Biography: General
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Negotiating Human Rights
University of Alberta Press (CA)£34.99| /Christina Isajiw's book Negotiating Human Rights: In Defence of Dissidents during the Soviet Era. A Memoir chronicles the activities of the Human R...
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Nehru: A Troubled Legacy
Wisdom Tree (IND)£19.95| /Nehru: A Troubled Legacy raises a fundamental question: Have we yet made an honest assessment of Nehruand in effect, an honest assessment of India...
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Nehrus Kashmir
Wisdom Tree (IND)£34.99| /This beautifully illustrated book with photographs by photojournalist Sati Sahni captures the many moods of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, indepe...
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Nelson Mandela
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£6.25| /Nelson Mandela was the mastermind behind the armed struggle of the African National Congress (ANC) to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Afric...
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Never Again! Yet Again!
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /In this remarkable introduction, Stephen D Smith, the new Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education...
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Never Arrested, Never Convicted
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This book reveals Marvin Clark's fascinating life as a Boston drug dealer from 1960-1990 and a participant in some of seminal events of the latter ...
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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me...
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New Tricks
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /What is the essence of leadership? Richard Larkins, a major figure of Australian science, medicine, and university administration, including as vic...
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Nieuport
Schiffer Military£31.99| /This new biography of Edouard Nieuport, written by his grandson GÅ"rard Pommier, details the brilliant solutions he applied to cycling and automobi...
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No Foreign Bones in China
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Noted Canadian journalist Peter Stursberg traces his family's history in China through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Second World Wa...
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No Laughing Matter
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£17.99| /The woman who first brought the issue of spousal abuse to the forefront in Canada presents her memoirs in this interesting, informative, entertaini...
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No Ordinary Woman
Rocky Mountain Books (CA)£23.99| /Artist, photographer, writer and explorer Mary Schaffer Warren overcame the limited expectations of women a century ago in order to follow her drea...
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No Stone Unturned
Apogee Books (US)£12.99| /A boy growing up in America during the Great Depression of the 1930s -- ambitious, inquisitive, blessed with endless energy -- had the world at his...
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No Way to Run
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /On 3 September 2010, the RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alberta, received a 911 call from Mat Crichton about a shooting on a local farm. Seconds later, mi...
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Nobody's Father
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /In a sequel to the celebrated collection of stories Nobody's Mother comes an honest and poignant collection of essays from men who have forgone fat...
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Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan: Madeleine
Suluk Press, Omega Publications£27.99| /Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was SOEs first woman wireless transmitter in German Occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the Geor...
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Nordau to NASDAQ
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /So how much are we worth, in your opinion? I asked. Just in case someone, maybe you, wants to buy us tomorrow morning, how much are we worth? Rick ...
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Norman Haire and the Study of Sex
Sydney University Press£33.99| /A star debater at school, Norman Haire had always wanted to be an actor. Forced to study medicine, he followed his other passion: saving the world ...
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Not My Fate
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Josephine Caplin (Jo) was born into a world marred by maternal abandonment, alcoholism and traumatic epileptic seizures. In grade three, she was ap...
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish
SportsZone£12.99| /Every autumn, Saturdays belong to college football. Passionate fans pack stadiums across the country. Millions more watch on live television. Learn...
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Obama -- The Postmodern Coup
Progressive Press (US)£9.99| /Remember compassionate conservatism and a humble foreign policy? You should. Tarpley reveals that the Obama puppet's advisors are even more radical...
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Odyssey of a Sailor
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£28.00| /This is the autobiography of a retired Naval Officer who had an extraordinary career spanning over forty-one years during which he served in three ...
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Of God and Mortal Men
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /This book conveys the artistic genius of T C Cannon (19461978) through his best and most iconic paintings and essays that offer a fresh and inclus...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
SportsZone£12.99| /Every autumn, Saturdays belong to college football. Passionate fans pack stadiums across the country. Millions more watch on live television. Learn...
