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9781576603260 | Bloomberg Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This collection of obituaries tells the life stories of two hundred of the world's most captivating people as judged by writers Ann Wroe and Keith Colquhoun and as published in The Economist from 1994 to 2008.
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9781846681073 | Ill edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, November 1, 2008), cover price $29.95
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9780197264232, titled "Biographical Memoirs of Fellows VI: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows" | Oxford Univ Pr, May 30, 2008, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Peter Birks; Lord Dacre of Glanton; William Frend; John Gallagher; Philip Grierson; Stuart Hampsire; William McKane; Sir Malcolm Pasley; Ben Pimlott; Robert Pring-Mill; John Stevens, Peter Strawson; Sir William Wade; Alan Williams; Sir Bernard Williams and John Wymer.
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9780007201686 | Times Books Uk, October 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides a store of information and opinion on the influential characters of the twentieth century - from politicians, sportspeople, musicians, writers and artists, to pop stars and military personnel.
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9780007201693 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 28, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Times obituaries have given readers throughout the world an instant picture of a life for over 150 years.
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9780061231667 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An offbeat follow-up to 'Final Exits' reveals the true stories behind infamous celebrity deaths from those of Aeschylus to Elvis Presley, in a volume that draws on archaeological records and forensic studies to examine the ways in which their choices andlifestyles contributed to the ends of their lives.
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9780415364935 | Routledge, June 27, 2007, cover price $148.00 | About this edition: Presents the academic study of obituaries.
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9780743215626 | Scribner, October 23, 2001, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: An unusual compilation of obituaries presents accounts of the lives of unsung heroes, eccentrics, and underachievers, including the inventor of Kitty Litter and the bouncer at the nightclub El Morocco.
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9780330484701 | Pan Books Ltd, June 1, 2001, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: This is a compilation of the very best of the five best-selling volumes of Daily Telegraph obituaries.
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9780375401237 | Pantheon Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Gathers writings in remembrance of the dead by Henry Miller, Lillian Hellman, Ossie Davis, Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson, and Hillair Belloc
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9780375701252 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 2000), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An evocative anthology of memorial celebrations gathers writings in remembrance of the dead by Henry Miller, Lillian Hellman, Ossie Davis, Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson, and Hillair Belloc, among other great authors.
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Profiles fifty of the most memorable and influential personalities of the twentieth century as revealed in the pages of the N.Y. Times, among them Chou-En-lai, Churchill, T.S. Eliot, Lindberg, Stravinsky, and more
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9780517057216 | Times Books, November 1, 1990, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Profiles fifty of the most memorable and influential personalities of the twentieth century as revealed in the pages of the N.
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9780824008352 | Routledge, March 1, 1988, cover price $300.00
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Gives brief profiles of the actors, scientists, architects, artists, historians, industrialists, writers, composers, dancers, politicians, jurists, military officers, and athletes who died during 1980
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9780312038755 | St James Pr, May 1, 1981, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Gives brief profiles of the actors, scientists, architects, artists, historians, industrialists, writers, composers, dancers, politicians, jurists, military officers, and athletes who died during 1980
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9780313281365 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1979, cover price $275.00 | About this edition: Over 1,000 obituaries are reprinted with an index to all obituaries and tributes from the London Times for this period.
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