Authors
- Drew Calderhead
- Peter Hillis
RRP: £17.62
Price: £17.62
Review Auld Reekie and the Dear Green Place: Contrasting Lifestyles in Victorian Edinburgh and Glasgow / University of Strathclyde:
Creator: Christopher Lee
Publication date: 2002-03-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £29.61
Review This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties: Britain's Most Powerful Families Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties is Christopher Lee's third book on British history taken from BBC Radio 4 series. The first was a bracing gallop through the centuries from the Roman invasion to the death of Victoria, the second a more leisurely chronicle of the country in the 20th century. Both were solidly traditional in their commitment to narrative and to the decisive impact of great men (and, occasionally, great women) on events. This third book on the country's most powerful families necessarily makes even clearer Lee's belief that the story of the nation is to be found in the actions of great individuals. From the Godwines of late Anglo-Saxon England through the Mortimers of medieval warfare and the Cecils of Tudor politicking to the Churchills and Russells of more modern times, he traces the stories of 15 power-broking families in a series of self-contained chapters. The book has its faults. Because many of the families coincided in the times of their greatness, the reader gets some of the same stories (from the Glorious Revolution, for example) told again and again beyond the point where repetition seems valuable. There are too many paragraphs outlining aristocratic genealogy in the sort of detail that only those who read Burke's Peerage for pleasure will find enjoyable. But Lee's narrative skill, his sense of character and gift for choosing the stories to best illustrate it, all combine to produce a book that conveys vividly, and often brilliantly, the power that a handful of families have wielded in British history. -Nick Rennison.
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2006-02-08
Dewey code: 823.809352
RRP: £6.51
Price: £5.46
Review Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Victorian Novel (Victorian Critical Interventions) / Ohio State University Press:
Creator: Phil Gigante
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-05
Dewey code: 956.70443
RRP: £31.01
Price: £13.72
Review American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam (War Stories (Brilliance Audio)) / Brilliance Audio:
Creator: David Case
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-02-01
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £40.49
Price: £33.55
Review The Voyage of the Beagle (Unabridged Classics in Audio) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Authors
- Diana Preston
- Michael Preston
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2007-04
Dewey code: 954.0257
RRP: £23.66
Price: £37.50
Review Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2004-03-26
RRP: £8.99
Price: £8.99
Review Prentice Hall Jazz Collection / Prentice Hall:
Creator: Roy Sprague
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 200
RRP: £6.69
Price: £11.02
Review From Vision to Venture to Victory: Great Is Thy Faithfulness: The History and Ministry of Northwest Independent Church Extension / Winepress Publishing:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-04
Dewey code: 305.244
RRP: £15.79
Price: £3.36
Review The Red Hat Society: Fun and Friendship After Fifty / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £545.91
Price: £579.49
Review World Military History Annotated Bibliography on CD-Rom: Network Version (1-5 Users): Premodern and Nonwestern Military Institutions (works Published Before ... Before 1967): Network Version (1-5 Users) / Brill:
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2003-09-03
Dewey code: 791.43
RRP: £19.99
Price: £18.99
Review African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century / University of Illinois Press:
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Library ed
Publication date: 2008-11-04
Dewey code: 941.0620922
RRP: £30.49
Price: £24.61
Review Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 2003-06-01
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.24
Review "Beatles" Tapes IV: Hong Kong 1964 (Beatles Tapes): Hong Kong 1964 (Beatles) / Soundworks,U.S.:
Creator: Iqbal Aslam
Publication date: 2007-03
RRP: £29.95
Price: £29.95
Review Battle of Hastings: Teaching and Learning Topic / Questions Publishing Co Ltd:
Creator: Richard Allen
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-06-02
Dewey code: 973.711
RRP: £20.49
Price: £15.88
Review The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £26.51
Price: £43.95
Review Art and Life in Africa / Kendall Hunt Pub Co:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 1998-03-01
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £76.99
Price: £81.84
Review Compact Disc; Vol II for use with The Development Of Western Music: v. 2 / McGraw-Hill Higher Education:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-02-28
RRP: £10.26
Price: £7.71
Review Presidents & U.S. Government with Book(s) and Cassette(s) (Rock 'n Learn) / Rock 'n Learn:
Creator: Robert Hartman
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publication date: 1996-02
Dewey code: 787
Price: £19.60
Review The Larsons Creations: Guitars and Mandolins / Centerstream Publications:
Creator: Benjamin Zephaniah
Publication date: 2002-10-30
RRP: £12.95
Price: £8.54
Review Lord Byron and the Greek War / Pathfinder Audio:
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Auld Reekie and the Dear Green Place: Contrasting Lifestyles in Victorian Edinburgh and Glasgow, This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties: Britain's Most Powerful Families Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection), Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Victorian Novel (Victorian Critical Interventions), American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam (War Stories (Brilliance Audio)), The Voyage of the Beagle (Unabridged Classics in Audio), Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire, Prentice Hall Jazz Collection, From Vision to Venture to Victory: Great Is Thy Faithfulness: The History and Ministry of Northwest Independent Church Extension, The Red Hat Society: Fun and Friendship After Fifty, World Military History Annotated Bibliography on CD-Rom: Network Version (1-5 Users): Premodern and Nonwestern Military Institutions (works Published Before ... Before 1967): Network Version (1-5 Users), African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century, Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War, "Beatles" Tapes IV: Hong Kong 1964 (Beatles Tapes): Hong Kong 1964 (Beatles), Battle of Hastings: Teaching and Learning Topic, The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves, Art and Life in Africa, Compact Disc; Vol II for use with The Development Of Western Music: v. 2, Presidents & U.S. Government with Book(s) and Cassette(s) (Rock 'n Learn), The Larsons Creations: Guitars and Mandolins, Lord Byron and the Greek War |
