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 A life of contrasts: The autobiography of Diana MosleyAt the outbreak of World War II, Diana Mosley, the Mitford sister who grew up with the... |  Maid MatelotThis is an account of the experiences of a WREN in Warsash and Southampton during World War II,... |  Kelly: A Biography of Sean Kelly |  My Horses, My Teachers |  Rupert of the Rhine |
 In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary |  Don't Shoot the YanquiBest Price: $68.72 |  Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE YEARSBest Price: $15.28 The standard account of Lincoln's years in the Illinois legislature. The author himself... |  Artists as Professors: Conversations with Musicians, Painters, SculptorsBest Price: $69.34 |  Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13: 1914-15. Assistant editors, Susan Valenza and Sadie M. HarlanBest Price: $54.75 |
 Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle JanBest Price: $40.00 This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation... |  Jerry Lewis (Contemporary Film Directors)Best Price: $64.97 Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie... |  Serving Genius: Carlo Maria GiuliniBest Price: $27.24 FANTASTIC book! If Carlo Maria Giulini interests you, don't hesitate to buy this book. I... |  The First American Women ArchitectsBest Price: $43.46 Interesting book. Uneven in coverage of individual women. My internet research has provided... |  The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their LivesBest Price: $17.84 This book, while well written by a worthy author, focuses too much on the experiences of middle... |
 Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Sport and Society)Best Price: $12.25 Cayleff has thoroughly researched and documented Babe's life and times. She conducted... |  Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos (Music in American Life)Best Price: $41.50 Bitter Music (as well as the other writings in the collection) reads like a journal, a... |  Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948 (Folklore and Society)Best Price: $30.00 Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award and the Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award,... |  Life of Henry David ThoreauBest Price: $19.49 "No Englishman did more in the nineteenth century to advance the literary reputation of... |  Tales and Trails of IllinoisBest Price: $12.91 Originally published as weekly columns in newspapers, Stu Fliege's Tales & Trails Of... |
 Gandhi (Profiles (London, England).)Examines the life of the statesman who played a crucial role in India's struggle for... |  Tears Before BedtimeBarbara Skeltons autobiography is a must for anyone interested in the generation of English... |  Private View: Inside Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre |  A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T.E. UtleyBest Price: $129.00 An autobiography on T.E.Utley who was acknowledged as one of the most important Tory guns over... |  Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson MandelaBest Price: $29.95 A biography of Nelson Mandela, a key figure in world politics today. Told through unique letters... |
 My Life in PoliticsBorn in 1913 to poor working-class parents, Willy Brandt was involved in socialist politics from... |  Kings and Queens of Great BritainAn illustrated chart of the family tree of the British Royal family, from the earliest times to... |  SIR VIDIA'S SHADOW A Friendship Across Five Continents |  A Commonplace BookBest Price: $70.44 When Sir Alec Guinness died in August 2000 at the age of 86, he left behind two exercise books... |  The Princes in the TowerBest Price: $14.00 The spectacle of the cruel, hunchbacked king, Richard III, ending once and for all the menacing... |
 Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (Music in American Life)Best Price: $18.94 My first experience of the "Motown Sound" was listening to a BBC radio show devoted to... |  Claire Denis (Contemporary Film Directors)Best Price: $21.36 Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today,... |  Roman Polanski (Contemporary Film Directors)Best Price: $8.30 A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's Roman Polanski ... |  Jane Campion (Contemporary Film Directors)Best Price: $11.70 The subversive style of the woman who has become one of the world's greatest film directors ... |  A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara ScalesBest Price: $19.14 Enjoyed reading about Junius Scales and family very much. Gives a good feeling for the times in... |
 Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche (International Nietzsche Studies)Best Price: $7.95 A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacy ... |  Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. DunhamBest Price: $16.22 Devil's Game traces the amazing career of Charles A. Dunham, Civil War spy, forger,... |  Jesse Owens: An American Life (Sport and Society (SPS))Best Price: $5.00 Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse... |  Manoel de Oliveira (Contemporary Film Directors)Best Price: $7.49 Part of the Contemporary Film Directors series, Manoel de Oliveira is an in-depth examination of... |  Jim Jarmusch (Contemporary Film Directors)Best Price: $18.93 The first major English-language study of Jarmusch At a time when gimmicky, action-driven... |
| Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (Music in American Life) Best Price: $18.94 My first experience of the "Motown Sound" was listening to a BBC radio show devoted to... | Claire Denis (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $21.36 Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today,... | Roman Polanski (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $8.30 A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's Roman Polanski ... | Jane Campion (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $11.70 The subversive style of the woman who has become one of the world's greatest film directors ... | A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales Best Price: $19.14 Enjoyed reading about Junius Scales and family very much. Gives a good feeling for the times in... |
| Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche (International Nietzsche Studies) Best Price: $7.95 A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacy ... | Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham Best Price: $16.22 Devil's Game traces the amazing career of Charles A. Dunham, Civil War spy, forger,... | Jesse Owens: An American Life (Sport and Society (SPS)) Best Price: $5.00 Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse... | Manoel de Oliveira (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $7.49 Part of the Contemporary Film Directors series, Manoel de Oliveira is an in-depth examination of... | Jim Jarmusch (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $18.93 The first major English-language study of Jarmusch At a time when gimmicky, action-driven... |
 Whicker's World Take 2Best Price: $0.02 Following the best-selling first volume of his autobiography, Alan Whicker presents a hugely... |  From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me |  Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art AddictBest Price: $82.58 What a self-indulgent, rackety and restless life this woman has led, and she makes no bones... |  Real WagnerBest Price: $83.40 This is an excellent and useful book. Though there is some commentary by Sabor, the book is... |  CoppolaBy 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards; at the same time he was over $20... |
 Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.MasterspyBest Price: $84.72 This is about Kim Philby's life. (really Harlord Adrian Russel Philby)He lived from... |  ANTON THE DOVE-FANCIERBest Price: $384.58 |  Ten Glorious Years Pb |  On Top Down Under: Australia's Cricket Captains PbBest Price: $159.59 |  Big Ron: A Different Ball GameBest Price: $7.53 Ron Atkinson is one of English football's most flamboyant characters. In his autobiography,... |
 When You're Smiling: the Illustrated Biography of Les Daw HbBest Price: $35.00 |  Betty: The AutobiographyBetty Driver M.B.E. is a British national treasure. For her early years, she was driven by the... |  Whicker's World Take 2Best Price: $98.31 For a man who has spent his working lifetime as a journalist and film-maker, Whicker has, as... |  Joanna LumleyBest Price: $3.09 This affectionate and immensely readable biography charts the remarkable life of Joanna Lumley,... |  Queen Victoria Goes to the Theatre |
 Famous Irish Men and Women (Step-Up History)Best Price: $15.24 The titles in this series focus on important events in Irish history and on exploring Ireland?s... |  Churchills in Africa |  A Late Education: Episodes in a LifeBest Price: $96.00 |  The Endless Steppe |  Reminiscences of Lance Corporal of Industry |
 Sovereign Lady: Life of Elizabeth, Third Lady Holland, with Her Family |  ANNE CARROLL MOORE - A Biography |  Al Bowlly |  Sweet Robin: Biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1533-88Best Price: $256.57 Mr. Wilson's Sweet Robin is a well-written book that is supported by many facts, but not... |  Shout!: The true story of the BeatlesThe first and best Beatles biography, fully updated and reissued to coincide with the 40th... |
 Gladstone (v. 1) |  DeLorean: The Rise and Fall of a Dream MakerBest Price: $59.95 |  Randolph: A Study of Churchill's Son |  The Dragon Empress Life and Times of Tz"u-hsi 1835- 1908 Empress Dowager of China |  Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. DunhamBest Price: $14.99 Cumming's book on Charles Dunham -- known to many by his most prominent alias, Sanford... |
 The Poet and the Sailor: The Story of My Friendship with Carl SandburgBest Price: $14.82 This book offers a lot of opportunities for learning. On the surface, it's the story of a... |  Let Something Good Be Said: Speeches and Writings of Frances E. WillardBest Price: $14.00 I first found out about Frances Willard through a biography of Carrie Nation wherein she was... |  Alice Paul and the American Suffrage CampaignPast biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution... |  Lincoln's Legacy: Ethics and PoliticsBest Price: $27.00 I found my irritation level rising as I read this short collection of essays. I know that the... |  Kaija Saariaho (Women Composers)Best Price: $38.00 Pirkko Moisala's book about Kaija Saariaho, published by University of Illinois Press in... |
 Wartime Diary (Beauvoir Series)Best Price: $38.00 Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir?s Wartime Diary gives English... |  Sing It Pretty: A Memoir (Music in American Life)Best Price: $64.97 A leader in the development of state and federal programs supporting traditional arts and folk... |  Rise to Be A People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe (Blacks in the New World)Best Price: $19.99 Paul Cuffe who lived from 1759 to 1817 was a remarkable man. He was a self made man, a... |  Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement (SPS)Best Price: $32.68 This is the inspiring story of an African American whose athletic and entrepreneurial... |  Lincoln the President: Last Full MeasureNow available for the first time in paperback, "Last Full Measure" is the fourth and... |
 For Freedom's Sake: THE LIFE OF FANNIE LOU HAMER (Women in American History)Best Price: $53.15 Chana Kai Lee makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the civil rights movement... |  Blue Rhythms: SIX LIVES IN RHYTHM AND BLUES (Music in American Life)Best Price: $18.99 "Somebody has to pay the dues", says La Vern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of... |  Doowop: The Chicago Scene (Music in American Life)Best Price: $341.75 Basses burbled low, tenors soared, leads wailed, and choruses chanted in harmony in the earliest... |  Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: POETRY SONGS AND GREAT BASIN CONTEXT (Music in American Life)The Ghost Dance, which led to the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, was a widespread Native... |  My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness (Creative Nonfiction Series)Best Price: $15.00 How to adequately praise an amazing memoir that is by turns comic, tragic, brave, immensely kind... |
 Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political PowerBest Price: $70.42 Carl B. Stokes And The Rise Of Black Political Power by Leonard N. Moore (Assistant Professor of... |  The Making of "Mammy Pleasant": A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Women in American History)Best Price: $42.00 One can only criticize this book for the word "Mammy" in the title if one has not read... | |||
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