Biography & Autobiography
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Vision & Impact of Fethullah Gülen
Blue Dome Press (US)£8.99| /Fethullah Gülen, who has been a household name in modern Turkey for several decades, has become something of a centre of gravity for millions of pe...
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Voices of the Elders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /There is a special place on the south-eastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rock...
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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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Vulture's Row
Schiffer Military£27.99| /Told in anecdotal form, Vulture\s Row tells a fascinating story about an important period covering nearly one half of the entire history of U.S. na...
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Waffen-SS Commanders
Schiffer Military£54.99| /The units of the Waffen-SS were some of the most successful and influental combat formations produced by any country in this century. Their abiliti...
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Waffen-SS Commanders
Schiffer Military£54.99| /The units of the Waffen-SS were some of the most successful and influental combat formations produced by any country in this century. Their abiliti...
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Waiting for Eli
Acadian House Publishing£17.99| /Waiting For Eli: A Father's Journey from Fear to Faith is a 176-page hardcover book about a Lafayette, La., couple and their infant son Eli who was...
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Wake-Up Call
Caitlin Press (CA)£12.99| /In his second book, Sterling Haynes begins by telling us that at the age of seventy a left hemisphere stroke rearranged his brain. "My right creati...
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Walking the Tycoons Rope
Blacksmith Books (HK)£10.99| /Robert Wang fled the Chinese civil war at the age of five and came to Hong Kong with nothing. The colony was a harsh place in the 1950s and 1960s. ...
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Wandering Jew Has Arrived
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£17.99| /In 1929 Albert Londres, a non-Jew and renowned journalist, set out to document the lives of Jews at this time. His travels to England, Eastern Euro...
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Waters of Lahore
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£30.00| /Conceived as a trilogy, The Waters of Lahore is a political autobiography written in the third person, loosely using the literary technique known a...
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Waves
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£11.99| /Amwaj tells the story of a young Ibrahim who was born and raised in Kirkuk to a family of farmers and landowners. Kirkuk of his childhood was an id...
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We Were Europeans
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£40.99| /From pre-Hitler Germany to Kristallnacht, a last minute escape from the Holocaust, and on to a life on three continents, this book catalogues the e...
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Welcome to Hell
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£18.99| /"Welcome to Hell" the drill instructor announced to the small crowd of young men staring at him apprehensively, his words charging the atmosphere w...
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Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel
Garrett County Press (US)£13.99| /Ben Granby, frustrated American food service worker, takes a multifarious, back roads ramble through the combat zone of Israel/Palestine, circa 200...
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Werner Conze
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£52.99| /Werner Conze (19101986) is one of the most important, but also most controversial German historians of the 20th century. With his pioneering work ...
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Whale Hunt in the Desert
Huntington Press Inc (US)£17.99| /This definitive exposé reveals the shrouded world of ultra-high rollers and the Faustian pacts they forge with their hosts, the casino representati...
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What Lies Beneath
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The firs...
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What the Mouth Wants
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghettis unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love...
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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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Where the Nights Are Twice as Long
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary...
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Wherever I Find Myself
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /In this third anthology in the Canadian women series by Caitlin Press, Canadian immigrant women from a variety of ethnicities and intersecting iden...
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White War, Black Soldiers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...
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White War, Black Soldiers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...
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Why Your CEO Failed in China
Blacksmith Books£13.99| /Jack Leblanc arrived in China in 1989 intending to teach for just two years. He was to spend the next two decades on a very different learning curv...
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Wild & Free
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Jack Boudreau is back with another wild and woolly, scarcely believable but nevertheless true tale of misadventure in British Columbia's northern w...
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William Saroyan
Linden Publishing (US)£27.99| /Lavishly illustrated with beautiful, evocative watercolors, this record visits dozens of locations influential to the life of Pulitzer Prize-winnin...
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Wing Chun Warrior
Blacksmith Books (HK)£9.99| /Duncan Leung was introduced to Wing Chun Kung Fu by his childhood friend, famed screen star Bruce Lee. At the age of 13, after the ritual of 'three...
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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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Wings of the North
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£15.99| /This is a true story about bush pilots flying in Northern British Columbia. From beside a fleecy cloud where the icy mountain top hides a rising su...
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Wings Over the Sea
Goose Lane Editions£12.99| /Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses's fame began when ...
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Winning for Women
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /What was it like to be involved in the heady days of second wave feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisi...
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Winning Ways
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£23.99| /Ever wonder why some people achieve impressive success while others reach for the brass ring only to see it slip from their grasp? Join Michael B D...
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Winning Ways
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£19.99| /Learn how leading developer Rudy Reimer fled Nazi Germany to build success in Canada and earn widespread praise from the business community and bey...
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Wiremu Pere
Libro International (NZ)£69.99| /Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapt...
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Wisdom in Nonsense
University of Alberta Press (CA)£10.99| /I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with tho...
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