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Melanie Klein by Meira Likierman
(Hardback 210 pages)Melanie Klein left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious Read more...
€72.38 (RRP €85.15)
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Arctic Adventures With the Lady Greenbelly by Kenneth Conibear
(Paperback 158 pages)€11.14 (RRP €13.10)
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The Boys Are Back in Town by Simon Carr
After Simon Carr's second wife dies, he brings up two sons (one from a previous marriage) in a domestic set-up he describes as "free range", and that visiting mothers prefer to term "semi-feral". He shows how three Read more...
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Divinely Ordinary, Divinely Human by David Earl Platts
(Hardback 128 pages)Celebrating the life and work of well-known New Age figure Eileen Caddy, this book looks at her life from her childhood in India. She received guidance from God in 1953, and has been Read more...
€14.42 (RRP €16.96)
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Chasing the Title by Nigel Roebuck
(Hardback 304 pages)Nigel Roebuck, gives a personal selection of highlights from the past half century, with his own memories, anecdotes and human interest. Read more...
€22.26 (RRP €26.19)
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Shivitti by Ka-Tzetnik 135633
(Paperback 120 pages)Presents the author's own account of his experience of two years in Auschwitz and his subsequent attempts at recovery. The text recounts his time in captivity, years of torment and how finally the author sought help from Read more...
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Sir Walter Scott by William B. Todd & Ann Bowden
(Hardback 1092 pages)€139.19 (RRP €163.75)
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Helen Keller, Public Speaker by Lois J. Einhorn
(Hardback 184 pages)How a person who was "sightless but seen, deaf but heard" spoke out publicly for years about her "vision for a better tomorrow." Read more...
€66.76 (RRP €78.53)
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ida M. Tarbell
(Hardback 568 pages)€38.97 (RRP €45.85)
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ida M. Tarbell & Ida M. Tarbell
(Paperback 572 pages)€25.61 (RRP €30.13)
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
(Paperback 656 pages)€27.84 (RRP €32.75)
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
(Paperback 596 pages)€27.84 (RRP €32.75)
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Rarely Pure and Never Simple by Scott O'Hara
(Paperback 217 pages)Discloses intimate thoughts and details about his sex life and fantasies. Read more...
€30.05 (RRP €35.36)
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Isaac Newton by a.Rupert Hall
(Hardback 224 pages)This work by one of this century's most eminent Newtonian scholars - Rupert Hall - brings together for the first time the early 18th century biographical notices of Sir Isaac Newton. The centrepiece of the book is a brand Read more...
€163.75
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Virago Book of Twins and Doubles
(Paperback 576 pages)An anthology that breaks with tradition. Part autobiography, part anthology - this is the definitive literary work on Twins. Read more...
€23.38 (RRP €27.51)
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Scientists, Mathematicians and Inventors
(Hardback 256 pages)This encyclopedia profiles approximately 200 individuals who changed the world by leaving lasting legacies in the fields of science, medicine and exploration. It offers information about each individual's life, describing Read more...
€80.12 (RRP €94.25)
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"It's Gooooood!" by Merrill Reese & Mark Eckel
(Hardback 216 pages)€21.72 (RRP €25.54)
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Beer For Pete's Sake by Pete Slosberg
(Hardback 258 pages)He has been called a brewing maverick, an entrepreneur, an iconoclast and a marketing icon, but who is Pete Slosberg really? What happened on the way from his first homebrewed beer in his kitchen to the Inc. 500 Read more...
€23.37 (RRP €27.50)
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The Kurt Diemberger Omnibus by Kurt Diemberger
(Hardback 864 pages)€18.92 (RRP €22.26)
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ida M. Tarbell
(Hardback 572 pages)€38.97 (RRP €45.85)
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan by Philip H. Sheridan
(Hardback 516 pages)€38.97 (RRP €45.85)
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Charlotte Von Kirschbaum and Karl Barth by Suzanne Selinger
(Hardback 208 pages)€64.03 (RRP €75.32)
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Dorothy Hodgkin by Georgina Ferry
(Hardback 352 pages)A biography of Britain's only female Nobel Prize-winning scientist, a crystallographer who was also an active peace campaigner and mover through the highest levels of the British establishment. Read more...
