Impressions of Althorp
Author : Earl Charles Spencer Spencer
Publisher : Spencer 1508 Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Country homes
ISBN : 9780957271500
Blenheim
Author : Charles Spencer
Publisher : Phoenix (USA)
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780304367047
Book Description
How two men brought about the defeat of Louis XIV's previously unbeaten army and saved Europe from French domination - A Sunday Times Bestseller By the summer of 1704 Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against her and Louis was poised to extend his frontier to the Rhine and install a French prince on the throne of Spain. Two men saved Europe from French military domination: the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. Marlborough masterminded a brilliant campaign, working with Eugene to surprise the French invaders inside Germany. The rival armies clashed in August and the hitherto unbeaten French were utterly destroyed. Blenheim was a major turning point in European history. Charles Spencer's narrative is drawn from original sources and moves seamlessly from the deliberations of Kings and princes to the frontline soldiers. This is the battle that creates the enduring reputation of the British redcoat and shatters the image of the 'Sun King' and his mighty army.
Killers of the King
Author : Charles Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1620409127
Book Description
Examines the lives of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant and the far-reaching consequences for them, those present at the trial, and England itself.
Althorp: The Story of an English House
Author : Charles Spencer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0008373191
Book Description
The definitive history of one of England’s greatest houses: Althorp, where for five hundred years the Spencer family have made their home.
Notes and Queries
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
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Complexity
Author : M. Mitchell Waldrop
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 150405914X
Book Description
“If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly
Blenheim
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2005-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780752872087
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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography
Author : Harriet Martineau
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
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Lady in Waiting
Author : Anne Glenconner
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306846357
Book Description
Discover untold secrets with this extraordinary memoir of drama and tragedy by Anne Glenconner—a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter she was deemed "the greatest disappointment" and unable to inherit. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact. A unique witness to landmark moments in royal history, Maid of Honor at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret until her death in 2002, Anne's life has encompassed extraordinary drama and tragedy. In Lady in Waiting, she will share many intimate royal stories from her time as Princess Margaret's closest confidante as well as her own battle for survival: her broken-off first engagement on the basis of her "mad blood"; her 54-year marriage to the volatile, unfaithful Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner, who left his fortune to a former servant; the death in adulthood of two of her sons; a third son she nursed back from a six-month coma following a horrific motorcycle accident. Through it all, Anne has carried on, traveling the world with the royal family, including visiting the White House, and developing the Caribbean island of Mustique as a safe harbor for the rich and famous-hosting Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and many other politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities. With unprecedented insight into the royal family, Lady in Waiting is a witty, candid, dramatic, at times heart-breaking personal story capturing life in a golden cage for a woman with no inheritance. New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller The Sunday Times Bestseller The Globe and Mail Bestseller ABA Indie Bestseller The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
Orientalism
Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804153868
Book Description
A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.
