Biography & Autobiography
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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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Theodor Herzl
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /You would think that everything there is to say about Theodor Herzl, father of modern Zionism, has already been written and published. In fact, the...
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They Called Me Otherwise
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£12.99| /The Scots conquered the world. They just forgot to tell anyone about it. This book remedies that situation. Packed with humour and wisdom, it is at...
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Thinking Black
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£21.99| /Most non-Indigenous Australians know of Charles Perkins. Many are familiar with a few other Aboriginal leaders. Yet few have heard of William Coope...
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This Medical Life
Clinical Press (UK)£12.99| /"Unparalleled in British medical history James Owen Drife charted his reactions to the medical world in which he worked and published them, initial...
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Those Who Know
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /The elders in this book have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they ...
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Three Against the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /Timeless tales about wilderness living. Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent home...
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Tiger in the Tank
Ariadne Press (US)£26.99| /This is an expanded English edition of the book 'Tiger in the Tank' that was first published in German in 2002. It is a compilation of interviews a...
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To a Distant Island
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing vi...
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To Love One's Enemies
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£48.99| /Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century. She was a feminist, a pacifist and an internationalist, and a...
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To See or Not to See
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£20.00| /"Inez De Florio, born blind, tells us the moving, fascinating, and true story of her recovery from blindness at the age of 48 and how she coped wit...
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To the Summit
Massey University Press£30.99| /This is the inspirational, motivational story of climber Nick Allen, who went from wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis to life in the mountain...
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Tore Olaus Engset, 1865-1943
Tapir Academic Press (N)£43.00| /Every curriculum in traffic or queuing theory presents Engset's formula. Published in 1918 this relatively simple, yet powerful piece of scientific...
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Touching History
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This gripping memoir tells the personal story of a man who has lived at the epicentre of the major events of modern Jewish history. From the ashes ...
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Towards a Distant Sea
Indra Publishing (AUS)£20.99| /Paul, a young Australian priest arrives in the Philippines in 1971 as Martial Law is proclaimed by President Marcos. His idealism exposes him to fi...
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Trail to the Interior
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Reliving the adventures of past explorers. Trail to the Interior is R. M. Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cas...
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Turning Fear into Power
Cune Press (US)£20.99| /In the wake of the 9-11 attacks in 2001, Linda Sartor was dismayed to see her country responding primarily with military action and coercive diplom...
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Twelve Years a Slave
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£172.99| /It was Solomon's fortune, during his captivity, to be owned by several masters. The treatment he received while at the "Pine Woods" shows that amon...
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Twilight on the Bay
Tidewater-Cornell Maritime£27.99| /Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B. B. Wills tells the story of one man's effort to sail against the tide. In 1934 when Benjamin B...
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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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Ulysses S Grant
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£212.99| /History generally has not been kind to Ulysses Grant. For the longest time, even his military reputation had been sullied by the stinging indictmen...
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Uncle Cy's War
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /At 31 years old, Major Cyrus Inches resolved to survive the Great War, and did so without losing his sense of humour, in spite of the tragedies he ...
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Under the Shade of Alborz
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£62.50| /Born in 1925, Shahroukh Firouz comes from a long line of great Iranian men including his father Norsat Doleh Firouz and grandfather Abdol Hossein M...
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Understanding Biographies
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£25.00| /In modern and post-modern times, biography is one of the most popular genres of the day. All around the Western world, we are engaged in the lives ...
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Unforgiving Tides
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£38.99| /This is the creative retelling of Dr. Ross Pennie's true adventures as a medical volunteer on a remote South Pacific island. At 25, Pennie is fresh...
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Unicorn in the Woods
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /A Globe and Mail Best BookA CBC New Brunswick Book List SelectionAs tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at ...
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Unrequited Love
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Dennis Altmans long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnsons Presidency. His early ...
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Unstoppable
Dual Publishing£20.99| /The greatest success stories can spring from the humblest of beginnings. Such is the case with Tariku Bogale. From his early days raised in poverty...
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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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Upper Chesapeake Bay Decoys and Their Makers
Schiffer£54.99| /Being on the migrational flyway for ducks and geese, the upper Chesapeake Bay has long been a center for waterfowl hunting. Where there is hunting,...
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Veronica Brady
ATF Press£18.99| /Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, rmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping th...
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Veronica Brady
ATF Press£25.99| /Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, rmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping th...
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Very Big Journey
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£18.99| /When that good old horse took me away from Borroloola on the long journey to Darwin, it changed my life forever ... I stopped being an Aboriginal g...
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Victor Kugler
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her dia...
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Viet Cong
Schiffer Military£36.99| /The Viet Cong have long remained a mystery even to those who fought against them during America's longest and most divisive war. They have been giv...
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Vikings on a Prairie Ocean
Great Plains Publications£23.99| /Well-known mediator and lawyer, Glenn Sigurdson blends personal memoir, family history and Icelandic lore in a unique and wide-ranging autobiograph...
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