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The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld
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'The Last Yakuza might be a work of non-fiction, but it reads more like a thriller... a gripping read' - Irish News 'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese...
Alfred C.Kinsey: A Private/Public Life
In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding...
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War
A fascinating history of World War I in the words of those who were there - 'an extraordinary and immensely moving book' Stephen Fry This unique landmark oral history uses...
The Big Show
Pierre Clostermann was a Free French fighter ace whose incredible account of the air war over Britain and France has become one of the most famous memoirs of the Second...
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
From "weird, scary, ingenious" ( The New York Times ) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and "laugh-out-loud funny" (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York...
My Own Words
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg-"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our...
Shadow Lines
In this award-winning novel, Stephen Kinnane has written a deeply personal story of two remarkable people and of a vibrant, resilient Aboriginal community that flourished against the odds in the...
Mao: The Unknown Story
The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts
Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to...
The History of Philosophy
The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions The story of philosophy is an epic tale- an exploration of the ideas, views...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most...
Dialogues and Letters
A selection of dialogues and letters of one of the most eloquent - and influential - masters of Latin prose. A major writer and a leading figure in the public...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is
Nietzsche's final testament of his beliefs In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one...
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days
A gripping portrait of the man considered the last universal genius that takes us on a mind-expanding journey through the history of ideas 'The Leibniz biography for our time. It...
Wittgenstein for Beginners
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Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
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Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
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How to be a Minister
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No Easy Walk to Freedom
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American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
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Standing on the Shoulders: Incredible Heroes and How They Inspire Us
'SUCH AN INCREDIBLE READ' ZOE BALL'ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST INSPIRING BOOKS' HOLLY WILLOUGHBYWith a foreword by 2021 Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis, and including chapters on Rose and...
Michelle Obama: A Biography
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John Locke Bibliography
This bibliography documents John Locke's works published from 1654 through 1800. It includes the publishing history of all known editions and translations, as well as material published in journals, and...
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
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From the celebrated British author and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling elan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of...
Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
More than a century after his death in 1900, Nietzsche remains a seminal figure in the history of European intellectual life. Celebrated as a liberator by some, maligned as a...
Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza
The first biography in a generation of one of the most influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. Written with impressive skill and confidence. . . . Insight and scholarship...
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank
The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of...
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809-1849: Volume 1
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Girl in the Cellar - The Natascha Kampusch Story
When Natascha Kampusch made her bid for freedom on 23 August 2006 after eight years held captive in a seemingly ordinary Austrian suburban house, her story horrified and astonished the...
The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud's
The extraordinary life of a brilliant woman whose contributions to science have been lied about and misused-the Henrietta Lacks of psychoanalysis-and whose mental health struggles look different in light of...
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been...
The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud's
The extraordinary life of a brilliant woman whose contributions to science have been lied about and misused-the Henrietta Lacks of psychoanalysis-and whose mental health struggles look different in light of...
Gubbins and SOE
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My American Journey
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Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea
The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem 'My Country.' 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains...' Though many Australians...
John Stuart Mill: A Biography
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'Tis: A Memoir
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Marching Powder
Marching Powder is the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia and thrown inside the notorious San Pedro prison. He found himself in...
Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability
Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa...
Marx and Marxism
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A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a...
Freedom's Battle: v. 3: The War on Land, 1939-45
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Defeat at Gallipoli
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Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Author: Talia Lavin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 *** "One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the...
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Author: Andrea Lankford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 ** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies &...
I Remember Nothing and other reflections: Memories and wisdom from the iconic writer and director
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