Biography: General
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Sheperd Paine
Schiffer Military£72.99| /Sheperd Paine did more than anyone to elevate modeling to the level of an art form - one that includes elements of painting, sculpting, research, a...
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Shiva's Rainbow
Ethos-UK (UK)£10.99| /This is a very personal autobiography, an Orwellian journey of self discovery, rebirth, love and friendship in the face of appalling psychological ...
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Showdown!
Linden Publishing (US)£16.99| /Punctuated by gunshots and hoof beats, this engaging collection presents six biographies of hardened lawmen in Old California. Illustrating the dan...
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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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Shut Away
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /An explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions ki...
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Siauw Giok Tjhan
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Siauw Giok Tjhan (1914-1981) was one of the most influential Chinese Indonesian political leaders active in the early decades following Indonesias...
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Sicilian Mafia
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Italian gangland experience. Since 2006 Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots...
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Sidney Crosby
Overtime Books (CA)£11.99| /This upstart hockey champion from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, has led a seemingly charmed life, garnering awards and firsts since he learned to skat...
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Signers of the Declaration
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /This book incorporates a comprehensive survey of sites and buildings associated with the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The book highl...
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Sir Frank Packer
Sydney University Press£30.00| /Legendary media baron Sir Frank Packer was pugnacious, autocratic and always controversial. After joining forces with Labor politician E.G. Theodor...
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Sir John Franklin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Ere...
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Sir Michael Sadler 1861-1943
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£39.99| /The writer's main purpose in this book is to arouse interest on the reader's part in an extraordinary personality. Michael Sadler was a Comparative...
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Site of Convergence
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /17 September 2011 will mark 10 years exactly since the formal opening of the Monash University Prato Centre, Monash Universitys teaching and resear...
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Sitting Bull in Canada
Folklore Publishing (CA)£11.99| /This book recounts the story of the great Sioux chief Sitting Bull's retreat into Canada after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The story centers ...
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Six Foot Two, Eyes OF Blue...
Empire Publications (UK)£10.95| /BIG JIM HOLTON was a cult hero for Manchester United and Scotland during the heady early 1970s. Although he had the terrace anthem Six Foot Two,...
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Skateboarding
Overtime Books (CA)£7.99| /Read about the culture of skateboarding...the early daredevils and the new breed of innovators. â¢Skateboarding's growing pains and the flagship c...
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Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman?
Otago University Press (NZ)£23.00| /This is a biography of one of New Zealands most colourful and persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 185...
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Slumach's Gold
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in...
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Smugglers of the West
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada's west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many...
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Snippets from the Trenches
Freda Wagman (US)£18.99| /"The really extraordinary thing about this book is that it tells the story of how one mother embarked on her feverish course of involvement in the ...
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Snow Bodies
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Snow Bodies is a memoir of a young woman's life on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver in the early 1970s, in the vein of Evelyn Lau's Runaway. Di...
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Snowflake Man
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£25.99| /This is a biography of Wilson Alwyn Bentley, the farmer from Jericho, Vermont, who took over five thousand photomicrographs of ice, dew, frost, and...
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Song for Rosaleen
Massey University Press£23.99| /A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mothers dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmonds life an...
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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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Sonia
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /After Sonia Cornwall's father died in 1939, her mother inherited the Onward Ranch and a huge debt. To make the ranch viable, a twenty-year-old Soni...
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Sooner Or Later
Clear Light Publishers (US)£15.99| /This colourful chronicle of pioneering experience emerges from Virginia Stumbough's priceless collection of family letters, diaries, scrapbooks, al...
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Soul to Soul
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /When she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2007, Deborah Masel's life collapsed. Two and a half years later, her struggle to find mean...
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Spectacular Canadians
Blue Bike Books (CA)£11.99| /Nation builders, titans of industry and great thinkers; brilliant writers, movie stars and sports heroes; dirty scoundrels, pirates and hooligans--...
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Spook War
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This book gives a glimpse and a tour into the primary and collateral events triggered when the Reagan Administration abruptly shifted three decades...
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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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SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Theodor Teddy Wisch
Schiffer Military£22.99| /This biography examines, in great detail, the life of Theodor Wisch, Waffen-SS General and Swords to the Knights Cross holder. A member of the Lei...
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SS-Sturmbannführer Ernst August Krag
Schiffer Military£18.99| /This biography of Ernst August Krag, offers a close look at one of the elite troops most decorated officers. Examining his career from the pre-war...
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Stalin's Eagles
Schiffer Military£54.99| /Stalin's Eagles is the most complete and detailed book ever published on the Soviet aces. All of the great names are here: Kozhedub, Pokryshkin, Re...
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Standing My Ground
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /For over five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-gras...
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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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Steam Lion
Brick Tower Press (UK)£16.95| /The summer of 1840, and Boston Harbor is thrumming with politicians, business people, civic leaders, members of the judiciary, and the public. The ...
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Stella
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /A wealthy madam who was known from San Francisco to Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was glamorous, worldly and deter...
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Stepan Bandera -- The Life & Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£37.99| /"The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Ban...
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Stories of Service
Linden Publishing (US)£25.99| /Perfectly blending a vast historical scope with intensely individual viewpoints, this stirring collection of stories brings a man-on-the-ground per...
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Story of Sir Peter Blake
Libro International (NZ)£16.99| /Sir Peter Blake was a New Zealand hero -- sailor, adventurer, leader and environmentalist. Competing in ocean races, he clocked up as many sea mile...
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Strange Beautiful Excitement
Otago University Press£22.99| /How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through ...
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Strangers No More
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£13.99| /In this book, Brunell reveals the personal account of his wife and children, as they embark on the journey of a lifetime he explains why he chose t...
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Strangling of Persia
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.50| /In 1911, an ambitious American was invited by a budding Iranian democracy to bring financial stability to the country. He went with the blessing of...
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Students of Deep Springs College
Lodima Press (US)£61.99| /Deep Springs College is the most unusual college in America. Arguably, it is also the best. It is located in such a remote place in the high desert...
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Subtle Moments
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Bruce Grant was raised in outback Western Australia but lived and worked at or near the centre of power in Australia for several decades, as journa...
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Sugar Ride
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /For three months Yvonne Blomer travelled by bike with her husband Rupert Gadd through Southeast Asia. A type one diabetic since childhood, she also...
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