Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years.​When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission...

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2009-10-14

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Just before he died after a long and distinguished international career as a politician, commentator, and author, Conor Cruise O'Brien completed a study of George Washington's presidency. Cruise O'Brien has been described as “a man who so persistently...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2009-10-13

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AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008: in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces and thousands of miles from home, Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, a Royal Marine with 40 Commando, accidentally activates a grenade whilst on a...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2009-10-13

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Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores the pre-history of the Titanic. He examines the aspirations of the owners,...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2009-10-13

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Master of suspense James Patterson re-opens the ultimate cold case - the unsolved death of Tutankhamen.Thrust onto Egypt's throne when just nine years old, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. After nine years in power, Tut suddenly perished and his...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2009-10-13

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The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom and Tried by War, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. In this collection of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2009-10-12

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Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s discusses the work of three prominent women writers by focusing on the response to the French Revolution and the struggle for reform in Britain. Examining previously-neglected texts as well as more familiar ones, the book...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-09

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The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-09

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Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Parliament proved capable of generating national legislation nonetheless-and provided a forum for debate even when it was impossible to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-10-08

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Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Parliament proved capable of generating national legislation nonetheless-and provided a forum for debate even when it was impossible to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-10-08

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Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-10-08

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Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was claimed by the ruling Milanese dynasties, the Visconti and the Sforza, and why this privilege was finally abandoned by Francesco II Sforza (d. 1535), the last...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-10-08

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Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was claimed by the ruling Milanese dynasties, the Visconti and the Sforza, and why this privilege was finally abandoned by Francesco II Sforza (d. 1535), the last...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-10-08

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A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.WITHA NEW INTRODUCTION BY AMY LIPTROT‘A luminously romantic history of swimming’ GuardianHaunts of the Black Masseur is a dazzling introduction to the great...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2009-10-06

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During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2009-10-06

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Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin's exile: the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th century history.It tells the story of Lenin in the long and difficult years leading up to the Russian Revolution,...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2009-10-06

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Riding in an open-topped convertible through Dallas on November 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson heard a sudden explosive sound at 12:30 PM. The Secret Service sped him away to safety, but not until 1:20 PM did he learn that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Sworn in...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2009-10-06

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An authoritative and “exquisitely written” (Guardian) account of five thousand years of Chinese history Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled,...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2009-10-06

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History tells us that in 69AD, at the ripe old age of 32 and on hearing that General Glaba's forces were closing in, Nero fled his palace in Rome. He stabbed himself in the throat with a pen and was trampled to death by horses in a muddy ditch. His last words were,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-10-01

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Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious-- and disastrous -- Franklin...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2009-10-01

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