Biography: general Books
Barnabas Publishers Strategic Concepts That Clarify a Focused Life
£9.99
Fraternity of the Hidden Light Paul Foster Case His Life and Works
£16.50
Sentient Publications Star in the East
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£16.14
MP-WLU Wilfrid Laurier Uni Jonathan Linton Odibaajimowin imaa Mistaasiniing
Book SynopsisFifteen-year-old Jonathan Linton is an elite hockey player, headed for the big leagues, when he gets a diabetes diagnosis. If people find out about it, everything changes. He has to keep it secret. A story about sports, hunting, and difference. In English and Ojibwe.
£6.66
Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay Jennifer Gloria Lowpez Odibaajimowin imaa Waaswa
Book SynopsisJennifer's life is falling apart and she escapes into booze, cocaine, and junk food. When they're not numbing enough, she slits a vein and tries to die but that doesn't work either. She has to try something else. A remarkable story about addiction recovery. In Ojibwe and English.
£6.66
Missoula Art Museum Tainted Revelations The Art of Bill Ohrmann
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£999.99
American History Press The Women of the American Revolution Volume III 3
£19.07
Daniel Shayesteh The House I Left Behind A Journey from Islam to Christ
£16.72
Center for American History Conversations with Cronkite
Book SynopsisLegendary CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite looks back over a career in which he covered many of the major events of the twentieth century.Trade Review"We all owe Don Carleton a huge debt of gratitude for publishing this landmark oral history of Walter Cronkite. Here, for the first time, is the beloved CBS News anchorman unplugged, commenting on everything from D-Day to the Vietnam War to the moon landing." Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History, Rice University, and author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
£22.79
Colossus Books Tupac Shakur 2Pac in the Studio The Studio Years 19891996
£26.95
Amber Communications Group 50 Cent No Holds Barred
£26.95
Wild Horse Press Fugitives The Story of Clyde Barrow Bonnie Parker
£14.65
Bipolar Advantage The Bipolar Advantage
£21.80
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Transcultural Pilgrim
Book SynopsisInvites the reader into Bedia's spiritual worlds, which range from his Cuban birthplace to Central Africa and to the indigenous Americas
£26.59
£14.25
Spruce Tree Press Conquistador Voices vol I
£15.10
Olive Press Publisher From the Projects to the Palace A Rags to Riches to True Riches Story
£13.59
£15.60
Megalodon Entertainment LLC. Walden
£12.83
Magoria Books ROM Like Thunder
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£13.59
£25.99
Tatra Press Lost Lustre
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£13.25
Conciliar Press An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar
£16.10
Adventure Books of Seattle Into The Blast The True Story of DB Cooper Revised Edition
£9.37
Trumpet Call Books Can Anything Good Come Out of Bawcomville
£11.54
New Academia Publishing, LLC A Tale of Two Cultures A Personal Account
£20.90
Gettysburg Publishing Jennie Wade of Gettysburg
Book SynopsisAuthor Cindy Small reveals the complete saga of 20-year-old Jennie Wade, the only Gettysburg civilian killed outright during the battle. Includes Jennie's relationship with Jack Skelly, her reputation, the fatal shot, and details of Jennie's first coffin and three burials.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Chapters 1–12: The Jennie Wade Story Appendix I: Other Civilian Losses during and after the Battle of Gettysburg Appendix II: The Moral Factor in Determining the Reputation of Mary Virginia Wade Appendix III: The Relationship between Jennie Wade and Jack Skelly Appendix IV: Why was John Burns Antagonistic toward Jennie Wade and Others in Gettysburg? Appendix V: The Interesting History of Jennie Wade's First Coffin Appendix VI: The Fatal Shot—From Where and By Whom? Appendix VII: Where was Wesley Culp Buried? Appendix VIII: John White Johnston Notes to the Appendices Notes Photo Credits About the Author
£11.80
Apuleius Books Antonina A Byzantine Slut
£14.00
BillyFish Books LLC The Seed Buried Deep the Expedition Trilogy Book 2
£16.82
Peach Plum Press From a New England Womans 1865 Diary in Dixie
£9.00
Staghorn Ridge Publications Packin Spuds The History of the IDAHO Potato
£13.10
Cityharvest International Grieve Upwards
£11.61
£15.24
Spirit of the Boabs The Laundry Girl A memoir of a Western Australian girl
£14.96
Rafa Life Inward Journey Horses Heartache Healing
£22.48
Assh Publishing Fine Wine and a MidLife Crisis A Feisty Funny and Totally Forthright Tale of a Woman Turning Forty
£14.09
Solomon-Berl Media The Rose Temple
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£19.76
Maryland Historical Society A Woman of Two Worlds Elizabeth Patterson
Book SynopsisIn this well-balanced and exceptionally sensitive work, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte finally breathes.
