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Now a major film, starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh. This edition combines Colin Clarks acclaimed The Prince, the Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn.

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Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's "Thought for the Day". Here, he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to explore the issues and dilemmas - moral and creative - raised by the turning points of his long and successful life.

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With a mix of humour, name dropping and self-deprecation, the author reveals the twists and turns of a life that has seen her become a respected actress, writer and speech writer - and a not-so - respected cricket commentator.

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Selina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with 'the Colonel' contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success.

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As Madam Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has broken new ground for women in American politics and has become a notable role model for young women.

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Napoleon the man emerges as an even more fascinating character than previously imagined, and McLynn brilliantly reveals the extent to which he was both existential hero and plaything of Fate;

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There is no shortage of characterizations of Napoleon, but not since Peter Geyl's classic Napoleon: For and Against in the 1940s has a writer tried to assess his many reputations and how they have evolved, and continue to evolve.

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'Will spark controversy about Napoleon's life and death on St Helena.' History Today

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(Paperback)

In this life of the master diplomat, David Lawday follows Talleyrand's remarkable career through the most turbulent age Europe has known and explores - for the first time - in intimate detail his extraordinarily perverse relationship with Napoleon.

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Details the life of the author from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die.

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A renowned poet, philosopher and traveller of the 11th century, Nasir-i Khusraw was also a major Ismaili thinker and author of the Iranian lands. Hunsberger presents a study of his life and the main features of his thought in the context of his times.

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This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history.

Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans.

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(Paperback)

This book describes the authors time in the Navy aboard the USS Picking from January 1951 to August 1954. It also includes background information leading up to enlisting in the Navy as well as background information on how this book came about.

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Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an anti-Nazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to go to work for the Gestapo abroad

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The whanau of Ned and Katina approached writer Patricia Grace to compile their parents' story. Ned & Katina is the result. This warm, beautifully written true story is impossible to put down.

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Captain of Celtic and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British football. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006/7 season in this paperback edition, is an extraordinary tale of religious bigotry, life-threatening career injury and tumultuous football success at club level.

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Everyone should know the life story of Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest leaders of all time, the first black president of South Africa, the most famous African, and a major world statesman.

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(Paperback)

Having blasted onto the small screens with his now legendary sitcom Spaced, Simon Pegg rise to nation's favourite son status has been mercurial, meteoric, megatronnic. This is a joyous tale of a homegrown superstar and a local boy made good.

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