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This compendium of stories from all over the country illustrates how bizarre and wonderful events and people have entertained us throughout history. From the Lismore man who rode to Fermoy in a tub pulled by a pig, a badger, two cats, a goose and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528914550Author Lydia Ola TaiwoFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681121871Author Michels MabelFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

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The definitive study of Nikolai Yezhov's rise to become the chief of Stalin's secret police-and the dictator's "iron fist"-during the Great Terror Head of the secret police from 1937 to 1938, N. I. Yezhov was a foremost Soviet leader during these years,...

"My family has a grand tradition. After a woman gives birth, she goes mad. I thought that I would be the one to escape." So begins Adrienne Martini's candid, compelling, and darkly humorous history of her family's and her own experiences with...

In January 1998, documentary film-maker Stephen Walker began a search for four young, untried, untested, obsessive and possibly unhinged film-makers in their quest for fame and glory at the Cannes Film Festival. Over six months, he met literally hundreds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833039200Author David GalulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm * 17mm

With World War II still raging, nations came together to create a new international monetary order, the Bretton Woods system. This agreement created the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and a system of stable exchange rates with currencies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060957773Author Robert StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 228g

It has been ten years since Rachael Keogh was catapulted into the public consciousness, when a shocking image of her needle-ravaged arms - skin burnt from injecting heroin into her wasted veins - made front pages around the country. Desperate for help,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244871543Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. From Scratch arranges, edits, and revises...

The only complete biography of the screen legend-now in paperback for the first time!Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and the Devil, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Ninotchka...

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the most important German thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings on Weimar culture, mass society, photography and film were groundbreaking and they anticipated many of the themes later developed members of the...

One Sunday morning in October, Istvan and his wife Vera start their day as usual. They tidy their house; Vera makes a festive cake to put in the freezer and cuts fresh roses for a vase in the living room. That evening, after nearly fifty years of...

Fascinating glimpses into the life of a woman banished to the margins or her society, these stories exude hard-earned spiritual and practical wisdom. Follow the remarkable odyssey of Maria Weiss, who spent eighteen long years in an isolated leper...

Our Might Always: The 355th Fighter Group in World War II is an exhaustive history in day-by-day combat diary format with over 800 rare images of the 355th including fifty color profiles of P-47s and P-51s. The 355th was third in combined German aircraft...

Elizabeth I is probably the most famous English woman ever to have lived. She has been celebrated as a great stateswoman, during whose reign England acquired some degree of security in the troubled European arena and at the same time began to lay the...

Hattie Carnegie's life story surpasses that of Cinderella in that it is true. Born in 1886, she went from being a destitute Macy's messenger girl who owned three blouses and one skirt to controlling, at its high point, a ten-million-dollar empire. Her...

With an astounding eighteen medals in eight international championships and team gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1976 and 1984, Jack Le Goff created the standard by which modern-day equestrian teams are measured. But Le Goff's techniques could be...

New in Paperback: The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir ("Terrific."-Daniel James Brown) recounting the 2013 search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge."A Speck in the Sea is a terrific read-harrowing and inspiring at the same...

Pete Wilkinson grew up in Deptford, south London, in the 50s. Somehow he got to grammar school and was spat out of the education system in 1962 with a few GCE 'O' levels and no idea of what to do with his life. The 60s rock 'n' roll scene, motor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965220Author Hector German OesterheldFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956178756Author Ruth ParryFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Crossbridge BooksPublisher Crossbridge BooksWeight(grams) 261g

In 2006, Dave and Christie Nasser welcomed a Great Dane puppy into their lives - the runt of a litter of thirteen who won over the hearts of his new owners with his soulful blue eyes. They named him George and he swiftly changed their lives. In February...

In 2006, Dave and Christie Nasser welcomed a Great Dane puppy into their lives - the runt of a litter of thirteen who won over the hearts of his new owners with his soulful blue eyes. They named him George and he swiftly changed their lives. In February...

In 2002, as Sierra Leone prepared to announce the end of its brutal civil war, the distinguished anthropologist, poet, and novelist Michael Jackson returned to the country where he had intermittently lived and worked as an ethnographer since 1969. While...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751359Author Teresa JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"A concise, pointed historical inquiry into Freud's atheism and Jewish cultural identity and their role in his development of psychoanalysis."-Library Journal "A lucid, occasionally provocative close-up of Freud-as-nonbeliever, enhanced by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781367545175Author Teresa PocockFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 3mm

The first full-length biography of the Western legend Tom Jeffords, immortalized by Jimmy Stewart in 1950's Broken Arrow. This book tells the true story of a man who headed West drawn by the lure of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858; made a life for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996706Author Neil CurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

This light-hearted book is not wholly about the perils of trying to park but it has a strong theme about cricket and football, and it is also a memoir as a veteran sports writer for the Daily Mail. I write about 350 or more personalities I've interviewed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982116279Author Rebecca CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters from South Africa, past and very past. There is Krotoa, the Khoi maiden who is found working in the Van Riebeeck household as both servant and interpreter, who became the...

Best known to a generation of Australian cricket fans as the incisive, and sometimes controversial, cricketing voice of the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC radio, Peter Roebuck's own career spanned 25 of the most exhilarating years of world cricket.From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788184004427Author Pavit KaurFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Random House, IndiaPublisher Random House, IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525231Author Spalding GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc