Biography
Unknown Pleasures
By Peter Hook
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Published 25-Apr-2013
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The story of Joy Division told by the band's legendary bassist, Peter Hook. .
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
By Ralph Leighton
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Published 05-Jan-1993
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. This work presents the taped conversations that Feynman's had with his friend Ralph Leighton over a period of years.
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Gustav Mahler
By Jens Malte Fischer
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Published 02-Apr-2013
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Explores Mahler's early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and New York, his unhappy marriage, and his work with "Metropolitan Opera" and "New York Philharmonic" in his later years. This title also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism.
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Mr. Putin
By Fiona Hill
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Published 18-Dec-2012
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Who is Vladimir Putin? Drawing on a range of sources, including their own personal encounters, the authors describe six that are most essential: the Statist, the History Man, the Survivalist, the Outsider, the Free Marketeer, and the Case Officer. They argues that Putin is in fact a man of many and complex identities.
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Diary of a Man in Despair
By Friedrich Reck
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Published 07-Mar-2013
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Flappers
By Judith Mackrell
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Published 23-May-2013
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A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
By Lady Almina
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Published 29-Sep-2011
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The remarkable story behind the real Downton Abbey
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80 Not Out
By Dickie Bird
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Published 11-Apr-2013
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Highlights of a career in cricket from Britain's favourite umpire.
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Girl with No Name
By Marina Chapman
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Published 04-Apr-2013
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In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went on to spend several years alone in the jungle, her only family a troop of capuchin monkeys.
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Walk-on Part
By Chris Mullin
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Published 07-Jun-2012
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Offering an account of the New Labour era, this title covers the rise and fall of New Labour from start to finish.
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