Madam Bessie Jones: Her Life and Times, Paperback - J. M. West

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The award-winning rags-to-riches story of how one woman overcame all odds to build a beauty business empire and become one of the first African-Ame...

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A comprehensive, authoritative and highly original portrait of one of history's most unjustly infamous characters.Illustrations: 16pp colour plates

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DescriptionThis is the first English language biography of Ottorino Respighi, the most performed Italian composer of the twentieth century.Best kno...

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Few British pastors can claim to have written a book that is amongst the 'life-books of their generation', yet this preacher of the Scottish Reform...

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A biography of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), famous historian, scholar, theologian and statesman.

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One of the most recognisable, respected and inspirational men on earth, Muhammad Ali is the world's most famous boxing hero. Ali brought unpreceden...

DescriptionNew Zealand railway builders surmounted many obstacles: the terrain, a sparse and scattered population, two islands separated by an ofte...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Dennis W. MageeIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 378Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x ...

Reducere. Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times is an expansive biography of one of the church's best known and most influential saints. St. John Chrysos...

Describes Roman York in the second and early 3rd centuries ADIllustrations: 100 colour illustrations

John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of England. His desce...

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in ...

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As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressi...

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Bess was the other Duchess, Georgiana's best friend, who with Georgiana and her husband, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, formed the infa...

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DescriptionFor all its successes, the future of the Special Air Service was uncertain after the Second World War. Resurrected as 22 SAS Regiment fo...

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Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks...

This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full co-operation of her three children, who allowed Wendy Po...

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Publisher: Australian Scholarly PublishingAuthor(s): Peter JonesNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 37Cover type: Pap...

Elizabeth II has lived through Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nucl...

The story of Philip Larkin's long-term partner Monica Jones based on her never-before-seen letters to the poet.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor...

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