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The Queen's Conjuror
de Benjamin Woolley
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- March 4, 2002
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- 9780006552024
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Unread. Light shelf wear.
A spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth's conjuror – the great philosopher, scientist and magician, Dr John Dee (1527–1608) and a history of Renaissance science that could well be the next 'Longitude'.
John Dee was one of the most influential philosophers of the Elizabethan Age. A close confidant of Queen Elizabeth, he helped to introduce mathematics to England, promoted… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
de Selina Todd
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- Used, like new
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- Used, like new
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- 1st
- Published
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9781848548817
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'
What was it really like to… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
de TIMOTHY SNYDER
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- 2015
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- 9781784701482
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up
de Andrew Morton
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- As New
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- 1st
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- 2015
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- 9781782434566
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The true story of Edward Windsor and Wallis Simpson's involvement with the Nazi regime, and the post-war cover-up. The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication, has provoked endless fascination. However, the full story of their links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has remained untold. * 17 Carnations chronicles Hitler's attempts… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Rasputin
de Douglas Smith
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- Usado - Very Good
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- 2017
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- 9781447245858
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Drawing on major new sources hitherto unexamined by western historians, Douglas Smith's Rasputin is the definitive biography of this extraordinary figure for a generation.
Nearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever.
Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Lost Tribes of Israel
de Tudor Parfitt
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- as new
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- 1st
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- October 1, 2003
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- 9780297819349
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Tudor Parfitt examines a myth which is based on one of the world's oldest mysteries - what happened to the lost tribes of Israel? Christians and Jews alike have attached great importance to the legendary fate of these tribes which has had a remarkable impact on their ideologies throughout history. Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Lost Tribes of Israel
de Tudor Parfitt
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- 1st
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- October 1, 2003
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- 9780297819349
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Tudor Parfitt examines a myth which is based on one of the world's oldest mysteries - what happened to the lost tribes of Israel? Christians and Jews alike have attached great importance to the legendary fate of these tribes which has had a remarkable impact on their ideologies throughout history. Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Secret History of MI6
de Keith Jeffery
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- light shelf wear
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- 2010-09
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- 9781594202742
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The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents.
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born a century ago amid fears of the rising power of other countries, especially Germany. The next forty years saw MI6 taking an increasingly important-and, until now, largely hidden-role in shaping the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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ALBION - THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH IMAGINATION
de Peter Ackroyd
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- 1st
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- 2002
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- 9781856197212
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This title covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous examples from contemporary times. Explorations include: forgery and plagiarism; ruins and antiquarianism; the English love of miniatures; and drag acts. Precio
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A Three-Foot Stool
de Peter Wright
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- Usado - Good
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- none
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- 1st
- Published
- 1909
- Encuadernación
- Cloth
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"Excerpt from Three-Foot Stool It is still at the present day in the United States of Mexico that the model of the ranch is found, where the area is measured by scores of miles and the increase by tens of thousands of calves, and where owners live in paternal simplicity and state. AS it is in the State of Chihuahua… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men
de Win Blevins
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- 2005-11
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- 9780765314352
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Mountain man Hugh Glass's harrowing journey 300 miles to civilization after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead is just one of the incredible adventures Spur Award Winning author Win Blevins explores in the New York Times bestseller, Give Your Heart to the Hawks.
In addition to the captivating story of Hugh Glass, Win Blevins presents a poetic… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Tracing Your Ancestors in the National Archives The Website and Beyond
de Amanda Bevan
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- Usado - Very Good-
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- 7th
- Published
- June 1, 2006
- ISBN
- 9781903365892
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- 1
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The British public's hunger to meet their ancestors continues, and this unrivalled guide offers one of the best ways to explore people in the past through the holdings of The National Archives at Kew and the Family Records Centre at Islington. Aimed at researchers on all levels from family historians to academics, "Tracing Your Ancestors" fully explains the institution, the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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How to Write Your Family History
de Terrick FitzHugh
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- Usado - Very Good
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- October 27, 2005
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- 9781899296286
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- 1
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Bringing ancestry hunting to life, with examples, top tips and illustrations. CONDITION: bright and clean, except for dusting to top edge. CONDITION: hardly used, bright and clean, except for dusting to top edge. Precio
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Practical Chemistry
de George Gore, Marcus Sparling, John Scoffern
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- 1st
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- 1856
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First edition. No DJ issued. Marcus Sparling was Assistant to Roger Fenton, Esq. in taking the Crimea photographs. This book provides a rare insight into the chemical knowledge of the mid-eighteen hundreds, surrounding the new sciences of photography, food chemistry and street lighting. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corners and gilt raised bands to spine. Marbled end papers… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Secret Life of Lady Liberty: Goddess in the New World
de Robert; Cortner, Laura E. Hieronimus
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- 2016
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- 9781594774935
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Uncovering the forgotten lineage of the Statue of Liberty, Bob Hieronimus and Laura Cortner explain how she is based on a female symbol representing America on the earliest maps of the continent in the form of a Native American "Queen." The image of a woman symbolizing independence was embraced by the American revolutionaries to rally the populace against the King,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The High History of the Holy Grail
de Sebastian Evans
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- 2016
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- 9781906621438
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In an epilogue to his translation, Evans declares this to be 'the original story of Sir Perceval and the Holy Graal, whole and incorrupt as it left the hands of its first author' and he commends it to all who love the Arthurian legends. The translation is of Potvin's 1866 edition of the anonymous 13th-century romance, Perceval le Gallois. Precio
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A History of Rome Down to The Reign of Constantine
de M. Cary
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- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Published
- 1967
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Academic text. Includes fold-out plan of the Roman Forum. Dust jacket very worn at edges (not price clipped). Book good - ownership inscription on ffep. Dust marked on edges. Internally clean. Precio
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The Gunpowder Plot
de Alan Haynes
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- Like new. Edge wear and edge darkening
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- 2005
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- 1
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Historical account of the famous plot to blow up the British Houses of Parliament in 1605. Precio
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The Life and Times of William I
de Maurice Ashley
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- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Light shelf wear
- Published
- 1973
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- 1
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Well illustrated and easily readable in bitesize sections. This is the history of William the Conqueror, the winner of The Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the father of England as we know it. Precio
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History in the Making
de Valentin Berezhkov
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- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- acceptable
- Edición
- 1st English
- Published
- 1983
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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First English translation by Dudley Hagen and Barry Jones. Book is in very good condition, with no marks or inscriptions. DJ is moderately worn and has a scuff mark where a price sticker was removed. Precio
EUR 11.77