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Who Loves You Like This
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...
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Why Grow Here
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...
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Wild Daisies in the Sand
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This book reopens a chapter in Canadian history. The book is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941, when author Tom Sando was imprisoned in c...
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Wildest of the Wild West
Clear Light Publishers (US)£17.99| /The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades con...
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Willem Leyel's Travel to India 1639-1643
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /On 8 November 1639, Willem Leyel leaves Denmark as commander of the ship "Christianshavn". The destination is the Danish possession Tranquebar with...
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Windows on a Women's World
Otago University Press£29.50| /The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, ...
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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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Wings Over the Sea
Goose Lane Editions£12.99| /Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses's fame began when ...
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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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Wires in the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung ...
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Wisdom Engaged
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /"I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still here. That is how you stay alive." --Mida Donnessey Wisdom Engaged demonstrates ho...
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Wisdom from the Oval Office
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£19.99| /Wisdom from the Oval Office is the largest collection of presidential quotations ever assembled: 40 chapters, each dealing with one of the major th...
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Wisdom of Progressive Voices
Cardinal Publishers Group (US)£17.99| /This book celebrates the words and lives of those who have articulated a forward thinking view of political, social, and environmental issues of th...
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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 Unfailing Dedication
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£18.99| /The severe shortage of teachers brought on by WWII meant that teenagers -- some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country school...
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Wohlfahrtsstaat der Mittelschichten?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /The study focuses on the relationship between welfare state and middle classes in Germany in the period between 1949 and 1975. It examines the deve...
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Women and Jihad
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /This book explores the ways in which Palestinian female terrorists have injected their narrative into the Arab, American and even Israeli media. Th...
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Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£22.99| /"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as ...
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Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£67.99| /"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as ...
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Women Mean Business
Otago University Press (NZ)£23.00| /From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we...
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Women of Brave Mettle
Caitlin Press (CA)£17.99| /In this much-anticipated second volume in the Extraordinary Women Anthology series, Diana French follows up on Gumption and Grit with more stories ...
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Women of the Danish Golden Age
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /This broad, interdisciplinary work explores the little recognised contributions of women to the cultural life of the Danish Golden Age. Featuring c...
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Women Under Fire
Brown Sparrow Publishing£19.99| /"A hard look at the extraordinary culture of violence and intimidation committed every day in the US military. The book should be required reading ...
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