Biography Books
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC A Boy and His Comet Dancing Through the Rain
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£19.79
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Dad A Son Remembers
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC On a Pilgrimage with Augustines Confessions
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£11.39
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The O with the Green Leaves
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£7.99
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Our Forgotten Cultures
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£11.39
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Education of a Musicians Daughter
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Raised by Children
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£7.99
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Taiki Bansei
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£17.09
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Johnny Yesno
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£17.09
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Todor Todorov Karagochev
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£21.59
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Long Ago Last Summer
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Memoirs of a Fun Life
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£9.49
Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd Doctor Steel
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£21.25
Random House Publishing Group Good Soil
Book SynopsisA profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm?I needed this book. I think you need it, too.??Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place BeautifulIn his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary?s ?Farminary??a twenty-one-acre working farm where students learn to cultivate the earth while examining life?s biggest questions. Now, he unpacks what he learned about creating ?good soil,? both literally and figuratively, drawing lessons from the rhythms of growth, decay, and regeneration that define life on the land.In gorgeous, transporting reflections, Chu introduces us to the cast of characters, human and not, who became his teachers. While observing the egrets that visit the pond, the worms that turn waste into fertile soil, and the Chinese long beans that get passed over in the farm?s CSA, Chu considers our desire to belong, the story behind the food on our plate, and the significance of his own roots. What is the earth trying to tell us, if we?ll only stop and listen?Good Soil helps readers connect to the land and to one another at a time when we seem drawn most to the phones in our hands. For nature lovers, foodies, and anyone who has daydreamed about a more fulfilling life, this book is a tribute to friendship, to the sacredness of our bond with the natural world, and to how love can grow from the unlikeliest of places.
£20.80
Open Road Media I Am Spartacus
Book SynopsisTrade Review“An entertaining and informative look at the troubled gestation of a film of both artistic and social significance.” —Kirkus Reviews“Kirk Douglas is many things . . . But he is, first and foremost, a man of extraordinary character. The kind that’s formed when the stakes are high. The kind we always look for at our darkest hour.” —George Clooney"A glorious book . . . Kirk Douglas is a wonderful writer and a courageous one, which should surprise no one. Courage has been his battle cry all his life." —Steven Spielberg"The making of I Am Spartacus! is a remarkable story told with the wit and charm of a great entertainer. Kirk Douglas revisits the complex political and social context surrounding the production of a cinema classic." —Henry Kissinger"Hugely entertaining." —Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune"I Am Spartacus! is a great read." —Bill O'Reilly"Kirk Douglas is a lion." —Bill Maher"A lively new memoir about one of [Douglas'] greatest triumphs." —Los Angeles Times"Carries the power of a self-made man who continues to meet life on his own terms but with grace and aplomb." —Associated Press
£15.19
Triumph Books Cornfields to Gold Medals: USA Basketball,
Book SynopsisBlending personal narrative with practical guidance, Cornfields to Gold Medals delivers well-traveled leadership principles for on and off the court. Coach Don Showalter’s rise to international recognition as a coach can be traced to his time at the helm of USA Basketball’s Junior National Team, where he went 62-0 and brought home 10 gold medals. Yet, for all his international success he remains grounded in the Midwestern values that shaped his character; principles have made him a passionate ambassador for the sport of basketball and one of its great teachers.Cornfields to Gold Medals is an all-American story that takes the reader on Showalter’s life journey through the sport he has coached for nearly half a century. It begins humbly, on a family farm perched atop the rolling hills of southeastern Iowa, and extends to gymnasiums in every corner of the world. Interspersed in this compelling personal narrative are 15 lessons in leadership, strategies Showalter employed throughout his 44-years coaching young athletes. Each is accompanied by key points in how to teach the lesson, and shares effective strategies for readers to implement in daily practice.Rooted in heartland principles of community, hard work, and service, this essential book offers leaders insight into guiding others and time to reflect on what is truly important.
£22.46
Guernica Editions,Canada Believe America: How I tried to end mass
Book SynopsisSamson Johnson has spent a life in politics. A self professed politics 'bicycle seat' finds himself run down and out of faith around 2014. Despite having worked many positions in numerous campaigns, for a litany of different causes all over the political spectrum, he is jaded, pained and full of doubt. In an effort to bring himself down from the non-stop, jet set campaigning lifestyle,Samson takes a quiet data entry job for a think tank in Washington DC, in an effort to reclaim stability in his life. Within weeks however, Samson's attempt at finding serenity is shattered with reports of another mass shooting. Samson finds himself possessed to address gun violence and begins a one man campaign to end it forever.From Militia men in Oklahoma, to a Pride Center in Vermont, from shareholders in California, to reservation workers in South Dakota – Samson Johnson's 'Believe America' movement traverses all over America to reach its people. Yet as the movement builds in popularity so does Samson's reflection on his policy. Across his journey, he is given the creeping realization that his policy may be woefully misguided and in fact, stand to do more harm than good.
