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Albert M. Greenfield (1887-1967), an ambitious immigrant outsider, was courted for his business acumen by mayors, senators, governors, and presidents, including Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. As this feisty Russian Jew built a business empire that...

Best-selling author John Piper puts the life of Andrew Fuller on display as inspriration for all Christians to devote themselves to knowing, guarding, and spreading the true gospel-to the ends of the earth.About the AuthorJohn Piper is founder and lead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425727628Author David LAN PhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

A short account of the life and writings of the English anthropologist Ruth Finnegan FBA. Part memoir, part reference.Book InformationISBN 9781329916845Author Ruth FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888396259Author dutchie Rutledge-MathisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

On April 28, 1858, municipal officials announced the winner of the design contest for a great new park for the people of New York City--Plan no. 33, "Greensward" by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Though the appropriated ground for what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624093046Author Norman McFarleneFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

Apollo Cokkinis worked to exhaustion as a Lt-Colonel in World War Two to organise British Military Hospitals in North Africa and Italy and perform hundreds of operations on wounded men. This was the supreme test of his skill as a surgeon, ability to get...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800746213Author Jason GardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398400368Author Marion StentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In 1901, Winnifred Eaton arrived in New York City with literary ambitions, journalism experience, and the manuscript for A Japanese Nightingale, the novel that would make her famous. Her writing and gift for reinvention would set her apart from other...

Beginning in Tunisia and spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, everyday citizens stepped into the streets, staking their claim to a democratic future. The image of these protests captured the imagination of the world. Revolution by Love...

This essay in autobiography opens in Eyrecourt, east Galway, and describes an early schooling at Rockwell and the experiences of a Jesuit novice at Emo Court, Co. Laois, and Rathfarnham. John O'Meara read classical studies at University College, Dublin,...

The life story of the highest decorated soldier of the Wehrmacht. Many photos of Rudel's aircraft.Book InformationISBN 9780887402524Author Gunther JustFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855753122Author Vladimir KaboFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 614g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034261Author Mietek SieradzkiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248257Author Michael Barratt BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034315Author Henryk VoglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after the two poets first meet in Berkeley, California,...

Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman...

In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain's northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660s, Dona Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New Mexico...

Fighter Aces of the U.S.A. is the most complete, full-spectrum book ever published on American fighter aces, and includes dozens of aces' combat accounts, plus capsule biographies. Evolution of aircraft, tactics and armament is seen through the eyes of...

Annotated by Professors Jansen and Eto, the book illuminates the experiences of Miyazaki's generation with Western culture and the development of an Asian consciousness. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

" . . . a richly textured intellectual biography . . . " -History" . . . well worth reading and pondering by all who are concerned with the fate of humankind in capitalist civilization." -Socialism and Democracy" . . . an extraordinary book. Although...

John Philip Sousa's mature career as the indomitable leader of the United States Marine Band and his own touring Sousa Band is well known, but the years leading up to his emergence as a celebrity have escaped serious attention. In this revealing...

Acclaimed as one of the great Lincoln scholars, Wayne C. Temple offers the long-awaited first biography of Noah Brooks, the influential Illinois journalist who championed Abraham Lincoln in state politics and became his almost daily companion during the...

When Margaret Sanger returned to Europe in 1920, World War I had altered the social landscape as dramatically as it had the map of Europe. Population concerns, sexuality, venereal disease, and contraceptive use had entered public discussion, and Sanger's...

This is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). Historian Donald G. Godfrey documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a...

John Cage was a giant of American experimental music--composer, writer, and artist. He is most widely known for his 1952 composition 4'33, whose three movements continue to challenge the definition of music by being performed without playing a single...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789995750718Author Victor AquilinaFormat HardbackPage Count 604Imprint Kite Group LtdPublisher Kite Group Ltd

In this picaresque novel, Charlotte Clarke recalls her life as an actress, and in particular, the difficulties facing a woman trying to make her way in a man's world. The issues of women's writing, education, motherhood, sexuality, and cross-dressing all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787078802Author Nicholas FennellFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 357g

Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on...

This is the first autobiography to be published by The Haworth Press.This is the first autobiography to be published by Harrington Park Press.The place is New York City. The time is the decade before the plague of AIDS. Thousands of gay men were living a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528997645Author Irene Joan MaraisFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Edna Edith Sayers has written the definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet (1787-1851), celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America. Sayers traces Gallaudet's work in the fields of deaf education, free common schools, literacy, teacher...

OUT OF WINTER is a personal account of how a father's sudden illness affects a family fraught by conflict over many years. It charts the process of grief which follows his death in 2008, and that of Carol Lee's mother only eight weeks later. Her mother's...

Tom Gola is a Philadelphia Big Five basketball icon. He led La Salle to the NIT championship in 1952 and the NCAA championship in 1954, and holds the NCAA record for most rebounds in a career. Gola also helped the Philadelphia Warriors win the NBA...

In this narrative rooted in autoethnography, the author juxtaposes her personal story with that of international stories of resistance to oppression and calls on educators to include children's personal stories as critical pedagogy to honor their funds...

Charles Richet was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of medical science. He is best known for his work on the body's immune reactions to foreign substances for which he won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1913. Richet was also a poet,...