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Popular Art and the Avant-garde
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-gard...
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Popular is Not Enough: The Political Voice of Joan Baez
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /In his study, Markus Jäger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavours as a political activist thro...
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Present Past
Ibex Publishers (US)£40.99| /This is a selective mémoire, as the author, well known Iranian musicologist and composer Hormoz Farhat, calls it. His rich life is divided into fou...
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Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Malcolm Forsyth (1936-2011) was a musical legend: a much-loved composer, performer, teacher, and mentor. Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth presents a ...
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Renee Zellweger
Folklore Publishing (CA)£6.99| /Renée Zellweger is living the American Dream. From the small town of Katy, Texas, Zellweger has climbed quickly to the heights of stardom with som...
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Romy Schneider Story
Reel Publishing (UK)£10.00| /Determined to tread her own path, Austrian film sensation, Romy Schneider was talented, honest, prickly, loving and ultimately tragic. The star of ...
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Ross Perot
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£35.99| /Born in Texas and worked as a cowboy before attending the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he joined IBM and left to form Electr...
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Run As One
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £19.99Current price £7.99| /Errol Ranville has been running all his life: from chronic poverty and racism in rural Manitoba; a discriminatory music business; alcohol and drug ...
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Russell Crowe
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /Russell Crowe has been compared to Marlon Brando, Errol Flynn, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. He demonstrates a versatility as an actor rarely ...
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Saxon -- Never Surrender (or Nearly Good Looking)
IP Verlag (D)£15.99| /For over thirty years, Saxon has been led from the front by charismatic and larger-than-life vocalist Biff Byford. In 'Never Surrender', he tells h...
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Seven Big Australians
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Comic actors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life in Australia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of mem...
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Sex & the Singer
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£69.99| /The most famous Russian Opera Star of the 20th Century Feodor Chaliapin, as stated by some memoirists, was known in Europe as a womanizer, while th...
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Shadow of Doubt
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardOn July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of...
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Shadow of Doubt
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /A national bestseller, now updated, expanded, and revised to tell an even bigger story.On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewi...
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Showman
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /His father was a magician; his mother trained white doves. Russ Whitebone grew up in the colourful world of the Big Top and the vaudeville stage. S...
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Song on My Lips
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£19.99| /Stephen Botek apprenticed at the side of some of the greats of the jazz era, learning not only about music, but about life. Growing up in small-tow...
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Spoonfed
Manor House Publishing Inc£19.99| /With a string of smash hits -- Nova Heart, Tell No Lies, Old Emotions, Romantic Traffic -- the Spoons redefined the musical landscape and captured ...
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Starring Edward Woodward
Reel Publishing (UK)£20.00| /"Starring Edward Woodward" is a star-image construction that benefits greatly from the inclusion of personal memories and photographs provided by t...
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Starring Edward Woodward
Reel Publishing (UK)£25.00| /"Starring Edward Woodward" is a star-image construction that benefits greatly from the inclusion of personal memories and photographs provided by t...
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Steady Steady
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /Book & CD. Born on Thursday Island in 1929, Seaman Dan didn't release his debut album, Follow the Sun', until his 70th birthday. In the next t...
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Teacher
AMPS£9.99| /This is the stoy of The Teacher to The Beatles told in his own evocative words with the help of his boyhood friend and rock & roll fan turned a...
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The Atlanta Rhythm Section
Schiffer£27.99| /This book is the authorized chronicle of the Atlanta Rhythm Section, the legendary southern rock band that created such memorable hits as “Champagn...
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The Edmonton Queen
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /A Drag Dynasty is about to be divined from the high life decade of decadence. It is destined, pre-ordained -- and perfectly coiffed. Darrin Hagen, ...
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The Life and Times of Lilian J. Rice, Master Architect
Schiffer£31.99| /Architect to some of the nation’s wealthiest achievers in the first half of the twentieth century, Lilian Rice was given an unprecedented opportuni...
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The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott
Schiffer£22.99| /Known as the "Audubon of Botany," Philadelphia, Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860–1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise...
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Verity Sweeny Purdy at the age of eleven was sent to England to live with an aunt and train as a classical dancer. This memoir tells of her experie...
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The Metamorphosis
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, Canadian Regional Design Awardmet-a-mor-pho-sis: a complete change of form, structure, or su...
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The Namesake, the Biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Brick Tower Press£19.95| /"Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most decorated soldier in American history, having earned his Congressional Medal of ...
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Theo Schoon
Massey University Press£46.99| /Émigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultura...
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Two Frank Thrings
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /They shared a name, of course, and their physical resemblance was startling. And both Frank Thrings were huge figures in the landscape of twentieth...
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Unstrung Heroes
Schiffer£31.99| /There may be plenty of books on guitar players, but there are very few, if any, that delve into the guitar players who have been somewhat "under th...
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Volume
Sarsen Press (UK)£8.99| /Have you ever been to a gig? Have you ever been obsessed with music? This is Oliver Gray's memoir of 30 years spent dabbling on the periphery of th...
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When Jolson Was King
Celebrity Profiles Publishing (US)£25.99| /Here is the quintessential Al Jolson tribute from the pen of author/music historian Richard Grudens, documenting the story of Al Jolson's colourful...
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Winging Home
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /In British Columbia's remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, "Everything is slow. Everything is happening at the same speed, which is no speed at all."...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ariadne Press (US)£13.99| /The world is familiar with Mozart the composer, but in his private life he lived a variety of other roles: husband, father, son, and cousin, among ...
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Wormwood Star
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£14.99| /In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron, one of the mos...
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