€22.27 (RRP €26.20)
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In Search of Muhammad by Clinton Bennett
(Paperback 292 pages)Muhammad's memory, example and name are universally revered by Muslims, for whom he represents the highest human ideal. This book argues that the historic reconstruction of Muhammad's biography does not Read more...
€28.94 (RRP €34.05)
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A Message From God in the Atomic Age by Irene Vilar
(Paperback 336 pages)Alternating between Vilar's notes from the psychiatric ward and her recounting of her family history, this memoir is a meditation on family, and on the unspoken currents that have haunted a grandmother, Read more...
€8.89 (RRP €10.47)
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Somebody Somewhere by Donna Williams
(Paperback 208 pages)The second autobiography in which Donna Williams recounts the story of her struggle with autism. Taking up the thread of her story where "Nobody Nowhere" left off, this volume tells of her ongoing battle to Read more...
€15.58 (RRP €18.33)
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They Tasted Glory by Wil a. Linkugel & Edward J. Pappas
(Paperback 272 pages)€33.96 (RRP €39.96)
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From Doctor to Healer by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd & Gloria St.John
(Paperback 324 pages)€26.17 (RRP €30.78)
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Diogenes of Sinope by Luis E. Mavia
(Hardback 218 pages)This study of Diogenes of Sinope, the Greek philosopher who gave rise to classical Cynicism, reconstructs his biography from classical and Arabic sources. It identifies the main ideas and principles of his Read more...
€67.87 (RRP €79.84)
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Edison by Paul Israel
(Hardback 560 pages)The definitive biography of the century's godfather of invention-from the preeminent Edison scholar "Israel's meticulous research and refusal to shy away from the dodgier aspects of Edison's personality offers a fresh glimpse into Read more...
€44.53
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At Eternity's Gate: the Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Goh by Kathleen Powers Erickson
(Paperback 224 pages)€16.70 (RRP €19.65)
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Living With Drink
(Paperback 248 pages)Living with Drink: Women who Live with Problem Drinkers, examines the experiences of women living with men with alcohol problems. The book looks at how the women understand the processes which lead them to be embroiled in such relationships and Read more...
€61.56
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Tyson: From Farm to Market by Marvin Schwartz
(Hardback 170 pages)€28.90 (RRP €33.99)
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Norbert Elias by Stephen Mennell
(Paperback 352 pages)Gives an introduction to Norbert Elias' work that is not part of the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias". Read more...
€26.72 (RRP €31.44)
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The Daily Telegraph Third Book of Obituaries by Telegraph Group Limited
(Paperback 352 pages)Focusing on entertainers, this book gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in "The Daily Telegraph". Taking "entertainer" in its Read more...
€7.78 (RRP €9.16)
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Harry Ferguson by Colin Fraser
(Paperback 320 pages)The first paperback edition of this book provides a thorough account of Ferguson's contribution to the development of tractors. It also covers his early days as an aviator and motor car pioneer, his business dealings, the Read more...
€11.08 (RRP €13.03)
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Modoc by Ralph Helfer
(Paperback 344 pages)Modoc, the elephant, and Bram, his faithful companion and trainer, formed a bond that lasted their entire lives. Late in their relationship, Modoc was sold behind Bram's back and vanished for more than 20 years. This text records Read more...
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Dear Bill by William Deedes
(Paperback 464 pages)The fully updated memoirs of one of the most beloved figures in the British media Read more...
€10.01 (RRP €11.78)
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Anything Your Little Heart Desires by Patricia Bosworth
(Paperback 436 pages)€21.14 (RRP €24.88)
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The Barry Diller Story by George Mair
(Paperback 348 pages)The meteoric rise of "Killer Diller" Barry Diller has been a major player in the entertainment industry for more than thirty years. Always on the cutting edge, he revolutionized television with such groundbreaking Read more...
