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

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

The astonishingly rich life story of eccentric socialite Enid Lindeman.

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...

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

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

A biography of Muriel Matters, an Australian suffragette who chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women. T...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Reducere. "Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book,...

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Reducere. In the late 1960s, new age communes began springing up in the American Southwest with names like Drop City, New Buffalo, Lama Foundation, Morning S...

An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with a preface and a conclusion by the author.Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s):...

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

Hers was a body of marble...Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Marguerite KayeNumber of pages: 368Collection: Revelations of the Carstai...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Robert GarlandIllustration(s): 75 mix halftones, B-WNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2014Dimen...

Reducere. David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity rationalised capitalism's transformation during an extraordinary year: 1989. It gave theoretical expr...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT - From bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Wei...

Reducere. The Spiritual Life of Children, Hardcover

The first Tibetan to attain complete enlightenment was in all probability the woman Yeshe Tsogyal, the closest disciple of Padmasambhava, the maste...

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Reducere. Think you know everything about Pirates? Fascination with Pirates has for centuries driven stories of heroic proportions--true, exaggerated, and im...