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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, (Paperback / softback - 23 Feb 2010)

The Woman Behind the New Deal
¬Kirstin DowneyΣs lively, substantive andηdare I sayηinspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates PerkinsΣ career but also deepens the known contradictions of RooseveltΣs character.‾ ηMaureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air One of Franklin Delano RooseveltΣs closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the...

By (author) Kirstin Downey

ISBN-13: 9781400078561 ; ISBN-10: 1400078563

Price: £17.15 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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SALADIN: HERO OF ISLAM (Paperback - 18 Feb 2010)

SALADIN
Hero of Islam.

By (author) GEOFFREY HINDLEY

ISBN-13: 9781848842038 ; ISBN-10: 1848842031

Price: £12.99 £10.39 Not Available

Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age (Paperback / softback - 9 Feb 2010)

Angels and Ages
In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of manΣs place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and...

By (author) Adam Gopnik

ISBN-13: 9780307455307 ; ISBN-10: 0307455300

Price: £16.27 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Tom Coffey's Savannah (Paperback / softback - 8 Apr 2010)

Tom Coffey's Savannah

By (author) Tom Coffey

ISBN-13: 9781929490097 ; ISBN-10: 1929490097

Price: £16.98 £13.58 Not Available

Go to School, You're a Little Black Boy: The Honourable Lincoln M Alexander -- A Memoir (Paperback / softback - 15 Jan 2010)

Go to School, You're a Little Black Boy
Among the important stories that need to be told about noteworthy Canadians, Lincoln Alexander's sits at the top of the list. Born in Toronto in 1922, Alexander embarked on an exemplary life path that has involved military service for his country, a successful political career, a thriving law career, and vocal advocacy on subjects ranging from antiracism to the importance of education. This biography traces a...

By (author) Lincoln Alexander; Herb Shoveller

ISBN-13: 9781554887330 ; ISBN-10: 155488733X

Price: £15.99 £12.79 Not Available

THE VICTORIAN SPY (Paperback - 4 Feb 2010)

THE VICTORIAN SPY
Henri Le Caron. In this book, Peter Edwards reveals the early history of Canadian, British, and American intelligence agencies and Le Caron's infiltration of the Irish Republican movement.

By (author) PETER EDWARDS

ISBN-13: 9781905379583 ; ISBN-10: 1905379587

Price: £16.99 £13.59 Not Available

Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing (Hardback - 1 Feb 2010)

Florence Nightingale
This volume reports Nightingale's work to take trained nursing from its base at St. Thomas' Hospital in London to other hospitals in London, elsewhere in England, and into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. It goes on to European countries (initially Sweden and Germany, later France and Italy), to Australia, the United States, Canada, and other countries of the then British Empire. Also featured is material on how...

Edited by Lynn McDonald

ISBN-13: 9780889205208 ; ISBN-10: 0889205205

Price: £99.99 £64.49 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School (Hardback - 1 Feb 2010)

Florence Nightingale
Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime's writing on nursing is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to "look to the future, not to the past", and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources. Nightingale's work on nursing is now available to scholars and general readers alike through the publication of volumes 12 and 13 in the Collected Works of...

Edited by Lynn McDonald

ISBN-13: 9780889204676 ; ISBN-10: 0889204675

Price: £99.99 £71.49 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Florence Nightingale at First Hand (Paperback / softback - 29 Jan 2010)

Florence Nightingale at First Hand
On the centenary of Florence Nightingales death, questions have been raised as to her real achievements. Although a legend in her own time, Nightingale has recently been attacked by academics and in two BBC films. This book takes on the Nightingale debunkers to give an informed and clear-eyed look at Nightingale as public health advocate, pioneering researcher, and fiercely dedicated social reformer. The book lets...

By (author) Lynn McDonald

ISBN-13: 9781554581917 ; ISBN-10: 1554581915

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THE LAST OF THE CLAN (Paperback - 31 Jan 2010)

THE LAST OF THE CLAN
A biography of the last ancient clan chief of Clan Macneil, Roderick Macneil.

By (author) KEITH BRANIGAN

ISBN-13: 9781848684317 ; ISBN-10: 1848684312

Price: £18.99 £15.19 Not Available

THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF AMEEN RIHANI: THE HUMANIST IDEOLOGY OF AN ARAB-AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL AND ACTIVIST (Hardback - 30 Jan 2010)

THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF AMEEN RIHANI
Ameen Rihani was a pioneering Arab-American writer and activist, a leading figure in the development of the 'mahjar' literary movement and the most prominent Arab humanist intellectual of the twentieth century. This title examines the dialectical link between Rihani's life experiences and his ideas and activism.

By (author) NIJMEH HAJJAR

ISBN-13: 9781848852662 ; ISBN-10: 1848852665

Price: £59.50 £47.15 Not Available

A Tempered Wind: An Autobiography (Paperback / softback - 30 Jan 2010)

A Tempered Wind

By (author) Karen Gershon

ISBN-13: 9780810126138 ; ISBN-10: 0810126133

Price: £19.50 £17.55 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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A Tempered Wind: An Autobiography (Hardback - 28 Jan 2010)

A Tempered Wind

By (author) Karen Gershon

ISBN-13: 9780810126121 ; ISBN-10: 0810126125

Price: £62.50 £47.69 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood (Paperback / softback - 12 Jan 2010)

Joker One
After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. So he joined the service, becoming a commander of a forty-man infantry platoon called Joker One. Campbell had just months to train and transform a ragtag group of brand-new Marines into a first-rate cohesive fighting unit, men who would become his family. They were assigned to Ramadi, the...

By (author) Donovan Campbell

ISBN-13: 9780812979565 ; ISBN-10: 0812979567

Price: £16.72 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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CHE GUEVARA (Paperback - 1 Jan 2010)

CHE GUEVARA
Che Guevara became a myth in his own lifetime and an international martyr-figure upon his death; he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, an economist, a medical doctor, and a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. This title presents documents including several of Che's personal diaries and the whereabouts of Che's body in Bolivia.

By (author) JON LEE ANDERSON

ISBN-13: 9780553820119 ; ISBN-10: 0553820117

Price: £9.99 £7.99 Not Available

ISRAEL'S BOMB - THE FIRST VICTIM: THE CASE OF MORDECHAI VANUNU (Paperback - 31 Dec 2009)

ISRAEL'S BOMB - THE FIRST VICTIM
The story of the man who uncovered Israel's nuclear weapons programme and the consequences of this act for his own life.

By (author) MORDECHAI VANANU

ISBN-13: 9780851247199 ; ISBN-10: 0851247199

Price: £10.26 Not Available

First Kids (Paperback / softback - 22 Dec 2009)

First Kids
Kids will be kids—even when they live in the White House! From Tad Lincoln (secretly called a “tyrant” ) to the Roosevelt gang (who kept a pet badger, a rat, dogs, snakes, horses, parrots, and a one-legged chicken!) to the Kennedys (who used the oval office as a playground) to Chelsea Clinton (who transformed herself from an awkward teen into an accomplished scholar), the children featured in...

By (author) Gibbs Davis; Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport

ISBN-13: 9780375822186 ; ISBN-10: 0375822186

Price: £11.30 Not Available

First Kids (Hardback - 22 Dec 2009)

First Kids
Kids will be kids—even when they live in the White House! From Tad Lincoln (secretly called a “tyrant” ) to the Roosevelt gang (who kept a pet badger, a rat, dogs, snakes, horses, parrots, and a one-legged chicken!) to the Kennedys (who used the oval office as a playground) to Chelsea Clinton (who transformed herself from an awkward teen into an accomplished scholar), the children featured in...

By (author) Gibbs Davis; Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport

ISBN-13: 9780375922183 ; ISBN-10: 0375922180

Price: £18.62 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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The Diary of A Farmer's Wife 1796-1797 (Paperback / softback - 15 Dec 2009)

The Diary of A Farmer's Wife 1796-1797
In 1796 young farmer's wife,  Anne Hughes, decided to start a diary to "set down all that I do every day" and so, for 13 months we learn of Anne's day to day life, of the butter maken that sometimes "was longe time cummin" of collecting honey, pudden making, making merrie and of all the social activities and hard work that was then the lot of a farmer's wife. This is an extraordinary document,...

By (author) Anne Hughes

ISBN-13: 9781904871590 ; ISBN-10: 1904871593

Price: £10.99 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood (Paperback / softback - 25 Jan 2010)

Armed Progressive
Biography of career military man Leonard Wood Gen. Leonard Wood's meteoric career was no fluke. The ambitious Wood (1860-1927), serving as an army physician, strategically took on tasks and assignments that led him from the pursuit of Geronimo in the deserts of the Southwest (for which he won the Medal of Honor) to chief of staff of the U.S. Army and almost to the presidency of the United States. During his rise to...

By (author) Jack Lane

ISBN-13: 9780803226586 ; ISBN-10: 0803226586

Price: £14.24 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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