|
There are 3135 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
Featured Titles in Biography - Used Books
Page 1 of 157 next
Night
by Elie Wiesel
Publisher Comments
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel... ( read more)
List Price $9.00
Your price: $4.50
Used - Trade Paper
Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera
by Diarmaid Ferriter
Synopsis
"Of course, I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the American Presidential system. But it wouldn't have done we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship, which is what the... ( read more)
List Price $45.00
Your price: $40.00
Used - Hardcover
Cary Grant a Biography 1ST Edition
by Marc Eliot
Publisher Comments
"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."
— Cary Grant
He is Hollywood's most fascinating and timeless star. Although he came to personify the debonair American, Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach on January 18, 1904,... ( read more)
List Price $25.95
Your price: $10.95
Used - Hardcover
Symptoms of Withdrawal Christopher Kenn
by Christopher Lawford
Publisher Comments
Born into enormous privilege as well as burdened by gut-wrenching family tragedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford now shares his life story, offering a rare glimpse into the private worlds of the rich and famous of both Washington politics and the Hollywood... ( read more)
List Price $24.95
Your price: $6.95
Used - Hardcover
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
Publisher Comments
We all have dreams — things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi?s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young... ( read more)
List Price $23.95
Your price: $9.00
Used - Hardcover
Baudelaire in Chains: a Portrait of the Artist As a Drug Addict (04 Edition)
by Frank Hilton
Publisher Comments
A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict.... ( read more)
List Price $46.95
Your price: $23.00
Used - Hardcover
While the Gods Were Silent: Growing Up Under Fascists and Communists
by Julius Scherzer
Publisher Comments
This book is an autobiographical and historical narrative that starts in the 1930s and ends in 1963, the year of the author's arrival in the U.S. The narrative combines autobiography, history, and psychology to tell the story of the author's childhood... ( read more)
List Price $36.75
Your price: $27.25
Used - Trade Paper
Matthias Claudius :Language as Infamous Funnel & Its Imperatives
by Herbert Rowland
Publisher Comments
This work contributes to the current revision of Claudius's image by illuminating the complex of ideas that lies at the core of his thought and relating it to his art and other central concerns. The volume reveals that Claudius was more than the native... ( read more)
Your price: $12.00
Used - Hardcover
Coming Home to Myself
by Wynonna Judd
Publisher Comments
From the heart of one of the most beloved performers in music comes a candid memoir that chronicles professional triumph, private heartbreak, and personal victory--a coming-of-age account of a very private search for harmony and a very public rise to... ( read more)
List Price $7.99
Your price: $3.50
Used - Mass Market
Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician
by Neal I Koblitz
Synopsis
These autobiographical memoirs of Neal Koblitz, coinventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, cover many topics besides his own personal career in mathematics and cryptography - travels to the Soviet Union, Latin... ( read more)
List Price $56.95
Your price: $20.00
Used - Hardcover
Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner
by M J Andersen
Publisher Comments
In a moving and bittersweet story, M.J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of... ( read more)
List Price $15.99
Your price: $8.95
Used - Trade Paper
Lessons of Terror a History of Warfare
by Caleb Carr
Publisher Comments
In The Lessons of Terror, novelist and military historian Caleb Carr examines terrorism throughout history and the roots of our present crisis and reaches a provocative set of conclusions: the practice of targeting enemy civilians is as old as warfare... ( read more)
List Price $19.95
Your price: $5.60
Used - Hardcover
The J.F.K. Jr. scrapbook
by Stephen Spignesi
Publisher Comments
Admirers will discover the many sides of this elusive man in both his public and private incarnations. Color photographs throughout.... ( read more)
List Price $15.95
Your price: $2.83
Used - Trade Paper
Out of the Blue
by Richard B Bernstein
Publisher Comments
A gripping and authoritative account of the September 11th attack, its historical roots, and its aftermathFew news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but no news... ( read more)
List Price $26.00
Your price: $7.00
Used - Hardcover
Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China
by Jen Lin Liu
Publisher Comments
As a freelance journalist and food writer living in Beijing, Jen Lin-Liu already had a ringside seat for Chinas exploding food scene. When she decided to enroll in a local cooking schoolheld in an unheated classroom with nary a measuring cup in sightshe... ( read more)
List Price $24.00
Your price: $8.95
Used - Hardcover
In Quisling's Shadow: The Memoirs of Vidkun Quisling's First Wife, Alexandra
by Alexandra Andreevna Voronine Yourieff
Book News Annotation
A Nazi collaborator, Vidkin Quisling was installed as prime minister
of Norway by the Germans in 1942; after the war he was convicted of
high treason and executed. Alexandra Andreevna Voronine Yourieff was
Quisling's first wife from 1922-24. The death... ( read more)
List Price $15.00
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper
Last Exit from Bridgeton: An East End Childhood Remembered
by James Mckenna
Publisher Comments
When James McKenna first published his personal recollections of life in Bridgeton, he had no idea how quickly and widely his account of everyday life in the East End of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s would be embraced by former inhabitants - including... ( read more)
List Price $33.75
Your price: $24.00
Used - Trade Paper
Very Good Year
by Larry Cuocci
Publisher Comments
A look at one year in the life of a seventeen-year-old boy provides an adolescent's perspective on the Right-to-Die issue. A young man, trying to find love and meaning in his life, is confronted with an extraordinary dilemma when his ailing mother asks... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $4.00
Used - Trade Paper
Willow in a Storm: A Memoir
by James Peter Taylor
Publisher Comments
Written in a stark, unsentimental style, this compelling memoir shows how one man survived a seemingly impossible existence. As a child, "Jimmy Pete" was repeatedly abused by his adoptive father and family acquaintances. He married young, had a daughter,... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $8.95
Used - Trade Paper
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P Feynman
Publisher Comments
One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. What Do You Care What Other People Think? is Feynman's last literary... ( read more)
List Price $15.95
Your price: $9.00
Used - Trade Paper
|
see more featured titles
|  |
| 
Don't Miss