On November 20, 1941, a twenty-three-year-old woman was brought to George Washington University Hospital, strapped to an operating table, and kept conscious throughout the procedure that would end her life as she had known it.
By the spring of 1944, British intelligence had achieved something without precedent in the history of warfare: it controlled every single German spy operating in the United Kingdom.
Bordered by Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and situated at a crossroads on an ancient East-West trading route, Georgia's rich and diverse history is nowhere more evident than through its cuisine and legendary hospitality.
This booklet entitled "e;Love Songs in the Shadow of the Qur'an"e; is the upcoming metamorphosis of the poetry book "e;Love in the Shadow of the Qur'an"e;.
In the spring of 1912, the Fortune family of Winnipeg boarded the RMS Titanic at Southampton as first-class passengers, returning from a Grand Tour of Europe gifted to the children by their father, Mark Fortune - one of Manitoba's wealthiest self-made real estate magnates, the owner of a 36-room Tudor mansion on Wellington Crescent and a man who had, in the parlance of the age, lived up to his name.
The biggest drug bust in British history occurred in the early hours of 25 March 1977: 800 officers made 120 arrests and seized a staggering 6,000,000 tabs of LSD.
"e;A great leap forward in understanding and contextualizing Mary's life, after two millennia of her being dismissed and rewritten by patriarchal power structures.
'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIANA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SKY ARTS POETRY AWARD 2025Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new poetry collection, The Wickedest.
'Top-notch'Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A well researched study injected with humour and humanity' Mail on Sunday*Featured on The Happiness Lab with Dr Laurie Santos*After a decade of living in Denmark and raising a family there, Helen Russell noticed that Nordic children are different.
'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew MarrA unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains.
En esta obra, Susanna Pozzolo realiza un análisis histórico sobre la discriminación de la mujer y la asimetría sociojurídica del género, explicando el papel del lenguaje en el proceso de invisibilización de la mujer, la devaluación del trabajo doméstico y la concientización del rol que ha ocupado en la sociedad y el derecho.
Los cantos que integran Espigas de maíz rojo son nuevos, pero el pensamiento es muy antiguo, surge del lugar donde tomó su primer aliento el hombre maya: la milpa.
PRE-ORDER THE ACTION-PACKED STORY OF THE WWII GROUP THAT BECAME OUR SAS, FROM ONE OF THE UK'S MOST STORIED SPECIAL FORCES OPERATORS History at its gripping, fascinating finest THE DAILY EXPRESS'A must read for any military enthusiast' JASON FOX Brilliant Stuff.
Ausgabe 1/26 der Spiegelungen Archive in Serbien begibt sich auf die Suche nach den vielfältigen Spuren deutscher und österreichischer Geschichte, die heute in Archiven, Bibliotheken und weiteren Institutionen der Republik Serbien bewahrt werden.
Hasso von Manteuffel gehört zu den bekanntesten deutschen Generälen des Zweiten Weltkriegs – gefeiert als taktisch brillanter Offizier, zugleich Teil eines Regimes, das Europa in die Katastrophe führte.
SINOPSIS: THE MIKA KING ENTRE DOLOR Y AMORAmor, desamor e ilustraciones (2026)The Mika King, el artista multidisciplinar más prolífico de la escena contemporánea, presenta su obra definitiva sobre el sentimiento humano.
Mehr als Borderline ist die ehrliche und bewegende Geschichte einer Frau, die viele Jahre mit Verlustangst, innerer Leere, schmerzhaften Beziehungsmustern und tiefer Scham lebte – und dennoch nie aufhörte, nach Heilung zu suchen.
From an award-winning poet, a poignant collection that wrestles with anxiety, boredom, fear, and griefVisiting Rites was published to critical acclaim in 1982 and was a finalist for the National Book Award the following year.
This compelling argument for the link between Calvinism in English religious life and the rise of tragedy on the Elizabethan stage draws on a variety of material, including theological tracts, sermons, and dramatic works beginning with sixteenth-century morality plays and continuing through Marlowe's career and the beginning of Shakespeare's.
Through careful attention to the contexts of Renaissance culture invoked by the language, action, and visual spectacle in Measure for Measure, Darryl Gless brings a new and original interpretation to one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays.
The Duck on the Sand Bank is a Level 4 structured literacy decodable reader designed for children learning to apply foundational phonics skills through controlled text.
Thomas Chatterton's fabrications-or "e;forgeries"e;-of historical poems ostensibly written from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries have attracted a great deal of attention and discussion of their authenticity since the eighteenth century.
Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious use of paradox not only as a figure of speech but as a mode of thought, a way of perceiving the universe, God, nature, and man himself.
