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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: MED703 Arthur M Schlesinger - Robert Kennedy : His Life and Times , Vol 1 ( to 1962) - HB US Edition , 1978 Schlesinger has mounted a massive attack on the Robert Kennedy conundrum (shy/aggressive, compassionate/ruthless) and, no less, on the Kennedy brothers' detractors. The themes, the interpretations, the stories are not new; but never have they been so... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: 54967H Mikhail Gorbachev / Perestroika : Our Hopes for Our Country and Our World Perestroika, which means "restructuring", is Mikhail Gorbachev's own account of the policies he is currently implementing in the USSR. Created 70 years after the October Revolution, perestroika constitutes a revolution in ideas, attitudes and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1086H Thomas L. Friedman / The World is Flat The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a `flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1403 Robert Lloyd Praeger - The Way That I Went - Ireland Geography & Topography Classic - PB - 1980 Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist and first published in 1937, this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5,000 miles across hills and bogs, swimming through flooded caverns,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: MED768,MED819,MED5230 Joe Joyce & Peter Murtagh - The Boss - Charles J. 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Gombrich's bestselling history of the world for young readers tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 1882F Rene Delorm / Diana and Dodi : A Love Story The story of the ill-fated romance between Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, written by Fayed's personal assistant. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... 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Sebald / Austerlitz In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19125H Alan Clark / Diaries Into Politics The first volume of the 20th century's most phenomenally successful diaries, published alongside first paperback of THE LAST DIARIES.INTO POLITICS begins in 1973 with Clark's selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31920H Colm Keena / Haughey's Millions : Charlie's Money Trail In 1979, when Charlie Haughey was voted leader of Fianna Fail and Taoiseach he gave a press conference. At it, he was asked where his money came from. He said the question presumed he was rich, which mightn't be the case: 'Ask my bank... 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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