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Edition: First British EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of American theater criticism, Seasons of Discontent: Dramatic Opinions 1959-1965 presents a sharp and...

Author: Robert BrusteinBinding: HardbackPublished: Liveright., 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxed edges, yellowed DJ with chips and minor...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsHornstein's Boy chronicles the ambitious congressional campaign of young lawyer Walt Hornstein in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula....

'A brilliantly candid, timely and perceptive account.' Andy Haldane 'Asks all the right questions.' Mark Carney Has the West gone bust? Or is there another way? In their new book,...

'You will not find a more devoted, thorough, loving and surprising book on the life of Leonard Bernstein - the most extraordinary man of extraordinary talents. Read it.' Lauren Bacall...

"Quick, cutting wit . . . a keen ear."-- The New York Times Book Review Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King...

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Albert Einstein, the legendary scientist. Little Albert grew up in Germany, where...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in twentieth-century British history lived...

From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adele Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her more than...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Gifter's inscription penned on fep. This collection presents a vibrant array of essays and speeches from one...

Author: Robert Peston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for...

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On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began...

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A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream! R.L. Stine-the godfather of Goosebumps-and some of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sun-drenched landscapes of late nineteenth-century Australia, a revolutionary art movement was born — one that would...

Author: Robert Carl CohenBinding: HardbackPublished: Lyle Stuart,, 1972Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis is a biography of Robert Franklin Williams. It explores the life and activism of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn 1963, a landmark government report reshaped the future of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2025 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly compelling.' SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterpiece of biography.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A total joy to read.'...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew intellectuals have navigated the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with as much candour and conviction as Robert Manne, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew painters have captured the soul of a nation with such vivid authenticity as Tom Roberts, the founding father of the Heidelberg School and the defining...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Dear Robertson: Letters to an Australian Publisher opens a remarkable window...

Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental mysteries of existence persist. How did our Universe...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of 3 February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in Australia...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Binding: front hinges cracked; binding slightly shaky; no loose pages; some...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the twentieth century loom as large and as contradictory as Nikita Khrushchev —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the most provocative figures of the twentieth century, Roy Lichtenstein transformed the disposable imagery of comic strips and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor eighty years, Britain solved its overcrowded prison crisis by shipping its convicted criminals to the ends of the earth — and The Fatal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Jacket in mylar sleeve. Few names in the history of art criticism carry as much weight as Bernard Berenson, whose...

Winner of the Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. 'Sharp, elegiac...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew cities on earth carry the weight of millennia the way Jerusalem does — a sacred crossroads of faith, conflict, and civilization that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when the fate of the world balanced on a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES DEBUT NON-FICTION PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING 2026 'A different level of insight to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great painter lies a second, quieter eye — and in The Eye of the Beholder: Albert...

The story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings. Operation Steinbock , or as it...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the rough-spun garments of convict settlers to the corseted elegance of the colonial elite, Breeches & Bustles:...

Israel can't go on like this. 7 October and Israel's subsequent invasion of Gaza laid bare the cracks in its foundations. It was unveiled as a country unable to protect...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the relentless expansion of educational credentialism has been one of the greatest cons ever perpetrated on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1985, the Castello di Rivoli — a magnificent Baroque palace on the outskirts of Turin...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to think freely in an empire built on repression? Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of science, philosophy, and imagination stands the robot — humanity's most ambitious attempt to recreate itself in metal and code. Robots: Machines...