€22.26
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The Life and Work of An Eminent Psychologist by Richard S. Lazarus
(Hardback 312 pages)€38.92 (RRP €45.78)
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Dna Pioneers and Their Legacy by Ulf Lagerkvist
(Hardback 196 pages)This account of the origins of modern molecular biology, the lives of pioneering scientists in the field of nucleic acid research, and the discovery of DNA, is aimed not only at scientists, but also at Read more...
€27.84 (RRP €32.75)
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Biographies of Scientists
(Hardback 304 pages)Provides more than 500 sources of information on scientists for young and adult general readers and for scholars. These sources explain scientists' accomplishments in the context of the personal and career developments that made those Read more...
€43.43 (RRP €51.09)
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Further Stories of the Minack Chronicle by Derek Tangye
(Paperback 528 pages)Derek Tangye used to be visited by hundreds of people and received thousands of letters every year from all parts of the world Read more...
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Macarthur by Gavin Long
(Paperback 255 pages)"But his self-confidence, the breadth and depth of his thinking and his eloquence and commanding presence ensured that he filled with distinction the senior appointments into which he was swiftly elev" Read more...
€12.24 (RRP €14.40)
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The New England Knight by Emerson W. Baker & John G. Reid
(Hardback 400 pages)€46.77 (RRP €55.02)
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Jack Nicklaus: My Story by Nick Nicklaus & Ke Bowden
(Paperback 544 pages)€25.60 (RRP €30.12)
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Dear Friend and Gardener by Beth Chatto & Christopher Lloyd
(Hardback 256 pages)Lively exchange of letters between Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto, two long-established friends and distinguished gardeners. Read more...
€16.69 (RRP €19.64)
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William Randolph Hearst: the Early Years, 1863-1910 by Ben Procter & Ben Proctor
(Hardback 380 pages)€40.61
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The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
(Paperback 224 pages)From the bestselling author of THE BINDING CHAIR, a searing memoir of a four-year affair between the author and her father. Read more...
€13.35 (RRP €15.71)
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Mill on Liberty by Jonathan Riley
(Hardback 256 pages)Written with students in mind, Jonathan Riley gracefully eases the reader into Mill's work, life, and philosophy. An ideal read for those coming to Mill for the first time, and for Read more...
€72.38 (RRP €85.15)
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Alfred Adler, the Forgotten Prophet by Loren Grey
(Hardback 200 pages)This study examines the ideas of Alfred Adler, a key figure in the development of psychology. It demonstrates that some of Adler's early precepts such as his belief in the social equality of all human Read more...
€104.67 (RRP €123.14)
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The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer
(Paperback 464 pages)Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and Read more...
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Trader Vic II by Victor Sperandeo
(Paperback 304 pages)The man Barron's dubbed "the ultimate Wall Street pro" returns with a stunning follow-up to his bestselling Trader Vic--Methods of a Wall Street Master ("The best investment book of 1992"--The Stock Trader's Read more...
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Simone Weil by Christopher J. Frost & Rebecca Bell-Metereau
(Paperback 144 pages)This work provides a presentation of Simone Weil's life, work and her contributions to feminist thought. The authors seek to make Read more...
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John a. Macdonald by Donald Grant Creighton
(Paperback 1216 pages)John A. Macdonald?s flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the 19th century. ?Probably the greatest Canadian biography yet Read more...
€35.63 (RRP €41.92)
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The Quotable Churchill
(Hardback 128 pages)Quotable Churchill contains quotations from the man who "mobilised the English language and sent it in t o battle. This collection celebrates the mythic poise and mi rthful prose of a man who led Britain in its darkest hour. ' Read more...
