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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551055114Author Scott RollansFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lone Pine Publishing,CanadaPublisher Lone Pine Publishing,CanadaWeight(grams) 248g

Featuring prominent figures in education, religion, science, and war, Eminent Victorians is a fascinating collection of Victorian biographies. Beginning with a discussion of the achievements of Cardinal Manning, Strachey provides insight on the...

Elizabeth Keckley reveals the hardships of slavery and the changing political climate in Washington amongst the country's most powerful couple, Abraham and Mary Lincoln. Keckley had unprecedented access, giving insight into their state during and after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995415Author William B. Secrest, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Word Dancer PressPublisher Word Dancer Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888820782Author Chava Kohavi PinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.Publisher Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652294913Author Stephen D. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 298g

A stirring memoir of a young, single woman's laborious struggle to save her family's New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression. The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed...

Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique style, a blend of facts—names, dates, family, important...

H. Lark Hall presents the first comprehensive biography of Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929). The recipient of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in history for the first two volumes of his Main Currents in American Thought, Parrington remains one of the most...

It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit the mantle of leadership. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin was followed by a plodding Stalin...

The rare man who can sift the unchanging out of a constantly changing world is a man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to find universal patterns...

Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Neither a political biography, nor...

As the central figure in Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin (1799u1837) has been claimed by nearly every political faction, right and left, in Russian cultural politics over the past two centuries, culminating in his official canonization under the...

"This book is a search for 'the real Anandibai Joshee' -- a search in which the readers are invited to participate." In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes...

By the time he died under mysterious circumstances in Paris in 1979 at the age of sixty, David Karr had reinvented himself numerous times. His remarkable American journey encompassed many different worlds-from Communist newspapers to the Office of War...

She had, by any standard, an extraordinary life. Even discounting her incarceration by the Japanese military police for 193 days, during which she was subjected to extreme deprivation, physical abuse and torture, her life was no less than exciting: A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735996844Author Daniel H. WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Platform Books, LLCPublisher Platform Books, LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888394729Author Robin Percival SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint 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 9781914325144Author Saida Muna TasneemFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652293022Author Hart N. HastenFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 890g

This title was first published in 1971: Aims to provide an exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life of Russia's 18th century tsar/reformer and the theme of progress through violence in Russia.Book InformationISBN 9781138045842Author E...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682450093Author Stephen G. BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Regan ArtsPublisher Regan Arts

This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time. Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912278381Author Lucie LomováFormat HardbackImprint Centrala LtdPublisher Centrala Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787059535Author Mark McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Born in Fallsburg, Kentucky, in a tenant house insulated with newspapers, Paul Patton had a humble upbringing that held few clues about his future as one of the most prominent politicians in the history of the state. From the coal mines of eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398477261Author Ewen HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398477278Author Ewen HillFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday TelegraphWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NATALIA SOLZHENITSYNA vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739321130Author Yesu PersaudFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Hansib Publishing (Caribbean) LtdPublisher Hansib Publications Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354425967Author A. RamasamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354423703Author A. RamasamyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

ADVENTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE, a memoir-travelogue first published in 1960, is being reissued with a critical introduction, including minor edits and annotations of the original text by scholar Tara Betts. Recognized as a prodigy at an early age,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534658Author Abigail AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 1180Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 760g

While much has been written of the importance of Agrippa in Augustus' rise to power as the first emperor of Rome, Maecenas remains a shadowy figure despite being a vital part in the success of Augustus. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Maecenas...

Theodore Roosevelt (1857-1919) was the most literary of American Presidents, writing scores of books, including Through the Brazilian Wilderness and African Game Trails. He was also the most active of American writers. In little more than six decades,...

Eye on the World is the autobiography of diplomat Anthony C. E. Quainton, the story of a long and varied life lived in eleven countries on six continents. Rather than a formal history, this is Quainton's reflection on his interactions with the events of...

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth...