Enid. The Scandalous High-society Life of the Formidable 'Lady Killmore', Hardback - Robert Wainwright

The astonishingly rich life story of eccentric socialite Enid Lindeman.

The astonishingly rich life story of eccentric socialite Enid Lindeman.Illustrations: 2x8pp colour plates

Reducere. Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in Manh...

The tumultuous life of internationally renowned opera singer, and one of the first global celebrities, Dame Nellie Melba.Publisher: Atlantic BooksA...

Lucy, Lady Houston's extraordinary life is revealed here in full for the first time

The first and definitive tale of the tumultuous and tragic life of Lady Augusta Murray, the forbidden wife of a royal prince in Georgian England

A fascinating exploration of how losing our sense of smell can shape our world, and how the global pandemic transformed our understanding of this m...

For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figur...

The turbulent love letters of Sophia Dorothea and Count Phillip Christoph von Konigsmarck bring their forbidden affair vividly back to life.

The first biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism's most insidious seeds.Publisher: T...

For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, a page-turning drama of fortunes, eugenics and women's reprodu...

Scarred by life... Until he finds her.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Elizabeth BeaconNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimen...

An entertaining and insightful portrait of life as a policewoman in the Met from the 1950s to the 1990s.Illustrations: 16 Plates, color

To feed the interior life of the counselor is not only a sensible act for the helper, it is a true act of generosity for those they serve as well. ...

A lifelong smasher of glass-ceilings, who took as her motto 'women are equal to everything', her landmark rulings in areas including domestic viole...

Beauty and glamour meet deception and revenge in this electrifying novel by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick.Publisher: Little, Brown...

Publisher: Chop McKean MappingAuthor(s): Alfred WainwrightCollection: wainwright mapsPublication date: 1999Dimensions: 177 x 127 x 10Cover type: Sh...

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, a contemporary of Robert Burns, wrote over 80 songs which enjoyed great popularity during her lifetime and still do...

Reducere. The rags-to-riches story of Silicon Valley's original disruptor. American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford - from his birth in a ba...

This book offers a clear-eyed perspective on the potential and peril of this new form of education.

Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans who thought they knew something about Robert Johnson.

Amanda Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part, transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction s...

The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and QueenA c...

Reducere. Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her...

Around 2, 300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume t...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Deborah NoyesIllustration(s): 50 black and white photosNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Publisher: Chop McKean MappingAuthor(s): Alfred WainwrightCollection: Wainwright maps (of the Lakeland Fells)Publication date: 1996Dimensions: 180 ...

Reducere. In the summer of 1925, Enid Justin--daughter of H. J. Justin, founder of legendary Justin Boots--announced to her family that she was going to star...

Reducere. This is the fascinating life of femme fatale Alice de Janze, a book that "may well have solved the mystery of Lord Erroll's killing" (San Francisco...

DescriptionAmerican Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford - from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class univers...

Illuminating and enthralling biography of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman.

Publisher: Chop McKean MappingAuthor(s): Alfred WainwrightCollection: Wainwright maps (of the Lakeland Fells)Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 180 ...

In People of Colour and the Royals, Lady Colin Campbell turns her attention to subjects with which she is intimately familiar. Born in Jamaica in 1...

Reducere. The Spiritual Life of Children, Hardcover

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book is a detailed examination of a Chinese women's cult that confronts the dangers of pregnancy, childbirth, and childhood diseases.Publisher...

The definitive history of Oradour-sur-Glane, a village ripped apart by tragedy in Nazi-occupied FranceIllustrations: 45 Illustrations, black and white

An insightful biography, based on exclusive research, of Queen Elizabeth II, bringing us the full story of one of our greatest and best-loved monar...