of author Dave Hadfield's oldest friend's wife, Barb, to have her ashes scattered along the route traced by Laurie Lee when he walked from Gloucester to the Mediterranean in the 1930s.That original journey...

Lee McCulloch plays for Rangers and is club captain. He signed for his boyhood heroes in July 2007 in a GBP 2 million transfer from Wigan and he has helped the club to three SPL titles and a UEFA Cup Final. His popularity with the Rangers fans has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575115Author Malaka GharibFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788304870Author Ros WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788304870Author Ros WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999997021Author Katherine EverettFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Somerville PressPublisher Somerville Press