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Horatio Nelson was a naval genius and a natural born predator. In his private life as in war he was ruthless. A fanatic for duty, at times beyond all sense, he was also a royalist so infatuated with the divine right of kings that he began to see himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897312223Author Alastair HumphreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Adlibbed LtdPublisher Adlibbed LtdWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm...

Born in the cradle of upper-middle-class privilege in a Mumbai Parsi household and educated at one of India's finest schools, Kobad Ghandy's life and career could have scaled heights in the bustling world of corporate finance. Only it did not. Instead,...

In many ways, Rudolf Steiner is the forgotten genius of recent times. A powerful thinker, who developed an intricate spiritual philosophy based on his ability to research and perceive spiritual dimensions, Steiner is perhaps best known today for his...

I grew up with the ordinariness of the colonial order of things and the banality of apartheid in the spaces where other whites, like me, lived ... Unearthed demonstrates, through a weave of time and place - be it then or now, the Seychelles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957462632Author Terry CochraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Clive ScoularPublisher Clive ScoularWeight(grams) 181g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998355047Author Greg RussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint CrossFire Pub.Publisher CrossFire Pub.Weight(grams) 1048g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800312012Author Henry DarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789895351619Author Desmond MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint TSBPublisher Can of Worms Press

Sharon Tate was a promising young actress who received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in "Valley of the Dolls"; the beautiful wife of famous film director Roman Polanski; an expectant mother eight and a half months pregnant at the time of...

'Fantastic book written by a true LFC legend.' Jurgen Klopp'George Sephton is part of the brickwork of Liverpool Football Club and was witness to so many iconic moments. He has lived through a huge chunk of our history, from when Liverpool were in the...

In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Muslim Tabriz to cultured citizen of the world. Gregorian's odyssey begins in an obscure poor quarter of a...

Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant gasworks bricklayers, or 'retort-setters'. Charles Hansford recounts constructing his own home...

In 2003, Tata Consultancy Services set itself a mission: 'Top Ten by 2010'. In 2009, a year ahead of schedule, TCS made good on that promise: in fourteen years, the company had transformed itself from the $155 million operation that S.Ramadorai...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800748309Author William WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645487909Author Kevin O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Atelier BooksPublisher Atelier BooksWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993129629Author Cassie FarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Welford PublishingPublisher Welford Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993129629Author Cassie FarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Welford PublishingPublisher Welford Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398420533Author Natasha BrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Natalie Wood and "lovely" Richard Beymer, to the mercurial Jerome Robbins and "passionate" Rita Moreno, with whom Chakiris remains friends. "I know exactly where my gratitude belongs," Chakiris writes, "and I still marvel at how, unbeknownst to me at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061626661Author Jessica SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm)...

Carmel Snow, who changed the course of our culture by launching the careers of some of today's greatest figures in fashion and the arts, was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century. As editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to...

This tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lazar Saineanu (1859-1934), linguist and folklorist,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398497160Author Viv BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Finally available in English, Thomas Meyer's major biography of Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz (1869-1945) offers a panoramic view of an exceptional life. One of Rudolf Steiner's most valued and independent-minded colleagues, Polzer-Hoditz was born in Prague - ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244574895Author Wilhelm Max RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 408g

Winner of the Casa de las America Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jose Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century. The book tells the story...

Appasamy's biography of Sundar Singh, a high-caste Sikh who became a Christian, is a classic account of his life and teaching. For many years before his disappearance in Tibet, the Sadhu had moved in and out of that forbidden land on his evangelistic...

A fun and interactive beginners look at amazing events and people in history.A beginner's look at some of the people and events in history that have shaped our world.About the AuthorKay Barnham is an experienced author of children's non-fiction books...

'This long-hidden treasure-trove of letters, with its many wonderful new photographs and illustrations, is a revelation. The "other woman's" voice is heard, and the shape of the Warner-Ackland-White love-triangle changes subtly. The Akeing Heart is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692646571Author David Mathis JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint David JohnsonPublisher David JohnsonWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his short reign tried to revive paganism, which, after the...

Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous...

Drawing on a trove of unpublished archival material to trace Adams’ evolution from his childhood during the Revolutionary War to his brilliant years as Secretary of State to his time in the White House and beyond, Fred Kaplan brings into focus John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727221Author Sherwin B. NulandFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 208gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Gill Mansell (nee Hewitt) was born in 1949 and brought up in the Lozells area of Birmingham, her large family had lived in the area for several generations and it was her happy playground whilst growing up. This book is the story of Gill, her parents and...

A Los Angeles Times Best Seller A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected-a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of...

This book explores the lives and deaths of over 300 men, women and children buried in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery who died due to the War of Independence and Civil War. Detailed research brings their stories together for the first time with first-hand...