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Alexander the Corrector Author: Julia Keay
ISBN: 9780007131969 The bizarre and fascinating story of Alexander Cruden, who single-handedly compiled the monumental dictionary/index/gazetteer to the Bible, Cruden's Concordance -- still going strong 260 years later.Cruden's Concordance to the Bible was a monumental achievement at 2.5 million words, it is four times the length of the B ... |
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Lance Armstrong Author: Daniel Coyle
ISBN: 9780007195282 Lance Armstrong rewrote the record books in 2005 when he won the Tour de France for an unprecedented seventh time. Daniel Coyle followed his progress, throughout that season, examining what made him push himself to the limit of his endurance, for his bestselling book Tour de Force now fully updated with his celebrated ... |
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Bloomberg by Bloomberg Author: Michael Bloomberg & Matthew Winkler
ISBN: 9780471208884 This is the remarkable story of how Michael Bloomberg created a media empire. Lots of entrepreneurs make money. Lots of entrepreneurs who make money write books. Few of those books make you glad they did. This one does. - The New York Times Book Review. A classic tale of a nimble, customer-focused, entrepreneurial Davi ... |
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Peter Jackson Author: Brian Sibley & Peter Jackson
ISBN: 9780007175581 Authorised and fully illustrated insight into the life and career of the award-winning director, from his childhood film projects up to King Kong, together with Jackson's revealing personal account of his six-year quest to film The Lord of the Rings. |
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Humble Pie Author: Gordon Ramsay
ISBN: 9780007229680 Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real story! |
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Take That Author: Martin Roach
ISBN: 9780007232581 This book recounts the entire story of the most successful British band since The Beatles. From their humble beginnings to the break-up that shook the pop world, to their explosive and successful come-back tour a decade later, TAKE THAT -- NOW AND THEN exposes the intimate details of the band that changed pop history. |
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Lewis Hamilton: My Story Author: Lewis Hamilton
ISBN: 9780007270057 Lewis Hamilton's explosive arrival on the Formula 1 scene has made front-page headlines. In My Story, for the first time Lewis opens up about his stunning debut season, including the gripping climax to the 2007 F1 World Championship, as well as his dad Anthony, his home life and his early years. The only book with the ... |
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Between the Lines Author: Jason Donovan
ISBN: 9780007264414 From Neighbours to the chart-topping music career, from Joseph to the appearance on I'm A Celebrity that sealed our affection, Jason Donovan has captured the hearts of his adopted country and entertained us all along the way. This is his candid autobiography of his rollercoaster life. But behind the squeaky-clean pops ... |
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Morrissey in Conversation Author: Paul A. Woods
ISBN: 9780859653947 Collating classic music press and glossy magazine articles, Morrissey in Conversation tells the definitive story of how he bewitched the 1980s, piqued the 1990s, and inimitably returned in the new millennium. The resurgence of Morrissey has demonstrated how transient fashion can never truly eclipse a great maverick. Wi ... |
RRP: $46.95 Our Price: $42.26
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Thin White Line Author: Andy Cave
ISBN: 9780091795726 Set in Patagonia, Norway and Alaska, this book tackles the severest challenges modern Alpinism can pose. This book features the stark beauty of the environment and the colourful characters. It lays bare the fragility of our carefully constructed convictions. |
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Unfinished Journey Author: Kerry Redmann
ISBN: 9781592287611 The story of Unfinished Journey centres around the letters of Morris B Redmann Jr, written home to his parents and family from October 20, 1943, through January 11, 1945. He was killed in action on January 14, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge - the largest land battle ever fought by American troops in the history o ... |
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Margaret Thatcher: Iron Lady v. 2 Author: John Campbell
ISBN: 9780099516774 Covers the eleven and a half years of Margaret Thatcher's momentous premiership. This is the study of the Thatcher Government from its hesitant beginning to its dramatic end. Drawing on the memoirs and diaries of Mrs Thatcher's colleagues, aides, advisers and rivals, it sheds light on the Reagan-Thatcher 'special relat ... |
RRP: $37.95 Our Price: $34.16
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The Pythons Autobiography by the Pythons Author: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam & Others Graham Chapman
ISBN: 9780312311452 Over thirty years ago, a group of five Englishmen and one wayward American, re-wrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded, previously unseen and practically unprogrammed half hour of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact o ... |
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Nostradamus Author: MR Ian Wilson
ISBN: 9780312317911 For over five centuries, Nostradamus has enjoyed an unrivalled reputation for his claimed abilities to predict the future--from the Great Fire of London, to the rise of Adolf Hitler to the attack on the World Trade Center In this definitive biography, Oxford-educated and bestselling historian Ian Wilson has turned to t ... |
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel Author: Dr Michael J Collins
ISBN: 9780312352691 When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But com ... |
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Bono on Bono Author: Bono & Michka Assayas
ISBN: 9780340832776 Bono is one of the most influential musicians at work today. Over the past twenty-five years his band, U2, have sold a staggering 130 million albums and collected 14 Grammys. Their success has made Bono one of the most recognisable faces in the world. Here, in a series of conversations with his friend, the music journa ... |
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My Booky Wook Author: Russell Brand
ISBN: 9780340936177 Russell Brand grew up in Essex . His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage during his stand-up ... |
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Bess of Hardwick Author: Mary S. Lovell
ISBN: 9780349115894 Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15 and when she was widowed at 16, she was still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more than twice her age, Sir William Cavendish, a senior auditor in King Henry VIII's Court of Augmentations ... |
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Bomb Aimer Over Berlin Author: Les Bartlett & Peter Jacobs
ISBN: 9781844155965 Les Bartlett has become one of the great characters of World War II history. He flew as bomb aimer with the then Flying Officer Michael Beetham, who later became Marshal of the Royal Air Force. At that time, he was a sergeant but gained his commission in April 1944 and flew his tour, including 27 raids over Germany and ... |
RRP: $59.95 Our Price: $53.96
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The House of Wittgenstein Author: Alexander Waugh
ISBN: 9780385520607 From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family. |
RRP: $60.95 Our Price: $54.86
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