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Motivating for STEM Success
Motivating for STEM Success
Dr. Michael Crowley
¥81.67
Motivating for STEM Success
Beyond Interviews:: Changes in Women’s Lives and Politics (1970-2008)
Beyond Interviews:: Changes in Women’s Lives and Politics (1970-2008)
Eva Travers
¥81.67
Beyond Interviews:: Changes in Women’s Lives and Politics (1970-2008)
De Japanse Bakker: Een Hartendiefjes Verhaal
De Japanse Bakker: Een Hartendiefjes Verhaal
Bjorn Peeters
¥81.67
De Japanse Bakker: Een Hartendiefjes Verhaal
Het pad van De Waterbloesems: Saga Van De Twee Prinsessen 4
Het pad van De Waterbloesems: Saga Van De Twee Prinsessen 4
Bjorn Peeters
¥81.67
Het pad van De Waterbloesems: Saga Van De Twee Prinsessen 4
De legende van Are en Dina: Ictiluni
De legende van Are en Dina: Ictiluni
Bjorn Peeters
¥81.67
De legende van Are en Dina: Ictiluni
Case: PZ35-321-01: Infinitus Memorias verhaal
Case: PZ35-321-01: Infinitus Memorias verhaal
Björn Peeters
¥81.67
Case: PZ35-321-01: Infinitus Memorias verhaal
First French Reader for Beginners Volume 2: Bilingual for Speakers of English
First French Reader for Beginners Volume 2: Bilingual for Speakers of English
Eugene Gotye
¥81.67
First French Reader for Beginners Volume 2: Bilingual for Speakers of English
Drie katjes Op Het Dak
Drie katjes Op Het Dak
Bjorn Peeters
¥81.67
Drie katjes Op Het Dak
De hamer des onschuld: Een Miss Kingsley Roman
De hamer des onschuld: Een Miss Kingsley Roman
Björn Peeters
¥81.67
De hamer des onschuld: Een Miss Kingsley Roman
Op kot met Jentel in het tweede jaar: Op kot 2
Op kot met Jentel in het tweede jaar: Op kot 2
Bjorn Peeters
¥81.67
Op kot met Jentel in het tweede jaar: Op kot 2
The Ides of Matt 2014
The Ides of Matt 2014
M. L. Buchman
¥81.67
The Ides of Matt 2014
The Ides of Matt 2016
The Ides of Matt 2016
M. L. Buchman
¥81.67
The Ides of Matt 2016
The Ides of Matt 2017
The Ides of Matt 2017
M. L. Buchman
¥81.67
The Ides of Matt 2017
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Jane Dunn
¥81.52
This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties. At its core were their rival claims to the throne of England. Distinguished biographer Jane Dunn reveals an extraordinary story of two queens ruling in one isle, both embodying opposing qualities of character, ideals of womaliness and divinely ordained kingship. Theirs is a drama of sex and power, recklessness, ambition and political intrigue, with a rivalry that could only be resolved by death. As regnant queens in an overwhelmingly masculine world they were deplored for their femaleness, compared unfavourably with each other, and courted by the same men. By placing this dynamic and ever-changing relationship at the centre of the book, Dunn throws new light and meaning on the complexity of their natures. She reveals an Elizabeth revolutionary in her insistence on ruling alone and inspired in her use of celibacy as a political tool, yet deeply feeling and more sympathetic than the usual picture of the virgin queen. Mary, too, is not the romantic victim of history but a courageous adventurer with a reckless heart, and a magnetic influence over men and women alike. Vengeful against her enemies and the more ruthless of the two, she was untroubled by plotting Elizabeth’s murder. Elizabeth, however, was in anguish at having to sanction Mary’s death warrant for treason. Jane Dunn brings her skills as a biographer to bear on history’s two most charismatic queens. Working almost exclusively from contemporary letters and writings, she lets them speak to us across more than 400 years, their voices and responses surprisingly familiar to our own, their characters vivid, by turns touching and terrible. The death in 1603 of Elizabeth, our greatest English queen, was to mark the end of the Tudors and the posthumous triumph of Mary, whose son, James I united the English and Scottish thrones under a Stuart king.
