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This intriguing book is really a detective story, revealing what turned out to be a most unusual cast of characters and some eyebrow-raising family secrets. It is a story of wealth and privilege, unhealthily close family connections, and pedigrees of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811857249Author Leon LuiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Talisman PublishingPublisher Talisman PublishingWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Gordon Banks OBE, born on 30th December 1937, Abbeydale, Sheffield, England, UK was a professional association football playing goalkeeper. Gordon made 679 appearances during a 20-year professional career, having won 73 caps for England, starting every...

Few other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German-born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis, The Face of the Third Reich, his biographies of...

This first major gathering of the younger poets of Hungary witnesses to the poetics of a new post-1989 Europe. The poetics are still in the making but important poets appear and develop. They are writers whose mature work has been produced in the new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943110098Author Arcady PetrovFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Jelezky Publishing UgPublisher Jelezky Publishing UgWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845276669Author D. Islwyn EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 215mm * 138mm * 12mm

A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacyIn 1901, a year after her brother Friedrich's death, Elisabeth Foerster-Nietzsche published The Will to Power, a hasty compilation of writings he had never intended...

Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035816446Author John ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

By the end of her life, Sophie Curly was essentially a bag lady you might have walked past on a park bench, or ignored, as she looked for something over and over again in her handbag. She was blown about the streets of Nottingham, one of those crumpled...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244917074Author Margaret EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995662711Author M J SantleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint M.J. Santley, an Imprint of Lakeside Data ServicesPublisher M.J. Santley, an Imprint of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621480020Author Peter SelgFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby, and how did he come to be in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006969201Author Lucy Madox RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Whilst Al Pacino's astonishing performaces have established him as one of the greatest actors of our time, Andrew Yule reveals that he has spent most of his life at war with himself. A traumatic childhood, years of grinding poverty and an inability to...

Whilst Al Pacino's astonishing performaces have established him as one of the greatest actors of our time, Andrew Yule reveals that he has spent most of his life at war with himself. A traumatic childhood, years of grinding poverty and an inability to...

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This book tells the remarkable story of Soname's triumph over adversity, told against the backdrop of a turbulent and dangerous Tibet. Soname was born in the harsh Tibetan countryside during the Chinese occupation. When she was just sixteen Soname risked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935052890Author Colby KashFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint White River PressPublisher White River PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601425201Author Anna Whiston-DonaldsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 248g

Brought up in a large family living in a council house in the Stechford area of postwar Birmingham, David Prosser's childhood was not easy, he knew hardships and hunger, wearing worn out clothes and pumps with holes in. But, along with his best friend...

In 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in the UK. The last six US Presidents have all claimed C. S. Lewis to be one of their favourite writers (as...

Alex Stobbs is determined to make every day count. Despite suffering from cystic fibrosis and enduring a gruelling regime of drugs and treatment, he has already achieved more in his nineteen years than many do in a lifetime. A musical prodigy, he was the...

Charlestown has long been a place of strategic importance to Mayo. It has provided many prominent and dedicated residents who have made their contribution not alone to their own area but to the county at large through involvement in public life, sport,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398433113Author Rosemary BidwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Probably no other psychologist has aroused such contrary reactions from the public and from the scientific community as Hans Eysenck. To the public, he was some kind of noble "IQ warrior" or that disgraceful "race and IQ guy." However, Britain's most...

Following the success of Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons -- but as every veteran knows, that isn't exactly how it works. In these searing, courageous pages, Swofford struggles to make sense of what his military...

Ranging from war journalism to crime stories to profiles on influential leaders to pieces on sports, gambling and the impending impact of supercomputers on the practice of medicine, this collection is Bowden at his best. Pieces that will appear in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953915316Author John GibbensFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Touched PressPublisher Touched Press

Chuck Berry, born Charles Edward Anderson Berry on October 18th, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., was a singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs including "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over...

Thomas Cranmer was a notable ecclesiastical statesman and much involved in the separation of the Church of England from the papacy. As an archbishop of the Reformation, he presided over a Church in transition, revising services, re-formulating doctrine...

The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world's most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592216017Author Yambo OuologuemFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853032861Author Morris BeckmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244572457Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486845753Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061393Author A T ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 354g