Biography: general Books
Gingko Press Desperately Seeking Basquiat
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£16.90
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Henri Matisse
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£12.26
e-artnow Harriet Tubman, The Moses of Her People: The Life
Book SynopsisHarriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, (c. 1822 – 1913) was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1818 – 1912) was an American writer and historian, best known today for her two pioneering biographical books on Harriet Tubman. Bradford was one of the first Caucasian writers to deal with African-American topics, and her work attracted worldwide fame, selling very well. Contents: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman Some Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman Extracts From a Letter Written by Mr. Sanborn, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities Statements Made by Martin I. Townsend, Esq., of Troy, Who Was Counsel for the Fugitive, Charles Nalle Essay on Woman-whipping Harriet: the Moses of Her People Some Additional Incidents in the Life of "Harriet" Fugitive Slave Rescue in Troy
£11.00
Booket Atrapados En El Hielo
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£12.89
Caballo de Troya Reina / Queen
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£11.71
Ediciones Catedra S.A. Vida
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£44.28
Editorial Oceano de Mexico Nahui Olin: (Nueva Edición)
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£15.10
Alpha Edition The papers of Captain Rufus Lincoln, of Wareham,
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£25.04
The Chinese University Press Dai Wangshu: The Life and Poetry of a Chinese
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£999.99
The Chinese University Press The Principal`s Graduation – My Heartfelt Words
Book SynopsisPutting admirable rationales of university education into practice is never easy. While it is popular to emphasize market values and competitive rankings, moral values and ideals sound way too lofty nowadays. Under tensions on campus and in society, the head of a university takes the role of striking a balance as skilfully as possible. Professor Joseph Sung is no exception to all these challenges. He has been enjoying university life with teachers and students, going through ups and downs with them. This book, a collection of 57 blog articles by Professor Sung during his tenure as the seventh Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, tells us the stories. He talks about higher education and social responsibility, pathways and choices our youths make, the visions he had and the challenges he faced, and life values which he wishes his students could take seriously. Though generations come and go, he still cares that they live a simple, noble and humble life. He hopes we care too.
£17.95
Rowman & Littlefield Remarkable Americans
Book SynopsisGrowing up in rural poverty, their advantages were few, but together they left a record of achievement that will probably never be equaled again by a single generation of any American family.
£18.04
Xlibris The Sugar King
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£19.00
Penguin Random House South Africa Winnie Mandela: A Life
Book SynopsisEveryone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few people know much about the life behind the headlines, myths and soundbites. This biography takes an in-depth and intimate look at Winnie Mandela's personal and political life, and takes the reader on a remarkable journey of understanding.
£17.10
Bristol Books CIC Harry Dolman
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£11.40
Ifwg Publishing International A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary
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£16.14
Sophia Institute Press Surprised by Truth: 15 Men and Women Give the
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£17.37
Hachette Livre Bnf Poésies complètes
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£999.99
Bohlau Verlag Cosima Wagner: Ein widerspruchliches Leben
Book SynopsisIn 33 Annäherungen zeichnet die Autorin Sabine Zurmühl ein differenzierteres Bild der heute vorwiegend mit Antisemitismus und künstlerischem Starrsinn assoziierten Cosima Wagner. Deren langes, sich Skandalen aussetzendes Leben ist mit vielen Brüchen und dem Wechsel der Aufenthalte und Sprachen durchzogen. Die mit dem Dirigenten Hans von Bülow verheiratete Tochter des Starpianisten Franz Liszt und der französischen Hochadeligen Marie d'Agoult entscheidet sich frei und mutig zum skandalisierten Liebesverhältnis mit Richard Wagner, schützt und stützt den Komponisten bei seinem Weg zur Anerkennung. Nach Wagners Tod etabliert sie die Bayreuther Festspiele und schreibt damit Theatergeschichte. Mit ihrer Leidenschaft, ihrer Selbständigkeit, ihrer Hartnäckigkeit und ihrer unbeirrbaren Klarheit als Person des öffentlichen Interesses lebte Cosima Wagner ein provokantes und auf ihre Weise selbstbestimmtes Leben jenseits vorgegebener Regeln und Normen.