£15.15
Pitch Publishing Ltd A Mid Life Less Ordinary
Book SynopsisThe inspirational and relatable real-life story of how financial officer Peter Wright transformed himself from being mildly active to an endurance event extraordinaire.Foreword from Rory Coleman, the UK's leading ultramarathon coach.Forty is the age when people tend to wind things down to a life a bit more ordinary. Not Peter. Having put his questionable athletic ability and mild asthma to one side, he catches the running bug and completes the London Marathon. Only, this isn't the end of the story. Instead, it provides the springboard for a passion for endurance challenges.Follow Peter as he: Crosses desert, tropical rainforest and Arctic tundra, to raise more than 100,000 for charity Completes the Marathon des Sables, the Jungle Ultra, the Western States 100, the Cape Wrath Ultra and many other gruelling challenges Runs a marathon while dragging a car Takes the ultimate test while nearing 50: rowing the Atlantic Ocean on a very small boat with his friend and fellow adventurer, Steve Hayes Inspiring, hilarious and jaw-dropping, this book shows what you can achieve if you put your mind to it, and why age and a lack of athletic ability is no barrier to pushing beyond your imagined limits.
£13.49
Olympia Publishers The Diary of an Emergency Physician
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£999.99
New Haven Publishing Ltd The Four Tops
Book SynopsisThis book is not pretending to be a definitive history of those four life-long friends, There are no revealing secrets, no gossip. It is simply a journey through their career via their recordings, a tribute to a career that earned them the plaudits of many, as they were a group like no other. The Four Tops
£18.99
Hermits United Notes on Lascaux
Book SynopsisMael Renouard's historical and aesthetical contemplation on the Lascaux Cave enlivens a conceptual space for the spectator's dream. This book is translated from the French, Notes sur Lascaux (Editions du Sandre, 2018).
£8.54
Random House USA Inc The Rivers Daughter
Book SynopsisRecalling memoirs like Wild and Educated, an internationally renowned whitewater rafting guide offers a gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming hardship and coming into her own through her relationship with the rivers she has known.After Bridget Crocker’s parents split in a vicious divorce, she moved with her mother from California to Wyoming, to a trailer park on the banks of the Snake River. Her childhood was nearly idyllic, with a stepfather she loved and a new baby brother, and with the river as her companion. When her mother underwent a drastic personality change seemingly overnight and left her stepfather for an eco-warrior and radical new lifestyle, Bridget’s world upended. She returned to California to live with her explosive father—until his violence sent her back to Wyoming.The river was the most constant and nurturing influence in Bridget’s life; it helped instill in her the resilience she needed to overcome sexual assault and betrayals by those close to her and taught her to trust her intuition and embrace her strength as a woman. She became a world-class whitewater rafting guide, leading expeditions on the Snake, the Kern, the Salmon, and Zambia’s Zambezi rivers. Ultimately, her relationship with the rivers she came to know led her to reunite with her family and work with them to transform multi-generational cycles of poverty, trauma, and abuse.In this propulsive story of finding hope and belonging in a life outdoors, Bridget Crocker not only takes us on exhilarating, and at times terrifying, adventures on the water but opens up a new way of experiencing the world—through its rivers, which can guide us, just as we can navigate them—and introduces a bold and vibrant new voice in adventure writing.
£21.60
Unnamed Press Crazy Lucky
Book SynopsisMost lawyers aren’t like John Mason. Then again, most lawyers don’t do what he does. For decades, John Mason has been a confidante, mediator, and last line of defense for some of the most visible artists in the world: from Brian Wilson and Roy Orbison, to Reba McEntire and the Jackson Five, to Quincy Jones, Shakira, and his dear friend of over forty years, Olivia Newton-John. In Crazy Lucky, he tells their stories from his perspective, and shows us what it means to truly have someone’s back. A butcher’s son with humble origins, John Mason has guided his clients through multi-million dollar lawsuits, divorces, child custody issues, and stalkers, while also helping to navigate breakdowns, illness, physical and mental abuse, and a wide variety of legal issues with not just hundreds of millions of dollars, but careers, on the line. Many (if not most) entertainment lawyers work through managers and agents to help celebrities achieve specific goals. Mason, on the other hand, serves as a lynchpin to his clients’ inner circle, a steady presence in what is often a privileged, but harrowing lifestyle. Crazy Lucky is a career retrospective packed with never before heard stories. A fascinating journey for anyone interested in entertainment history, Crazy Lucky shows what it takes to represent the interests of some of the biggest names in the world, in critical, career-defining moments.
