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In this provocative book, retired porn star Scott O'Hara (known as "Spunk" by many of his fans from an early punk photospread) gives a backstage look at the world of pornography, revealing why he loved it, what he got out of it, and why he left it. In an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987084005Author Benjamin William MkapaFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams)...

A distinctive aspect of Hindu devotion is the veneration of a human guru, who is not only an exemplar and a teacher, but is often worshipped as an embodiment of the divine. In the past these gurus have almost always been men. Today, however, female gurus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485310808Author Charles Van OnselenFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500g

On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors - Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell - crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at...

This book is one man's journey through life, from a time long ago, to a now much different future. There are a few sad times but through the pages laughter is never far away. Terry White was born and has lived most of his life in Scarborough, although he...

This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problems of mimesis, between presentation and re-presentaion. Four "scenes" comprise the book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398405097Author Rein MullersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In 1972, Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, a student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan's assistance in going to the United States. Wong, then a starry-eyed Maoist, reported...

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Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome. Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728378381Author Colin DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294703Author Peter HowsonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627470452Author Christopher DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint CtopherdanielsPublisher CtopherdanielsWeight(grams) 268g

The title of the book Smithereens captures the grief caused by the death of Sharon, the author's best friend. However, this is no misery memoir. In essence, it's about wringing the most out of our short lives! This book is intended to be complementary...

A scholarly edition of the works of George Crabbe. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198125709Author George CrabbeFormat HardbackPage Count...

Stanley Kubrick is generally acknowledged as one of the world's great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia. Stanley Kubrick reexamines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916182813Author Jason HeppenstallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Belenos PressPublisher Belenos PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

John Wilson did more than anyone else to prevent and cure blindness, and help blind people, throughout the world between the 1940s and his death in 1999. In addition, he made a significant contribution to the cause of disabled people in general. His...

John Wilson did more than anyone else to prevent and cure blindness, and help blind people, throughout the world between the 1940s and his death in 1999. In addition, he made a significant contribution to the cause of disabled people in general. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621060017Author Elly BlueFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

Agrippina the Younger ranks as one of the most powerful women in the history of the Roman empire. Judith Ginsburg's book provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. Her incisive study exposes both the...

NABEEL'S SONG is an epic true story of one family's experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein.Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for poetry and...

NABEEL'S SONG is an epic true story of one family's experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein.Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for poetry and...

This title is part of a complete revision of "Butler's Lives of the Saints". The series comes in 12 volumes which correspond to the months of the year. This is the June volume. How to live a Christian life of faith is a question every...

The first night of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, on 8 May 1777, was one of the great dates in theatrical history. From then on, Sheridan was launched into eighteenth-century society, as much at home in the salons of the Duchess of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528982214Author Sarah SalmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486245935Author Mahatma GandhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806353128Author DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 167g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913704681Author Abdi IgehFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Abdi IgehPublisher Abdi IgehWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943243235Author St AugustineFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Word on Fire ClassicsPublisher Word on Fire Classics

In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution and its consequences. In 1808, his family...

“To the readers of this book you need to know that EW&F is simply the greatest living group in my lifetime. No one put together lyrics to a melody like they did; no one put harmony to sound and rhythm like they did; no one added horns in the way that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578817934Author Dildora Damisch MuzafariFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint DildoraPublisher DildoraWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648795803Author Benji BrundinFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Daring2venturePublisher Daring2ventureWeight(grams) 299g

Welcome to the wonderful world of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings!This is the official book of one of the most talked-about TV series ever to have hit our screens. The show offered a unique insight into the traveller and gypsy communities, their lives, loves and...

Sharp is the story of a young man who began his life with a loving family and great promise for the future. But in his early twenties, David Fitzpatrick became so consumed by mental illness it sent him into a frenzy of cutting himself with razor blades...

His name is engraved on the Vietnam Wall in Washington DC, but his remains lie in an English country churchyard. What led this young man, the only English officer to die in the service of the US Army in Vietnam, to forsake his career as a musician in...

In America, as in Britain, the Victorian era enjoyed a long life, stretching from the 1830s to the 1910s. It marked the transition from a pre-modern to a modern way of life. Ellen Harmon White's life (1827-1915) spanned those years and then some, but the...

"A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full of life and fun. That's how a contemporary described...