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The Book of Her Life
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £14.99Current price £12.99| /The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative translation of The ...
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The Boy Who Walked
Boulder PublicationsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /In January 2012, 14-year old Burton Winters froze to death after his snowmobile broke down on the ice just outside his home in Makkovik, Labrador. ...
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The Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century
SchifferOriginal price £136.99Current price £89.04| /Art flourished in France to an exciting and unprecedented degree in the 19th century. Sculpture was a part of this fantastic explosion of creative ...
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The Calling
Ibex Publishers (US)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /In the 19th century, countless individuals believed a new Revelation was imminent. In Persia, the Báb fulfilled the prediction by several clerics o...
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The Camp Men
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £54.99Current price £35.74| /nside these pages you will meet over 960 infamous men â the officers of Nazi Germany's Totenkopf (Death's Head). You will encounter the 256 SS off...
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The Changing North
CCI Press£26.99| /Imagine living through an arctic winter in shelter with no plumbing, not even an outhouse. For two months, the sun does not rise above the horizon,...
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The Clay Pigeons
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £31.99Current price £20.79| /This book is centered around the author's father's World War II diary. Robert C. Sage was a B-17 pilot who flew twenty-nine missions out of Thurlei...
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The Columbia
SchifferOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Books have been written about the highway that Samuel C. Lancaster built. This is the book that he wrote. Lancaster is known to all who have studie...
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The Delamere Saga
Interactive Publications£30.99| /This colourful and thoroughly researched history of the Lord Delamere branch of the British aristocracy focuses on the famous Vale Royal Abbey in C...
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The Diplomat
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £17.99Current price £13.49| /The story of the incident that forged Canada's reputation as a broker of peace and a player with outsized influence in world affairs. In a world on...
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The Doolittle Raiders
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Eighty brave men made a near-suicidal first attack on Japan about four months after Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted a quick respo...
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The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
Nova Science Publishers, IncOriginal price £172.99Current price £112.44| /The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln gets to the heart of young Lincoln's life and the origins of his reputation as "honest Abe". This biography is fu...
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The Earth Remembers Everything
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a masterful blend of history, travel and poetic narrative, tracing the author's journeys to some of the most difficult destinations in the ...
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The Edmonton Queen
Brindle & Glass (CA)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /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 Elephant Man
Acadian House PublishingOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascina...
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The Fatal Lure of Politics
Monash University PublishingOriginal price £26.99Current price £17.54| /A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he...
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The Fifty Greatest Women in American History
Nova Science Publishers, IncOriginal price £141.99Current price £92.29| /Over the past several hundred years, many women have made major, significant contributions to society, to their countries and to their field of end...
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The Fisher Queen
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)Original price £18.99Current price £14.24| /It's 1981, and Sylvia Taylor has signed on as rookie deckhand on a wallowy 40-foot salmon troller. Looking forward to making money for university, ...
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The Global Majlis
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£11.99| /With a career in international politics and diplomacy that spans decades, Dr Hamad Al-Kawari offers his unique perspective to the complex social an...
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The Global Majlis
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£11.99| /Text in Arabic. With a career in international politics and diplomacy that spans decades, Dr. Hamad Al-Kawari offers his unique perspective to the ...
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The Grads Are Playing Tonight!
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £25.99Current price £16.89| /Between 1915 and 1940 the amazing Edmonton Grads dominated women's basketball in Canada. Coached by J. Percy Page, they played over 400 official ga...
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The Great Successor: Kim Jong Un A Political Cartoon
Hungry Dictator Press (US)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /Where there is tyranny there is resistance! The 3rd generation successor will not escape the resistance of his people! This book details the realit...
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The History of German Aviation
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £45.99Current price £29.89| /Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978) was indisputably one of the most significant of Germany’s aeronautical design engineers. This book examines Messers...
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The History of German Aviation: Kurt Tank
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £36.99Current price £24.04| /This volume, the second in a mulit-volume history of German aviation, discusses the life work of one of Germany's greatest aircraft designers in pi...
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The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £54.99Current price £35.74| /The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft is the heretofore untold true story of Reimar, Wolfram, and Walter Horten's remarkable aeronautical...
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The Imperial German Eagles in World War I
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £72.99Current price £47.44| /Where the preceding two books of this pioneer series focused on the World War I German aviators featured on Sanke postcards, this final volume exam...
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The Imperial German Eagles in World War I, Vol. 2
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £63.99Current price £41.59| /This book, the second in a planned three-part series, looks at the remainder of Sankes aviator cards numbered 544-685. Sanke, Liersch and NPG postc...
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The Importance of Being Cool
Interactive Press£25.99| /Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searin...
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The Indian Commissioners
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Between 1873 and 1932, Indian policy on the prairies was the responsibility of federal government appointees known as Indian Commissioners. Charged...
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The Inventions and Discoveries of the Worlds Most Famous Scientists
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)Original price £243.99Current price £158.59| /Who were those famous men and women of science who gave us so much? What were they like? What motivated them and what led them to their amazing dis...
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The Judy Garland Collector's Guide
SchifferOriginal price £27.99Current price £18.19| /Judy Garland is a true Hollywood icon. A legend. Her remarkable 45-year career in show business began at the age of two, when she performed on stag...
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The King Who Came To Earth
Aetherius SocietyOriginal price £25.00Current price £16.25| /This is the true story of Dr. George King (1919-1997) who changed the history of our world. This biography will take you on a journey of his incred...
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The Lady Named Thunder
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £29.99Current price £19.49| /Dr. Margaret Phillips was a pioneering missionary who served in China at a time when women were usually dutiful wives, and certainly not unmarried ...
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The Last Fighting General
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £31.99Current price £20.79| /This is the full story of the legendary U.S. Army officer who formed, trained, and led the unique bi-national First Special Service Force (popularl...
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The Legendary Betty Frank
Caitlin Press (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /She grew up playing on log booms and living in float houses, and at nine years old she learned to shoot a rifle and hunt game. Strong-willed and in...
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The Letters of Queen Victoria. A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861
Nova Science Publishers, IncOriginal price £318.99Current price £207.34| /In her early years, Queen Victoria formed the habit of methodologically preserving her private letters. After her accession to the throne, she trea...
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