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (Text Only)
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (Text Only)
James Davidson
¥81.52
James Davidson lectures in ancient history and the classical languages at the University of Warwick. He was previously a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Transform Your Life: 10 Steps to Real Results
Transform Your Life: 10 Steps to Real Results
Carole Gaskell
¥81.52
Carole Gaskell is a full-time lifecoach and Managing Director of one of the UK’s leading professional coaching businesses, The Lifecoaching Company.TLC was founded in 1998 with the mission of inspiring and empowering people and buinesses to reach theri full potential. Carole and all her coaches trained with the world’s leading coaching orgainisation, Coach University in the USA. She is one of only six British people to have graduated from Coachu. “A creative communicator with a great interest in people, I have a focussed, results-orinetated approach. I believe in getting to the core of a person, or business issue, whilst maintaining purpose and truth.” (Carole Gaskell)
Grumpy Old Men: New Year, Same Old Crap
Grumpy Old Men: New Year, Same Old Crap
David Quantick
¥81.52
At last! A comprehensive, handy guide for the misery-guts in your life. Are you an irritable, crabby, cantankerous, malcontented old grump? Well relax, because you're not alone. Grumpy Old Men is an annotated, cross-referenced and fully illustrated manual for malcontents everywhere: the comprehensive Gripes of Wrath. A compilation of gripes and grumbles, illustrated with blood-boiling images such as derailed trains and traffic wardens throughout. The next time you find yourself enraged by pointless speed bumps, overcrowded trains, ill-mannered drivers, irritating adverts, inefficient customer help-lines, overbooked airlines, inconsiderate cyclists, slow-moving caravans, extortionate bank charges, persistent charity collectors, mindless hotel muzak, unfunny clowns or just plain miserable British weather, let this book take the strain. The ultimate in stress-relief for the 21st-Century Grouch.
The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life
The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life
Ffion Hague
¥81.52
‘Men’s lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially – as lawyer and politician. Woman’s function is to pour oil on the wounds – to heal the bruises of spirit…and to stimulate to renewed exertion.’ Lloyd George was a man who loved women and the tale of his intertwined relationships contains many mysteries and a few unsolved intrigues. He was involved in a divorce case, fought two libel cases over his private life, and had persuaded the prettiest girl in Criccieth to be his wife. Lloyd George’s life was indeed a ‘perpetual conflict’. He was a habitual womaniser and despite his early, enduring attachement to Margaret Owen, marriage did not curb his behaviour. There were many private scandals in a life devoted to public duty. Ffion Hague illuminates his complex attitude to women. Her own interest stems from the many parallels in her own life.
Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin
Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin
Richard Holmes,William Godwin
¥81.52
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD This unique series – edited by Richard Holmes – recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece – still thrilling to read and vividly alive. The philosopher William Godwin fell in love with and married the radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, only to attend her deathbed (giving birth to their child, the late Mary Shelley). Heartbroken, Godwin immediately shut himself up in his study and wrote this intensely moving biography. True to his philosophical belief in absolute sincerity, Godwin coolly describes Wollstonecraft’s previous love affairs, her time in revolutionary Paris, her illegitimate child, and her two suicide attempts. The book almost wrecked both their reputations, but can now be seen as a masterpiece of indiscretion and human honesty.
The Ocean Railway
The Ocean Railway
Stephen Fox
¥81.52
An epic social history of steamship travel from the 19th-century to the ‘Lusitania’, the ‘Mauretania’ and the ‘Titanic’. The great transatlantic steamships became emblems of an age, of a Victorian audacity of spirit-cathedrals to man's harnessing of new technology. Through the innovations and designs of key engineers and shipping magnates – Samuel Cunard, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Edward Knights Collins – ‘the largest movable objects in human history' were created. To the wealthy, steamships represented glamorous travel, but to most they offered cheap passage out of Europe to the New World. At their peak, steamships delivered one million new Americans each year, transforming the world’s oceans from barriers into highways. In this fascinating history, Stephen Fox chronicles the tragedies that marked the evolution of the ocean liner, including the 1852 sinking of the ‘Arctic’, with the loss of three hundred and twenty-two lives, and the early 20th-century losses of the ‘Lusitania’ and the ‘Titanic’. Using contemporary records, diaries and writing, he penetrates the experience of transatlantic passage and examines the societies created on the vast floating cities, ‘a kind of third human environment, neither land nor sea but partaking of each, and bridging them in unprecedented ways’.
Death or Victory: The Battle for Quebec and the Birth of Empire
Death or Victory: The Battle for Quebec and the Birth of Empire
Dan Snow
¥81.52
An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of General James Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain’s empire in North America. Military history at its best. Perched on top of a tall promontory, surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St Lawrence River, Quebec – in 1759 France’s capital city in Canada – forms an almost impregnable natural fortress. That year, with the Seven Years’ War raging around the globe, a force of 49 ships and nearly 9,000 men commanded by the irascible General James Wolfe, navigated the river, scaled the cliffs and laid siege to the town in an audacious attempt to expel the French from North America forever. In this magisterial first solus book, tying into the 250th anniversary of the battle, Dan Snow tells the story of this famous campaign which was to have far-reaching consequences for Britain’s rise to global hegemony, and the world at large. Snow brilliantly sets the battle within its global context and tells a gripping tale of brutal war quite unlike any fought in Europe, where terrain, weather and native Canadian tribes were as fearsome as any enemy. ‘I never served so disagreeable a campaign as this,’ grumbled one British commander, ‘it is war of the worst shape.’ 1759 was, without question, a year in which the decisions of men changed the world forever. Based on original research and told from all perspectives, this is history – military, political, human – on an epic scale.