£21.00
Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd Ultimate Survivor: The Making of a Madman
Book SynopsisThe product of cruel parents in Rhyl, this born rebel’s escape was a long time coming. But once it was engineered, the road that opened up took him from North Wales to the high seas to Disney World Florida (thrown out, naturally), to undercover work in Northern Ireland and, ultimately, counter-insurgency in the likes of Abu Dhabi, Uganda and Otterton, a previously peaceful village in Devon! Brutally beaten as a child – and attempting suicide at the age of twelve – he somehow retired as a multi-millionaire, but not before carving an equally remarkable trail through locations as diverse as deepest Dartmoor, Bogside, Kampala and the City of London, in the company of a colourful cast of characters. Featuring a lively array of mind-boggling adventures, the majority laced with dark humour, Ultimate Survivor tells a story like no other. It is an X-rated tale of warship sieges, sexual abuse, hair-raising IRA ambushes, a death-defying run-in with notorious Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, military coups, encounters with celebrity and a job as bodyguard to Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. You are unlikely to have read a memoir quite like this one. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Military Mental Health and Vulnerable Children
£999.99
Scheidegger & Spiess Dalai Lama
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£38.40
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Book SynopsisAs a man thinketh in his subconscious mind, so is he. Have you wondered why someone is joyous while another is miserable; why someone is fearful and anxious and another is exuding confidence; why so many good and kind people suffer the tortures ofife? Dr Joseph Murphy answers these questions in his bestselling self-help book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. He reveals the innate powers of the subconscious mind by fusing his spiritual wisdom and scientific research. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind is one of the most inspirational guides of all time. It has helped millions across the globe achieve extraordinary goals and bring drastic improvements in theirives. And this, he says, can be done simply by changing the way one thinks. Packed with case studies of actual success stories, this book will help you unleash your mental powers, build confidence, create well-balanced friendships, improve your marriage, amass wealth, conquer phobias, dispel bad habits, and even heal minor health ailments.
£999.99
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Yashpal Gender and Revolutionary Thought
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£74.09
HarperCollins India Ratan Tata: A Life
Book SynopsisRatan Tata (1937â2024) was one of the most influential and inspirational personalities of our timesâan iconic business leader who was instrumental in transforming independent Indiaâs industrial landscape.
£43.68
Westland Publications Limited The Legacy of Guru Dutt
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£27.53
Central European University Press Listening to the Languages of the People: Lazare
Book SynopsisThis tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lazăr Șăineanu (1859-1934), linguist and folklorist, was a pioneer in his native Romania, seeking out the popular elements in culture along with high literary ones. He was among the first to publish a study of Yiddish as a genuine language, and he uncovered Turkish features in Romanian language and customs. He also made an index of hundreds of Romanian folktales. Yet when he sought Romanian citizenship and a professorship, he was blocked by powerful figures who thought Jews could not be Romanians and who fancied the origins of Romanian culture to be wholly Latin. Faced with anti-Semitism, some of his friends turned to Zionism. Instead he tried baptism, which brought him only mockery and shame. Hoping to find a polity to which he could belong, Șăineanu moved with his family to Paris in 1900 and became Lazare Sainéan. There he made innovative studies of French popular speech and slang, culminating in his great work on the language of Rabelais. Once again, he was contributing to the development of a national tongue. Even then, while welcomed by literary scholars, Sainéan was unable to get a permanent university post. Though a naturalized citizen of France, he felt himself a foreigner, an “intruder,” into his old age.Trade Review"Davis quotes Sainéan’s own assessment of his situation at the end of his long career: ‘indeed, here, in regard to social relations, I am always still “the intruder”’. One of the virtues of her book is that she does not seek to hide her subject’s foibles—including a somewhat thin-skinned insistence on his own rightness, a certain defiant self-regard, a pragmatism that didn’t always do him much good. Rather, Davis goes constantly in search of more complex motives behind Sainéan’s scholarly preoccupations and life choices: this renders us a very human figure, whose story serves as a litmus for the atmosphere of the times through which he lived." (The review is complemented by the author's response.) