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By: Manning Marable
ISBN: 9780141024301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Malcolm X was a country bumpkin who became a zoot-suited entertainer; who became a petty criminal; and, who became a self-taught intellectual. This title chronicles these many incarnations of Malcolm X, describing the multiple masks he donned over the years.
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By: Jennet Conant
ISBN: 9781476730912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Examines the "life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant--a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War--told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant"--Amazon.com.
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By: Anthony Sampson
ISBN: 9780007437979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampsons remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.
(Hardback)
By: Jeffrey Schloesser
ISBN: 9781682619896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Post Hill Press
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From Major General Jeffrey Schloesserformer Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division and Regional Command-Eastcomes a revealing memoir of leadership in the chaos and fog of the Afghanistan War.
(Paperback)
By: Laurence Bergreen
ISBN: 9781847247674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The extraordinary life of one of the great travellers of world history
(Hardback)
By: Charles Moore
ISBN: 9780241324745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Richard Gunderman
ISBN: 9780233006178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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This biography does full justice to the scientific and human aspects of Marie's life, detailing her tumultuous personal history at a time of social upheaval, and her struggle to gain recognition in an era when female scientists were almost unknown.
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By: Richard Holmes
ISBN: 9780007225729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing its position as a major player on the European stage and saviour of the Holy Roman Empire.
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By: Caroline Moorehead
ISBN: 9780099284017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Discover the life of one of the twentieth century's most significant and notorious war correspondents, and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
Martha Gellhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century;
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By: Lyndal Roper
ISBN: 9781784703448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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She reveals the often contradictory psychological forces that drove Luther forward and the dynamics they unleashed, which turned a small act of protest into a battle against the power of the Church.
A New Statesman, Spectator, History Today, Guardian and Sunday Times Book of the Year
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By: Godfrey Hodgson
ISBN: 9781849162623
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2010
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A new biography of the iconic US civil rights leader.
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By: Ernesto Che Guevara
ISBN: 9781644212912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2025
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9780099546481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth.
In this, the first full-length biography of Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir explodes much of the mythology that surrounds her subject's notoriety.
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By: Shane Ross
ISBN: 9781838955892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A biography of the Sinn Fin leader, and Taoiseach in waiting, Mary Lou McDonald.
(Hardback)
By: Fen Osler Hampson
ISBN: 9780771039072
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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(Paperback)
By: Hilary Spurling
ISBN: 9780141030784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. This title reveals the origins of Matisse's astonishing talent and provides an insight into his life and work.
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By: Ben Hubbard
ISBN: 9780008340582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020
The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power.
(Hardback)
By: James Patterson
ISBN: 9781529136654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Fred Roark
ISBN: 9781098324803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Jean-Marie Deguignet
ISBN: 9781609803469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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First published by Seven Stories Press in 2004.
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By: Victor Serge
ISBN: 9781590174517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2012
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary describes a thrilling life on the frontlines of history and includes brilliant portraits of politicians from Trotsky and Lenin and Stalin and of major writers like Alexander Blok and Andrey Bely.
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By: Daniel Paul Schreber
ISBN: 9780940322202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2000
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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In 1884, Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God.
(Hardback)
By: Daniel Gordis
ISBN: 9780805243123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Schocken Books
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(Hardback)
By: Melissa Eddy
ISBN: 9781982191030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Atria Books
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