Scotland’s Medieval Queens: From Saint Margaret to Margaret of Denmark by: Sharon Bennett Connolly (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Books Ltd Publication Date: 2025-01-30 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 1399098128 ISBN-13: 9781399098120 Book Description Scotland’s history is dramatic, violent and bloody. Being England’s northern neighbour has never been easy. Scotland’s queens have had to deal with war, murder, imprisonment, political rivalries and open betrayal. They have lo...
The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by: Professor Anna Whitelock (Author) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication Date: 2025-04-24 Language: English Print Length: 448 pages ISBN-10: 1408863510 ISBN-13: 9781408863510 Book Description A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe’A majestic, brilliant account of the birth of an empire. Spectacularly good’ PETER FRANKOPAN’Wi...
True North: A Life Inside the Music Business by: Bernie Finkelstein (Author), Murray McLauchlan (Foreword) Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd Publication Date: 2012-04-17 Language: English Print Length: 294 pages ISBN-10: 0771047932 ISBN-13: 9780771047930 Book Description One of the all-time greats in Canadian music recounts his life and times in the business from the 1960s to the present. Whether acting as a producer, record label owner, or manager of great singer/songwriters and bands, Be...
My Beautiful Sisters: A Memoir of Courage, Hope, and the Afghan Women’s Soccer Team by: Khalida Popal (Author) Publisher: Citadel Press Publication Date: 2025-05-27 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 080654452X ISBN-13: 9780806544526 Book Description Argo meets The Bookseller of Kabul in this incredible memoir from the Afghan women’s soccer pioneer turned activist and feminist icon who has helped save more than 350 female soccer players from the dangerous rule of the ...
At the Emperor’s Pleasure: Surviving Wartime Captivity in the Far East by: Richard Graham (Author) Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd Publication Date: 2024-11-29 Language: English Print Length: 282 pages ISBN-10: 1036109216 ISBN-13: 9781036109219 Book Description At the Emperors Pleasure follows the young couple Christopher and Topsy Man through the savage battle for Hong Kong and the years of enforced separation, she interned in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, he as a prisoner of war and forc...
The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life and Works of the Crime Writer and Poet by: Stephen Wade (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Books Ltd Publication Date: 2025-05-02 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 103611130X ISBN-13: 9781036111304 Book Description Dorothy L. Sayers: the name conjures images of Lord Peter Wimsey’s sleuthing adventures, and masterful translations of Dante. Yet, she was more than a literary luminary of the interwar Golden Age of crime fiction; she was...
The Age of Charles Martel (The Medieval World) by: Paul Fouracre (Author) Publisher: Routledge Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2016-12-23 Language: English Print Length: 222 pages ISBN-10: 1138179523 ISBN-13: 9781138179523 Book Description First glorified as the Saviour of Christendom and then vilified as an enemy of the Church, Charles Martel’s career has been written and rewritten from the time of his descendents. This important new study draws on strictly contemporary sources to assess h...
Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear Into Pride, Power, and Real Change by: Cristina Jiménez (Author) Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: 2025-05-27 Language: English Print Length: 320 pages ISBN-10: 1250275660 ISBN-13: 9781250275660 Book Description NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!”Essential reading…entirely suited to a turbulent moment.” –Washington PostA MacArthur “Genius” shares her inspiring story, from undocumented newcomer to leader in a powe...
Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy by: Jeffrey Boutwell (Author) Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication Date: 2025-01-21 Language: English Print Length: 368 pages ISBN-10: 1324074264 ISBN-13: 9781324074267 Book Description During his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to “redeem America’s promise” of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. From 1840 to 1905, Boutwell was at ...
Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs by: Alec Nevala-Lee (Author) Publisher: WW Norton & Co Publication Date: 2025-07-25 Language: English Print Length: 352 pages ISBN-10: 1324075104 ISBN-13: 9781324075103 Book Description A riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning experimental physicist hailed as “the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century”Luis W. Alvarez (1911–1988) began his storied career developing the atomic bom...
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