Publication date: 2008-09
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £10.75
Price: £5.73
Review Three Men of Destiny (Scots-Irish Chronicles) / Ambassador-Emerald International:
Edition: New Impression
Publication date: 1971-06-24
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.60
Review The Reason Why / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-03-08
RRP: £25.00
Price: £6.41
Review Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer / Faber and Faber:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 508.4115
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.02
Review Song of the Rolling Earth: A Highland Odyssey / Abacus:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-01-31
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.95
Price: £6.95
Review Facing the Lion / Grammaton Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-09-11
Dewey code: 355.0092241
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.88
Review Soldier Against the Odds: From Infantry to SAS / Mainstream Publishing:
Creator: James Cox
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1985-04-25
Dewey code: 818.403
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.81
Review Life on the Mississippi (American Library) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-04-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.42
Review In the Footsteps of Churchill / BBC Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-12-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.65
Review The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral Cochrane / Birlinn Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-31
Dewey code: 330.122092
RRP: £22.95
Price: £16.34
Review Prophet of Innovation Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction / Harvard University Press:
Publication date: 2005-07-07
Dewey code: 942.33085092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.60
Review A Country Wife / Ebury Press:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2006-08-21
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.77
Review The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working Class Birmingham / Virago Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 782.421643092
RRP: £12.95
Price: £6.80
Review It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues / Greystone Books,Canada:
Publication date: 2007-08-16
Dewey code: 629.1341092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.62
Review Flying from My Mind: Innovative and Record-Breaking Microlight and Aircraft Designs / Pen & Sword Aviation:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-08-16
Dewey code: 973.3092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.42
Review Benjamin Franklin: An American Life / Simon & Schuster:"Benjamin Franklin", writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson in An American Life, "was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait". "What's more", Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, "the revolutionary leader represents a political tradition that has been all but forgotten today, one that prizes pragmatism over moralism, religious tolerance over fundamentalist rigidity, and social mobility over class privilege". That broadly democratic sensibility allowed Franklin his contradictions, as Isaacson shows. Though a man of lofty principles, Franklin wasn't shy of using sex to sell the newspapers he edited and published; though far from frivolous, he liked his toys and his mortal pleasures; and though he sometimes gave off a simpleton image, he was a shrewd and even crafty politician. Isaacson doesn't shy from enumerating Franklin's occasional peccadilloes and shortcomings, in keeping with the iconoclastic nature of our time-none of which, however, stops him from considering Benjamin Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age", and one of the most admirable of any era. And here's one bit of proof: as a young man Ben Franklin regularly went without food in order to buy books. His example, as always, is a good one-and this is just the book to buy with the proceeds from the grocery budget. -Gregory McNamee, Amazon. com.
Creator: Michael Mitchell
Publication date: 2008-06-20
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.80
Review The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History / Macmillan:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-12-04
Dewey code: 792
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.22
Review Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King / Penguin:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-05-27
Dewey code: 320.51
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99
Review The Thomas Paine Reader (Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2005-10-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.75
Review Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy / Penguin:
Authors
- Yuri Felshtinsky
- Alexander Litvinenko
Publication date: 2007-12-13
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Blowing Up Russia: The Return of the KGB / Gibson Square Books Ltd:
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Three Men of Destiny (Scots-Irish Chronicles), The Reason Why, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer, Song of the Rolling Earth: A Highland Odyssey, Facing the Lion, Soldier Against the Odds: From Infantry to SAS, Life on the Mississippi (American Library), In the Footsteps of Churchill, The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral Cochrane, Prophet of Innovation Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, A Country Wife, The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working Class Birmingham, It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Flying from My Mind: Innovative and Record-Breaking Microlight and Aircraft Designs, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History, Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King, The Thomas Paine Reader (Classics), Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy, Blowing Up Russia: The Return of the KGB |