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2472 -- Alex Drace-Francis * Reviews in History *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE: ROMANIA Early Years: Studies and Friendships The Field of Linguistics 1. FIRST PUBLICATIONS The Science of Judaism: Advancing Emancipation Semasiology Paris, Gaston Paris, and the Jours D’emprunt Leipzig and the neogrammarians 2. RESEARCH ON YIDDISH The Dialectological Study of Judeo-German Spreading The Word on Yiddish B.p. Hasdeu, anti-semitism and jewish relations 3. UNIVERSITY LECTURES AND NEW BOOKS V. A. Urechiǎ and the first rejection of naturalization Favorable Reviews and Marriage 4. BASMELE ROMANE The Basmele Wins a Prize Second Defeat of Request For Naturalization Self-Defense and Studies in Folklore 5. THE DICŤIONAR UNIVERSAL Non-Zionist Jew and His Circle of Friends Paris, London: Gaster and Zionism Paris: Nordau and Zionism The Rejection of Zionism, The Dreyfus Affair Baptism And Its Consequences 6. THE ORIENTAL INFLUENCE ON THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Șǎineanu and Other Jews The Last Months: Publication and Defeat Repairing And Describing His Life: The Philological Career PART TWO: FRANCE The New Emigré 7. LIVING AND MAKING A LIVING; SOME TRANSLATIONS Judeo-German for The French Scholar 8. THE POPULAR LANGUAGES OF FRANCE Rabelais Les Sources Indigènes and Disappointment 9. SUMMING UP Languages And “The People” In The 1920s and 1930s Two Jewish Critics on Sainéan’s Life Abbreviations Bibliography Index
£100.89
Central European University Press The Triumph of Uncertainty: Science and Self in
Book SynopsisTauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science’s – and his own personal – quest for explanatory certainty. During the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences. This “triumph of uncertainty” is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polanyi called the “personal” and the “tacit”) invariably affects how data are understood. Whereas positivism had claimed radical objectivity, post-positivists have identified how a web of non-epistemic values and social forces profoundly influence the production of knowledge. Tauber presents a case study of these claims by showing how immunology has incorporated extra-curricular social elements in its theoretical development and how these in turn have influenced interpretive problems swirling around biological identity, individuality, and cognition. The correspondence between contemporary immunology and cultural notions of selfhood are strong and striking. Just as uncertainty haunts science, so too does it hover over current constructions of personal identity, self knowledge, and moral agency. Across the chasm of uncertainty, science and selfhood speak.Table of ContentsForeword by Scott F. Gilbert Preface Introduction Chapter 1—Beginnings Chapter 2—On Ways of Knowing Chapter 3—Transitions Chapter 4—Rewriting Immunology Chapter 5—The Immune Self Chapter 6—Systems Philosophically Considered Chapter 7—Pursuing the Enigmatic Self Chapter 8—Rethinking Science Chapter 9—Outline of a Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science Chapter 10—A New Agenda Chapter 11—Personalizing Science Chapter 12—Moral Epistemology Chapter 13—Requiem for the Ego Chapter 14—Identity Reconsidered Conclusion Appendix 1—The Modernist Self Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
£24.65
Central European University Press Beyond the Siege of Leningrad
Book SynopsisThis memoir about the experiences of German occupation during the siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) was written by Moscow-born Evdokiia Vasil'evna Baskakova-Bogacheva (18881976), an émigré in Australia, at the age of eighty-one. The text had been forgotten in the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco since 1970 until the editors of this volume discovered it.In the memoirs, after accounting on her youth spent against the background of the First World War and of the two Russian revolutions of 1917, Evdokiia describes the inferno of the Nazi occupation as experienced in a suburb of Leningrad in 1941-43. She survived for nearly two years almost on the front line, within a few kilometers of the blockade ring. As a medical practitioner, she became useful for the occupational authorities and the ever-shrinking town population, until her family was evacuated to the west in October 1943. Besides hunger, discord, disease, the hunt for food and firewood, along with violence and death, Evdokiia's account deals with various forms of cooperation between Soviet citizens and the new authorities. All the events she recalls can be confirmed through other sources. The introduction and the detailed notes to the text help the reader to locate Evdokiia's recollections in time and place, and situate them in their historical context.
