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Walter J. Kohler, Jr. was one of Wisconsin's best governors. Elected three times, he played a role in the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower to the presidency in 1952 and was known to be an administration favorite. Kohler's challenge was to unite moderate...

Mimi Bull grew up secure and happy in the love of family, friends, and neighbors, never questioning the unusual circumstances that caused her to be adopted in the late 1930s by an older woman with an adult daughter. It was years before she learned the...

A certain mystique has always surrounded the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay. This book goes far toward defining it by taking the reader on a journey with the watermen as they harvest oysters, clams, fish, and crabs. The author was on board with the...

At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler -- a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl -- was strung up with a slipknot noose. The hanging was state-sanctioned but it was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865439528Author Omar Farouk IbrahimFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 431g

Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism, and in the midst of the crisis of Capitalism, Karl Marx's ideas, at least in part, are back in vogue. He is often invoked, yet often misunderstood. In this...

Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Junger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly...

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 9780853033691Author Daniel R. LangtonFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034858Author Eilat NegevFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034827Author Lewis StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853032809Author Michael FreedlandFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

In a time of uncertainty and change in the newspaper industry, this book provides a concise and thorough overview of the field, looking back at newspapers' history, and forward to their future - and insisting there will be one. The authors, former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820449623Author Lisabeth M. HockFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820450261Author Ana Maria Araaujo FreireFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

A follow-up to O'Hara's steamy and provocative book Autopornography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane, Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Selected Essays of Scott O'Hara shares with you more intimate stories from former porn star Scott O'Hara. You'll gain an...

As a clinical psychologist, Jean Baker had always considered herself open-minded and tolerant, but found she wasn't prepared for the revelation that her only two children were both gay. Family Secrets is an inspirational story of how she and her family...

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...

This new biography of Edouard Nieuport, written by his grandson GA"rard Pommier, details the brilliant solutions he applied to cycling and automobiles before turning to aircraft later made famous by pilots of nearly all Allied nations in the First...

Many books have been written about Heinrich Himmler and the SS though, strangely, no photographic study has ever been assembled. Contained within this volume are over 380 photographs of Himmler, illustrating his entire career - from a soldier during the...

Told in anecdotal form, Vulture's Row tells a fascinating story about an important period covering nearly one half of the entire history of U.S. naval aviation. "Vulture's Row" is an area dubbed by naval flyers, on the island structure of an aircraft...

Funny without knowing it and naive without being innocent, Zoe is pretty much left alone to get on with growing up. Yet the most relevant events of her youth are invariably caused by other people. She gains the attentions of spell-binding stranger Mr...

Late one September night in 1891 a man boarded the American Express train as it sped through New York State. Wearing a red hood with slots for him to see through, his eyes flashed. 'It's money I'm after,' he shouted, pointing two guns at the guard...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of...

A biography of the Welsh poet Islwyn, one of the greatest poets of the 15th century. This volume presents a study of his life, as well as looking at the impact the death of his lover, Ann Bowen, had on the writer, which inspired him to write possibly his...

Hermann-Peter Piwitt belongs to the generation of West German writers the beginning of whose careers coincided with the student movement of 1968. His career is of particular interest from the perspective of a Europe in which a left-wing alternative to...

An entertaining portrait of Cardiganshire historian Thomas Richards (1878-1962), a strict librarian and literary critic, lecturer and lively broadcaster on diverse topics. 17 black-and-white photographs.About the AuthorProfessor Geraint H. Jenkins is...

Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous,...

An introduction to quantitative methods delivering the knowledge and skills required to process, utilize and manipulate numerical information of the type and style found in the business environment. The practical application of quantitative methods is...

Antony Worrall Thompson's passage to culinary stardom has not exactly been smooth. Abandoned by his father, a Shakespearean actor, when he was just three, Antony was sexually abused and maltreated throughout his childhood. Antony's story very nearly...

The terrorist turned reverend: a remarkable story told for the first time In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel. It killed three...

Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of...

IN THE NEWSWeimin Wu: pioneer physicist on Chinese science's turbulent past, promising futureTimes Higher Education, 25 February 2016While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062445100Author Barbara Feinman ToddFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 406g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062226310Author Eric LeGrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 220gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062105066Author Cecil WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061809552Author Philip GulleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652292711Author Judy Lash BalintFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652294586Author Miriam RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814630016Author Wu WeiminFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint World Scientific PublishingPublisher World Scientific Publishing