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The American Duchess

The American Duchess

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Author:Anna Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life?...
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear

Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear

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Author: Willard Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

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Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

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Author: Vincent Van Gogh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a...
The Letters of the Younger Pliny

The Letters of the Younger Pliny

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Author: The Younger Pliny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c....
My Inventions and Other Writings

My Inventions and Other Writings

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Author: Nikola Tesla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is

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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography,...
The Diary of Lady Murasaki

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

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Author: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...
The Life of Charlotte Bronte

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains...
My Autobiography

My Autobiography

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Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...
My Life

My Life

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Author: Marc Chagall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography. Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White...
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

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Author: Jan Karski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback. It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish...
The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett

The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett

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Author: Andy Warhol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1216 Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written...
An Autobiography

An Autobiography

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Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
One-Way Street and Other Writings

One-Way Street and Other Writings

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Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...
Wind, Sand and Stars

Wind, Sand and Stars

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Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars...
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

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Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a...
The Yage Letters: Redux

The Yage Letters: Redux

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Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he...
The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

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Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space...
What Is a Family?

What Is a Family?

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Author: Annette Griffin Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Ants have a colony. Bats have a cloud. Chickens have peeps, where they can get loud. All the way from...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

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Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Open Book

Open Book

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Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Author: Richard P. Feynman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical...
Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin

Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin

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Author: David Ritz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother,...