Henry III, 1: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258 (Carpenter David)(Paperback)

Henry III, 1: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258 (Carpenter David)(Paperback)

The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule 'Professor Carpenter is one of Britain's foremost medievalists...No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is here poured out, elegantly and often humorously. This is a fine, judicious, illuminating work that

Henry III: The Great King England Never Knew It Had (Baker Darren)(Paperback)

Henry III (1207-72) was the longest-serving monarch of England until the modern era. His reign began with a minority in perpetual crisis and ended after the constitutional issues of the day had been settled on the battlefield. Nevertheless, most of his 56 years on the throne were peaceful and

Be Strong, Be Wise: The Young Adult's Guide to Sexual Assault Awareness and Personal Safety (Carpenter Amy R.)(Paperback)

In Be Strong, Be Wise, psychotherapist and youth advocate Amy Carpenter provides all the information teens and young adults need to feel safe and confident in their relationships and in the

King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues

Henry David Thoreau: A Life (Walls Laura Dassow)(Paperback)

'Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.' That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to 'live deliberately' in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has

Never Too Late To Be Great - The Power of Thinking Long (Butler-Bowdon Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing on wide research into 'lead time' and the 'ten-year rule', bestselling personal development author Tom Butler-Bowdon shows that, contrary to popular belief, people, companies, products and ideas invariably need time to realise their

Carpentry and Joinery 1 (Porter Brian)(Paperback)

The third edition of Carpentry and Joinery 1 is the first in a series of three books which together provide an authoritative but thoroughly practical guide to carpentry and joinery for students following City & Guilds and CITB courses, NVQ candidates, and a wide range of amateurs and

Walden and Civil Disobedience (Thoreau Henry David)(Paperback)

Henry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts--part social experiment, part spiritual quest--is an enduringly influential American classic. In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring

Walden, Or, Life in the Woods (Thoreau Henry David)(Paperback)

Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to 'live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ... learn what it had to teach.' Toward that end Thoreau built a

Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do about It (Young Kevin A.)(Paperback)

Understanding the power of the corporations and how to take the struggle directly to them It's no secret that 'the 1%' - the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions- exercise enormous control over U.S. government. While this

European Medieval Tactics (1): The Fall and Rise of Cavalry 450-1260 (Nicolle David)(Paperback)

Osprey's elite title on the rise and fall of European medieval cavalry during an 800 year period. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire there was a decline in professional cavalry forces, and infantry dominated in the Germanic successor barbarian kingdoms. In the Carolingian and Norman periods

Fortunes - The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons (Dommisse Ebbe)(Paperback / softback)

A comprehensive work based on personal interviews and insider knowledge - bound to become a

Testing the Limit: Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition (Sebbah Franois-David)(Paperback)

Through three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the

Thomas Cromwell - The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister (Hutchinson Robert)(Paperback / softback)

The rise and fall of Henry's notorious minister - the most corrupt Chancellor in English

The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity (Martin Raymond)(Paperback)

This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends,

Lebron James: The Rise of a Star (Morgan David)(Paperback)

'A well-rounded, personal portrait of the young superstar' -- BooklistAn up-close look at young LeBron James when he was basketball's hottest prospect, poised at the brink of superstardom. Sportswriter David Lee Morgan covered the LeBron phenomenon for the Akron Beacon Journal starting with

Rise and Fall of Nations - Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World (Sharma Ruchir)(Paperback / softback)

Great Successor - The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un (Fifield Anna)(Paperback / softback)

The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody

The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season (Thoreau Henry David)(Paperback)

'Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.' Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passing moment with the universal globe. Henry David

Unleashed: An Andy Carpenter Mystery (Rosenfelt David)(Paperback)

Andy Carpenter's accountant, Sam Willis, is stunned to receive a phone call out of the blue from Barry Price, a high school friend he hasn't spoken to in years, pleading for help with something too frightening to discuss on the phone. Barry needs Sam's financial acumen and lawyer Andy Carpenter's

Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben (Thoreau Henry David)(Paperback)

In honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau's birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben 'Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau's Walden as the gospel of the present moment, as a neccessary book because it is useful right

Close to the Knives - A Memoir of Disintegration (Wojnarowicz David)(Paperback / softback)

The powerful, personal and iconoclastic memoir of David Wojnarowicz, AIDS activist, author and one of the most provocative artists of his generation. With a new introduction by Olivia

Psychotherapeutic Traction: Uncovering the Patient's Power-Theme and Basic-Wish (Kellerman Henry)(Paperback)

The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History (Farber David)(Paperback)

The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement. David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against