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Myself and Other More Important Matters(2007) HANDY, CHARLESCharles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's "Thought for the Day". Here, he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to explore the issues and dVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Lie About My Father(2007) BURNSIDE, JOHNTells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. This book examines the way men are made and how tVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Party Animals(2017) AARONOVITCH, DAVIDBlending memoir, history and biography, the author uncovers the story of his family's life by picking through letters, diaries and secret service files, which in turn unleash vivid childhood memories of a lost and idealistic world.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother(2006) VICKERS, HUGOThis was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is attempted, partly because she was a queen - and the real person gets hidden behind the perceived image - and partly because she is hard to pVezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)(2003) EQUIANO, OLAUDAHRecounts the kidnapping of the author in Africa aged ten, his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy for ten years, and his life after he bought his freedom in 1766, growing to become one of the foremost figures of the anti-slavery movementVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Lessons From the Bench(2022) HUSSEY, GILLIANA fascinating insight into the career of one of Ireland’s first female judges, revealing the inner workings of Ireland’s criminal courts, exploring the changes in Irish society and sharing timeless truths learned from almost 20 years on the bench.Vezava: Trda30,83 € -
I Am Someone(2022) CREEGAN, AISLINGA remarkable memoir about female cruelty, and ultimately female strength and endurance.Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Unspoken(2022) MCGRATH, TOMThe true story of a son who discovered the unspoken truths of his parents lives after their deaths, including the incredible story of his father’s escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland and his daring journey across Europe in a bid for freedom.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Jeopardy(2018) EMMANUEL-JONES, WILFREDAn inspirational personal development guide/business book, which advocates the importance of embracing danger in business and life.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Learning To Breathe(2006) CAVE, ANDYAt the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit. But at weekends Andy escaped from the pitheVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Washington at the Plow(2021) RAGSDALE, BRUCE A.George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation’s prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor’s inefficiency as much as itsVezava: Trda42,91 € -
Loving Before Loving(2021) LESTER, JOAN STEINAUBraiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Joan Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v.Vezava: Trda37,41 € -
All Abroad(2021) WEILL, GEOFFREYPresents the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into Geoffrey Weill’s entertaining anecdotes is an informative account of a lost era in travel.Vezava: Trda40,97 € -
Citizen Countess(2019) LINDENMEYR, ADELEBased on detailed research in archival collections, this book establishes Sofia Panina as an astute eyewitness to and passionate participant in the historical events that shaped her life. Her experiences shed light on the evolution of the European nobilitVezava: Trda57,03 €