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Abraham Lincoln the Practical Mystic (1918) by Francis Grierson
(Paperback 112 pages)€14.42 (RRP €16.96)
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Life of Emanuel Swedenborg Together With a Brief Synopsis of His Writings Both Philosophical and Theosophical (1866) by William White
(Paperback 276 pages)€23.33 (RRP €27.44)
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Writings From Prison by Bobby Sands
(Paperback 240 pages)Collects all of Bobby Sands' writings from Long Kesh prison, written during the sentence which ended in his death from hunger strike in 1981. Read more...
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Pioneers of Early Childhood Education by Barbara R. Peltzman
(Hardback 160 pages)Early childhood education is fundamental to a child's later educational achievements and future success. This reference book provides biographies and annotated bibliographies of more Read more...
€76.78 (RRP €90.32)
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Luba Gurdjieff by Luba Gurdjieff Everitt
(Paperback / Softback 120 pages)€12.24 (RRP €14.40)
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The New Villeneuve by Timothy Collings
(Paperback 240 pages)Collings follows Villeneuve from his childhood in Quebec and the coast to coast racing world of North America. It describes how he came to terms with his father's death and shows how he rose through the ranks Read more...
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Lord of Arabia by H.C. Armstrong
(Hardback 258 pages)A biography of Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, this work shows many of the family traditions and deeply-held principles that form the unwritten foundation of Saudi Arabia and its neighbors. Despite the lack of Read more...
€146.98 (RRP €172.92)
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Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
(Paperback 896 pages)Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. This is a biography of Andrew Carnegie who is one of the America's famous and successful businessmen and Read more...
€11.12 (RRP €13.09)
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Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
(Paperback 272 pages)The classic memoir of one of the century's most extraordinary families. Read more...
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Assholes Finish First by Tucker Max
(Paperback 288 pages)What do you do after you write a number 1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty Read more...
€10.01 (RRP €11.78)
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From the Pre-Socratics to the Present: a Personal Odyssey by Daniel Kolak
(Paperback 340 pages)€40.07 (RRP €47.15)
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John Bowlby by Suzan Van Dijken
(Paperback 250 pages)Covering John Bowlby's life and work, this text highlights the events that are linked to the creation of Attachment theory. It covers Bowlby's family of origin, his upbringing, schooling and later education. His work Read more...
€18.88 (RRP €22.20)
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The Last Days of T.E. Lawrence by Paul Marriott & Yvonne Argent
(Paperback 208 pages)This biography covers the last days of T.E. Lawrence, up to and following his fatal motorcycle accident in 1935. The authors offer new Read more...
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Voice of Ga by Calvin McLeod Logue & Dwight L. Freshley
(Hardback 392 pages)€39.54 (RRP €46.50)
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The Star Factory by Ciaran Carson
(Hardback 320 pages)Belfast is a city that seems eternally scarred by the jagged, confusing lines of its sectarian map, but Ciaran Carson remembers and invents the city in which he grew up as a fractured, haunted urban labyrinth. It Read more...
€15.58 (RRP €18.33)
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
(Hardback 298 pages)Chronicles the experiences of an American stock-market trader from his first job as a quotation boy in a Boston brokerage firm to his influential position on Wall Street in the 1920s. The author Read more...
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"Entrepreneur Magazine" Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs by Anthony Hallett & Diane Hallett
(Paperback 512 pages)A tree expert who made sales calls by strolling through unfamiliar towns and striking up conversations with Read more...
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Portraits of Discovery by George Greenstein
(Hardback 240 pages)What fuels the creative fire of genius? Is it fierce determination, some special quirk of personality, or fortuitous coincidence? In Portraits of Discovery, astronomer and science writer George Greenstein Read more...
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Infinite Potential by F. David Peat
(Paperback 380 pages)ciousness, friend to Oppenheimer, and enemy to the House Un-American Activities Committee, Infinite Potential explains David Bohm's landmark scientific work, including his famous "hidden variables" casual Read more...
