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Incredible Eskimo
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£40.99| /The Book is a story of survival and hope in the Central Canadian Arctic. Father Raymond's first hand accounts of survival and life with the Eskimo....
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Indian Woman
Wisdom Tree (IND)£34.95| /The Indian Woman -- a picture of poise, an image of intellect, an exposition of enterprise. She doesnt just nurture the social, cultural and spirit...
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Inside College Football
SportsZone£97.99| /Every autumn, Saturdays belong to college football. Passionate fans pack stadiums across the country. Millions more watch on live television. But t...
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Inside Syria -- A Physician's Memoir
Cune Press (US)£20.99| /This is a street level view of Syria from 1965 that is far more nuanced than most reports in the US media. Tarif Bakdash, MD, was born and raised i...
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Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities.
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /This volume addresses processes of human mobility in times of crisis from different scientific perspectives and at a global and trans-regional leve...
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Invisible Country
Paul Dry Books (US)£25.99| /Stephan Wackwitz's family "never spoke about the fact that the scene of their childhood and the site of the century's greatest crime were separated...
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Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed Grafters
Brindle & Glass (CA)£10.99| /Bob Edwards, the Great White North's equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in We...
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Island Voices
Brick Tower Press (UK)£0.95| /"Island Voices", edited by Carol Galligan, choreographs the story of Shelter Island through the eyes of its inhabitants. From the words of former N...
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It Won't Be Long Now
Blacksmith Books (HK)£10.99| /Japan marched into Hong Kong at the outbreak of the Pacific War on 8 December 1941. On the same day, Graham Heywood was captured by the invading Ja...
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Italia '90 Revisited
Empire Publications (UK)£11.95| /Exclusive interviews with: John Barnes, Bryan Robson, Chris Waddle, Stuart Pearce, Peter Shilton, David Platt, Mark Wright, Des Walker, Paul Parker...
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Italian Aces of World War I and their Aircraft
Schiffer Military£63.99| /For the first time, a detailed history of a little known aspect of the Great War in the air: the forty-two Italian aces. From legendary personaliti...
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Ithell Colquhoun
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£30.00| /The skills of Ithell Colquhoun in her main practice, that of artist and pioneer in this country of surrealistic art, have been long recognised. Add...
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J P E Hartmann og hans kreds -- 3-Volume Set
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£92.99| /J P E Hartmann (1805-1900) is one of the most renowned figures within Danish musical history. In the course of his lifetime he corresponded with ma...
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J Paul Taylor
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£25.99| /This biography of one of New Mexico's most distinguished citizens, J Paul Taylor (born 1920) recounts the life of the legislator, educator, communi...
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J.B. Harkin
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Many of Canada's superb national parks owe their existence to James Bernard Harkin (1875-1955), the first commissioner of Canada's new Dominion Par...
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Jack Grout
Blue River Press (US)£19.99| /This book tells the remarkable story of a middle-class Oklahoman who discovered golf at the age of eight, was teaching it to others by age fifteen,...
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Jackson Years
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£78.99| /This is the story of the first three years of the Jackson presidency. The book covers other events in the United States during that period. Andrew ...
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Jade Fever
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Beautiful, translucent and indestructible, jade has a mystique that's captivated people since Neolithic times. Stan Leaming, Canada's leading jade ...
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James A Garfield
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /The Age of President Garfield was an exciting age as it featured the music of John Philip Sousa's marching bands, the new dime novels, captains of ...
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James Madison
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£59.99| /This book follows the life of James Madison, our 4th president, who at the tender age of twenty-five was thrust into significant politics as an ele...
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Jean Blackburn
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Jean Blackburn devoted much of her working life to the development of socially just education policy. From the early 1970s she worked with Peter Ka...
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Jean Galbraith
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /This is the story of Jean Galbraith, one of Australia's most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. During a writing care...
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Jean Galbraith
Monash University Publishing£28.99| /This is the story of Jean Galbraith, one of Australia's most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. During a writing care...
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Jean Primrose Whyte
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /After growing up on a remote South Australian property, and having seen her mother taken by a shark when she was two, Jean Primrose Whyte went on t...
