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An insightful and revealing look into the rugby union career of one of Australia's greatest Wallabies, Rocky Elsom, as seen through the eyes of the key figures in his life, including family members, team-mates and coaches.

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The marvellously strange but true story of the family behind the famous Darrell Lea confectionery company.

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An acclaimed historian and "New York Times"-bestselling author offers a revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.

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This biography describes how a man can overcome anything in life with the help of to essential things: Faith and Positive Attitude.

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Featured everywhere from "The New York Times" to "Playboy," emerging star RMeliciousS Joulwan of the Texas Rollergirls shares her extreme tales from the roller derby track. 30 photos throughout.

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Drawing on the wealth of the unpublished Archives Romain Rolland, this book offers a perspective on the events of an often-turbulent life and traces the changing patterns of his thought, which disconcerted his friends by its constant evolution.

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Ronald Reagan's career trajectory was remarkable: from Midwestern schoolboy, sports announcer, and Hollywood actor to governor of California and two-term President of the United States. This book captures all the varied aspects of Reagan's life and career, portraying him as a politician, a husband, and a father.

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A celebration of Ronnies life and career, published to coincide with Ronnies 75th birthday, this book contains original contributions from people who have worked with and know him best including John Cleese, David Jason (who provides the foreword), David Frost, Eric Idle, Michael Palin.

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Born a mixed-race, illegitimate child to an irresponsible, 'care-free' mother and an anonymous Jamaican boxer, Bruce Oldfield's entry into the world was anything but conventional.

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This book offers a revealing look at Rosa Parks, whose role as an activist and struggle with racism began long before her historic 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus ride.

Rosa Parks: A Biography captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it.

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An eminent historian follows Rosa Parks from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama through her early involvement in the NAACP to her epochal moment of courage and her afterlife as a beloved--and resented--icon of the civil rights movement.

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An inspirational story of the Nobel Prize winner who broke the gender barrier in science.

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Her first novel, the shocking Dusty Answer, became wildly successful launching her career as a novelist and, just as her novels depicted the tempestuous lives of her heroines, Rosamond's personal life would be full of heartbreaking affairs and lost loves.

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Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten achievements of this seldom-studied labor union activist and socialist sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas; a dynamic speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a commune.

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This work charts the life of a man who stilled the world with his performance in "Citizen Kane" in 1941. Orson Welles seemed to possess inhuman energy and a phenomenal voice but in the final rootless years when he yielded to obesity, this cinematic genius became a tragic figure.

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"Here, at last back in print, is the classic dual biography of Ross Lockridge and Thomas Heggen, two authors who achieved sudden fame and fortune and then self-destructed. Ross Lockridge, the author of"

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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, to his inventive works such as Exit Ghost and Nemesis, Roth has produced literature of the past hundred years. This title tells his story.

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A colourful biography that brings to life the seedy underworld denizens of jazz-age New York City and its unrivalled kingpin, the model for Damon Runyon's Nathan Detroit Proves Arnold Rothstein- perhaps the most influential of American criminals- was the mastermind behind the 1919 Black Sox scandal, despite his small role in EIGHT MEN OUT

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Candid, emotional, optimistic, and inspiring, this autobiography of the man all fans of the game know simply as Roy Race aka 'Roy of the Rovers' lays bare for the first time the truth behind soccer's ultimate fairy-tale story.

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A funny, raucous and delightfully dirty history of 1000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Brtish royals.

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The inspiring journey of Dean Karnazes, an internationally recognised endurance athlete who has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits.

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