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By: Pamela A. Jordan

ISBN: 9781442247734
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Stalin's Singing Spy follows the life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, who achieved fame as one of Nicholas II's favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin's agents. The first Western biography and the first to reconstruct her sensationalized trial for kidnapping a White Army general, this book provides a fascinating window into Soviet-era espionage.


(Hardback)

By: Dr David Lee

ISBN: 9780826445667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at the centre of Imperial politics from the early 1920s until the end of the Second World War. Educated in Melbourne and Cambridge, Bruce, as a businessman, was alive to the importance of international commerce, and Anglo-Australian trade. This title presents Bruce as a consistent internationalist.


(Paperback)

By: Dr David Lee

ISBN: 9781350014268
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Sakir Dincsahin

ISBN: 9780739191316
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Sagid Salah

ISBN: 9781098302092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: Yu Jie

ISBN: 9780810896369
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Tendayi Sithole

ISBN: 9781498518185
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Moving away from the domain of idolization and veneration, Tendayi Sithole situates Steve Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. Through an exploration of Biko's meditations, Sithole introduces Biko to readers as a decolonial philosopher, someone more than just a biographical subject.


(Paperback)

By: Tendayi Sithole

ISBN: 9781498518208
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Moving away from the domain of idolization and veneration, Sithole situates Steve Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. Through an exploration of Biko's meditations, Sithole introduces Biko to readers as a decolonial philosopher, someone more than just a biographical subject.


(Hardback)

By: Ethan S. Rafuse

ISBN: 9780313385834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A thorough and effectively executed study, this biography will appeal to anyone interested in Stonewall Jackson and the military history of the Civil War.


(Paperback)

By: Jack Bass

ISBN: 9781586483920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The definitive biography of the legendary conservative Senator from South Carolina, with new revelations about his life and career.


(Hardback)

By: Ian N. Ross

ISBN: 9781483563817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: Bevin Alexander

ISBN: 9780425271308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback, New edition)

By: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

ISBN: 9781853994517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life.


(Paperback)

By: Joann Sheets

ISBN: 9781543939170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: D R Thorpe

ISBN: 9781844135417
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Great-grandson of a crofter and son-in-law of a Duke, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was both complex as a person and influential as a politician. Marked by terrible experiences in the trenches in the First World War and by his work as an MP during the Depression, he was a Tory rebel - an outspoken backbencher. This book tells his story.


(Paperback)

By: Aryeh Neier

ISBN: 9781586482916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A penetrating memoir on forty years of fighting for civil liberties, human rights, and justice by the former executive director of the ACLU and Human Rights Watch and the current President of the Open Society Institute


(Paperback)

By: Mark Hasara

ISBN: 9781501181672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Originally published in hardcover in 2017 by Threshold Editions.


(Paperback)

By: Michael King

ISBN: 9780143011422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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(Paperback)

By: Noel Streatfeild

ISBN: 9781844088980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A life in service, from nursery maid to head nanny, in Victorian and Edwardian England.


(Hardback)

By: Amy H. Sturgis

ISBN: 9780313341779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Useful for student research assignments, this title features important figures - contemporary and historical - drawn from a range of curriculum subject areas, including history, science, politics, literature, and the arts. It includes timeline highlighting significant biographical events and career contributions.


(Paperback)

By: Sun Shuyun

ISBN: 9780007129744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud is a beautifully written account of Sun Shuyuns journey to retrace the steps of one of the most popular figures in Chinese history the monk Xuanzang, who travelled to India searching for true Buddhism.


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By: Joseph Wheelan

ISBN: 9780306821981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Hachette Books
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In this compelling and crisply written biography, historian Joseph Wheelan examines the life and wars of the indomitable General Phil Sheridan, whose leadership and aggressive tactics helped win the Civil War, crush the marauding Plains Indians-and save Yellowstone.


(Hardback)

By: Chad Smith

ISBN: 9781543973860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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A day to day glimpse into the regular life of a soldier in the United States Army.


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By: William I Hitchcock

ISBN: 9781451698428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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"[This book] is the definitive account of [Eisenhower's] presidency, drawing extensively on declassified material... that explains why this "do-nothing" president is... regarded as one of the best leaders our country has ever had"--Amazon.com.

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