£27.45
Green Writers Press While Glaciers Slept Being Human in a Time of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewM Jackson does an intriguing job of weaving together observations about human health and frailty with global biospheric health and frailty. Her narrative brings climate change down from an abstract global scale to a very personal human scale. Particularly engaging for the non-scientist reader. -- Dr. Steve Running, Nobel Prize winner and American's foremost expert on climate changeClimate change is many things, including an upheaval--sudden and violent--in the life of our planet. As such, it unleashes feelings and forces like those in a family when someone dies. This is a profound way of thinking about where we are right now, and what we better do about it. -- Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Eaarth and The End of NatureIf you've known hard grief and loss, you will understand this book. If you have hope or the wish for it, this book will shore you up. While Glaciers Slept tells a story of devotion and survival as it examines the ongoing global crisis of climate change. M Jackson is a naturalist, a teacher, and a daughter who mourns her mother's death as she discovers and explores the best choice, the only true choice ahead - a path of hope and action for ourselves and the living planet that birthed us all. -- Phil Condon, author of Montana Surround, Clay Center, and Nine Ten AgainThe literary fabric of M Jackson's While Glaciers Slept comprises two strands intricately and intimately braided together. One is her engagement in a family journey through accident and disease that inflict pain and ultimately death on her parents. The second strand is also one of inflicted pain, but at a planetary scale - the degradation of Earth itself by its human inhabitants. M moves almost effortlessly from loss of limb to loss of ice, from prosthetics to a planetary parasol. The intertwining of the two strands creates a powerful narrative of humanity, singly and in the multitudes. -- Henry Pollack, author of A World Without Ice and a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate changeAs the poet Tony Hoagland has pointed out, most of us 'walk like zombies through our burning dying world'. Not so M Jackson, who moves through the world very much aware of both the little and individually important things, such as family, while simultaneously perceiving and understanding the catastrophe that is happening all around us. In While Glaciers Slept, she links the one to the other in a flawless and brilliant way. This is superb. -- Carlos Martinez, author of The Cold Music of the Ocean and The Raw Silk of the DarkJackson, a National Geographic Expert and prominent scientist passionate about researching glacial systems, explores in this emotional memoir her experience of losing her parents, one after the other, to cancer. Literally and metaphorically, the author compares the hopelessness she felt in the aftermath of their deaths with the depression people sometimes encounter witnessing the destruction of the environment. While at times on the verge of giving up in the face of such personal upheaval, Jackson persevered in learning a new way of living, as humanity will have to do with the advent of climate change. She offers parallel glimpses of optimism, both for herself and for the future of the planet, sharing her journey of growth and discovery while at the same time highlighting imaginative, radical projects proposed by innovative thinkers designed to avert what most scientists believe to be inevitable: a changed earth. VERDICT Reminiscent of Bill McKibben's "Eaarth", this title will interest readers of environmental issues, particularly climate change and a warming Arctic region, and fans of personal narratives. -- Venessa Hughes, Buffalo, NY Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission."I cannot untangle in my mind the scientific study of climate change and the death of my parents." M Jackson is a scientist, National Geographic Expert and glacier specialist, but her memoir While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change rarely takes a scientific perspective and never claims objectivity. Rather, Jackson tells the story of losing both her parents when she was a young woman just embarking on life, and the trauma and extended grieving process that resulted. Following a brief, lovely foreword by Bill McKibben, Jackson poetically conflates her loss with the slow and still mysterious effects of anthropogenic climate change. Her scientific background and explorations of fascinating places-Denali and Chena Hot Springs in Alaska, Zambia with the Peace Corps-inform her writing and yield striking images, as she runs on spongy Alaskan tundra or contemplates cryoconite holes atop glaciers. But it is the personal side of her narrative that allows Jackson to address society's psychological difficulties with climate change. Each chapter of While Glaciers Slept is a finely braided essay, considering an aspect of her parents' lives or deaths alongside a facet of climate change's challenges. Jackson mourns her mother with the help of Joan Didion's writing; windmills offer possible "undulating answers" and comfort her on her drive home upon learning that her father is dying. She employs a disordered chronology that slightly disorients her reader, just as Jackson was disoriented. The effect is an evocative, lyrical work of musing and allegory rather than a scientific treatise. âJulia Jenkins, librarian and blogger at pagesofjulia - - Shelf Awareness
£16.16
Green Writers Press Holding the Net
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnyone who has ever cared for an aging parent will sympathize with Merriman's trials and be comforted by her heartfelt story. -- Booklist"With wisdom and humility, Merriman draws on personal experience to create a moving, matter-of-fact, deeply eye-opening look at what most of us will eventually face: guiding our parents through old age." Cathi Hanauer , NY Times best-selling novelist and editor of The Bitch in the House and The Bitch is Back" Holding the Net is an engrossing, tenderly told story of a daughter's loving care for her mother. Beyond just a good read, these pages hold pearls of practical wisdom that are gifts to any reader who happens to be a parent who is growing older or the child of one." Ira Byock, MD is a palliative care physician, chief medical officer of the Providence Institute for Human Caring, and author of The Four Things That Matter Most and The Best Care Possible"This is not the story of just one mother and her daughters. It is all of our storiesones already lived, or ones midstream, or ones about to happen. Read Melanie Merriman's words for validation, for forgiveness, for guidance, for hope. The tightrope of aging contains all of these, and more. This book will hold your hand on that tightrope." From the Foreword by Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most"a wake-up call and a gentle guide through the daily, weekly, monthly, yearly journey of helping the people we love through the difficult process of aging to a soft landing." Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist, founder of The Conversation Project
£16.16
Legare Street Press The Story of San Michele
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£31.30
LEGARE STREET PR Paul Morphy
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£24.65
LEGARE STREET PR Dagverhaal Der OntdekkingsReis Van Mr. Jacob Roggeveen Met De Schepen Den Arend Thienhoven En De Afrikaansche Galei in De Jaren 1721 En 1722. Met Toestemming Van Zijne Excellentie Den Minister Van Kolonien Uitg. Door Het Zeeuwsch Genootscha
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£25.60
LEGARE STREET PR Das Kalte Herz
£13.95
Legare Street Press Mein Leben und Werk. Unter Mitwirkung von Samuel Crowther
£25.60
Legare Street Press Psyché
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£22.75
LEGARE STREET PR Marianela
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£17.95
Legare Street Press The Last Journals of David Livingstone Volume 1
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£26.55
