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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881717102Author Devashish Donald AcostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Innerworld PublicationsPublisher Innerworld PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635571882Author Ken KrimsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 728g

Christopher is the eldest of seven in a middle-class English family. Theresa is the thirteenth child of Chinese immigrants in the British colony of Singapore. This is the story of how they met after the war, having grown up on opposite sides of...

Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was part of a team conducting scientific research that underpinned warnings about the mountain. Those warnings...

An explosive expose of how British military intelligence really works. This book presents the stories of two British agents, each working undercover on opposite sides of a violent conflict: Brian Nelson, who worked for the Force Research Unit (FRU),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861525492Author Pat MacFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint AcairPublisher Acair

In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In...

An inspiring picture book about the meteorologist whose discoveries helped us understand how weather worksWhen Joanne Simpson (1923-2010) was a girl, she sailed her boat beneath the puffy white clouds of Cape Cod. As a pilot, she flew her plane so high,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578596648Author Cameron W HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Fangage MediaPublisher Fangage MediaWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955469909Author Mick McCannFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Armley PressPublisher Armley PressWeight(grams) 281g

This work is a portrait of the life of the elder Yeats and his family, showing that J.B. Yeats was as worthy of his sons as they were of their father.Book InformationISBN 9780815607250Author William M. MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint Syracuse...

What do you do next if you have walked on the moon? How do you follow the first perfect 10 in Olympic history? How do you move on after surviving a plane crash? Some people will forever be defined by a single moment. Chris Wright has travelled the globe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936270422Author Constantina R PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Conciliar PressPublisher Conciliar PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226500416Author MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining...

What do the world's most prominent oboists have to say about their musical ideas, performance techniques, and teaching strategies? Michele L. Fiala and Martin Schuring, themselves skilled oboists, undertook the project of asking twenty-six of them about...

Alana Stewart and Farrah Fawcett were inseparable since they first met in the 1970s. Over the course of 30 years, they supported each other through the trials of Hollywood life, raised their families together, and remained as close as two friends could...

This is the authorized biography of the English tenor Peter Pears. Pears made a unique contribution to twentieth-century music, not only as an interpreter of exceptional artistry and intelligence but also as the inspiration and muse of his lifelong...

Recollections and memories from one of Cheshire Police's most decorated detective police officers. "The book is written as a recollection of my memories and took a number of years to complete. The vast majority of the text was written while on...

In Regency England a profligate son was regarded as every parent's worst nightmare: he symbolized the dangerous temptations of a new consumer society and the failure of parents to instil moral, sexual, and financial self-control in their sons. This book...

This new book is a look at the man better known as "The Star of Africa" on the 65th anniversary of his death - legendary Luftwaffe ace Hans-Joachim Marseille. Tate takes a look at Marseille's personality, flying skills, physical attributes, tactics, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892814374Author Maurice MessegueFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952733928Author Jan RejzlFormat PaperbackPage Count 43Imprint 1st Choice Publishing LtdPublisher 1st Choice Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198126546Author William BlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances-sudden or expected, still in office or decades later-is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958794Author Spencer KansaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of Oxford

Maxwell Armfield and Constance Smedley were an unorthodox couple who deserve more attention. Both were accomplished in many of the arts, but Max's focus was on painting, whilst Connie's was on writing. In Tessa West's delightful A Pageant Truly Play'd...

In this pioneering biography, Christopher Melchert examines the forefather of the fourth of the four principal Sunni schools of jurisprudence, the Hanbali. Upholding the view that the Qur'an was uncreated and the direct word of God, Ahmad ibn Hanbal...

This is the dramatic, often erratic, and at times unbelievable story of the fortunes and misfortunes over 900 years to the present day of one of England's premier aristocratic families, who in 1661 were given the Earldom of Essex by Charles II. This...

Charles King is a dedicated and caring teacher who falls in love with a former student and sends her a message expressing his feelings. This leads Charles to face up to a previous tragedy and sets him on a path of self discovery and personal healing. At...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681121383Author Rick GearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937-2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983505591Author Mike StrangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553688Author Maxie HaylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited

In 1977 Eamonn Cooke was a household name in Ireland. He'd launched the controversial pirate radio show, Radio Dublin, from his cramped living room in Inchicore and for youngsters everywhere in Ireland he was a public hero.But there was a terrible side...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628477Author John B. HattendorffFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Roman Women uses numerous primary sources to explore the lives of Rome's most influential women. It is not simply another lurid and sensational catalogue of scandalous sexual outrages; these all feature, but they are balanced by careful analysis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244403126Author Peter RoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

With a novelist's eye for detail and colour, Gita Mehta writes of the continent of contradictions that is host to one-sixth of the world's population. The world's largest democracy, it still practices the caste system. It's a burgeoning economic...

With a novelist's eye for detail and colour, Gita Mehta writes of the continent of contradictions that is host to one-sixth of the world's population. The world's largest democracy, it still practices the caste system. It's a burgeoning economic...