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Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong

Tour De Force

Author: Daniel Coyle

Lance Armstrong rewrote the record books in 2005 when he won the Tour de France for an unprecedented seventh time. Daniel Coyle followed his progress, throughout that season, examining what made him push himself to the l ...
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Bloomberg by Bloomberg Bloomberg by Bloomberg
Author: Michael Bloomberg & Matthew Winkler

This is the remarkable story of how Michael Bloomberg created a media empire. Lots of entrepreneurs make money. Lots of entrepreneurs who make money write books. Few of those books make you glad they did. This one does. ...
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Humble Pie Humble Pie
Author: Gordon Ramsay

Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real story!
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Take That Take That

Inside the Biggest Comeback in British Pop History

Author: Martin Roach

This book recounts the entire story of the most successful British band since The Beatles. From their humble beginnings to the break-up that shook the pop world, to their explosive and successful come-back tour a decade ...
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Morrissey in Conversation Morrissey in Conversation

The Essential Interviews

Author: Paul A. Woods

Collating classic music press and glossy magazine articles, Morrissey in Conversation tells the definitive story of how he bewitched the 1980s, piqued the 1990s, and inimitably returned in the new millennium. The resurge ...
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Thin White Line Thin White Line
Author: Andy Cave

Set in Patagonia, Norway and Alaska, this book tackles the severest challenges modern Alpinism can pose. This book features the stark beauty of the environment and the colourful characters. It lays bare the fragility of ...
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Margaret Thatcher: Iron Lady v. 2 Margaret Thatcher: Iron Lady v. 2
Author: John Campbell

Covers the eleven and a half years of Margaret Thatcher's momentous premiership. This is the study of the Thatcher Government from its hesitant beginning to its dramatic end. Drawing on the memoirs and diaries of Mrs Tha ...
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Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots

And the Murder of Lord Darnley

Author: Alison Weir

On the night of 10 February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, in the garden, t ...
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The Pythons Autobiography by the Pythons The Pythons Autobiography by the Pythons
Author: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam & Others

Over thirty years ago, a group of five Englishmen and one wayward American, re-wrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded, previously unseen and practically unprogrammed half hour of sketches, ...
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel Hot Lights, Cold Steel

Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

Author: Dr Michael J Collins

When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical ...
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Bono on Bono Bono on Bono

Conversations with Michka Assayas

Author: Bono & Michka Assayas

Bono is one of the most influential musicians at work today. Over the past twenty-five years his band, U2, have sold a staggering 130 million albums and collected 14 Grammys. Their success has made Bono one of the most r ...
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My Booky Wook My Booky Wook
Author: Russell Brand

Russell Brand grew up in Essex . His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He r ...
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Bess of Hardwick Bess of Hardwick

First Lady of Chatsworth

Author: Mary S. Lovell

Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15 and when she was widowed at 16, she was still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more tha ...
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Bomb Aimer Over Berlin Bomb Aimer Over Berlin

The Wartime Memoirs of Les Bartlett DFM

Author: Les Bartlett & Peter Jacobs

Les Bartlett has become one of the great characters of World War II history. He flew as bomb aimer with the then Flying Officer Michael Beetham, who later became Marshal of the Royal Air Force. At that time, he was a ser ...
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The House of Wittgenstein The House of Wittgenstein

A Family at War

Author: Alexander Waugh

From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most ecce ...

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Blood and Sand Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

Author: Frank Gardner

Powerful personal story by the BBC's security correspondent about the attempt on his life, his remarkable recovery and the journeys that have taken him there... On 6 June 2004, Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers ...
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Max Perutz and the Secret of Life Max Perutz and the Secret of Life
Author: Georgina Ferry

Few scientists have thought more deeply about their calling and its impact on humanity than Max Perutz (1914-2002). In 1947, he founded the small Cambridge research group in which Francis Crick and James Watson discovere ...
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The Authentic Confucius The Authentic Confucius

A Life of Thought and Politics

Author: Annping Chin

For more than two thousand years, Confucius has been an inseparable part of China's history. Yet despite this fame, Confucius the man has been elusive. Now, in The Authentic Confucius, Annping Chin has worked through the ...
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Breaking Trail Breaking Trail

A Climbing Life

Author: Arlene Blum

By any measure, Arlene Blum is a legendary trailblazer. Defying the resistance of the climbing establishment, she led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. McKinley and Annapurna and was the first America ...
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How Lance Does it How Lance Does it

Put the Success Formula of a Champion into Everything You Do

Author: Brad Kearns

Helps you experience better performance by mastering the four success factors that Armstrong embodied as the world's greatest cyclist. This book covers: positive attitude, clarity of purpose, specialized intelligence, an ...
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