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Probes the events of the English author's life paying special attention to her Bloomsbury milieu and her personal relationships (view table of contents)

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9780156935807, titled "Virginia Woolf; A Biography: A Biography" | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1974, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Probes the events of the English author's life paying special attention to her Bloomsbury milieu and her personal relationships

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A collection of erotic fiction features the writing of Anne Rice, Nicholson Baker, Robert Silverberg, Pat Califia, Samuel R. Delaney, Barbara Gowdy, and others. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.

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9780374180140 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1979, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The first biography of Conrad in nearly two decades studies his lives as a Pole, a sailor, and a writer, integrating Conrad with Polish, French, and British historical backgrounds and literary influences

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9780020792628, titled "The Best American Erotica 1993" | Collier Books, November 1, 1993, cover price $12.00 | also contains The Best American Erotica 1993 | About this edition: A collection of erotic fiction features the writing of Anne Rice, Nicholson Baker, Robert Silverberg, Pat Califia, Samuel R.

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Product Description: Instructional Media and The New Technologies of Instruction.

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9780023530609, titled "Instructional Media and the New Technologies of Instruction" | 4th edition (Macmillan Coll Div, October 1, 1992), cover price $62.00 | also contains Instructional Media and the New Technologies of Instruction | About this edition: Instructional Media and The New Technologies of Instruction.
9780434599417 | Wm Collins & Sons & Co, June 1, 1982, cover price $24.95

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James Gordon Bennett has many claims to being called the father of modern journalism. Through the columns of the New York Herald this book explores the climate of opinion in a turbulent era and traces the developing power of the modern press on politics and politicians.

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9780861932030, titled "James Gordon Bennett And the New York Herald: A Study of Editorial Opinion in the Civil War Era 1854-1867" | Royal Historical Society, August 14, 1986, cover price $90.00
9780312439552 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 1, 1986, cover price $39.95 | also contains The Art of Neil Gaiman | About this edition: James Gordon Bennett has many claims to being called the father of modern journalism.

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Product Description: Elizabeth and Ivy is the fascinating memoir and collection of letters from Robert Liddell. Liddell met both Ivy Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth Taylor (the writer) only several times: nevertheless a close, three-way friendship developed which is absorbingly chronicled here...read more

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9780720606447 | Peter Owen Ltd, November 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Elizabeth and Ivy is the fascinating memoir and collection of letters from Robert Liddell.

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9780333417201 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 22, 1989, cover price $49.99

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This chronology is designed to provide a digest of Conrad's life as it develops from year to year. It is written as a series of diary or chronicle entries and thus caters for the reader who may wish to check a single fact. The main contents are supplemented by a 'Who's Who' and indexes.

Hardcover:

9781137452382 | 2 new edition (Palgrave Macmillan, December 11, 2014), cover price $95.00
9780816118397 | G K Hall, July 1, 1990, cover price $40.00
9780333459133 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 4, 1990, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: This chronology is designed to provide a digest of Conrad's life as it develops from year to year.

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9781349100293 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: This chronology is designed to provide a digest of Conrad's life as it develops from year to year.
9780373271740, titled "The Renegade Steals a Lady" | Harlequin Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $4.50 | also contains The Renegade Steals a Lady

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Using real people, real stories, real examples, and real situations, Selling: Building Partnerships, 6/e, delivers an exciting new approach that will help your students develop the partnerships that will promote success in their careers and in their lives. Selling presents selling theories and skills and gives students plenty of opportunity to apply them, showing how salespeople operate in real-life selling situations. This gives students a solid foundation for the more specific sales training they receive on the job..

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9780073136905 | 6 edition (Irwin Professional Pub, November 25, 2005), cover price $181.10
9780073229409 | 6 pck edition (Irwin Professional Pub, November 25, 2005), cover price $208.75 | About this edition: Using real people, real stories, real examples, and real situations, Selling: Building Partnerships, 6/e, delivers an exciting new approach that will help your students develop the partnerships that will promote success in their careers and in their lives.
9780071215190 | 5th edition (Irwin Professional Pub, June 1, 2004), cover price $6.26 | About this edition: Using real people, real stories, real examples, and real situations, Selling: Building Partnerships, 6/e, delivers an exciting new approach that will help your students develop the partnerships that will promote success in their careers and in their lives.
9780072866803 | 5 har/cdr edition (Irwin Professional Pub, June 1, 2003), cover price $173.60 | About this edition: Selling: Building Partnerships, 5/e, by Weitz, Castleberry, and Tanner is the first text to integrate the partnerships/relationship theme in the selling course.
9780072549287 | 5th edition (McGraw-Hill, February 1, 2003), cover price $55.01 | also contains Dreamboy Calendar 2005
8 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

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9781428804630 | 4th edition (Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 31, 2006), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Instructional Media and The New Technologies of Instruction.

