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"Ashamed Not in the least, my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives. It involved me in situations from which 'respectable' women draw back - but mine was total commitment. Wars are not won by respectable methods." Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed 'Cynthia'

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A valuable portrait of Peter Hain's admirable, freedom-fighter parents.

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Universally acknowledged as the father of capitalism, the eighteenth-centuryScottish thinker Adam Smith is best known for developing the concept ofthe 'invisible hand'. The 'hand' helped to explain how the removal of stateregulation could set individuals free to specialize and pursue their owninterests for the good of all.

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Against the Grain is a journey through the political career of Norman Baker, the independent-minded, and colourful, former Liberal Democrat MP.

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The only full-length biography of the founder of the Nobel Prize. Few documents have had a more enduring influence on our century than Alfred Nobel's last will and testament, for these handwritten sheets established the most coveted and prestigious awards on earth.

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Custer's narration takes us from just after the Civil War to just before he embarks upon the campaign that would lead to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand. In the evenings, Custer would sit down with his beloved wife, Libby, and they would compose the stories of his exploits that became the book "My Life on the Plains".

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The autobiography of Jack London, one of the most famous American literary figures, in his own...

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Tells the true story of Theodore Roosevelt, one of America's most beloved presidents.

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Translated from German by Regina Beckmann Hurst and Dr. Walter Kamphoefner, professor of history at Texas A&M, these letters vividly describe the author's odyssey from Germany to New York in 1848 and on to Wisconsin and, finally, to Texas, where he established and expanded what became a major milling company.

Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man attempts to account for the obscurity of one of Australia's greatest reformers.

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For more than thirty years, since she was elected the Member of Parliament for the former mining seat of Cynon Valley in South Wales, Ann Clwyd has been one of Labour's star performers.

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A biography of Arthur Guinness: Founder of the legendary brewery, this work traces the family's origins in Ulster, Gaelic and Protestant-Irish tenant-farmers from humble backgrounds on both sides, when Arthur's father Richard appears as a household agent in Celbridge, Co Kildare, in 1722 to work for Arthur Price, the Protestant Dean of Kildare.

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Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history.

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A captivating account of the inner dynamics of the Thatcher Cabinet, all played out in front of a tumultuous global backdrop. Bursting with anecdotes and told with lucidity and humour, an insightful memoir of a life as a British diplomat.

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"Memoir by a Chicago journalist recounting the 1992 US Senate campaign of Carol Moseley Braun"--

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The action-packed life of the polymath and First American, Benjamin Franklin.

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An extraordinary life story that encompasses the fight for African American freedom throughout the twentieth century