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Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, political as much as psychological, of colonisation throughout the world....

Sing, dance, sign. Join Emma Memma for a magical story time with this beautiful collection of 4 books in 1. 'If you have a newborn in the family or your...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2912 Eighteen lives from across the world — David Remnick's biography of Barack Obama, Billy Connolly on the road, Sameem Ali's account of...

Author: Alexandre Benois, Moura Budberg (trans.)binding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1964, 1stCondition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis volume continues the captivating narrative of...

For more than five decades Walter and Albertina Sisulu were at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid. As secretary-general of the ANC, Walter was sentenced to life imprisonment with...

Architecture and explorations focusing on landscapes, forms, narrations sketched in pencil, pastels, watercolors that closely bind local tradition and modernity, taking inspiration from explosive nature. The author is Alberto Kalach,...

Walter Sisulu and Albertina Thethiwe were born in small rural villages just a few miles apart in the Eastern Cape hinterland. From these humble beginnings, they would become two of...

Now in paperback, an "unforgettably good book [told] with compassion and sympathy" (Simon Winchester, New York Times ) about an eccentric aviator and the thrilling early days of flight. From...

Alberta Selmer escapes from her cold, suffocating provincial life in Norway to seek out the summer riches of Paris: a city where the bohemians will never die, where there is...

Author: Rev. Andrew A. Bonar, D.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1886Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingMarkings: Previous ownerThis profound biographical...

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. A luminous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; no dvd.In a world of relentless noise and distraction, Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation offers a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian medical history command as much reverence as Albert Coates — surgeon, soldier, and survivor — whose extraordinary life is chronicled...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to live a life of genuine meaning? This is My Philosophy presents a remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the vast and brutal theatre of the Second World War, few accounts match the analytical precision and narrative sweep...

From the creators of BabyLit (R), open a window on history while teaching toddlers the ABCs . . . Teach brilliant babies about history and their ABCs with Greg Paprocki's...

The classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFrom the celebrated author of Eat, Pray, Love comes a deeply personal meditation on the forces that shape a human life — love in...

Edition: First Edition Thus.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the twilight of a defining political career, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister turns his formidable intellect to...

Edition: Revised.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Residue from previous price sticker to back of cover.What does it truly mean to embrace life with all its uncertainty, vulnerability,...

The sensational new novel from Becky Albertalli, best-selling author of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda . Imogen may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she's got the World's Greatest Ally title...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew memoirs carry the raw weight of survival that A. V. Gorbatov's account does — the testimony of a Red...

Elizabeth Gilbert, the beloved author whose personal reckoning with heartbreak and reinvention captivated millions in Eat, Pray, Love, returns with All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation...

Loose weight, gain energy, boost your metabolism and feel young. For more than 100 years, the nutritional principles laid down by the Austrian physician Dr F. X. Mayr have helped...

The eighth book in the New York Times bestselling Emmie & Friends series, told from the alternating POVs of popular Anthony and timid Leah as they grapple with a bullying...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew combat memoirs carry the raw authenticity and hard-won authority of American Warrior, the gripping firsthand account of Brigadier General John C....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst performed in 1610, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist stands as one of the most brilliantly constructed comedies in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew academic series capture the intellectual vitality of a nation's educational thought as vividly as Melbourne Studies in Education, an annual anthology that brought...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew biographies of an artist carry the intimacy and authority of a memoir written by a close personal friend, and...

The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage--now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew figures in British television and crime fiction have wielded a pen as sharp or a vision as unflinching as Lynda La Plante, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in the annals of colonial administration loom as large — or remain as fascinating — as Sir...

Steve Berry decided to do something a little bit different to raise funds for Alzheimer's Research UK. A life-long DOCTOR WHO fan, he began to interview celebrities, writers, actors and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePublished at the dawn of the modern gay liberation movement, Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in American letters have ever cut as sharply, or laughed as loudly, as that of H.L....

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew firsthand accounts of the First World War capture the raw heat, dust, and brutal endurance of mounted...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodWritten in the form of a long, intimate letter from a dying emperor to his young successor Marcus Aurelius,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodRising from the windswept plains and misty highlands of prehistoric Europe, the great standing stones of the ancient world have captivated and confounded scholars...

When Dr Grumpy Met Her Sunshine - Amy Blythe She's head over heels with temptation! Blunt, difficult, too much - that's how orthopedic specialist Sasha's ex described her. Now, back...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the annals of agricultural and imperial history, few stories are as remarkable as the clandestine transfer of Spain's prized Merino sheep...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: front hinges cracked; Few works of speculative fiction have reshaped the genre as profoundly as Frank Herbert's Dune saga, and The Great...