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A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists. The total mass of the world's manmade...

Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...

A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time- Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt,...

You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens'...

An impressionistic study of Bruce Chatwin's life and work by one of his friends. It is not a biography, but a collection of Clapp's own memories of Chatwin and those...

'Excellent, absorbing, affectionate, unillusioned, vivid and affecting' - Craig Raine, Financial Times Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in...

When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary fashion designer. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as...

Author: Robert Fabbri (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I foresee great struggles at my funeral games.' Babylon, 323 BC: Alexander the Great is dead, leaving behind...

Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most reliable we have. Arrian's own experience as...

Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark exhibition catalogue, The Search for Alexander presents a sweeping visual...

This new volume of the PHotoBolsillo series focuses on the Venezuelan artist Alexander Apostol through a monograph in which his most outstanding and relevant works are compiled. Throughout his artistic...

The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its...

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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann The subject of this book is the life of the former cement-worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf...

In the second half of the fourth century BC, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great created the largest empire the world has ever known. On 11 June 323 BC, in...

Author: Morris R. BrownellBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press at the Clarendon Press, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA scholarly examination illuminates the intricate connections between the celebrated poet...

Author: George SherburnBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford At The Clarendon Press, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis academic volume chronicles the formative period of one of English literature's most significant...

Author: Andrew Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the explosive heart of the Russian Revolution stood one man whose rise and fall encapsulates the tragedy of a nation torn...

One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself. A...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn December 1948, a young American embassy clerk named Alexander Dolgun was snatched off the streets of Moscow by Soviet secret police,...

The book titled Alexander Pushkin: A Celebration of Russia's Best-loved Writer by the author A. D. P. Briggs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Condition remarks: Condition: New/Excellent. - in original publisher's plastic shrink wrap, no tears or damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight and secure. At the intersection of...

Author: Pat Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history...

Author: Alexander HarrisBinding: HardbackPublished: ANGUS AND ROBERTSON, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling narrative uncovers the hidden life of a prominent figure, revealing a tapestry of intrigue...

Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For the first time, rock music's most famous muse tells her incredible story, from her tumultuous childhood and the beginning of her modeling career...

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Alexandre Dumas, chronicles the extraordinary life of the prolific French author, detailing his adventurous spirit and...

Willa Cather's first novel, "Alexander's Bridge" (1912), tells the story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between his duties to his career and his wife Winifred, and his passion...

Author: Alexandre Gauthier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A new book by acclaimed French chef Alexandre Gauthier, owner of the extraordinary restaurant La Grenouillere--awarded two Michelin stars--in northern France...

Author: Paul Kingsnorth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' - Telegraph 'Beckett doing Beowulf.' - London Review of Books One thousand years from...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few figures in nineteenth-century Russian history burn as fiercely as Alexander Herzen — exile, agitator, and prophet...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Some minor silverfish damage to FEP, rubbed edges and some chipping to DJ.In...

Author: Mike ButcherBinding: PaperbackPublished: Holland House Publishing for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Bendigo and District Branch, 2000Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages:...