Edith Cavell: Nurse, Martyr, Heroine
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Edith Cavell was born in 1865, daughter of a Norfolk vicar, and shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915...
Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and...
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism
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Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early...
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician, 1716-1783
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Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and...
Lenin: A Biography
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Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated....
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
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Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a...
Living with Liszt: From the Diary of Carl Lachmund, an American Pupil of Liszt, 1882-1884
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Carl V. Lachmund (1857-1928) was an American pupil of Liszt; he studied with the Hungarian master in...
Louis Van Gaal: The Biography
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So who is Louis van Gaal? An inflexible ex-PE teacher who only knows how to act like a dictator or a...
Masters of Their Craft: The Art, Architecture and Garden Design of the Nesfields
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In this informative volume, Dr Shirley Rose Evans explores the lives of two of the most prominent...
Mathematician for All Seasons: Recollections and Notes, (1887-1945): 2015: Volume 1
Hugo Steinhaus, Robert G. Burns, Aleksander Weron and Irena Szymaniec
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This book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887-1972), noted Polish...