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The fascinating life story of Ken Hom, who, brought up in the poverty in Chicago's Chinatown, went on to become a celebrated household name and one of the world's greatest authorities on Chinese and Asian food.

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One artist's life transforming the mundane to the magical

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As a former slave, impassioned abolitionist, writer, newspaper editor, and powerful orator, Frederick Douglas was an immense, motivational figure. Originally published in 1845, a date significant for the fact that very few African Americans could read or write at that time, this book is suitable for those interested in African American history.

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Delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who - alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi - led the movement for India's independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. This biography focuses on Nehru's heroic efforts for, and stewardship of, independent India.

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A life of Nelson from his early years, the conditions in the Navy at that time, his complex personal life, his naval battles before Trafalgar, the battle of Trafalgar in detail and his legacy in myth, film and propaganda. With 2005 being the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, this is a timely reappraisal of Nelson, the myth and the man.

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After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy metal flack. This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail - a backstage pass.

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In "News Junkie, " the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals in recent American history.

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The story of a journalist's coming of age in Duluth during the boom days of print.

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This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the author of The Prince--Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, provides an unparalleled intellectual biography that demonstrates the c

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Before becoming one of the all-time greats of the comicbook world, the author fought in World War II - and he took his sketchbook with him. From basic training in the US, through Europe to VE Day in Paris, he documented everything, in vivid sketches and watercolors that show both the humor and horror of war.

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Paperback edition of the acclaimed biography of Britain's Deputy Prime Minister. Fully updated with new material bringing his career up to the minute.

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An unputdownable true account of how a tenacious head teacher led one of the most challenging schools in the country to excellence.

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"Both timely and timeless, this biography reveals Makhno s rapidly changing world and his place in it. He moved swiftly from peasant youth to prisoner to revolutionary anarchist leader, narrowly escaping Bolshevik Ukraine for Paris. This book also chronicles the friends and enemies he made along the way: Lenin, Trotsky, Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Ida Mett, and others."--

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