James VII and II is one of the least studied monarchs of Scotland, and has previously mostly been studied from an English perspective or as the muddled victim of the revolution of 1688/9 which delivered for Britain much-vaunted political emancipation.
Following the 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Mossadeq and restored the rule of the Shah in Iran, Mostafa Sho';aiyan became a key figure on the country's militant left.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.
';Ridiculously enjoyable' Tom Holland A Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine The ';Mermaid of Morwenstow' excommunicated a cat for mousing on a Sunday.
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time.
A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II.
This work is a highly readable introduction to Shaykh Mufid, the leading Shi'i scholar of his time, and it examines his contributions in the fields of jurisprudence, theology, and sacred history in clear and straightforward language.
This is a behind-the-scenes look at Trump, his cabinet, and an international diplomacy you've never seen beforewritten by someone with no scores to settle, no hidden agenda, no check to cash, and no fucks to give.
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to usif he is known at allas the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787.
The modern-day Renaissance man who built the conservative movement The polysyllabic vocabulary, the wit, the charm, the sailing adventures, the spy novelsall of these have become part of the William F.
In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk ingeniously combines into a living whole the private and the public Burke.
The latest book based on the BBC's BAFTA Award winning show, The Repair Shop: World War II marks the 80th anniversary of the international ending of World War II by sharing objects from the era and the stories behind them.
Schon Huchs Studien zur Geschichte der Romantik, mit denen sie zu einer Zeit, als sie langst schon als Dichterin anerkannt war, auftrat, feierten sofort Erfolge, die ein anderer, selbst womoglich Fachschriftsteller, nur nach langerer Zeit muhsam erringen kann, und ihre Monographie uber Wallenstein schloss sich hier nahtlos an.
Neue, unbekannte Einblicke in Konrad Adenauers Politik in der Endphase als Kanzler und CDU-Parteivorsitzender gibt das erst 2015 entdeckte Tagebuch des Sohnes Paul Adenauer.
La voluntad invicta es una memoria politica escrita por Jesus Zambrano Grijalva, en la que narra su transformacion ideologica: de joven guerrillero integrante de la Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre a dirigente del PRD y actor clave en la transicion democratica mexicana.
NOW A GROUNDBREAKING DOCUMENTARY Now, at last, we know the truth about Queen Victoria and John Brown BENDOR GROSVENOR Irresistible SATHNAM SANGHERA So often I told him no one loved him more than I did .