€13.35 (RRP €15.71)
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Passionate Minds
(Hardback 248 pages)A collection of interviews with 23 eminent scientists, including Murray Gell-Man, Jared Diamond, James Lovelock, and Gerald Edelman. The scientists, in fields as diverse as particle physics and evolutionary biology, discuss their style and Read more...
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Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time by Forbes Magazine Staff & Daniel Gross
(Paperback 368 pages)What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising Read more...
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Founder of Quakerism (1922) by Rachel Knight(Paperback 288 pages)€19.99 (RRP €23.51)
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Unbecoming by Eric Michaels
(Paperback 160 pages)The American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels was a major intellectual in Australia. This book presents his account of living with AIDS. Offering an ironic rumination on the cultural phenomenon of AIDS, it also provides a Read more...
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Live Now by George Klein
(Hardback 311 pages)Why do some individuals triumph in situations that would physically or emotionally destroy most people? Could 'flow' be the way out an antidote to the poisons of our time? This work answers such questions by offering stories of Read more...
€36.18 (RRP €42.58)
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In Memory of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky by Some of Her Pupils by Some of Her Pupils & Some of Her Pupils
(Paperback 112 pages)€14.42 (RRP €16.96)
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Incidents in the Life of Madame H.P. Blavatsky by a.P. Sinnett
(Paperback 340 pages)€22.22 (RRP €26.13)
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John Elway, Armed and Dangerous by Clay Latimer
(Hardback 222 pages)€25.56 (RRP €30.06)
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On the Side of My People by Louis a. Decaro
(Paperback 368 pages)Recounts the life of Malcolm X, places it in the context of Black nationalist religion, and describes his conversions to the Black Muslim faith and to orthodox Islam and their effects on his teachings. Read more...
€16.69 (RRP €19.64)
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History and Hate
(Paperback 138 pages)The persistence of anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that challenges Jewish historians to make ethical judgments a part of historical analysis. This title provides insight into the complexities of anti-Semitism. Read more...
€14.75 (RRP €17.36)
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Popper by Bryan Magee
(Paperback 114 pages)Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and Read more...
€10.01 (RRP €11.78)
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Through the Narrow Gate by Karen Armstrong
(Paperback 304 pages)Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960's. Read more...
€10.01 (RRP €11.78)
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Juran by John Butman
(Hardback 272 pages)"I think I am sitting with God. " Such was the awestruck impression of one seminar attendee when he found himself sharing a luncheon table with Joseph Juran, the man whose name has become synonymous with the concept of quality. In Read more...
€39.29
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The Inward Eye
(Hardback 504 pages)This is a collection of interviews from 16 senior analysts. The interviewees represent diverse theoretical traditions and cultural backgrounds. They reflect on their preanalytic years, their formative influences, their entry into psychoanalysis, Read more...
€61.24 (RRP €72.05)
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Feminist Geographies by Women and Geography Study Group of the Royal Geographic Society and of the Institute of British Geographers
(Paperback 234 pages)This text shows how the Read more...
€55.01
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Mr. Nice by Howard Marks(Paperback 466 pages)During the mid-1980s, Marks had 43 aliases and 25 companies, all laundering money from dealing cannabis. After a world-wide operation, he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years at a State Penitentiary in Indiana, but was Read more...
€9.42 (RRP €11.78)
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A Devotion to Their Science
(Paperback 320 pages)This work includes biographical essays on 23 women who worked in atomic science during the first two decades of the 20th century, including Marie Curie, Lise Meitner and Irene Joliot-Curie. Read more...
€21.14 (RRP €24.88)
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Parkinson's by Sidney Dorros
(Hardback 256 pages)Sidney Dorros tells the story of how he coped with Parkinson's disease for over 20 years and learned to achieve "accommodation without surrender". This edition includes and introduction by Les Essex, a friend of Dorros who Read more...
€27.82 (RRP €32.74)
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Reminiscences of a Falconer by Charles Hawkins Fisher
(Hardback 188 pages)€33.40 (RRP €39.30)
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