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Kathleen Winsor was born in 1919. She became fascinated with Charles II and his immoral court after reading her first husband's thesis on the subject. Five years and much research later, she wrote FOREVER AMBER. It was a sensation, selling over 2 million copies in hardback, and was banned in Boston. It outsold almost every other book of the decade and became a bestseller in 16 countries. Kathleen Winsor lives in New York.

Edmund Curtis's remarkable survey of Ireland, from its earliest origins to the twentieth century, is a classic introduction to Ireland's fascinating history. Reaching from St Patrick's Mission in 432 to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922, this authoritative text explores the formative events of Ireland's past and encompasses the Norman invasion, Gaelic recovery, Cromwell's Settlement, the Act of Union, and the Great Famine. Lucid and scholarly, t...

This book is for those who have difficulty in getting thoughts into words or their ideas across, as well as those who are satisfied with their writing but are ready to consider the possibility of improving it. It is all about the ways in which writing at work is important - helping the reader to observe, remember, think, plan, organize and communicate.

Focusing on the essential uncertainty of participating in evolving events as they happen, this book considers the creative possibilities of such participation from a complexity perspective.

The French New Wave: An Artistic School "is a lively introduction to this critical moment in film history by one of the world's leading scholars on the New Wave. Provides a concise account of the French New Wave by one of the world's leading film scholars. Outlines the essential traits of the New Wave and defines it as a school that changed international film history forever. Includes a chronology of major political and cultural events of t...

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Seit Beginn der Neuzeit spielen die Verhältnisse von Wissen, Wissenschaften, Technik und Lebenswelt eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle. Indem die Beiträge aus Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte zu Wissen und Wissenschaften, Grundfiguren des Denkens von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Deutschen Idealismus und moderner Technik und modernen Technologien die historischen Entwicklungen aufzeigen, gelangen sie zu den Herau...

An account of the PV Ventura/Harpoon family of aircraft - machines that saw action in World War II from the Channel Front right through to the Pacific. It contains first-hand descriptions and archival footage, along with scale plans of each of the major PV Ventura/Harpoon variants.

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In einer sehr bildhaften Sprache schildert der Autor in meist lustigen Geschichten die Zeit der Mangelwirtschaft und der poltischen und idiologischen Ausrichtung der DDR-Nachkriegsgesellschaft auf den großen Bruder Sowjetunion.Die Geschichten haben sich so oder so ähnlich tatsächlich abgespielt. Sie geben die Lebensumstände in der sowjewtisch besetzten Zone anschaulich und meist hurmorvoll wieder.Die Geschichten zeigen aber auch, daß die Mensc...

Closeted NASCAR fan Wright attended stock car races at eight of the Winston Cup's legendary venues. The "Fixin' to Git" Road Tour resulted in this book--not just a travelogue of Wright's year at the races, but a fan's valentine to the spectacle, the pageantry, and the subculture of Winston Cup racing. 31 photos.

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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The novels and nonfiction work of writer Frank Waters stand as a monument to his genius and to his lifetime quest to plumb the spiritual depths that he found for himself in the landscape and people of his beloved Southwest.

The novels and nonfiction work of writer Frank Waters stand as a monument to his genius and to his lifetime quest to plumb the spiritual depths that he found for himself in the landscape and people of his beloved Southwest.

Wild Flowers of Faith summarizes a mother?

Wild Flowers of Faith" summarizes a mother's progression from an immense desire for motherhood, besieged by a series of tribulations, to an undying faith that sustained her pregnancy. Written with openness and sincerity, this book reveals a praise that magnifies God's goodness.

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