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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $40.00
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Manufacturer: Mercury Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charles Allen
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Publisher: Mercury Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 954.0099
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Publication Date: 2005-03-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Maharajas: Resonance from the Past is the story of the Maharajas, Nizams, Nawabs, Maharawals, Jams, Rajas and Raos - rulers of the 565 Princely States of India. It tells of their origins from Vedic times, their rise to power, the proud defense of their clans, royal tastes which found expression in the magnificent architecture of their palaces and forts, mind-boggling collections of jewelry and arms and armor, lavish performance of rites and ceremonies. It tells of the romance of desert kingdoms, the crushing blow of the Mughals and the British Raj; the phoenix-like rise of new States and their eventual decline. Illustrated with almost 200 photographs from museums and previously unseen images from the personal collections of Royal descendants, this is a fascinating celebration of the splendour of Princely India.
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Price: $47.95
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Sale: $19.72
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Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Larry W. Usilton
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Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 016.9420099
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Publication Date: 1996-08-30
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: Provides a succinct bibliography of the various kings of medieval England, from the Bretwaldas of Bede's day through the short reign of Richard III.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $1.59
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Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Helen Castor
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Publisher: HarperCollins
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Edition: US-only
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Dewey Decimal Number: 942.040922
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Publication Date: 2006-04-01
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder. Over the course of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. Yet until now, little has been written about the ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary time. Blood and Roses is a gripping, intimate story of one determined family conducting everyday business against the backdrop of a disintegrating society and savage civil war. Drawing on a rare trove of letters discovered in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the turbulent affairs of the Pastons through three generations of births, marriages, and deaths as they single-mindedly worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry. It is a remarkable chronicle of devotion, ambition, and survival that brings a remote and hazy era to vibrant new life.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $2.95
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Manufacturer: Crown
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Larry King
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Publisher: Crown
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.085092
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Publication Date: 2007-07-17
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: In the ten years since Princess Diana’s shocking and tragic death in 1997, her hold on the world’s imagination has only increased. For The People’s Princess, Larry King asked many people who knew Diana, some officially and some more personally, for their favorite memories.
Sir Richard Branson recalls Diana sitting in the cockpit of one of his private planes with baby Prince William on her lap; as they flew past Windsor Castle she announced, “On our right you have Grandma’s house!” Heather Mills, who, like Diana, has been a tireless campaigner for charitable causes, recalls Diana’s work to eradicate the scourge of land mines, as well as the time she was photographed shaking hands with an AIDS patient in a London hospital, doing so much to counteract the stigma associated with the disease at the time. British radio and television personality Chris Tarrant recalls how clearly nervous he was upon meeting Diana for the first time, and how she put him at ease with an incredibly rude joke about Kermit the Frog. Photographer Tim Graham remembers Diana lying on the floor with baby William in order to coax a smile from the young prince. And her chief bodyguard recalls how happy and at peace she seemed on the day he agreed to her simple request: to be allowed to walk, truly alone for once, along a beautiful, deserted beach.
Some of these recollections are warm and intimate, celebrating Diana for her ability to make a human connection with everyone she met, others are perceptive and revealing, even about Diana’s human failings and frailties. Together, they coalesce into a multifaceted portrait of a woman that the world has long desired to know a little better.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $40.43
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Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Van Der Kiste
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Publisher: Sutton Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 949
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Publication Date: 1994-06-25
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: This engaging book presents the lives of the Greek royal family between 1863 and 1974, during a period of turbulence, and shows both the benefits and disadvantages of the dynasty's close ties to the other royal houses of Europe.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $67.39
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Marie Tanner
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 321.14
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Publication Date: 1993-06-23
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: From antiquity to the Renaissance, rulers of Western empires inspired hero worship by proclaiming their divine origins. This book focuses on the importance of the Roman emperor's mythic image for the development of Western political thought.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.50
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Manufacturer: Cassell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Williamson
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Publisher: Cassell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.0099
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Publication Date: 1997-03
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: A comprehensive guide to over 1000 years of monarchy in the British Isles, this book offers insights into the history and development of the royal dynasties. It explores the lives of kings, queens, princes, princesses and royal pretenders of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.;Blending history and narrative with anecdote, the book looks at royal scandals old and new, and at the mythology which surrounds royalty. It also examines the attendant paraphernalia of royalty - its palaces, ceremonies, customs and rites. It provides coverage of key events such as the Abdication crisis, the Bedchamber crisis, the Wars of the Roses, and royal ceremonies and mythology such as Maundy money, cramp rings, King's Evil and Trooping the Colour. Appendices give genealogical tables and chronological lists of contemporary European sovereigns.
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Price: $49.99
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Sale: $11.49
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Manufacturer: Ediciones Paidos Iberica
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bartolome Bennassar
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Publisher: Ediciones Paidos Iberica
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Edition: Tra
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.2092
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Como era ser reina en la Europa de ayer, desde el Renacimiento al Siglo de las Luces? Celebraciones suntuosas, como las bodas de Viena en 1515, el intercambio famoso de las princesas en el Bidasoa en 1615 entre Ana de Austria e Isabel de Borbon, las fiestas de Amiens cuando Enriqueta de Francia fue a casarse con Carles I de InglaterraFestividades, trajes de gala, cacerias reales, operasSin duda. Pero ser princesa tambien equivale a ser peon en el gran tablero de la politica europea. Son moneda de cambio: propuestas, prometidas, negociadas, enviadas a tierras extranas, arrebatadas apenas nubiles a su infancia para satisfacer las exigencias de las dinastias; son sometidas al acoso procreador de un marido que a menudo es un primo hermano o un tio para abastecer a la dinastia de hijos e hijas casaderos, con demasiada frecuencia sin exito. La mitad de entre ellas muere antes de los 30 anos. En suma, una triste sucesion de vidas tragicas, donde la unica posibilidad de libertad es enviudar. La viudedad es un segundo nacimiento, la oportunidad de mujeres sojuzgadas de alcanzar el poder. Es el momento en que demuestran su verdadero talento.
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Virgin Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Martyn Gregory
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Publisher: Virgin Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.085092
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Publication Date: 2007-11-27
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: The definitive account of what really happened, updated to include a new chapter on operation Paget, the report into the “allegation of conspiracy to murder” Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed.
In the early hours of August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed set out from the Ritz Hotel in Paris for an apartment on the rue Arsène-Houssaye. They never made it.
Martyn Gregory pieces together the evidence—from the exhaustive Operation Paget to the French investigation—and, with exclusive access to Diana’s bodyguards and some of her closest confidants, paints a compelling, accurate and unbiased picture of Diana’s final hours.
Was Diana pregnant with Dodi’s child, and were they engaged to be married? Why did the ambulance take so long to get to the hospital? What were the roles of the “flash before the crash” and the white Fiat Uno? Were the blood samples taken from the driver switched before testing?
Diana: The Last Days answers all these questions and more in a compelling account of what really happened on that fateful date. |
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Price: $14.98
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Smithmark Pub
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Nigel Cawthorne
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Publisher: Smithmark Pub
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Publication Date: 1994-06
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Reading Level: 192
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