Biography: General
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Pans Daughter
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£22.99| /During the 1950s and early 1960s the Sydney-based trance-artist and Pan-worshipper, Rosaleen Norton, was well known in Australia as the Witch of K...
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Pardon My Hearse
Linden Publishing£17.99| /Even celebrities die -- and he was the man who picked up the bodies! Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in...
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Passing Through Missing Pages
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Annie Garland Foster was born in Fredericton, NB, in 1875. She was an educator, nurse, politician, social reformer, journalist and biographer of Pa...
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Past Truth & Present Poetry
TFM Publishing Ltd (UK)£20.00| /This is a book comprising 28 small chapters focusing on medical scientists and their discoveries. The title states past truth because these are tru...
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Patriot Priest
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This book tells one man's personal experience over several epochs and areas of history. It is also, in part the story of one unique individual, aut...
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Paul Yandell, Second to the Best
Schiffer£22.99| /Unassuming late guitarist Paul Yandell described his career not as one of celebrity but as sideman, the musician that audiences hear while they're ...
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Peculiar Lessons
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £19.99Current price £7.99| /Part memoir, part social history, this collection of ten essays explores the various physical and natural elements that form the backdrop to Braun...
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People Of Troubled Water
American Travellers Press (US)£25.99| /People of the Troubled Water focuses on stories of people involved in early years of Missouri River history. It describes the adventures of explore...
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Persian Sphinx
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.00| /Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitan...
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Peter McLeavey
Te Papa Press£49.99| /From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the ...
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Pictures from My Memory
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£23.99| /I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live ...
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Pieces of Morrissey
Empire Publications (UK)£9.95| /Morrissey is a figure cult. But what drives his fans devotion? What makes them trek halfway round the world to catch his shows in the US or South ...
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Pioneer Canadian Actors
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /It seems that so many of today's Hollywood stars come from Canada, but at one time only a few could claim to have conquered Tinseltown. Here are th...
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Plundertown USA
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£15.99| /By taking this heart-rending journey into his own luminous past and the more remote and sombre past of the lumber-town where he grew up, Al Sandine...
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Polar Bears
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Around the Arctic Circle, polar bears are at the top of the food chain. They have no natural enemies and are fearless, living on the ice and huntin...
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Pomegranate Years
Paul Dry Books (US)£19.99| /This is an intimate account of three years lived on the island of Crete, documents a turbulent, stressful time of economic and political crisis in ...
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Poor Little Bitch Girl
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£19.99| /CJ Sleez. The name evokes fantasies... with visions of the slender blonde writhing on stage to a driving rock beat punctuating songs she belts out ...
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Popular Art and the Avant-garde
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-gard...
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Popular is Not Enough: The Political Voice of Joan Baez
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /In his study, Markus Jäger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavours as a political activist thro...
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Popular Is Not Enough: The Political Voice Of Joan Baez
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £36.00Current price £29.90| /Markus Jaeger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavors as a political activist throughout the las...
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Portrait of a Holocaust Child
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /Portrait is an artistic book which uniquely tells the true story of Rita Kasimow Brown's experience of hiding in an underground pit from the Nazi d...
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Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Spinifex Press£17.95| /I am seen by many as a danger. As having failed to understand the new rules, the new paradigm of successful motherhood. A memoir and an examination...
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Prairie Murders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /These eight true tales explore the dark side of 20th-century prairie history. A Saskatchewan farmhouse is burned to the ground to conceal the bruta...
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Present Past
Ibex Publishers (US)£40.99| /This is a selective mémoire, as the author, well known Iranian musicologist and composer Hormoz Farhat, calls it. His rich life is divided into fou...
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Prisoner of Dreams
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /An African American soldier returns home to New York City from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It is a time and turbulence and change. Racism is...
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Proteins Researcher Biographical Sketches & Research Summaries
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£84.99| /This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of proteins, as well as research summaries from a number of different fo...
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Purses & Shoes For Sale
Acadian House Publishing£18.99| /Purses & Shoes For Sale is a hardcover book about the author's journey as a caregiver to her elderly parents in the twilight of their lives. Pa...
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Queering the Way
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Edmonton's Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debute...
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R.G. Smith
Schiffer Military£27.99| /R.G. Smith began his career as an engineer for Douglas Aircraft Company in the 1930s, and played a key role in the design of many successful tactic...
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R.M. Patterson
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /David Finch's highly regarded biography of R.M. Patterson is now available in paperback. The escapades of this great Canadian are brought to life i...
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Rabbinate in Stormy Days
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /From his days as a precocious youngster in Lomzha to his service as rabbi of Belfast and Dublin, chief rabbi of the Irish Free State, and then chie...
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Racing Time
Dementi Milestone Publishing£35.99| /Racing Time is a book of searing intensity shining a healing light into the wounds of loss. Most of all, it is a celebration of life-long friendshi...
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Raja of Mahmudabad
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£4.50| /The Raja of Mahmudabad (1914-1973) was the only Treasurer of the All-India Muslim League, as well as the founding President of both its main subsid...
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Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£15.99| /A trilogy of stories by the Edwards family about their fascinating life in the Bella Coola area. Often called "The Crusoe of Lonesome Lake," becaus...
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Ranching with Lords & Commons
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£16.99| /Ranching with Lords & Commons, originally published in 1903, tells the fascinating story of Alberta's famous Oxley Ranch from the perspective o...
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Randolph Caldecott
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a pioneer in the way he charmed his young readers with an innovative and engaging aesthetic approach to the pict...
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Random Illuminations
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (a...
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Rashi
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /"The magic spell cast by Rashi on the Jewish nation over eight centuries ago continues to enlighten and enchant us. What is the secret of Rashi's c...
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Raymond Chandler in Hollywood
Silman-James Press (US)£20.99| /This book offers an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler's turbulent association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose cred...
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Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories
Sydney University Press£16.99| /A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publ...
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Real Alaskans
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£17.99| /Biographies of modern Alaskans who are finding new challenges, yet trying to reach back into the past and preserve it.
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Real Jason Robinson
Empire Publications (UK)£17.95| /As the scorer of the only try in England's historic World Cup victory in 2003, Jason Robinson's career has scaled the peaks. Yet while his career h...
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Rebel Women
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The women in these stories did the unthinkable for their time: they followed their own paths, flouting convention and daring to break from the trad...
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Rebel Women of the Gold Rush
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the frenzied Klondike Gold Rush, many daring women ventured north to seek riches and adventure or to escape a troubled past. These unforgett...
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Rebel Women of the West Coast
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Here are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women--driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and action...
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Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Harry Stallworthy spent 20 years in the Canadian North with the RCMP. While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic...
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Red, White & Blackmore
Empire Publications (UK)£20.00| /As a homegrown player with a taste for spectacular goals, Clayton Blackmore was a fan favourite for Manchester United long before he secured cult s...
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Reena
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Shortlisted for the 2009 George Ryga Award. This is the story of an average family that has never been the same . . . since its eldest child was sw...
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