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This annotated bibliography documents not only the literature on Oud but also Oud's own writings. A biographical essay examines the relationship between the place afforded Oud in the international literature of architecture and traces his career, which spanned fifty-seven years.

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Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has been stellar. In 2017 she became leader of the Labour party just seven weeks before the election at which she claimed the top job.

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The astonishing feats of Sir Jack Hobbs continue to resonate more than a century after he first played Test cricket.

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An intimate biography of Jack Kerouac.

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Biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer.

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J. Christopher Schutz reveals the real Jackie Robinson, as a more defiant, combative spirit than simply the turn the other cheek compliant credit to his race. Examining this key figure at the crossroads of baseball and civil rights histories, Schutz provides a cohesive exploration of the man and the times that made him great.

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They mingled with underworld heavies along a strip of New York pavement near the Garden known only as Jacobs Beach.

Kevin Mitchell's gripping book is the unsanitised story of those times and that place, of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the Mob's peculiar glamour, brilliantly told through the eyes of the men who were there.

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At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. This work offers a biographical overview of this important philosopher, drawing on Derrida's own accounts of his life as well as the narratives of friends and colleagues.

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At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. This title offers a biographical overview of this important philosopher, drawing on Derrida's own accounts of his life, as well as the narratives of friends and colleagues.

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"This volume offers a concise and accessible introduction to a New Testament text, in this case aimed specifically at undergraduate-level students"--

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"This volume offers a concise and accessible introduction to a New Testament text, in this case aimed specifically at undergraduate-level students"--

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Arguably the most influential writer of the 20th century, James Joyce continues to inspire writers, readers, and thinkers today. Now one of Ireland's great writers approaches the master as only a fellow countryman can. Her biography is a tribute, at once affectionate and stern, from a contemporary writer to one of the most significant literary ancestors.

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This full account is of Polk's important pre-presidential career. Since Polk was immersed in so many of the major political developments of his day-the rise of popular democracy, the conflicts over the national bank and other crucial issues of Jackson's administrations, and after 1835 the fateful emergence of sectional animosities-his biography is

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"Previous volume in this series: James K. Polk, Jacksonian, 1795-1843"--Preliminaries.

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This biography of James Larkin Pearson employs the poet laureates words, poems, and prose to tell his life story and to examine modern poetry, amateur journalism, and North Carolina history. The work also examines the Tar Heel spirit and studies the benefits and pitfalls that accrue for those who chart their own path through life.

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