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Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic and trusted advisor. She read his letters and speeches. He relied on her judgment on his writing, and readily admitted...

A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666344Author Howard BryanFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 325g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666337Author Cynthia RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 335g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666382Author Cynthia RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888396280Author E.C (Ted) MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267849Author Henry O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane PressWeight(grams) 247g

Setting out to visit his friends in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and with all intentions to return to the United States to attend Columbia University in the fall, Tappan Adney, at the age of 18, embarked on a trip that would ultimately set the course of his...

An extensively researched account of the infamous Benedict Arnold, framed in Martin's biography as a hero rather than a traitor Benedict Arnold stands as one of the most vilified figures in American history. Stories of his treason have so come to define...

Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she...

Sir William Jones was a brilliant and engaged man of letters and law closely involved with the significant figures of Great Britain, America and India during the American Revolution and the early days of the Raj. He essentially introduced the Western...

In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St. Helena to begin his imprisonment following Waterloo. By 1821 he was dead. During his brief stay, he crossed paths with six medical men, all of whom would be changed by the encounter, whether by...

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was the Shakespeare of opera, the composer of Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida and Otello. The Chorus of Hebrew slaves from Nabucco (1842) is regarded in Italy as virtually an alternative national anthem - and the...

Between becoming king of Macedonia in 336 BC and his death in 323, Alexander the Great conquered not only the Greek city states but also Persia and as far east as the Punjab in India, as far south as Egypt. Claude Mosse describes the progress of...

This volume is the third and penultimate in the Yale Boswell Editions' transcription of Boswell's heavily revised manuscript of his biography of Johnson. Designed as a research supplement to the Hill-Powell version of the 'Life' and employing the complex...

Hammurabi was the sixth king of ancient Babylon and also its greatest. Expanding the role and influence of the Babylonian city-state into an imperium that crushed its rivals and dominated the entire fertile plain of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi (who ruled c...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652298393Author Fanya Gottesfeld HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 442g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295460Author David ShacharFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 560g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652296177Author Haggai SegalFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652294821Author Rita Kasimow BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 226g

When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longer would every policy have to bend at the knees for water survival. It was finally time to celebrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788183280396Author P. V. RajgopalFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Wisdom TreePublisher Wisdom TreeWeight(grams) 568g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926991337Author Colin CastleFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 636g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926613659Author William RodneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926936901Author Frances HernFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894864466Author Angela MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Folklore PublishingPublisher Folklore PublishingWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894974745Author Holly QuanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889797168Author Sumner CarnahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 412g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888820973Author Uriel BachrachFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.Publisher Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.Weight(grams) 354g

In 1969, whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained, and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876756024Author Zelda D'ApranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 254g

Weider gives the reader a complete synopsis of the life, times and works of Napoleon. Topics covered include Napoleon's civic and military achievements, and his philosophy and character.Book InformationISBN 9781862272231Author Ben WeiderFormat...

As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784521080Author Jim CriglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Panoma PressWeight(grams) 382g

This collection of over 350 letters written by William Beckford to his bookseller George Clarke over the years 1830 to 1834, gives a vivid picture of the insatiable connoisseur in the act of gathering the books and prints that ultimately became part of...

A Globe and Mail Fall 2019 Book to Watch Whoever you are, you are sure to be a severe critic of Fascism, and you must feel the servile shame. But even you are responsible for your inaction. Do not seek to justify yourself with the illusion that there...

The story of two remarkable men, both natural-born cavalry leaders of great courage, who shared similar traits. Their Civil War legacies were destined to be connected in a series of battles-beginning with Brady Station where Custer's star rose rapidly,...

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals-some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574160956Author Howard BryanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light Publishers

Max Esser was an adventurous merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described...