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The definitive study of Rome by one of the 20th century's finest ancient historians. A richly detailed portrait of Rome at the height of its glory.
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-12-30
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An exceptionally dramatic life of Joan of Arc and her previously unchronicled mentor, Yolande of Aragon.How did an illiterate seventeen-year-old peasant girl manage to become one of histories most salient females? It is almost 600 years since Joan of Arc heard the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-12-29
ePub
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On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him. This was Magna Carta. It was a revolutionary document. Never before had...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-12-22
ePub
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This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-22
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During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-22
ePub
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How and why do some places in the world become symbols of illusive paradise, and what does this mean for their residents? Moving between anthropology, tourism, and the increasingly influential cultural heritage movement, Partners in Paradise examines the origins of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-12-22
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While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between--the Hellenistic Age--has never been as complete. However, thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past half-century...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-21
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English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures.English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2011-12-21
ePub
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Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2011-12-21
ePub
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Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-12-21
ePub
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From the moment the stranger burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knew he was nothing but trouble. He said he was in pursuit of a killer and swore he was only trying to save her. Yet Lavinia was convinced that Mr. Tobias March was bent instead on...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
Collection :
Lake and March Trilogy
ePub
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Plagued by rumours that she poisoned her fiance, Lucinda Bromley manages to live on the fringes of polite society, tending her beloved plants - and occasionally consulting on a murder investigation. For the notorious botanist possesses a unique talent: she can detect...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
Collection :
Arcane Society
ePub
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It isn't as though attractive widow Venetia Jones doesn't have enough problems. She has worked hard to become a fashionable photographer catering to Victorian society's elite. Her career has enabled her to provide a comfortable living for her brother, sister and...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
Collection :
Arcane Society
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During an investigation into a woman's death, gentleman thief turned private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself at Aldwick Castle - and in the middle of chaos. The building is in flames. Men are dead. And a woman and four young girls are fleeing on horseback. A...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
Collection :
Vanza
ePub
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The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical - he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. He has his own agenda to pursue, and a false fiance will keep the...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
ePub
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The first kiss occurred in a dimly-lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings's grand house. Louisa never saw it coming ...Of course, Anthony Stalbridge couldn't possibly have had romantic intentions.The kiss was an act of desperation, meant to distract the armed...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
ePub
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Adam Hardesty has a serious problem. The secrets of his past are in danger of being exposed, and in the course of investigating his would-be blackmailer, he discovers the dead body of a prominent psychic. To make matters worse, her house has been torn apart, and the...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
ePub
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It isn't easy making a living as a lady's companion when one possesses a sharp tongue and an original mind. That's why Emma Greyson has gone through three such positions in six months. Then an extraordinary encounter with the legendary Edison Stokes leads to a secret...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
Collection :
Vanza
ePub
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Madeline Deveridge is aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumours that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But she has a far more pressing problem than her reputation as the Wicked Widow. It's impossible to believe that her late...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
Collection :
Vanza
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Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex.Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives - an arresting stranger too daring,...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
ePub
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