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9780023530609 | 4th edition (Macmillan Coll Div, October 1, 1992), cover price $62.00 | also contains To Keep the Ball Rolling, the Memoirs: Strangers All Are Gone | About this edition: Instructional Media and The New Technologies of Instruction.
9780023530609 | 4th edition (Macmillan Coll Div, October 1, 1992), cover price $62.00 | also contains To Keep the Ball Rolling, the Memoirs: Strangers All Are Gone | About this edition: Instructional Media and The New Technologies of Instruction.

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A collection of erotic fiction features the writing of Anne Rice, Nicholson Baker, Robert Silverberg, Pat Califia, Samuel R. Delaney, Barbara Gowdy, and others. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.
By Susie Bright (editor)

Hardcover:

9780684196275 | Scribner, November 1, 1993, cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9780684845142 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $18.95
9780020792628 | Collier Books, November 1, 1993, cover price $12.00 | also contains Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives : A Biography | About this edition: A collection of erotic fiction features the writing of Anne Rice, Nicholson Baker, Robert Silverberg, Pat Califia, Samuel R.

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Offers a look at the personal and professional life of the creator of secret agent 007

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9781570363436 | Turner Pub, April 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers a look at the personal and professional life of the creator of secret agent 007
9780788166563 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by Lycett, Andrew

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441746948 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2010), cover price $39.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786112593 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 1998), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, and spy, the creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complex and interesting than his iconic fictional character, Agent 007.

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9780373271740 | Harlequin Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $4.50 | also contains A Conrad Chronology

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Product Description: In this extraordinary memoir Hilary Mantel reclaims the story of her life and the ghosts that have come to haunt her. From childhood dreams to the reality of family secrets, her father's mysterious disappearance and an adulthood blighted by medical neglect, Mantel uncovers the losses that wrenched her from the patterns of the past and drove her to forge her own remarkable path...read more

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9780805074727 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 2003, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: An award-winning author and reviewer describes her tomboy childhood, challenging Catholic school education, broken family life, marriage, struggle with chronic illness which rendered her unable to have children, and literary career.

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9780786272174 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 3, 2005), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this extraordinary memoir Hilary Mantel reclaims the story of her life and the ghosts that have come to haunt her.
9780312423629 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, September 1, 2004), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An award-winning author and reviewer describes her tomboy childhood, challenging Catholic school education, broken family life, marriage, struggle with chronic illness that rendered her unable to have children, and literary career.

This biographical narrative of Graham Greene's literary career explores his motives for writing, the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work, his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience.

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9780333729878 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 19, 2003, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This biographical narrative of Graham Greene's literary career explores his motives for writing, the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work, his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience.

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Product Description: With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I? Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaired, and his sense of himself radically altered...read more

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9780788198915 | Diane Pub Co, April 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In July 1995, Robert McCrum age 42, woke to find he could not move.

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9780330457118 | Pan Macmillan, May 2, 2008, cover price $16.10 | About this edition: With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active.

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Product Description: In this authoritative, insightful biography, we see the modernist master Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself. Born in 1857 in the Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor, traveling to the Far East and Africa, and eventually settled in England, beginning a precarious existence as a novelist...read more

Hardcover:

9781400044498 | Pantheon Books, March 11, 2008, cover price $30.00

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9781400095865 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 10, 2009), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this authoritative, insightful biography, we see the modernist master Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself.
9780385661690 | Doubleday of Canada, September 2, 2008, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a brilliant and highly readable biography of a literary figure of world-wide reputation.

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By Guy Adams (contributor), David K. Dickson (contributor), Neil Gaiman and M. J. Simpson (contributor)

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9781848564961 | 5 rev upd edition (Titan Books, September 15, 2009), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most popular and productive English novelists of the twentieth century. This Literary Life not only concentrates on her fiction but also places it in the contexts of her personal and professional life and the political and cultural developments which it reflects and addresses...read more

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9781403948502, titled "Iris Murdoch: a Literary Life: A Literary Life" | Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 2010, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most popular and productive English novelists of the twentieth century.

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Hardcover:

9780007254767 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 2, 2010, cover price $38.60

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By Alexandre Fachard (collaborator)

Hardcover:

9780521190596 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 17, 2011, cover price $150.00

An authorized biography argues that Kingsley Amis was a dominant figure in post-war British writing in his roles as novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist, tracing his early years, as well as his life as a teacher, husband, and father.

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9780375424984 | Pantheon Books, April 10, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An authorized biography argues that Kingsley Amis was a dominant figure in post-war British writing in his roles as novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist, tracing his early years, as well as his life as a teacher, husband, and father.

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9780810127593 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 30, 2011, cover price $25.95

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Hardcover:

9780370305080 | Bodley Head, September 1, 1984, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9781402251924 | Sourcebooks Inc, August 1, 2011, cover price $14.99

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