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Covers all aspects of the Queen's official and private life, including details on her children, friends, personal interests, and preoccupations, the historical events that marked her era, and the prime ministers and various people whose lives were in some affected by their relationship with the Queen.

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A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Not since Lytton Strachey has the irony, contradictions and influence of this Queen been treated with such flourish or biographical insight.

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Queen Victoria: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works explores the queen as well as the people, events, and ideas that shaped the life of the second-longest-reigning monarch in British history. It features a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and over 100 cross referenced dictionary entries.

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Showing how history imprints itself on private lives, this memoir presents the author's sensuous, harrowing, and altogether remarkable life. It moves from Berlin during the Great War to the artists' set on the Cote d'Azur, through lovers, mentors, seducers and friends, and from genteel yet shabby poverty to relative comfort in London's Chelsea.

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Prosecuted for obscenity in her novel "Monsieur Venus", Marguerite Eymery burst onto the French literary scene in 1884. This story of a transvestite and her male lover was the first in a series of works dealing with gender inversion and sexual desire. This book looks at her life and work.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is regarded as one of the greatest 20th-century composers and pianists. This biography covers the span of Rachmaninoff's life, taking in his career as composer, pianist and conductor, and offering analyses of his scores and a detailed treatment of his 1919-1942 recordings.

History remembers Wellington's defeat of Napoleon, but has forgotten the role of Field Marshal Radetzky in the battles which led to Napoleon's abdication and first exile in 1814. This biography of Radetzky paints a picture of an exceptional, yet neglected commander of genius.

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A self help book for foster and adopt parents that goes through the emotions

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In this new paperback edition, noted cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall discovers firsthand proof of miraculous intervention, including restoring the dead to life.

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The definitive biography of one of the great heroes of the Kokoda Trail.

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Introduced to the West by Paul Brunton, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) is widely hailed as the greatest Indian saint and sage in modern times, whose teachings continue to influence thousands around the world today.

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Black Sabbath are one of the most outrageous yet longest-lived bands in the history of rock 'n' roll. This book paints a picture of their colourful early history - interwoven with the most crucial news stories of the time: from Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and the space programme.

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A complete and thorough memoir from famed newsman Dan Rather, who looks back over his storied and sometimes controversial career and reveals his personal thoughts and reflections.

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After much hard graft and some close encounters of the violent gangster kind, AWT's flamboyant style as a restaurateur soon bought him to the attention of cookery's cognoscenti and today Antony is to the culinary establishment what a bull is to a china shop.

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Before Ray Martin had even got to high school, he had lived in 13 different places. Ray's world was as far away from Hollywood and movie stars and the bright lights as is possible to imagine. This is his warts-and-all autobiography. His exceptional career, his happy marriage to Dianne, and his lasting love affair with the people of Australia.

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Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the `mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler-writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentlman, drunk-was full of contradictions as his origins.

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Never before seen documents, many of them in Ronald Reagan's own handwriting, prove definitively that Reagan himself was the intellectual architect of the prosperity of the 1980s and of the strategy that won the Cold War.

Authoritative and even-handed biography of Reagan

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Brock's thorough investigation of the evidence in the Thomas-Hill hearings concluded that there was no reason to believe Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas. Brock's book--a national sensation which landed on the New York Times bestseller list--is the definitive rebuttal of Hill's charges.

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A New York artists recollections of his seminal life experiences...presented in words and painted images.

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Ray Avery is the current New Zealander of the Year because of his clever work in the Third World using his scientific and business knowledge to provide cheap cataract operations. He encourages other talented people to get on board and tackle some of the really big problems confronting the poor in developing countries.