Collected Biographies
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Biologists in the Age of Totalitarianism: Personal Reminiscences of Ornithologists and Other Naturalists
Eugeniusz NowakCurrent price €66.29Original price €77.99This fascinating volume resulted from one mans frustration with the series of whitewashed obituaries and laudations he had to endure in his long ca...
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William and Peter Turner: A Family of English Renaissance Physicians
Marie AddymanCurrent price €7.12Original price €8.90Current price €7.12Original price €8.90Save 20% -
The Wolfe Tones Phenomenon
Alex FellCurrent price €19.60Original price €24.50This book is an attempt to place the Wolfe Tones, arguably Ireland''s most popular and internationally successful folk and ballad band, in its poli...
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Bruno and Lewis: The Boxing Years
Ralph OatesCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99The only British-born boxer to have won the world heavyweight crown was Bob Fitzsimmons, who reigned from 1897-1899. Since then, a host of challeng...
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Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World
Simon Sebag MontefioreCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstei...
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¿Cómo inducen las figuras religiosas la formación de sectas?
Alejandro Cuevas-SosaCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99Sobresaliente relato acerca de un proyecto de investigación sobre la bioenerciencia conocimiento intuicional y una forma específica de interacción ...
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How do religious figures induce the establishment of sects?
Alejandro Cuevas-SosaCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99Remarkable story of a research project on the bioenerscience intuitional knowledge and a particular way of interaction with the bioenergemal (`sp...
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QUARTER CORNISH: My Family and Other Oddities
Robert HaskinsCurrent price €19.08Original price €22.99Current price €19.08Original price €22.99Save 17% -
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia
Rebecca JonesCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Current price €25.49Original price €29.99Save 15% -
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
Rosemary AshtonCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured the Great Stink across one hot summer While 1858 i...
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People of Ras Al Khaimah
Anna ZachariasCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50PEOPLE OF RAS AL KHAIMAH is an important book. It captures the inimitable atmosphere of the city and its natural environments - the mountains, the ...
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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Craig TaylorCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50'Beautifully woven' Sunday Times'Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York sto...
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25 Royal Babies that Changed the World: A History, 1066 to the Present
Amy LicenceCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Babies are born every day, but only once or twice in a lifetime a child arrives who will inherit the throne. In the summer of 2013, the nation watc...
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Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West
Mark SpitzerCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Fisherman Mark Spitzer takes readers on an action-packed investigation of the most fierce and fearsome freshwater grotesques of the American West e...
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Smiling Men with Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer''s Guide to Their Music
Paul NorburyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The Incredible String Band lit up the late 1960s music scene with their groundbreaking LPs The 5000 Spirits..., The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter an...
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The 50 Most Influential Britons of the Past 100 Years
Peter PughCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the 50 most influential British men and women of the...
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Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville
Gemma HollmanCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50An important and timely book Philippa GregoryPoignant, unique and thought-provoking All About HistoryThis introduces new readers, in the most acc...
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The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain
Hester GrantCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50The enthralling story of an eighteenth-century family and their extraordinary achievements.Four brothers, three sisters. Brought up in a Northumber...
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Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters: 980 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials, Steamboat Pilots and Others
Myron J. Smith Jr.Current price €67.41Original price €84.26From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, none ...
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The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
Sue William SilvermanCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishm...
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