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Why Socrates Died(2010) WATERFIELD, ROBINThe picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble man was put to death in a fit of folly by the ancient Athenian democracy.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Gypsy Boy(2010) WALSH, MIKEYGypsy Boy is the first commercial memoir written by someone on the inside of the notoriously secretive culture of the Romany Gypsies.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Fangio(2009) DONALDSON, GERALDJuan Manuel Fangio's name is indelibly inscribed in the record books and many consider him to be the greatest driver in history.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Swimming In A Sea Of Death(2009) RIEFF, DAVIDAn extraordinarily open and moving account of Susan Sontag's final months, written by her son and drawing on previously unpublished letters and journals.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark(2009) WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARYLetters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition includes revVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Man Who Outshone The Sun King(2009) DRAZIN, CHARLES*In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Cleopatra(2009) TYLDESLEY, JOYCEThe Romans regarded Cleopatra as 'fatale monstrum', a tyrant to be crushed. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare and Tiepolo (and Elizabeth Taylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragic beauty. But who was CleopatraVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Two Lives(2008) MALCOLM, JANET'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master and Alice B Toklas, the 'workeVezava: Mehka22,80 € -
Gambling Man(2010) UGLOW, JENNYCharles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. This title is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature thVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Malcolm X for Beginners Malcom X for Beginners(2007) DOCTOR, BERNARD AQUINA (BERNARD AQUINA DOCTOR)Vezava: Mehka23,27 € -
Exile on Main Street(2008) GREENFIELD, ROBERTThe shocking, decadent, true story behind the making of the Rolling Stones' beloved double album Exile on Main StreetVezava: Mehka32,30 € -
Bit Of A Blur(2008) JAMES, ALEX* The charming, witty and slightly disreputable memoirs of Alex James - artist, musician, bass player with Blur, and the perfect chronicler of the Britpop generationVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
My Life(2007) TROTSKY, LEONThis priceless historical document features firsthand accounts from top levels of leadership in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, chronicling the struggle to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat.Vezava: Mehka29,43 € -
William and Mary(2008) KISTE, JOHN VAN DERMary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, married William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the Dutch republic, who was eleven years older than her. This dual biography deals with both thVezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Doc Holliday(2007) ROBERTS, GARY L.He was a dentist from the South believed to have gone west because of tuberculosis, a man who went on to become a gambler, a faro dealer, and one of the most feared (and fearless) gunfighters of his time--a close friend of Wyatt Earp and a key participantVezava: Mehka26,64 € -
Somewhere To Lay My Head(2007) DOUGLAS, ROBERTThe next chapter in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM but can be read on its ownVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Pocket with a Hole(2006) BULLOCK, BRENDAReflecting Birmingham in the 1940s and 1950s, this work tells of the games played then in the streets: hopscotch, queenie, marbles, skipping, roller skating. It takes us back to school life during and after the war, to what it was like to be sick before tVezava: Mehka20,82 € -
New Shostakovich(2006) MACDONALD, IANIan MacDonald's The New Shostakovich presents the case for the dissident view, arguing passionately that the meaning of the composer's music cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of the terrible times he and his fellow artists lived through undeVezava: Mehka26,62 €
