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The amazing story of one of Scotland's most treasured football players

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The official biography of pioneering theatre maverick Joan Littlewood, published to mark her centenary in October 2014.

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This book intends to correct that oversight by paying homage to one of the intellectual giants of modern economics, and thus extending the knowledge of Robinson's contributions to a new generation of economists who may be unfamiliar with her work or influence.

The book begins with a chronological history of Joan Robinson's life.

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Tom Campbell and David Potter has produced a portrait of Stein, but are not afraid to delve below the surface of the legend to examine the manager's mistakes and failings as well as his triumphs and strengths.

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Growing up in poor circumstances in the midlands town of Mullingar might seem an unlikely start for a musical superstar, but that's exactly the journey Joe Dolan travelled in his amazing life. This biography tells the stories behind his legendary career.

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It's a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer Nicci French, Independent

It was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village.

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Known to his contemporaries for his sharpness of mind, strength of purpose, fortitude, and good humor, John de Witt was a brilliant leader whose career ended in a death of horror rarely paralleled in history. Herbert Rowen's biography embraces all aspects of De Witt's political, intellectual, and personal life, including his role as a mathematician

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From the raucous streets of late sixteenth-century London to the personal and political intrigues of Donne's family and public life, from the horrors of the Reformation to the delight of Donne's poetry, this book offers a biography of an extraordinary man, as well as a compelling portrait of England at a time of bewildering transformation.

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Kennedy's life from the emergence of the Kennedy family in the early 20th century to his assassination in 1963

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The paperback edition of the acclaimed definitive life of John Gielgud, arguably the greatest classical actor of the twentieth century.

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A rebel and risk-taker from childhood, John McCainson and grandson of admiralsnevertheless chose to follow the traditional path marked out for him in the military.

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A rebel and risk-taker from childhood, John McCainson and grandson of admiralsnevertheless chose to follow the traditional path marked out for him in the military.

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The son of Jewish immigrants, Monash graduated from the University of Melbourne. He achieved fame as a soldier in World War I. Before the War he pioneered the Australian use of reinforced concrete, and on his return he become the first chairman of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria.

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John Osborne (1929-1994), unapologetic rebel and original Angry Young Man, changed the face of modern British theatre forever with Look Back in Anger.

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This book examines how Justice John Paul Stevens served as an important defender of rights in criminal justice during his thirty-five year Supreme Court career. It examines his life experiences and judicial opinions to show how the Courts most prolific opinion author defended rights throughout an era of an increasingly conservative Court.

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Donald Moons John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity is an accessible biography that explores how Rawls life helped establish the fundamental commitment of classical liberalism through the understanding that the individual has always stood in an ambiguous relationship to the central object of the study of politicsthe state.