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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684192031Author Walter LaqueurFormat HardbackImprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 717g

In 1982, the American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels went to Australia to research the impact of television on remote aboriginal communities. Over the next five years, until his death, he became a major intellectual presence in Australia. Unbecoming...

As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088049983Author Valarie J AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679456582Author Monty RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House (NY)Publisher Random House (NY)Weight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688050450Author Robert SheltonFormat HardbackPage Count 573Imprint Beech Tree Paperback BookPublisher Beech Tree Paperback BookWeight(grams) 962g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789871129430Author Jacinto PadaleFormat HardbackImprint VisorPublisher Visor

In a captivating and compelling voice that ranks with many of our greatest memoirists, Laura Bush tells the story of her unique path from dusty Midland, Texas to the world stage and the White House. An only child, Laura Welch grew up in a family that...

This is the unauthorized biography of the hugely successful British band One Direction, who shot to fame after taking the seventh series of "The X-Factor" by storm. "1D: The One Direction Story" explores the backgrounds, early lives...

"I'll Go and Do More" is the story of Annie Dodge Wauneka (1918-1997), one of the most well-known Navajos of all time, an indefatigable, passionate, and controversial woman whom the Navajo Nation called 'Our Legendary Mother'. A daughter of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860190636Format HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Brockhampton PressPublisher Caxton PublishingWeight(grams) 211g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948265990Author Judith RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press Ltd

Nancy Hanks, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 1969 to 1977, turned this fledgling organization into a major instrument for government support of the arts-accomplishing thereby a virtual revolution in the public arts policy of...

From Cripple Creek to the Santa Fe Trail, Mesa Verde to the mountain towns of Leadville and Steamboat Springs, Colorado provides travelers and natives with a spectrum of beauty that is both awesome and austere. Drawn by the lingering mystique of...

'This is aimed at anyone interested in a thoughtful, humorous, poignant and honest look at love and marriage and family. Since not one of us can lay claim truly to being a specialist in this field - we are all amateurs when it comes to matters of the...

Richard James Oglesby is best known for introducing the rail-splitter image into Abraham Lincoln's successful presidential campaign of 1860, and in many ways his career ran parallel to Honest Abe's. This biography of the three-time governor of Illinois...

'I'm just a country boy,' says Willie Gary when he addresses a jury. 'If I just talk in plain, ordinary talk, you won't hold that against me, will you?' The son of migrant corn-pickers, Gary is one of America's most successful lawyers: diamond-encrusted...

As Izzy settles down to life on Bedlam Farm, Jon is amazed that all signs of the troubled rescue dog who first arrived have disappeared. More than this, the Border collie demonstrates an uncanny sensitivity to, and tenderness towards, humans who are...

Muriel Newmarch was born in North London in 1903. She died in 2009, aged 106. Judith Bruce is her daughter, and Funny How Things Turn Out- part biography, part memoir - tells the story of both women, which in turn traces the unprecedented changes to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992896317Author Roland WardFormat PaperbackImprint TRW BooksPublisher TRW Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990619901Author Tom RubythonFormat HardbackPage Count 812Imprint Myrtle PressPublisher Myrtle PressWeight(grams) 1375g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955835308Author Toby Tobin-DouganFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Grey Mullet PublishingPublisher Grey Mullet Publishing

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752416908Author Peter HinchliffeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

What would inspire a man to give up his job? Lie to his friends? Avoid his parents? Con his girlfriend? And shell out tens of thousands of his own cash? Only to spend months in a darkened room in South London, looking for the money shot and hanging out...

This is a portrait of Gordon Brown's first year as Chancellor of the Exchequer, offering insights into his life inside and outside Downing Street, his day-to-day dealings at the Treasury with the Prime Minister and in Cabinet, and his private life.Book...

As children, Roy and Alison Smith were so close their mother called them by one name: Alroy. But on a cool summer morning when she was fifteen, Alison woke to learn that Roy, three years older, was dead. While her Catholic parents wrestled with their...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595176250Author Raymond G HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm * 11mm

For Dr Hilary Jones, the question 'What's up doc?' has been asked of him ever since he qualified as a doctor at the Royal Free hospital in London over thirty years ago.As a junior medic patients used to ask him 'What's up?' when he prodded their bellies...

This biography of the most celebrated writer in history, tracks Shakespeare's life from his youth in the Warwickshire countryside before disappearing for seven years, to his life in London as an apprentice actor, his return to Stratford as a prosperous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780285635463Author Julia ScullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Souvenir Press LtdPublisher Profile Books Ltd

A self-confessed non-conformist puritan, Kenneth Griffith's life and work as actor, writer and film-maker are testaments to the essential ambivalence of a complex and colourful character. His inherent anti-establishment mischievousness is coupled with a...

Fifteen years on from Anthony Holden's undisputed classic BIG DEAL, the poker world has changed beyond recognition. When Holden played in the 1988 World Series of Poker there were 167 entrants competing for a prize of $270,000. At the 2006 WSOP, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780292702592Author H Joaquin JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 635g

Darwin's theory that men's ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value...

A few months after two of his parents had died, Martin Rowson had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of stuff, both physical and emotional. In this book Rowson delves into all that 'stuff'; weaving together dreams,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300051834Author Robert Louis StevensonPage Count 542Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 248mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846831973Author Leonard Alston-Roberts-WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760794767Author Kathryn Lesley SpurlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 570g