£37.04
Suhrkamp Verlag Dietrich Bonhoeffer Sei frei und handle
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£12.05
Books on Demand Die Möchtegern-Mücke: und andere sati(e)rische
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£9.71
Books on Demand Eine Kindheit in Hard: Erinnerungen an ein
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£16.62
Books on Demand Felix: From Man To Man
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£21.76
Books on Demand Im Dienste der Freier
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£14.56
Atico de Los Libros Lenin
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£51.52
Almuzara Ibn Arabi. El Maestro Sublime
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£20.39
Editorial Seix Barral Espana En Los Diarios De Mi Vejez
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£17.17
Anagrama Un Dia En La Vida de Un Editor
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£24.14
Anagrama Parte de Mi
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£18.62
Lulu.com My Hero Is a Duke...of Hazzard Tim Phillips
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£23.42
Lulu.com Will to Live Push Through
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£13.17
WWW.Snowballpublishing.com The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile
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£14.24
Lulu.com The Adventure of an Un-Curable Heart
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£29.14
Lulu.com The third stage of my life
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£10.66
Lulu.com I Don't Know How She Does It!: Taylor Made
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£37.43
Lulu.com Beyond Devils Garden
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£48.83
Authorhouse Celeste
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£18.52
Authorhouse The Girl Who Was Her Brother's Keeper: The Love
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£11.61
Authorhouse In the Spirit of Jesus
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£20.50
New Generation Publishing Guglielmo Marconi: Building the Wireless Age
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£34.99
Lulu.com Chronicles of a Bad Bytch Named Cee-Cee: The
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£21.98
Lulu.com Stories of Life, Love and Laughter
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£13.32
HarperCollins Publishers Silvertown: An East End family memoir
Book SynopsisMelanie McGrath’s critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback. In this remarkable book, award-winning writer Melanie McGrath has given us a vivid and poignant memoir of the East End. McGrath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places where her grandparents lived out their lives Poplar, East Ham and Silvertown – are virtually unrecognisable; her grandparents, Jenny and Len Page, long since dead and already half forgotten. Silvertown teems with stories of life in the docks and pubs and dog tracks of the old East End where Melanie McGrath's grandparents scraped a living. Here are the bustling alleys and lanes of Poplar in 1914, where eleven year old Jenny watches the men go off to fight; the Moses sweatshop on the Mile End Waste; the London docks, then the largest port in the world; and Jenny having her teeth pulled out on her seventeenth birthday. Here too is the Cosy Café, opened full of hope by Jenny and Len – later a home to their troubled marriage – and an East End landscape which is altered forever by the closure of the docks and the disintegration of this close knit community. The places Melanie McGrath describes have largely vanished now. This evocative and deeply moving family memoir recreates the lost East End and the struggles of those who live there.Trade Review'McGrath tells her story in a novelist's idiom, and the result is extraordinarily powerful and curiously resonant. Like much of the East End, Silvertown today is in the process of an astonishing transformation. The curse on the area has been lifted. But McGrath has beautifully recorded the old Silvertown just before it disappears for ever.' Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph 'This is a remarkable account of the social history of the East End. It provides a rare bridge between those two separate Londons; for while the story belongs to a mysterious past, the style and sophistication is strikingly contemporary.' Anthony Sampson, Guardian
£9.99
Benediction Classics Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I. The Journals Of
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£25.49
Consilience Media Adam Weishaupt and The Eye of Horus
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£13.63
Hachette Livre - BNF Livres Rares Et Curieux Principalement Sur Le
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£16.00
Books on Demand Voyage au Congo
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£21.76
Hachette Livre - BNF Catalogue Dela Collection de M. Etienne Charavay.
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£13.00
Books on Demand Ce que je n'ai pas choisi: L'histoire de mon
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£11.97
