A lovely mystery evocative of the period from a talented writer Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay mysteriesSomeones been read their last rites...1915, London: Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inhe...Loe edasi...
Two women, a hundred years apart, discover the tale of Ariadne in the Labyrinth, and a story lost to time. For all the readers who fell in love with retellings from Madeline Miller and Natalie Haynes...London 1900Alice Webster has made the worst deci...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University Press of Kentucky, ISBN-13: 9780813197241)
On March 14, 1912, Hillsville, Virginia, native Floyd Allen (18561913) was convicted of three criminal charges: assault, maiming, and the rescue of prisoners in custody. What had begun as a scuffle between Allens nephews over a young woman ended wit...Loe edasi...
A heartbreaking, page-turning historical saga from TOP TEN bestselling author Lindsey HutchinsonWill it be tears or triumph for the Hat Girl from Silver Street Its been five years since Ella Bancroft lost the love of her life, Harper Fortescue, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Feb-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226726410)
Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate "e;partners in science"e; with the officers of the large foundations created by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, and in so doing tells a fascinating s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Feb-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226726410)
Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate "e;partners in science"e; with the officers of the large foundations created by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, and in so doing tells a fascinating s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2017, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University Press of Kentucky, ISBN-13: 9780813168562)
John C. Campbell (18671919) is widely considered to be a pioneer in the objective study of the complex world of Appalachian mountaineers. Thanks to a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, Campbell traveled throughout the region with his wifenoted s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2016, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781351886246)
This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2016, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781351886253)
This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a...Loe edasi...
Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and universal: railways carried empire, capitalism and industria...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2013, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781134558346)
The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britains economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britains own resources were consistently more productive, more resi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2013, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781134558278)
The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britains economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britains own resources were consistently more productive, more resi...Loe edasi...
A graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 soulsWith newly commissioned artwork, Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic is a deluxe reproduction of the 1912 me...Loe edasi...
Sari: Thomas D. Clark Studies in Education, Public Policy, and Social Change
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Aug-2008, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University Press of Kentucky, ISBN-13: 9780813138831)
The relationship between a town and its local institutions of higher education is often fraught with turmoil. The complicated tensions between the identity of a city and the character of a university can challenge both communities. Lexington, Kentuck...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2005, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781587294006)
Many farsighted women writers in nineteenth-century America made thoughtful and sustained use of newspapers and magazines to effect social and political change. "e;The Only Efficient Instrument"e;: American Women Writers and the Periodical,...Loe edasi...
Sari: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Aug-2004, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781134278640)
In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusbands invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalyst for change in a world transformed by revolution, war and the rise of a new order. Using unofficial...Loe edasi...
Sari: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Aug-2004, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781134278633)
In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusbands invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalyst for change in a world transformed by revolution, war and the rise of a new order. Using unofficial...Loe edasi...
