Elizabeth: 10009 books
The Marmalade Murders
A Penny Brannigan Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Marmalade Murders is the ninth book in Elizabeth J. Duncan's award-winning mystery series, celebrated for its small-town charm and picturesque Welsh setting and starring amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan.
The competition is friendly and just a little fierce at the annual Llanelen agricultural...
Boots on the Ground
America's War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
**★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."*
America's war in Vietnam.** In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents. More than forty years...
by Elizabeth Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Can both sisters find happiness, when one marries for love, and the other for money…
Sisters Mary and Cathy Ward couldn’t be more different: Fiercely independent Mary is determined to leave the mean streets of Liverpool, whereas Cathy – quiet and well loved – is happy with the life she has.
But...
Divine Art, Infernal Machine
The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it...
Boots and Saddles
Life With General Custer Before Custer's Last Stand
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Elizabeth Bacon Custer(April 8, 1842 - April 4, 1933) was the wife of General George Armstrong Custer. After his death, she became an outspoken advocate for her husband's legacy through her popular books and lectures. Largely as a result of her endless campaigning on his behalf, Custer's iconic portrayal...
Groundbreakers
How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most sophisticated voter targeting technology ever...
Soldier's Heart
Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army "from the stories of their fathers and from the movies." For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, while her students grew up on Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. Unlike their teacher, however,...
Following Hadrian : A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
One of the greatest--and most enigmatic--Roman emperors Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders established peace throughout the empire patronized the arts and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli the domed wonder of the Pantheon and the eponymous wall that...
Appomattox
Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Winner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy Best Books of...
by Elizabeth Norton
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britain’s most famous king because of it. His pursuit of a male heir for his throne led him to cast aside five consecutive wives and bring about the reformation of the Catholic Church, changing the face of British...
Mothers of Massive Resistance
White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation...
by Elizabeth Chadwick
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Colta e bellissima, ambiziosa e spregiudicata, Eleonora d’Aquitania vive in un’epoca, il XII secolo, in cui le donne sono ridotte al silenzio e all’obbedienza. Ma lei è determinata a ribellarsi a ogni costrizione: partecipa alla seconda Crociata; divorzia dal primo marito – Luigi VII, re...
Disunion!
The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting...
We Mean to Be Counted
White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed
the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded...