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Paul Dirac: The Man and his Work

By Abraham Pais (Rockefeller University, New York), Maurice Jacob (Conseil Europeen de Recherches Nucleaires, Geneva), David I. Olive (University of Wales, Swansea), Michael F. Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)

Newton: the Liberator

By John Pollock

John Wesley

By Stephen Tomkins

Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion

By Andrew Robinson

Suleiman the Magnificent

By Andre Clot

The Memoirs of Field Marshal Kesselring

By Albert Kesselring, James Holland, Kenneth Macksey

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By G Pascal Zachary

Creating the Better Hour: Lessons from William Wilberforce

By Chuck Stetson

Marion: A Modern-day Miracle

By John Scally

The Village

By Alice Taylor

The Village

By Alice Taylor

Martin Heidegger: A political life

By Hugo Ott, Allan Blunden

Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

By James Holland

Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962: Early Years, 1918-1962 v. 1

By Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela., 12pp b/w Photographs.

The Northern Lights: How One Man Sacrificed Love, Happiness and Sanity to Unlock the Secrets of Space

By Lucy Jago

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

By Paula Uruburu

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

By James Haley

Higher Than Hope: A Biography of Nelson Mandela

By Meer, Fatima

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779: A Celebration of British Craftsmanship and Design

By Adam Bowett

Meet Paul (Triangle Special S.)

By Coggan, Donald, Hope, David

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Story of their Friendship

By Colin Duriez

Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant

By Barbara Hosking

TheWorld of Yesterday by Zweig, Stefan ( Author ) ON May-01-2010, Paperback

By Zweig, Stefan

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 8: Never Despair, 1945-65

By Martin Gilbert

Peter the Great

By Robert K. Massie

Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend

By Fiaz Rafiq, Rasheda Ali

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 2: The Young Statesman, 1901-14

By Randolph s. churchill, Martin Gilbert

Warriors of God

By Reston, James

Gorbachev: Making of the Man Who Shook the World

By Gail Sheehy