A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights.
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Auteur:Moulton, MoSommaire: - Auteur:Bryson, BillSommaire:
Covering the entire history of the English language, we learn about the quirks and byways of the world's most important and baffling language. Among other things, it examines unphonetic spelling and many so-called "rules...
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Auteur:Davis, Steven L., Minutaglio, BillSommaire:Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, this book takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy...
- Auteur:Rocco, FiammettaSommaire:
Malaria, now known as a disease of the tropics, badly weakened the Roman Empire. It killed thousands of British troops fighting Napoleon in 1809 and many soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. It turned back travelers exploring West...
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Auteur:Wagner, DavidSommaire: - Auteur:Howse, JenniferSommaire:
Provides information on the Métis with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
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Auteur:Lee, J. J.Sommaire:For years, journalist and amateur tailor JJ Lee tried to ignore the navy suit that hung at the back of his closet — his late father's last suit. When he decides to finally make the suit his own, little does he know he is about to embark...
- Auteur:Frost, MarkSommaire:
In 1956, a casual bet between two millionaires eventually pitted two of the greatest golfers of the era--Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan--against top amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi. Frost recounts this dramatic tale from start to...
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Auteur:Connor, RalphSommaire:Ranald Macdonald’s roots are in the forest of Ontario’s easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home. When he leaves to test his idealism and faith in the rough world of the lumber...
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Auteur:Johnston, David CaySommaire:Drawing on decades of interviews, financial records, court documents, and public statements, David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump more closely than any other journalist working today, gives us the most in-depth look yet at the man...
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Series: The pageant of England, Volume 2. Roger Bacon, Simon de Montfort and others made the long reign of Henry III into a period of vital advance in science, politics and art.
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Auteur:Mokyr, JoelSommaire: - Auteur:Battery RadioSommaire:
An investigation of Guglielmo Marconi and the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. Created for the centenary of Marconi's transmission. On December 12th, 1901 Guigliermo Marconi received the world's first trans-Atlantic wireless...
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Auteur:Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSommaire:The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound...
- Auteur:Evans, Paul A.Sommaire:
Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established...
- Auteur:Temelini, WalterSommaire:
The Leamington Italian Community intertwines personal and family stories with both empirical and intuitive writing to offer new historical insights into the complex social, economic, and psychological causes and effects of the migration...
- Auteur:COSTAIN, Thomas BSommaire:
The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor.
- Auteur:Ostler, JeffreySommaire:
Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it. Moving from battlefields to reservations to Supreme Court chambers, Ostler captures the strength that bore the Lakotas...
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Auteur:Rose, M. J., Berry, SteveSommaire:Cassiopeia Vitt is building an authentic castle using thirteenth-century materials when a relic is unearthed--an ancient Book of Hours--and a key to the most precious object of the medieval Cathars.
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