Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian
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Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the...
Cultural Histories, Memories and Extreme Weather: A Historical Geography Perspective
Georgina H. Endfield and Lucy Veale
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There is growing concern over the impacts of climate variability and anomalous and unusual weather....
Steam Trains: The Magnificent History of Britain's Locomotives from Stephenson's Rocket to BR's Evening Star
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Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were...
Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London: The Burlington Fine Arts Club
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The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen's club with a singular...
Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
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A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when...
Trois histoires - Folio Junior
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Includes Charlie et la chocolaterie, Charlie et le grand ascenseur de verre and James et la grosse...