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The Letters of Queen Victoria. A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£318.99| /In her early years, Queen Victoria formed the habit of methodologically preserving her private letters. After her accession to the throne, she trea...
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The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /This book, originally published in 1914, is a unique telling of the life of Cleopatra. The author, a well-learned historian of his time, offers a t...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£274.99| /The work here was begun in 1894 at the suggestion of Mr. S. S. McClure and Mr. J. S. Phillips, editors of McClures Magazine. Their desire was to a...
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The Long and Winding Road
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Highway 97 winds its way from the high desert plains of northern California to the Yukon-British Columbia border, making it North America's longest...
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The Long Walk Home
Brindle & Glass (CA)£23.99| /The Canadian media were the first to bring Master Corporal Paul Franklin's story to the public, and it is only fitting that award-winning journalis...
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The Man in Blue Pyjamas
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji...
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The Man Who Saved Vancouver
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /How the city reporters of the 1950s must have loved Major Matthews. Eminently quotable, forthright and provocative in speech . . . his mere presenc...
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The Maquinna Line
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fi...
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The Marshall Story, A Biography of General George C. Marshall
Brick Tower Press (UK)£24.95| /This is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished writer whose own background makes h...
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The Metamorphosis
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, Canadian Regional Design Awardmet-a-mor-pho-sis: a complete change of form, structure, or su...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£97.99| /Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became the leader of the abolitionist movement. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sl...
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The Power of Knowledge - HEMED
Dekel Publishing House£14.99| /Uriel Bachrach was born in Germany in 1926 and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. In 1945 he began studying chemistry at The Hebrew University in Jer...
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The Powerbroker
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors ...
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The Remarkable Chester Ronning
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Scholar and diplomat Brian L. Evans gives us the first English-language biography of Chester A. Ronning (1894-1984): diplomat, politician, educator...
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The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbrin...
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The Right Fight
Goose Lane Editions£26.99| /In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalists account of how Bernard Lord rose...
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The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Setting out to visit his friends in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and with all intentions to return to the United States to attend Columbia University ...
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The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /In 1887, at the tender age of eighteen, Tappan Adney embarked on his first trip to New Brunswick. He had plans to enrol at Columbia University in t...
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The War Diaries of a Panzer Soldier
Schiffer Military£54.99| /This book is a unique personal account of the war on the Russian Front, written using the diaries and photos of Erich Hager who served in the 39th ...
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The War Diary of Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert
Schiffer Military£31.99| /Aerial combat over the Russian front from one who knew it first hand. Hauptmann Helmut Lipferts vivid portrayal of his experiences in JG 52 during ...
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The Wolves at Evelyn
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /At once a memoir, a work of philosophy, a story of European immigration to Canada's dark places of the earth, and an exploration of the roots and e...
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The Women of the American Revolution
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /When Elizabeth F Ellet compiled her history of "The Women of the Revolution," she could not have foreseen the deep interest in Colonial and Revolut...
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Theodor Herzl
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /You would think that everything there is to say about Theodor Herzl, father of modern Zionism, has already been written and published. In fact, the...
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Thinking Black
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£21.99| /Most non-Indigenous Australians know of Charles Perkins. Many are familiar with a few other Aboriginal leaders. Yet few have heard of William Coope...
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Three Against the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /Timeless tales about wilderness living. Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent home...
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Touching History
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This gripping memoir tells the personal story of a man who has lived at the epicentre of the major events of modern Jewish history. From the ashes ...
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Towards a Distant Sea
Indra Publishing (AUS)£20.99| /Paul, a young Australian priest arrives in the Philippines in 1971 as Martial Law is proclaimed by President Marcos. His idealism exposes him to fi...
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Trail to the Interior
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Reliving the adventures of past explorers. Trail to the Interior is R. M. Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cas...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Winging Home
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /In British Columbia's remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, "Everything is slow. Everything is happening at the same speed, which is no speed at all."...
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Winning for Women
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /What was it like to be involved in the heady days of second wave feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisi...
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Wiremu Pere
Libro International (NZ)£69.99| /Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapt...
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With All Her Might
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and...
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With the Black Devils:
Schiffer Military£27.99| /With The Black Devils offers readers a rare first-hand account of life with an elite group of American and Canadian World War II soldiers known as ...
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Women, Crime and the Courts
Blacksmith Books (HK)£13.99| /Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husbands concubine; sick of her mother-in-laws endless carping about the money s...
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Wyatt Earp
Golden West Cookbooks£8.99| /In his new series: 'Wild West Heroes and Rogues', Marshall Trimble recounts the mystique surrounding the lives of the famous and not-so-famous West...
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Yearning to Breathe Free
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...
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