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Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
- £18.00
- Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from "natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses;…
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Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
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Characters from the histories and memoirs of the Seventeenth Century
- £15.00
- First published in 1918, Nichol Smith compiled a classic of its kind: Characters from the histories and memoirs of the seventeenth century with an essay on the character and historical notes: drawn from writings of contemporaries and acquaintences from the Earl of Clarendon to Richard Baxter and the 2nd Duke…
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Charles Simeon of Cambridge
- £12.00
- Charles Simeon ministered for over fifty years in one parish at the heart of Cambridge during the bleak period of English national life between the French Wars and the passing of the Reform Bill. He was considered by Lord Macaulay to have had greater influence on the life of the…
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Churchill, by his Granddaughter (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From his birthplace at Blenheim Palace to his tumultuous political life in Westminster, Celia Sandys is uniquely placed to examine the life of one of the most revered Britons in history. This book accompanies the launch of the Churchill Museum and includes many previously unpublished images and artifacts displayed in…
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- £25.00
- One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset
- £25.00
- A vivid, detailed picture of the period Coleridge and Wordsworth in the beautiful Quantock countryside in Somerset. This period was of major importance to Coleridge and Wordsworth as poets, particularly the year July 1797 to July 1798 that they spent near to each other.
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Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010
- £15.00
- In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as…
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the…
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Corts and Montezuma
- £14.00
- From publisher: Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernn Corts felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical…
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Crossway ESV Bible Atlas (with CD-Rom & Poster)
- £32.00
- Capitalizing on recent advances in satellite imaging and geographic information systems, the Crossway ESV Bible Atlas offers Bible readers a comprehensive, up-to-date resource that blends technical sophistication with readability, visual appeal, and historical and biblical accuracy. All the key methods of presenting Bible geography and history are here, including more…
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Cumberland and Westmorland (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE (1914Ð1987) was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom. His poetry is noted for local concerns, straightforward language, and elements of common speech. Although known chiefly for poetry, Nicholson wrote much in other forms: novels, plays, essays, topography and criticism. This book of…
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Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
- £20.00
- How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment. In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When…
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Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
- £18.00
- Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from "natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses;…
- Add to basket
-
Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
- Add to basket
-
Characters from the histories and memoirs of the Seventeenth Century
- £15.00
- First published in 1918, Nichol Smith compiled a classic of its kind: Characters from the histories and memoirs of the seventeenth century with an essay on the character and historical notes: drawn from writings of contemporaries and acquaintences from the Earl of Clarendon to Richard Baxter and the 2nd Duke…
- Add to basket
-
Charles Simeon of Cambridge
- £12.00
- Charles Simeon ministered for over fifty years in one parish at the heart of Cambridge during the bleak period of English national life between the French Wars and the passing of the Reform Bill. He was considered by Lord Macaulay to have had greater influence on the life of the…
- Add to basket
-
Churchill, by his Granddaughter (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From his birthplace at Blenheim Palace to his tumultuous political life in Westminster, Celia Sandys is uniquely placed to examine the life of one of the most revered Britons in history. This book accompanies the launch of the Churchill Museum and includes many previously unpublished images and artifacts displayed in…
- Add to basket
-
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- £25.00
- One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these…
- Add to basket
-
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
- Add to basket
-
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
- Add to basket
-
Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset
- £25.00
- A vivid, detailed picture of the period Coleridge and Wordsworth in the beautiful Quantock countryside in Somerset. This period was of major importance to Coleridge and Wordsworth as poets, particularly the year July 1797 to July 1798 that they spent near to each other.
- Add to basket
-
Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010
- £15.00
- In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as…
- Add to basket
-
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the…
- Add to basket
-
Corts and Montezuma
- £14.00
- From publisher: Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernn Corts felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical…
- Add to basket
-
Crossway ESV Bible Atlas (with CD-Rom & Poster)
- £32.00
- Capitalizing on recent advances in satellite imaging and geographic information systems, the Crossway ESV Bible Atlas offers Bible readers a comprehensive, up-to-date resource that blends technical sophistication with readability, visual appeal, and historical and biblical accuracy. All the key methods of presenting Bible geography and history are here, including more…
- Add to basket
-
Cumberland and Westmorland (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE (1914Ð1987) was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom. His poetry is noted for local concerns, straightforward language, and elements of common speech. Although known chiefly for poetry, Nicholson wrote much in other forms: novels, plays, essays, topography and criticism. This book of…
- Add to basket
-
Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
- £20.00
- How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment. In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When…
- Add to basket