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After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell, born in Massachusetts in 1775, was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf and the shops and warehous...

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Focuses on British and Irish politics at the start of the eighteenth century. This book tells the story of a powerful and eccentric peer, Thomas Coningsby (1657-1729), who played a key role in Ireland as the king's 'saviour' at the Battle of the Boyne and as one of the top administrators of the Protestant ascendancy.

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The remarkable story of Thomas Coningsby (1657-1729) exploring, for the first time, his tumultuous public and personal career.

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Ruskin Bond is known internationally as one of India's most prolific writers in English for children, young adults, and adults.

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Growing up in a typical Sydney suburb, Akmal began to recognise the differences between his Arab heritage and the Australian way of life, which would later shape him as a comedian. This book charts Akmal's early life in Egypt with his eccentric family to his first gigs at Bikie conventions, and his ever-increasing success both on stage and TV.

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For a man who longed for a quiet existence, Arthur Ransome led a remarkably adventurous life. His two marriages - first to an unstable fantasist and later to a formidable Russian who had been Trotsky's secretary - were, to say the least, stormy.

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Pinsky, a former poet laureate of the United States, draws on the biblical chronicle of David's life as well as later commentaries and the Psalms to weave the many strands of David's story into this narrative.

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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Her biographers take advantage of access to diaries, unpublished documents and surviving family members to examine Irne's remarkable life, from pogroms in Ukraine to gilded holidays in Biarritz, and her troubled relationship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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This study is a scientific biography of Margaret Alice Murray (18631963) that examines all the facets of womens work in the history of archaeology and academia in the first half of the 20th century. It is unlikely story of the first professional female Egyptologist in Britain who has so far been largely ignored by historians.

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This acclaimed biography of Margaret Fuller, first published nearly five decades ago, is now available in a new, expanded edition. Stern includes a detailed chronology of Fuller's life and a review of Fuller scholarship, including biographies, editions of Fuller's works, and documentary sources.

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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