Queen Victoria: A Personal History, Paperback - Christopher Hibbert

Reducere. In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, pa...

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Queen Victoria. A Photographic Journey - Chris Frame, Rachelle Cross

Reducere. In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a m...

Reducere. DescriptionQUEEN ELIZABETHThis book aims to serve as a biography of the great Queen Victoria. Inside, you will receive an insight into what the lif...

Reducere. This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many lay...

Reducere. Presents a portrayal of Queen Victoria. This title shows Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as ...

If you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search ...

Warlords, popes and poisoners; the Borgias are an infamous lot, and are soon to be the subject of a new TV series from the makers of The Tudors. Th...

A guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate development. It includes approaches to analysis of the chick genome, gene knock-out...

Charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'cou...

A full-colour account of this perennially popular luxury liner, this remastered edition has been updated to reflect the extensive changes of the 20...

Povestea ascensiunii si a decaderii uneia dintre cele mai diabolice familii din istorie. Volumul de fata prezinta istoria ascensiunii si a decaderi...

Reducere. Volumul de fata prezinta istoria ascensiunii si a decaderii uneia dintre cele mai diabolice familii din cate au existat vreodata. Numele Borgia est...

A beautiful, quirky, illustrated edition of Phaidon's compelling bestseller, celebrating the book's 25th anniversaryThis concise and fast-paced int...

Reducere. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and co...

Reducere. An intimate portrait of history's most fascinating monarchA genius, a beauty, a leader, and a manipulator. Elizabeth I has fascinated and enthralle...

Reducere. Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time ...

Christopher Hibbert was an English author, historian and biographer. He has been called "probably the most widely-read popular historian of our tim...

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to t...

The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR'Alive with the deta...

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody pol...

Reducere. The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated tro...

Reducere. During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. America's hope for national security relied ...

Reducere. THRIFTWOOD is a mixture of personal memoir and cultural and literary criticism, which explores the ideas of the liminal, changing place and liminal...

Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that d...

DescriptionIn Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s, Tom Hayden, a seminal figure in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, documen...

Reducere. Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds, " Garibaldi's military pro...

For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores...

Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize...

The autobiography of the daughter of the multi-millionaire who bought and restored the }Washington Post{ and wife of the charismatic but manic depe...

Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travel...

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Reducere. The first book of its kind about what it's like to be a child with ADHD, Hyper is a "haunting narrative that explores the world's most scrutinized ...