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The Victorian Criminal
Written by Neil Storey
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-0814-5 (0-7478-0814-7)
From gaslit city streets to dark wooded estates, crime was rife in Victorian Britain; through a wide array of historical court records, newspaper accounts and prison books, The Victorian Criminal gives a fascinating overview of those involved in it. Within these pages may be found accounts of petty criminals and poachers... Read more >
Written by Neil Storey
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-0814-5 (0-7478-0814-7)
From gaslit city streets to dark wooded estates, crime was rife in Victorian Britain; through a wide array of historical court records, newspaper accounts and prison books, The Victorian Criminal gives a fascinating overview of those involved in it. Within these pages may be found accounts of petty criminals and poachers... Read more >
Winston Churchill
Written by Kevin Theakston
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-1045-2 (0-7478-1045-1)
Winston Churchill was one of Britain’s greatest leaders and an iconic figure. Prime minister twice (1940-45 and 1951-55), his political career - with its many ups and downs, controversies and achievements - spanned over sixty years from the reign of Queen Victoria to that of Queen Elizabeth II, its high point... Read more >
Written by Kevin Theakston
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-1045-2 (0-7478-1045-1)
Winston Churchill was one of Britain’s greatest leaders and an iconic figure. Prime minister twice (1940-45 and 1951-55), his political career - with its many ups and downs, controversies and achievements - spanned over sixty years from the reign of Queen Victoria to that of Queen Elizabeth II, its high point... Read more >
Making of the English Working Class
Written by E.P. Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1966
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-70322-0 (0-394-70322-7)
"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of the... Read more >
Written by E.P. Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1966
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-70322-0 (0-394-70322-7)
"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of the... Read more >
The Elizabethan World Picture
Written by Eustace M. Tillyard
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 1959
Price: $8.76
ISBN: 978-0-394-70162-2 (0-394-70162-3)
Tillyard's classic account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Tillyard in the process of its various... Read more >
Written by Eustace M. Tillyard
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 1959
Price: $8.76
ISBN: 978-0-394-70162-2 (0-394-70162-3)
Tillyard's classic account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Tillyard in the process of its various... Read more >
That Sweet Enemy
Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
Written by Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3239-6 (1-4000-3239-3)
That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled... Read more >
Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
Written by Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3239-6 (1-4000-3239-3)
That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled... Read more >
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Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-31427-7 (0-345-31427-1)
From early times, the British have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English, and later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. Under these influences, one cultural and the other... Read more >
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-31427-7 (0-345-31427-1)
From early times, the British have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English, and later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. Under these influences, one cultural and the other... Read more >
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Ireland
A Smithsonian Natural History
Written by Michael Viney
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-294-2 (1-58834-294-8)
Ireland conjures up images of nature’s majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A place of legendary beauty, it is also a land with a rich natural history. Michael Viney invites us to discover the geologic forces that created the island, peer into the famous bone... Read more >
A Smithsonian Natural History
Written by Michael Viney
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-294-2 (1-58834-294-8)
Ireland conjures up images of nature’s majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A place of legendary beauty, it is also a land with a rich natural history. Michael Viney invites us to discover the geologic forces that created the island, peer into the famous bone... Read more >
Henry VIII
The King and His Court
Written by Alison Weir
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43708-2 (0-345-43708-X)
Meticulous in historic detail, narrated with high style and grand drama, Alison Weir brilliantly brings to life the king, the court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards.
Stimulating and tumultuous, the court of Henry VIII attracted the finest minds and greatest beauties in Renaissance England—poets... Read more >
The King and His Court
Written by Alison Weir
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43708-2 (0-345-43708-X)
Meticulous in historic detail, narrated with high style and grand drama, Alison Weir brilliantly brings to life the king, the court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards.
Stimulating and tumultuous, the court of Henry VIII attracted the finest minds and greatest beauties in Renaissance England—poets... Read more >
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The Perfect Prince
Truth and Deception in Renaissance Europe
Written by Ann Wroe
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6811-8 (0-8129-6811-5)
In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king.
The... Read more >
Truth and Deception in Renaissance Europe
Written by Ann Wroe
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6811-8 (0-8129-6811-5)
In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king.
The... Read more >
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The Brother Gardeners
A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession
Written by Andrea Wulf
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45475-1 (0-307-45475-4)
Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden and changed the horticultural world in the process. It is a story of a garden revolution that began in America.
In 1733, colonial farmer John Bartram shipped... Read more >
A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession
Written by Andrea Wulf
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45475-1 (0-307-45475-4)
Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden and changed the horticultural world in the process. It is a story of a garden revolution that began in America.
In 1733, colonial farmer John Bartram shipped... Read more >
The Brother Gardeners
Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Written by Andrea Wulf
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27023-8 (0-307-27023-8)
This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It’s the story of a garden revolution that began in America.
In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of plants and seeds... Read more >
Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Written by Andrea Wulf
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27023-8 (0-307-27023-8)
This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It’s the story of a garden revolution that began in America.
In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of plants and seeds... Read more >
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Battle of the Bulge
Written by Steven Zaloga
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-165-8 (1-84908-165-4)
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West and the largest and the most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II. Fought during the bitter winter of 1944-45, and resulting in over 100,000 German casualties and over 80,000 American casualties, it... Read more >
Written by Steven Zaloga
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-165-8 (1-84908-165-4)
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West and the largest and the most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II. Fought during the bitter winter of 1944-45, and resulting in over 100,000 German casualties and over 80,000 American casualties, it... Read more >
