Milk of Paradise. A History of Opium, Paperback - Lucy Inglis

A compelling and comprehensive history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since civilization began.

In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, gr...

Reducere. How tourism shaped the Sunshine State"An enlightening journey through Florida's diverse and evolving tourism history, illustrating the changing fac...

With erudition and wit, this title explores the medieval conviction that paradise existed in a precise although unreachable earthly location. Delvi...

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reducere. This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own wo...

Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might well have been descr...

Reducere. A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium WarsIn this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 between Brit...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cathy SalustriIn the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers, but also Zora Neale Hurston and Ste...

Reducere. Many mothers stop breastfeeding within the first 6 weeks, and many among them say that they wanted to breastfeed longer. This book is a guide to re...

Reducere. This Book I Dedicate To The Memory of My Mother Julia Keo-Ho-Kapu-Lani Bush Jones Who Died When I Was Seven Months Of Age Her Havaiian Name Means T...

Reducere. Home of luaus and surfing, the islands of Hawai'i have been riding a wave of beer making in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The last state in the ...

Reducere. A magnificent coming-of-age saga about two sisters from an aristocratic Egyptian family who rebel against tradition. Inside a beautiful mansion on ...

Reducere. When Anna discovers she's with child, it doesn't feel as wonderful as she'd imagined. She quickly feels trapped between the doctors blaming her for...

Reducere. First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth ...

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

How babies have been fed from antiquity to modern times and why it matters.Illustrations: 80 Illustrations, unspecified

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): T.A. WilliamsNumber of pages: 304Collection: Love from ItalyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 25Cover type:...

A stand-alone novel from the author of the crime series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, now available in paperback. It follows a young Veneti...

An urgent and pertinent exploration of how and why the suicide bomber has shaped the modern age, written by a multi-award winning investigative jou...

A thrilling new adventure series: what would the world look like if dinosaurs had never died out?Imagine a world where dinosaurs have survived and ...

An urgent and pertinent exploration of how and why the suicide bomber has shaped the modern age, written by a multi-award winning investigative jou...

This gripping novel from an award-winning writer tells the story of a child trapped in a religious community spiralling towards disaster - in Jones...

Reducere. The author of the comparable food histories }Cod{ and }Salt{ turns his attention to the much-mythologised and expansively various substance profoun...

Reducere. Underground Prescott is a historical look at the old west in Arizona's first territorial capitol, Prescott, Arizona. There are many stories about l...

A delightful memoir of Mary Elizabeth Lucy and her life at Charlecote.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): A. Fairfax-LucyIllustration(s): 16Nu...

Desire Washes AshorePublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Niobia BryantNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 108 x 171 x 38...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Vasanth (Anesthesiologist, Mercy Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA) KumarIllustration(s): Approx. 120 ...

Reducere. Dorian "Ryan" Bostwick is a protector and he's one of the best in the business. When a King of the Castle assigns him to find his former lover, Azi...

Contributor(s): Author: William PooleMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected nationa...

A mesmerising novel set in the Louisiana heartland from award-winning author James Lee Burke.

Reducere. This Side of Paradise (1920) is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published at the very beginning of Fitzgerald's career as a leading writer of Ameri...

American Gods meets The Chronicles of Narnia in this adult fantasy about the Biblical Adam recovering the lost pieces of the Garden of Eden. Many m...

Reducere. In l967, when Georgene Dreishpoon and her husband Irving read a National Geographic article about the Bahamas, a mental seed was planted that would...

Part storybook, part textbook, part historical overview, Parade of Faith presents the history of Christianity in riveting fashion. Ruth Tucker adop...

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for...