Edition: 2
Publication date: 2001-11-01
Dewey code: 808.6
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.49
Review How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences and Paragraphs for Every Situation (How to Say It...) / Prentice Hall:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-04-29
Dewey code: 306.8740942
RRP: £25.00
Price: £19.47
Review Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914 / Yale University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-14
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £18.95
Review Memories of the Great and the Good / Pavilion Books:"The great and the good" is a happy phrase that takes in a general appreciation of some people who are great at one thing and other people whose character is the fascinating thing about them. Few would argue with the assertion that the author of this volume about men and women of great distinction is himself worthy of such categorisation. Alistair Cooke's extraordinarily long journalistic career (including broadcasting his Letter from America to BBC Radio 4 listeners for more than half a century) leaves him needing little introduction, on either side of the Atlantic or, indeed, the English Channel (a correspondent for Le Monde in France described him as "the best journalist in the world"). During his life Cooke has encountered many luminaries of the 20th century and this volume comprises 23 brief portraits, taking in, among others, writers, statesmen, generals, scientists, musicians and sportsmen, who have made the strongest impressions on him. His style will be familiar to many; succinct, engaging and deeply perceptive, it is never less than a pleasure to read. The warm respect he feels for his subjects shines throughout all; as he makes clear, he does not adhere to the belief "that the business of literary and historical criticism is the cutting down to size of the famous", and the dignity of his subjects is enshrined in each vignette. The collection though, is not intended merely as a series of eulogies, nor in any sense as a definitive list of the greatest figures of the 20th century. They are, rather, very human renderings, capturing from unexpected angles a group of unconnected yet exceptional characters, as Cooke experienced them, whose stories can teach us much about both human nature and the nature of the past century. -Alisdair Bowles.
Edition: Rev. Ed
Publication date: 2001-01-01
Dewey code: 920.02
Price: £15.99
Review The One Hundred: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History / Citadel Press:
Edition: Rev Ed
Publication date: 2007-09-28
RRP: £35.00
Price: £19.62
Review Biographical Dictionary (Chambers) / Chambers Harrap:
Edition: 160New Ed
Publication date: 2007-12-06
Dewey code: 031
RRP: £150.00
Price: £129.99
Review Who's Who 2008 (Who's Who) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-06-04
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.20
Review Courage: Eight Portraits / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: 4Rev Ed
Publication date: 2003-10-30
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £25.00
Price: £15.89
Review The New Biographical Dictionary of Film / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 2007-03-20
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.07
Review Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The / NuVision Publications:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-08-16
Dewey code: 973.3092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.15
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: Cynthia Morey
Publication date: 2006-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £14.00
Price: £7.24
Review Nothing Whatever to Grumble at / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- Richard Cavendish
- Pip Leahy
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.18
Review Kings & Queens the Concise Guide: The Concise Guide / David & Charles:
Edition: 07
Publication date: 2007-07-01
RRP: £30.00
Price: £7.99
Review Churchills Lions: A Biographical Guide to the Key British Generals of World War II / NPI Media group:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £11.40
Price: £3.75
Review Kiss: Behind the Mask: The Official Authorized Biography / Warner Books:
Publication date: 1993-01-01
Dewey code: 979.86
RRP: £14.95
Price: £3.91
Review Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River / Alaska Northwest Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-09-25
Dewey code: 150.922
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.59
Review Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology (Routledge Key Guides) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2004-09-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.64
Price: £5.06
Review Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art / Penguin Books:
Creator: Gabriele Griffin
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-05-23
Dewey code: 809.8992066403
RRP: £60.00
Price: £13.13
Review Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing (Routledge Who's Who) / Routledge:
Edition: 30th Anniversary Ed
Publication date: 2002-08-08
Dewey code: 306.742092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.37
Review The Happy Hooker: My Own Story / ReganBooks,U.S.:
Authors
- Tinker Hatfield
- Michael Jordan
Dewey code: 796.323092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.53
Review Driven from Within / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
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How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences and Paragraphs for Every Situation (How to Say It...), Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914, Memories of the Great and the Good, The One Hundred: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Biographical Dictionary (Chambers), Who's Who 2008 (Who's Who), Courage: Eight Portraits, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Nothing Whatever to Grumble at, Kings & Queens the Concise Guide: The Concise Guide, Churchills Lions: A Biographical Guide to the Key British Generals of World War II, Kiss: Behind the Mask: The Official Authorized Biography, Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River, Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology (Routledge Key Guides), Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing (Routledge Who's Who), The Happy Hooker: My Own Story, Driven from Within |
