Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“emily barrington”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “emily barrington”
Skip side bar filters
  • The Life of Walter Bagehot

    Mrs. Emily Barrington was the daughter of James Wilson MP, Liberal politician and founder of The Economist, and sister of Eliza Wilson, who married Walter Bagehot. Her intimate biography is one of the best ever written about the English economist, journalist and prolific author on government and finance. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read this also enjoyed

  • All Over the Map

    A Memoir

    by Laura Fraser ...
    What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty and is still single? Wander the globe searching for romance and adventure, of course.On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless in her thirties, she found solace in the wanderlust that had always directed her heart—and found love and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Instead Of A Letter

    by Diana Athill ...
    Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way. In this classic modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Horny Boulevard

    Street prostitution in Berlin

    Series Book 1 - The story of a whore in Germany
    Parts of this novel are based on narrations and reports of the author from this environment. This novel describes true events. Any similarity to persons living or deceased is accidental. This also applies to the names that are used. Parts of the storyline happened in Berlin-Schoeneberg (Kurfuerstenstrasse) as well as Berlin-Mitte.If you`re on the game long enough then you will start to see the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Rupert Murdoch

    If you want to understand how modern media has changed the world, this is the one book you must read.Rupert Murdoch is the man everyone talks about but no one knows. He’s everywhere, a larger-than-life media titan who has spent a lifetime building his company, News Corporation, from a small, struggling newspaper business in Australia into an international media powerhouse. Rupert Murdoch charts ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The 30-Second Commute

    This book is a comic narrative about the real life of a full–time writer. Stephanie Dickison had been successfully publishing features and articles for over a decade while working a full–time job but in December 2005 she left the secure world of a &dlquo;real job&drquo; to tackle completing a manuscript that was close to five years old and to take on freelance writing full time. Drawing on her ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genius in Disguise

    Harold Ross of The New Yorker

    by Thomas Kunkel ...
    This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of The New Yorker tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made the magazine such a popular and critical success. Photos & cartoons. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • My Vast Fortune

    The Money Adventures of a Quixotic Capitalist

    by Andrew Tobias ...
    "This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit that you will retire with a vast fortune of laughter. "--Christopher Buckley, author of Wry MartinisAs Newsweek put it, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Motivation 101

    Paul G. Brodie Seminar Series Book 1

    by Paul Brodie ...
    Series Book 1 - Paul G. Brodie Seminar Series
    Motivation 101: Ten Ways to Increase Your Personal Motivation (Part of the Paul G. BrodieSeminar Book Series) shows how you can change your mindset and improve your personal motivation.What if a few new habits could improve your personal motivation? What if you could increase your happiness with a few simple steps? Imagine waking up in the morning feeling motivated and ready to take on the day ... Read more

    Free

  • Good for the Money

    My Fight to Pay Back America

    Legendary CEO Bob Benmosche's astonishing memoir Good for the Money details how he pulled AIG back from the brink of bankruptcy and engineered one of history's most astonishing corporate turnarounds.In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Wreck, Rescue and Salvage

    by Dick Jolly ...
    After joining the Australian Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen, Dick Jolly trained as an engineer before joining the Australian National Line as a cadet. After a four-year apprenticeship, he gradually gained promotion while travelling around the Australian coast. Fascinated by the world of commercial deep-sea tugs and salvage, his first real break came in Portsmouth in 1963 when he landed a job ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Barney

    Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship

    An impetuous outsider who delighted in confronting American hypocrisy and prudery, Barney Rosset liberated American culture from the constraints of Puritanism. As the head of Grove Press, he single-handedly broke down the laws against obscenity, changing forever the nature of writing and publishing in this country. He brought to the reading public the European avant-garde, among them Samuel ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD