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By: Mario Livio

ISBN: 9781501194740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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An interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of historys greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers.


(Paperback)

By: Christopher Andersen

ISBN: 9781476743967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Azie Faison

ISBN: 9780743282314
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Atria Books
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The real life story of the drug dealer turned good guy behind the Hip Hop film classic Paid in Full.


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By: Maurice Landrum

ISBN: 9781098310356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Joseph Brauer

ISBN: 9780692141236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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A look into the bizarre world of a police officer's life. The hair raising experiences the public cannot believe.


(Hardback)

By: Lawrence Bodner

ISBN: 9781667844367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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Gemacht is the true story of Jacques Bodner, a seventeen-year-old Jewish boy who miraculously escaped the occupation of Austria by nazi German during World War II. Before Jacques completed his journey to America, he spent two years in hellish conditions imprisoned in tow of the worst internment and prison camps in Europe. A miraculous encounter delivered him from potential extermination.


(Hardback)

By: Professor John Childs

ISBN: 9781441158826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Edward Longacre

ISBN: 9780306815416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Hachette Books
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A fresh look at General Grant's military career in light of his conflicted personality and drinking habits


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By: Edmund White

ISBN: 9780099450078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This biography of Genet explores the perverse extremes of his life and writing, and separates the fact from the mythology which was fostered by Genet himself. Edmund White has interviewed lovers, friends, publishers and acquaintances, and has drawn from material, from letters (a number published here for the first time) and other original sources.


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By: Justin Martin

ISBN: 9780306821486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Hachette Books
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*This first full-scale biography of Olmsted in four decades reveals him as a brilliant visionary in politics, civic reform and the abolition movement, as well as his famed redesign of cities.


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By: Rosina Harrison

ISBN: 9780751564006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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First published forty years ago, Gentlemen's Gentlemen gives an insight into the golden age of service - a profession now almost completely lost.


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By: Leo McKinstry

ISBN: 9780007196937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Few modern British sportsmen have fascinated the public more than Geoff Boycott. In this first comprehensive and balanced account of Boycotts life fully updated to include his battle against cancer award-winning author Leo McKinstry lifts the lid on one of crickets great enigmatic characters.


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By: Geoff Murphy

ISBN: 9781775540793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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By: Professor Charles W. J. Withers

ISBN: 9780826499134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Brings together essays on figures in time geography and regional theory, on GIS, on regional, cultural and political geography, on scriptural geography, historical geography and methodology, and on African exploration. These essays engage with the individual's contribution to geography, their works and their lives.


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By: Mark Browning

ISBN: 9780313396212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book traces the evolution of George Clooney's successful career, from his humble start as a television heartthrob to his current position as one of the most powerful figures in film making today.


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By: Neil Powell

ISBN: 9781845952181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The poet George Crabbe (1754 - 1832), best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, a clergyman, a botanist, and a novelist.


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By: Professor Barbara Hardy

ISBN: 9780826485168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and one of Britain's great novelists. This biography offers insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to her life and writing. It offers an illuminating portrait of her as a woman and a writer.


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By: Vivienne Rae-Ellis

ISBN: 9780522847444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1992
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Offers a portraint of a greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment. This study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be a civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect.


(Paperback)

By: Belinda Jack

ISBN: 9780099552055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'George Sand' (Aurore Dupin, 1804-1876) was France's bestselling writer, rivalled in her time only by Victor Hugo. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant rebel: her long, troubled romance with Chopin was just one of many affairs with well-known figures, but her most desperate love was for a beautiful actress.


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By: Stephan Lesher

ISBN: 9780201407983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Alabama Governor George Wallace captured the national spotlight in fiery opposition to Civil Rights. But biographer Stephan Lesher suggests Wallace's more lasting significance is that of working class spokesman against the intrusion of "big" government. "The first serious study of the whole of Mr. Wallace's career".--The New York Times Book Review.


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By: Gary R. Kremer

ISBN: 9780313347962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book strips away the myths surrounding the famed scientist George Washington Carver and portrays him as a brilliant, creative man who nonetheless possessed very human peculiarities and frailties.

This insightful work chronicles the life of George Washington Carver, the renowned African American scientist and teacher.


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By: Frank E. Grizzard

ISBN: 9781576070826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This encyclopedia offers an A-Z retrospective of George Washington's life, career, and historical significance, based in large part on Washington's own words and those of his contemporaries.


(Hardback)

By: James T Flexner

ISBN: 9780316286022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1972
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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(Hardback)

By: William Coale

ISBN: 9781543936056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: BookBaby
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This follow-up book to "The Genius of George Wright" contains transcripts of 29 interviews of individuals close to GW, edited lightly for clarity. In addition, the book includes a comprehensive annotated tune list, displaying every song that George Wright recorded for commercial release, listing the album(s) on which a tune appeared, a valuable reference tool for fans of GW's music.

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