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Oklahoma Sooners
SportsZone£12.99| /Every autumn, Saturdays belong to college football. Passionate fans pack stadiums across the country. Millions more watch on live television. Learn...
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Old Lives
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /Set in the wild country north of Lillooet and west of the great Fraser River, "Old Lives" paints the rugged landscape and equally rugged lives of t...
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Old Mans Story
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£23.99| /Old Mans story shares the remarkable story of one of Australias most respected elders and traditional land owners, Big Bill Neidjie. This new t...
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Olive Rush
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /This engaging biography brings light to the life, art, and extraordinary contributions of Olive Rush (1873-1966), artist, illustrator, muralist, Na...
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Oliver Reed
Playdead Press£7.99| /Im Oliver Reed from Wimbledon! Id say to anyone I met. I out-drank, out-spoke and out-punched everyone. Join hell-raiser Oliver Reed as he share...
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On the Curve
Caitlin Press (CA)£18.99| /Sybil Andrews was one of Canadas most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. From a cottage by the sea in Campbell River...
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On the Road
Music Mentor Books (UK)£15.99| /The music industry often paints a glamorous picture of its stars' lives and achievements, but what is life really like behind the gloss? How does i...
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On the Wings of Faith
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /Rabbi Eli Fishman began writing about his experiences in the Shoah over sixty years ago, soon after his liberation from Dachau. Mindful of the fact...
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Ootsa Lake Odyssey
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the ...
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The Order of British Columbia was established in 1989 to recognize and honour ordinary citizens who have made a difference in the lives of others. ...
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Orlando Bloom
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /Few movie stars have achieved the heights of fame with the blistering speed and reversal of fortune as Orlando Bloom. In 1998, the then-unknown act...
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Osama Bin Laden
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£6.25| /Osama bin Laden as Islamic fundamentalist leader, a self-styled Islamic scholar and a harsh critic of the United States, managed to -- rip a hole i...
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Oscar of Between
Caitlin Press (CA)£13.99| /In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to c...
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Other Voices, Other Eyes
Blacksmith Books (HK)£13.99| /The stories of expatriates in Hong Kong the most dynamic, dramatic and diverse city in the Asia-Pacific region come to life in this book. Why d...
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Otto Skorzeny: My Commando Operations
Schiffer Military£36.99| /The memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny appear here in its first unabridged English edition. Skorzeny's fame began with the successful raid to free B...
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Out of the Blue
Jan Wong£16.99| /What happens when the place you've loved working at for twenty years asks for a divorce and breaks your heart?"Tapping into her journalistic rigour...
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Out There
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£30.00| /From the late-1950s until his premature death in 1977, Burt Shonberg was one of the most highly admired artists in Los Angeles. During this period,...
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Outlaws and Lawmen of the West
Lone Pine Publishing£11.99| /The American frontier was a rough place where only the tough survived. Gold and cattle were king, and many took up stealing the former and rustling...
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Outlaws and Lawmen of the West
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£14.99| /In the Old West, the law was fragile, the men were armed, tempers were short and socializing took place over shots of rotgut whiskey on a card tabl...
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Outlaws of the Canadian West
Lone Pine Publishing£11.99| /The Canadian West has a history littered with tales of robbers and murderers. These frontier days were long before faxes, DNA analysis and e-mail, ...
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Outrider of Empire
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /A dreamer of dreams, an adventurer, and a man of many ideas, Roger Pocock was an inveterate, world-ranging traveler who lived the life that all adv...
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Outspoken
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /"In 2007, I underwent a crisis of sexual identity. I was married, with two young children, when I became attracted to another woman. The hostility ...
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P is for Prostitution
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£12.99| /"P is for Prostitution" is a primer unlike any you will have read before, the ABC approach far from simplistic. Through various episodes the author...
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Paint Me Black
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£18.99| /Claire Henty-Gebert's life is remarkable and inspiring. Born in the late 1930s, the daughter of a white settler and an Alyawarra woman, Claire was ...
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