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Extravagant Stranger
A Memoir
Ian Fleming's Bond meets the lyricism of Rimbaud in this fast-paced, genre-defying debut, encompassing six decades and three continents of absurd and often life-threatening experience.
ISBN-13: 9780993505683 (Hardback)
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: LITTLE ISLAND PRESS
Daniel Roy Connelly
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Local release date: 01/10/2017
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Categories: Memoirs [BM]Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Jumping Fences
Tony Keulemans spent his childhood in the UK and was a war-time evacuee. At age 19, he was commissioned in the Royal Air Force and during the next seven years served in post-war Germany and Holland. Following an RAF mission to Woomera in 1952 and a brief visit to Sydney, he decided to start a new life in Australia.
ISBN-13: 9780994276599 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Tony Keulemans
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Local release date: 21/09/2017
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Categories: Autobiography: general [BGA]Memoirs [BM]Education [JN]

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Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond
A Psychiatrist's Chronicle from Deinstitutionalisation to Community Care
A personal testament of events witnessed over the years of major ideological trends in mental health.
ISBN-13: 9781911028413 (Paperback)
Publisher: PAVILION PUBLISHING & MEDIA
Imprint: PAVILION PUBLISHING AND MEDIA LTD
Nick Bouras
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AUD $44.99
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Local release date: 29/05/2017
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Categories: Memoirs [BM]Social welfare & social services [JKS]Mental health services [MBPK]Psychiatry [MMH]United Kingdom, Great Britain [1DBK]

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Some Schools
CJ (Jonty) Driver has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in education in the UK and overseas, including three headships. In this poignant memoir, he provides a compelling insight into school life, with wisdom gained from a lifetime of learning. "Jonty has written an important book which should be read by all who care about schools. No one ......
ISBN-13: 9781909717978 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHN CATT EDUCATIONAL
Imprint: JOHN CATT EDUCATIONAL LTD
C. J. Driver
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Local release date: 28/02/2017
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Categories: Memoirs [BM]Philosophy & theory of education [JNA]Organization & management of education [JNK]20th century [3JJ]21st century [3JM]

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Sheriff of Wan Chai
How an Englishman Helped Govern Hong Kong in its Last Decades as a Briti
In 1976, Peter Mann left a gloomy England for the last corner of the British empire: Hong Kong. As a police inspector, he commanded a sub-unit and led a district vice squad in Kowloon, before joining the colonial government's Administrative Service and working in the fields of transport, housing, security, environment and tourism. He also served ......
ISBN-13: 9789881376565 (Paperback)
Publisher: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
Imprint: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
Peter Mann
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Local release date: 28/02/2017
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Categories: Memoirs [BM]Asian history [HBJF]

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Cancer is Funny
Keeping Faith in Stage-Serious Chemo
Jason Micheli was diagnosed with a bone cancer so rare and deadly that his doctors didn't classify it with one of the normal four stages. But Micheli wasn't going to let the cancer kill his spirit, his faith, or his sense of humor. This is a funny, no-holds-barred, irreverent-yet-faithful take on the disease that has touched every family.
ISBN-13: 9781506408477 (Hardback)
Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
Jason Micheli
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Local release date: 30/01/2017
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Categories: Memoirs [BM]Personal Christian testimony & inspirational works[HRCV9]Oncology [MJCL]Coping with illness & specific conditions [VFJB]

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If You Sit Very Still
In 1994, 21 years after her disappearance, Lucy Partington's remains were discovered in Fred and Rosemary West's basement at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. In this powerful and lyrical book, Lucy's elder sister, Marian, reclaims Lucy from the status of victim and finds an authentic and compassionate response to her traumatic loss. ......
ISBN-13: 9781785921407 (Paperback)
Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Marian Partington, Marina Cantacuzino
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Local release date: 14/12/2016
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Categories: Memoirs [BM]Health & personal development [V]

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Henry Barnes
A Constellation of Human Destinies
Henry Barnes, at the age of 96, completed this memoir shortly before his death on September 18, 2008. He writes about his childhood and youth and his fateful meeting with Anthroposophy and Waldorf education. He goes on to describe highlights of his work at the Rudolf Steiner School and for the Anthroposophical Society. The book concludes with ......
ISBN-13: 9780932776389 (Paperback)
Publisher: STEINER BOOKS INC
Imprint: ADONIS PRESS
Henry Barnes
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Local release date: 05/12/2016
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Categories: Memoirs [BM]

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Openings
A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992
This intricate memoir of New York City's women's art movement features 950 photographs and artworks that pushed the era's social change.
ISBN-13: 9781613320181 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW VILLAGE PRESS
Sabra Moore, Lucy R. Lippard, Margaret Randall
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Local release date: 25/10/2016
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Categories: Art & design styles: from c 1960 [ACXJ]Memoirs [BM]Feminism & feminist theory [JFFK]Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]