Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, Hardcover - John Henderson

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of p...

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At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and anim...

In the style of Benjamin Black, an evocative, literary crime thriller set in Ireland and London during the outbreak of WWII.

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): Michael RussellPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 32Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturi...

In the style of Benjamin Black, an evocative, literary crime thriller set in Ireland and London during the outbreak of WWII.

"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and six...

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A sophisticated "how to" for owners of troubled companies who want to salvage as much of their equity as possible in the face of daunting foes.

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Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge...

A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, ...

A tale of adventure and bravery, based on the real-life castle siege in the summer of the year 1300. Knights and nobles, pages and prisoners - and ...

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Challenging the claim that democracy is a means to an end rather than an important value in and of itself.

DescriptionThis study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. During the early moder...

Reducere. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents CITY OF THE PLAGUE GOD, an adventure based on ancient Mesopotamian mythology written by Sarwat Chadda, au...

Agent Under Siege by Lena Diaz Can they outsmart a killer who escaped justice?Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Nichole SevernNumber of...

DescriptionIn this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic, and intellectual blossoming in Florence fro...

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Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. This included...

Reducere. This "tiny book" is a visual journal that documents the author's creative works made as part of an arts-based self-care strategy to survive the COV...

A richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the forme...

Reducere. A dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 mill...

John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives...

A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestsell...

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Jurisdictional accumulation reveals varieties of early modern extraterritorial practices and how consuls, ambassadors, merchants and lawyers drove ...

Despite the resounding victory at the battle of Oudenarde, the Duke of Marlborough finds his position as captain-general threatened by political en...

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Description This collection seeks to offer new and important insights into medicine in early modern Ireland. It situates Irish medicine in relation...

A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestsell...

In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negoti...

The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells the story of Wessex's roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historica...

The gripping, shocking and true story of a Bosniak family's flight from their home at the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia. Hasan Nuhanovic was...

The NHS is in crisis. The past 10 years of Tory real-terms cuts in funding has been disastrous. This book looks at the threat to the NHS posed by t...