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 | The Man Who Made Lists
The extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary Thesaurus.
Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado-was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he als...
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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 | Elizabeth: 80 Glorious Years
A lavish pictorial tribute to Queen Elizabeth, in honor of her 80th birthday.When she ascended to the British throne on the death of her father, George VI, in 1952, Elizabeth II was just twenty-five. In April 2006, she celebrates her 80th birthday, s...
Manufacturer: Carlton Publishing Group
| $8.47
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 | Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby
Traces the life of the adventurous nineteenth-century Englishwoman, whose divorce made her a social outcast, despite her legendary beauty and intelligence, and prompted her to travel the world in the company of many fascinating men of the time.
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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 | Thomas More: A Biography
Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. This Tudor prelate and Lord Chancellor of England shared human qualities identifiable in all ages--pride, l...
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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 | The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Revised and Updated
This essential reference is a concise, accessible guide to the great dynasties of English royalty. A collection of biographical sketches that encompasses the period from the establishment of monarchical power by the early Norman kings through the ...
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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 | Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship
An insightful history of Churchill’s lifelong commitment—both public and private—to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism Winston Churchill was a young man in 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a...
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
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 | Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards
Who invented the House of Windsor as a royal name? Who founded Westminster Abby? Which king had twenty-one illegitimate children? David Hilliam answers all these questions and many, many, more, covering unusual incidents of royal history which rarely...
Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
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 | John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography
"Rich, generous and capacious....Its triumph is to show how the brilliant, abrasive, phenomenally direct voice of the Songs and Sonnets...deepens and darkens, cracking sometimes under the harsh strain of his middle years, only to re-emerge in the humane...
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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 | Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III (England's Forgotten Queens series)
Anne Neville was queen to England’s most notorious king, Richard III. She was immortalized by Shakespeare for the remarkable nature of her marriage, a union which brought together a sorrowing widow with her husband’s murderer. Anne’s misfortu...
Manufacturer: Tempus
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