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Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

By Galison, Peter

Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family

By Caine, Barbara

J K Galbraith: A 20th Century Life

By Richard Parker

Place of Reeds

By Davies, Caitlin

Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

By Zinovieff, Sofka

The Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader

By Bergen, Peter

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture

By Maria Wyke

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Grant, Colin

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Rees, Laurence

Heinemann Profiles: Fidel Castro Hardback

By Press, Petra

The Raising of A President: The Mothers and Fathers of Our Nation's Leaders

By Wead, Doug

Harriet Tubman (Graphic Biographies)

By Shone And Anita Ganeri, Rob, Shone

Famous Lives: Martin Luther King (Famous Lives 2)

By Claybourne, Anna

The Young Survivors (inspired by a true story)

By Debra Barnes

Lives: Buddha

By Armstrong, Karen

I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero (Ordinary People Change the World)

By Meltzer, Brad

Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

By Haskins, Jim, Andrews, Benny

Gervelie's Journey: A Refugee Diary

By Robinson, Anthony, Young, Annemarie, Allan, June

A Child's War: Growing Up on the Home Front 1939-45

By Brown

Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present: 1

By Wilson, Jamia, Pippins, Andrea

The Making of an Analyst: A Memoir

By Fordham, Michael

Sojourner Truth (Tell Me About)

By John Malam

Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly

By Myers, Walter Dean, Jenkins, Leonard

A-Z of Barbados Heritage (Macmillan Caribbean A-Zs) (Macmillan Caribbean A-Z Series)

By Sean Carrington

The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi: 1920-1933 v. 3 (Freud, Sigmund//Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi): Volume ... of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi)

By Freufder, Ernst

Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

By Ilibagiza, Immaculée, Erwin, Steve

A Woman's Work

By Harman, Harriet

Letters of the Queens of England

By Crawford, Anne

The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival & Hope

By Salbi, Zainab

The Third Tower (Pushkin Collection): Journeys in Italy

By Antal Szerb, Len Rix