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This is a biography of a great American statesman and U.S. Senator of the nineteenth century.

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Irne died a month later, aged only thirty-nine.

Her biographers take advantage of access to diaries, unpublished documents and surviving family members to examine Irne's remarkable life, from pogroms in Ukraine to gilded holidays in Biarritz, and her troubled relationship with her vain, difficult mother.

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A. N. Wilson's sympathetic, readable and brilliantly analytical narrative places John Milton, the greatest poet of the seventeenth century, in the context of his political and religious ideas.

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Presenting a biography of the illustrious navigator Matthew Flinders, this work is timed to coincide with the bicentenary of the commencement of his voyage on the Investigator, which resulted in the first recorded circumnavigation of the Australian continent.

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By the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul Bellow was probably the most acclaimed novelist in America. This book traces Bellow's life away from the desk, as polemicist, teacher, husband, father and lover. It also spans the period from Bellow's birth in 1915 to the publication of Herzog in 1964.

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The new book from the BBC Radio 4 hit series The Life Scientific

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Inside the lives and minds of the unsung heroes who are changing our world, as heard on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4.

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The inspiring life stories of leading scientists as heard on BBC Radio 4

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This insightful book relates how Emperor Haile Selassie helped shape America's image of Africa and how that image continues to evolve in the United States today.

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One woman's illuminating journey into the heart of the wild

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Sir Terry Wogan shares his opinion on just about everything from money, relationships, manners, fame, to life in general.

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An inspirational true story of a 4 year old girl who fell into the power of a man whose evil knew no bounds. She encountered terrifying mental and physical torture from her psychopathic stepfather for a period of 17 years until she managed to break free, her spirit still unbroken

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Olympic champion skater Peggy Fleming shares the secrets of her success as an athlete and breast cancer survivor, outlining her program for achieving fulfillment in any life endeavor. Reprint.

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Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he added more phrases to the language than any man since Shakespeare, yet he was also the Apostle of the British Empire, a man who incarnated an era for millions of people who did not normally read poetry.

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"[A] riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island--a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it--and the stunning repercussions of that loss for the families and friends of the four missing men and, indeed, the entire storied summer community of the Hamptons"--

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How did a 19 year-old, middle-class, Catholic girl from Munich become Hitler's mistress and what kept him faithful until the end of their lives

There are more than 700 biographies of Hitler, yet this is the first thorough study of Eva Braun, his secret mistress.

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Musings from a truly original thinker on eveything under the sun and many things over the moon. There are few aspects of existence to which Michael Leunig has not turned his renaissance mind, as a bemused and committed member of the human plight.