Biography: General
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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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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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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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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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