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Collected biographies
Brand: Frances Lincoln
Rooms of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals in which famous writers created their most notable works. The perennial question asked of all authors is, 'How do you write?'. What do they require of their ..
26.52£
Few figures tower over twentieth-century art like Salvador Dalì and Andy Warhol. Their works were groundbreaking and incalculably influential, yet at the same time both artists were wildly popular in their lifetime and have only become more so in th..
47.68£
"The current compendium traces the development of the office's architectural practice and thinking through a series of completed buildings, works in progress and projects that, as yet, remain unrealised. The book illuminates its strategies of sustai..
83.48£
Brand: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Dyslexia won't stop you from writing your own success story.Discover the ten key traits which people with dyslexia have harnessed in order to reach success and self-fulfilment. Dyslexia brings both challenges and the potential gift of a unique skill..
21.03£
"Monsignor Franco is known as an engaging storyteller of his impactful time in the Church. Read this book and you will see why." - Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archdiocese of New York Six Popes: A Son of the Church Remembers is Monsignor Hilary C. Franco..
23.13£
Biography: Music, rock group ISBN: 9781786239242Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing LtdImprint: Grosvenor House Publishing LtdPublished date: 28 Nov 2016Language: EnglishNumber of pages: vii, 230Weight: 380gHeight: 141mmWidth: 215mmSpine width: 21..
20.26£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9789354227233Publisher: HarperCollins IndiaImprint: HarperCollins IndiaPublished date: 02 Sep 2021Language: EnglishWeight: 526gHeight: 237mmWidth: 163mmSpine width: 32mm..
23.79£
Brand: Pitch Publishing Ltd
In the early 1970s, the athletes of the German Democratic Republic started to achieve incredible sports results, winning medals and setting new world records with astonishing frequency. For many years, their sporting supremacy was hailed as a triump..
19.62£
In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. Novelist Edna O'Brien remembers being 'very frightened' of having her nipples touched. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty says she ..
15.16£
Brand: Texas AM University Press
For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of the World War II generation in the state of Texas.Tattooed on My Soul brings together seventeen of the most compelli..
45.21£
Inspirational Stories from History ISBN: 9781838222352Publisher: i2i PublishingImprint: i2i PublishingPublished date: 10 Mar 2021Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 434Weight: 662gHeight: 156mmWidth: 236mmSpine width: 30mm..
20.60£
Brand: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic gi..
14.77£
Brand: Columbia University Press
During a discussion of how women are treated in traditionally male-dominated fields, paleobotanist Ellen Currano lamented to filmmaker Lexi Jamieson Marsh that, as the only young and female faculty member in her department, she was not taken serious..
38.64£
Featuring over 50 boxers from North, Mid and West Wales, including first British boxer medal winner at the world amateur championships and the incredible youngster who was ranked in the world's top 10 by the American Ring magazine when he was just 1..
28.46£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
The story of the Brontës is told through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on and inscribed at the parsonage in Haworth. From Charlotte's writing desk and the manuscripts it contained to the brass collar worn by Emily's dog, Keeper, each object ..
18.30£
Brand: McFarland Publishers
Before the Gold Rush of 1848–1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier—and home to a colorful group of Spanish speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indian..
41.83£
"Knowledgeable, probing, and thoughtful." —Foreword Reviews Smokey Robinson • Barbara Kingsolver • Francis Ford Coppola • David Sedaris • Jane Goodall and other luminaries reveal the secrets to their creative success. Amy Tan talks about how she fin..
19.95£
This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences d..
36.02£
This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences d..
94.53£
The public perception of the Guards is of soldiers used for just ceremonial duties. The Drum Horse in the Fountain demonstrates how far from the mark is this image. It captures the careers, accomplishments, follies and the occasional crimes of over ..
26.53£
In an attempt to reconstruct an elusive aspect of the medieval Chinese imagination, The Eminent Monk examines biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks, from the uncompromising ascetic to the unfathomable wonder-worker.While analyzing images of the monk..
40.50£
The history of Queens' College, Cambridge, is traced by the lives and times of its first 40 Presidents. ISBN: 9781839758898Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing LtdImprint: Grosvenor House PublishingPublished date: 17 Mar 2022Language: EnglishWeight..
37.95£
THE GALANTHOPHILES tells the story of the lives of prominent snowdrop devotees from 1854 to 2014, accompanied by beautiful photographs and illustrations. ISBN: 9781903360286Publisher: Orphans PublishingImprint: Orphans PublishingPublished date: 18 N..
51.72£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omertà is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world's most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is the story o..
14.88£