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Jean-Claude Colin
ATF Press£57.99| /In 1830, at the age of forty, Jean-Claude Colin accepted the call of his colleagues to take charge of the Society of Mary (Marists). He had joined ...
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Jean-Claude Colin
ATF Press£83.99| /In 1830, at the age of forty, Jean-Claude Colin accepted the call of his colleagues to take charge of the Society of Mary (Marists). He had joined ...
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Jet Harris
Music Mentor Books (UK)£16.99| /As a founder member of the world's most successful instrumental group, the Shadows, and a chart-topper in his own right, bassist Jet Harris scaled ...
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Jiddu's Journey
Wisdom Tree (IND)£7.95| /In 1909 Charles Leadbeater, the leading member of the Theosophical Society, came across a young Brahmin boy on a beach in Adyar in Tamil Nadu. The ...
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Joachim Peiper
Schiffer Military£54.99| /In this new historical investigation, German historian Jens Weste-meier portrays the rise and fall of an SS war criminal, and demolishes persistent...
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Joan Martin (Yaarna)
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£23.99| /Joan Martin was born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941. She was a proud Widi woman whose traditional territory extended fro...
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Joan of Arc
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£75.99| /Few individuals in the annals of world history have had so lasting an impact as Joan of Arc, who rallied a country behind her and continues to insp...
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Johan Nicolai Madvigs dannelsestanker
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£21.99| /Johan Nicolai Madvigs dannelsestanker: en kritisk humanist i den danske romantik (Johan Nicolai Madvig's Thoughts on Cultural Education: A Critical...
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Johann Adolph Scheibe
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£85.99| /Johann Adolph Scheibe (17081776) must be considered the most important composer and Kapellmeister in Denmark in the eighteenth century. Although h...
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John Adams
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£212.99| /This is an excellent full length biography of America's second president who was the Colossus of Independence' arguing for the passage of the Decl...
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John F Kennedy
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£52.99| /President of the United States of America is an official title sought by many and won by only a few individuals. The series entitled First Men, Ame...
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John J Rhodes
American Travellers Press (US)£25.99| /This biography is about a man who continues to be cited by congressional scholars as a quintessential role model for legislative effectiveness and ...
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John Jefferson Bray
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /In March 1967 South Australian AttorneyGeneral Don Dunstan appointed his state's most outstanding barrister as Chief Justice. In public, Bray's app...
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John Mayall
Edition Olms AG£25.00| /John Mayall is an icon in the world of blues music and the Godfather of British blues. A pioneering musician, blues promoter and talent scout for o...
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John McCrae
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£10.99| /Most Canadians are familiar with John McCrae through his iconic poem In Flanders Fields, which was penned on the battlefields of the First World Wa...
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John Rae, Arctic Explorer
University of Alberta Press (CA)£50.99| /John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae's accomplishments is much gr...
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John Randolph of Roanoke, 4th Edition
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /John Randolph of Roanoke -- Roanoke being the name of his home in Charlotte County, Virginia -- is unique in American political history. Only twent...
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John Randolph of Roanoke, 4th Edition
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /John Randolph of Roanoke -- Roanoke being the name of his home in Charlotte County, Virginia -- is unique in American political history. Only twent...
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Johnny Depp
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /Johnny Depp--Hollywood bad boy? Rebel? Or simply misunderstood. His name and photo have been on the covers of the major entertainment 'zines and th...
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Journalist on Trial
Manor House Publishing (CA)Original price £17.99Current price £15.99| /The captivating story of Rodney D Sieh, one of Africa's finest investigative journalists. This story will resonate with virtually every journalist ...
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Journey of Hope
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£10.99| /"Columbia is lost; there are no survivors" -- President George W Bush, 1 February 2003. Ramon's life stands as a beacon to those who despair of tri...
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Journeyman
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £11.99Current price £6.99| /Journeyman is a first-person biography of Ojibwe rightwinger Jamie Leach, son of the legendary NHL superstar Reggie Leach. Follow the fascinating h...
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Journeywoman
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Since women started working in the trades in the 1970s, very little has been published about their experiences. In this provocative and important b...
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Juan Ponce de Leon
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£27.99| /Juan Ponce de León was an important figure in the history of the Spanish colonisation of what are today Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the south-east...
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