Ian Crofton
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The Little Book of Big History is an endeavor to encapsulate the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the current day, into an engaging and comprehensive narrative. Combining methods from history, astronomy, physics, and biology to draw together the big story arcs of how the universe was created, why planets formed, and how life developed, the result is a unique perspective of mankind's place in the universe. The Little Book of Big History...
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Scotland has its rugged Hebrides; Ireland its cliff-girt Arans; Wales its Island of Twenty Thousand Saints. And, what has England got? The isles of Canvey, Sheppey, Wight and Dogs, Mersea, Brownsea, Foulness and Rat. But, there are also wilder, rockier places, Lundy, the Scillies, the Farnes.
These islands and their inhabitants not only cast varied lights on the mainland, they also possess their own peculiar stories, from the Barbary slavers who...
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Quercus
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2013
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English
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Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other more interesting stories to tell -- stories that don't usually get into the history books, but which can nevertheless bring the past vividly
and excitingly to life.
Imagine
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This travelogue about one man's journey by foot along the border between Scotland and England blends nature, history, and politics.
In this book, Ian Crofton travels on foot from Gretna Green in the southwest to Berwick in the northeast, following as close as possible the Anglo-Scottish Border as it has been fixed since the union of the crowns in 1603. Much of the line of the Border runs through a wild, overwhelmingly unvisited no man's land-the...
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The Kings & Queens of England offers elegant portraits of 59 English monarchs from Harold II to Henry VIII, and from Athelred the Unready to Elizabeth II. Each sovereign is concisely and memorably profiled and the impact of his or her rule on wider English, and indeed world history, clearly described and analyzed. For every king and queen there is a detailed timeline of key events, and the narrative is further amplified by quotations, feature boxes,...
6) The disappeared: the stories of 35 historical disappearances from the Mary Celeste to Jimmy Hoffa
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Quercus
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2008.
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English
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Quercus
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2010.
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English
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Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact: Fact: The stethoscope owes its invention in 1816 to a young doctor who was too embarrassed to put his ear to a young woman's chest; Fact: In 1954 a Soviet surgeon grafted a puppy's head onto the shoulder of a German shepherd dog; Fact: Since...
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Quercus
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[2009]
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English
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Vividly retold and drawin on many first hand accounts, Great Escapes brings together some of the most gripping and often deeply moving stories of determination and endurance, trickery and courage, triumph and tragedy, drawn from over three millennia of human history.
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Quercus Publishing
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[2009]
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Ian Crofton presents a collection of thoroughly researched and grippingly told tales of treachery, cowardice and cupidity. He includes such characters as Lord Haw-Haw, Charles I, Lady Jane Grey, Tarquin the proud and many more.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2006.
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Completely updated for the twenty-first century, this reference presents definitions and origins of thousands of words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, nicknames, and events from TV, literature, music, comic strips, and computer games.