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by Linda Colley  Publisher Comments In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate... (read more)  List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Elizabeth Grant Publisher Comments These long celebrated recollections of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus have enjoyed a devoted following since their first publication in 1898. In her vivid and inimitable style, she describes her earliest years in Edinburgh and London, the trauma of a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lockhart G W Publisher Comments From sowing, harvesting, and milling, to porridge making, bannocks, and Athole Brose (a whisky made from oatmeal and honey), here is everything you need to know about the Scots and their favorite crop. Includes recipes.... (read more) Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Janice Anderson Publisher Comments Looks at every aspect of British life over the last 150 years contrasting beautiful black and white images with colour photographs from the twenty-first century of the same scenes and activities. Provides comforting proof that some quintessentially... (read more) Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by W H Murray Publisher Comments Rob Roy MacGregor, Scotland's most romantic, elusive hero, was an outlaw and a life-long enemy of Montrose. So well-known was he that no one thought to write down a physical description of him, or any direct record of his childhood and youth. Thus... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gertrude Himmelfarb Publisher Comments In these brilliant essays, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most respected scholars of Victorian thought and culture, explores the many facets, public and private, of the Victorian idea of morality. Incisively and provocatively she illuminates the... (read more) List Price $18.90 Your price $1.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Keegan Publisher Comments When today's world leaders need inspiration and strength in times of crisis, they often turn to Winston Churchill, quoting him and citing his heroic example. The son of a member of Parliament, Churchill, a poor academic student, wanted to be a soldier... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The collected speeches of the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time The only political leader to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Winston Churchill used language as a weapon at a time when he possessed nothing more than an empty armory... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad—"Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres. . . . Puffins and seals. Apply."—and thus found the Shiants. With a name meaning "holy or enchanted islands," the Shiants for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Rose Publisher Comments This prizewinning book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, the author discovers how members of the... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Quentin Bell Publisher Comments An illustrated guide to Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse where Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant provided a gathering place for the Bloomsbury group, which included such literary and artistic luminaries as E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tina Brown Publisher Comments "Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments Now in trade paperback and repackaged for the first time in more than 75 years, this is Churchill's definitive history of the first World War. 48 maps, plans & diagrams.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard R Johnson Publisher Comments John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid-seventeenth century--a man, in Richard Johnson's words, "operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came," who "responded to conventions and conditions derived from several... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roy Porter Publisher Comments From the Author of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award) comes a sumptuous and spicy volume (Washington Post Book World) that highlights Britain's long-underestimated and pivotal role in disseminating the ideas and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Chandos Publisher Comments Although English public schools project an image of clean, polite, and uniformed boys living together in collective worship of God, team games, and academic standards, the early years of these schools had a reality that was far different. The public... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Irvine Butterfield Publisher Comments The challenge to any landscape photographer is to successfully capture the grandeur of a mountain's form, or to portray the pleasure afforded to those who seek out the crowning cairns. This superb book, a fitting successor to the same author's The Magic... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Maureen Waller Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of authors Antonia Fraser and David Starkey, Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Henderson Synopsis In Diplomatic Service from 1946 to 1979, Henderson's experienced global politics as an insider and affords us that view, while providing an entertaining account of an Ambassador's life from his experiences in Warsaw, Bonn, Paris, and Washington... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Magnus Magnusson Publisher Comments Kirkus Reviews hailed Magnus Magnusson's book as a vast, superb history [that] relates Scotland's past over a dozen millennia. Drawing on a great deal of modern scholarship that has redefined the nation's story, Magnusson vividly re-creates the long and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $20.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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