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By: Vanessa Ann Gunther
ISBN: 9780313379208
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Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This biography offers a chronological presentation of the major events in Nez Perce history and in the life of one of their greatest leaders, Joseph.
Chief Joseph: A Biography explores the world of the Nez Perce Indians from their entrance into the Columbia Plateau through their relations with the expanding United States.
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By: Piers Dudgeon
ISBN: 9780007202782
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Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A fascinating insight into the life of one of the country's bestselling and best-loved authors, marrying her work with her extraordinary life, and looking at her rise to fame and fortune against all the odds.
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By: Soname Yangchen
ISBN: 9780749951115
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Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Tells the story of Soname's triumph over adversity, told against the backdrop of a turbulent and dangerous Tibet. Soname was born in the harsh Tibetan countryside during the Chinese occupation. Of noble descent, she had to endure a childhood in servitude in Lhasa, separated from her family and the world she loved.
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By: Tanisha R. Showell
ISBN: 9781667893556
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Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Professor Kate Douglas
ISBN: 9781350236363
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Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Morris West
ISBN: 9781760297558
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Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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For his internationally bestselling Children of the Sun, Morris West walked the streets of impoverished postwar Naples to investigate the plight of the street children. He tells the story of Father Mario Borrelli who established a home for the children and became world-renowned as a result of this book.
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By: James Lilley
ISBN: 9781586483432
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Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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One of America's most respected diplomats on a life spent serving in the Far East
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By: Edward Weech
ISBN: 9781526164551
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Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A polymath and participant in the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture. His extraordinary story, told for the first time, transforms our understanding of Romanticism and the cultural exchange between Britain and Asia.
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By: Helene Chung
ISBN: 9780733322914
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Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: ABC Books
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An evocative memoir of a young Chinese girl growing up in conservative Tasmania in the 1950s.
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By: Jonathon Welch
ISBN: 9780732287627
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Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Jonathon Welch is an extremely gifted opera singer and entertainer, known from the ABC documentary, The Choir of Hard Knocks. Here he tells how he put the choir together, against incredible odds. He also reflects on his life, growing up in tough circumstances and the forces which shaped him and made him an advocate for social change.
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By: Neil Patrick Harris
ISBN: 9780143574125
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Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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By: Jack Miles
ISBN: 9780099558224
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Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone
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In his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography, Jack Miles offered a highly original approach to the character of the God of the Old Testament, addressing him as a character in a book, a literary charter.
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By: Rebecca Catz
ISBN: 9780313288678
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Publication Date: Sep 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The work stresses the influence the Portuguese had in educating Columbus about the sea, and it depicts his famous voyage to the New World as a logical sequence of the pioneering voyages of the Portuguese in the North Atlantic and along the West Coast of Africa.
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By: Stephen Anderton
ISBN: 9781845950965
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Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This enjoyable and revealing book - the first biography of Christo - is also the story of Dixter from 1910 to 2006, a unique unbroken history of one English house and one English garden spanning a century.
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By: Don Keith
ISBN: 9780593187272
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Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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"Bold, brash, and brimming with courage, Chuck Yeager burst onto the scene as a national hero in 1947, when he became the first to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound. Yet even before his days as America's most famous test pilot, Yeager was a young fighter ace in the US Army Air Force, flying a P-51 Mustang over Nazi-occupied Europe. His exploits are the stuff of legend"--
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By: Paul Johnson
ISBN: 9780143117995
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Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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An elegant, concise and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader.
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By: Lord Moran
ISBN: 9781841196084
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Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A memoir of Winston Churchill, containing extracts from the candid diaries of Churchill's doctor, friend and confidant, Lord Moran. It reveals Churchill's character and conduct, showing how he faced up to the war years and the burden of his responsibilities with extraordinary resolution.
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By: Thomas Wright
ISBN: 9780099552697
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Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around the sun. This title charts the rise of the yeoman's son who demolished beliefs held by anatomists since Roman times, going on to become arguably the greatest Englishman in the history of science after Darwin & Newton.
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By: Michael Drosnin
ISBN: 9780767919340
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Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
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Based on a selection of more than ten thousand internal documents of the Hughes organization, including three thousand pages of the billionaire's own handwritten memos, a revealing biography of the enigmatic Howard Hughes and his empire reveals his innermost activities and how he tried to buy the Am
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By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
ISBN: 9780525436102
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Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: David H Burton
ISBN: 9780313289453
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Publication Date: Feb 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is a concise, interpretive account of the life of Clara Barton from her childhood in Massachusetts through her feats of heroism during the Civil War, her founding of the American Red Cross, which she led for 20 years, and her bitterly contested ejection from office which clouded her last decade.
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By: Clara Kramer
ISBN: 9781741665215
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Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Random House Australia
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Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager from a small town at outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, her family home was given to a Volksdeutsch family, the Becks. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic and a vocal anti-Semite.
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By: Mark Fearnow
ISBN: 9780313291784
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Publication Date: Feb 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Among the most commercially successful female playwrights of all times, Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) is best remembered as the author of The Women (1936), a biting social comedy. Beginning in 1942, she spent less of her time writing plays and turned instead to the wider stage of politics and world affairs.
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By: Diane Marting
ISBN: 9780313278037
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Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Clarice Lispector was one of the most important Brazilian writers in Portuguese of the 20th century, and her work continues to receive critical attention. The second part of the volume contains chapters on general works about Lispector's writing, such as biographical accounts, bibliographies and other reference works, and general criticism.
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