£91.21
State University of New York Press Almanac
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£17.30
Post Hill Press What Happened to Ellen
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£18.70
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Man Who Watered His Lawn
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Johnny Yesno
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£11.39
Penguin Random House India The Fractured Himalaya
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£27.16
Hachette Australia Servo
Book Synopsis''The descriptions are sublime . . . Goodwin''s eye - sharp, unforgiving - allows nothing to escape . . . His literary promise is savage'' THE AUSTRALIAN''Goodwin is a natural-born storyteller, effortlessly compelling whether he''s talking about the draconian policies of his bosses, the mad ramblings of his regulars or his own forays into chemical-induced debauchery . . . However, the true secret to Servo''s brilliance is that beneath its irreverent, gonzo stylings it''s actually a heartfelt, coming-of-age memoir'' READINGSAn odyssey of drive-offs, spiked slurpees, stale sausage rolls and sleep-deprived madness.Most of us have done our time in the retail trenches, but service stations are undoubtedly the frontline, as Melburnian David Goodwin found out when he started working the weekend graveyard shift at his local servo.From his very first night shift, David absorbed a consistent level of mind-bending lunacy, enco
£13.49
Saqi Books Lebanese Cuisine
Book SynopsisA collection of soups, salads, meats and deserts. It includes over a hundred inventive recipes: lentil soup with tomatoes, calamari and coriander salad, five-spice lamb and rice, fried halloumi cheese with quince jam, pumpkin kibbeh, pears in arak, and rose ice cream, to name but a few.Trade Review`Ahmad Joudeh's story is one that is worth knowing, worth recounting to everyone ... it touches the heart and truly lets us understand the importance of having a dream, of believing in it solidly and of fighting for it until that dream becomes reality.' Roberto Bolle
£20.00
Right Book Press From Crime Scenes to Cruise Ships
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£13.49
Right Book Press The Firkin Saga
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£17.09
Reach plc My Mothers Murder
Book SynopsisFor 35 years Gina McGavin hunted for her mother's killer. Mary's murder gripped the town of Partick for yearsafter her death. This is the extraordinary journey of a daughter's search for truth and justice for the mother she never really knew.
£9.49
Massey University Press Hastings
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£26.09
Te Papa Press Dear Colin Dear Ron
Book SynopsisA LONG FRIENDSHIP IN ART AND IDEAS THROUGH LETTERSThis substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art.The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They remained close, writing regularly to each other until 1981, when McCahon became too unwell to write. Their 380 letters covered McCahon's art practice, the contemporary art scene, ideas, philosophy and the spiritual life. Dazzling in their range, intensity and candour, the letters track a unique friendship and partnership in art.The book is illustrated with 64 images, all discussed in the letters. Simpson's selection represents the first time these letters have been transcribed and collected in what is an act of great generosity to future scholars. It adds a new dimension to an understanding of McCahon and his career and is a rich and lively addition to any art lover's McCahon library.O'Reilly's son Matthew O'Reilly and McCahon's grandson Finn McCahon-Jones contribute insightful essays that round out the unique perspective the letters afford.
£40.00
Double 9 Booksllp The Road
Book SynopsisThe Road, first published in 1907, is an autobiography by Jack London. London explains about his experiences and adventures as one of the hoboes. He spent his years as a hobo in America and Canada in the years 1894-1895. London starts with a story showing what excellent liars hoboes could be. He presents his illustration as an apology to a woman in Salt Lake City that he convinced to provide him support. The next chapter explains some other skills of the hobo, the most important of which is the 'holding down' of the train. The rest of the book details different aspects of hobo life, including their diverse backgrounds. The last chapter is about the bulls, the cops. London says throughout the book about how the American system is unfair to the hoboes.
£10.44
Double 9 Booksllp The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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£9.89
Double 9 Booksllp The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
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£12.59
Double 9 Books Chamber Music
Book SynopsisJames Joyce's book of poems titled Chamber Music was released by Elkin Mathews in May 1907. There were originally thirty-four love poems in the anthology, but two more were added before it was published (All day I hear the noise of waters and I hear an army charging upon the land). Although it is widely believed that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment that gives an earthiness to a title that was initially proposed by his brother Stanislaus and that Joyce (by the time of publication) had come to dislike: The reason I dislike Chamber Music as a title is that it is too complacent, he admitted to Arthur Symons in 1906. I would prefer a title that criticized the work while avoiding outright trashing it. Chamber Music's poetry isn't at all racy or evocative of the sound of tinkling urine, in fact. The poems were well-received by critics despite poor sales (less than half of the original print run of 500 had been sold in the first year).
£9.25
