The story of how Robert Bruce outwitted Edward I, the shrewd and ruthless King of England, defeated his son Edward II, and in doing so regained Scotland's independence. Professo...
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Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London
Michael Cooper · ISBN 9780750929608
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti nidottu
Robert Hooke was one of the most gifted men of his age, but it was his great misfortune to work in the sphere of two remarkable men - Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren. While th...
The Lost Ships of Robert Ballard
Robert D. Ballard; Rick Archbold · ISBN 9780750946872
Julkaistu 2006 sidottu
In the first decades of the twentieth century, luxurious liners and warships ruled the waves. Many of these fabled ships - Titanic, Britannic, Bismarck and others - shared a com...
Much is known about Robert the Bruce's military campaigns for Scottish Independence in Scotland and England, but what about his expeditions to Ireland? In the early summer of 13...
Much is known about Robert the Bruce's military campaigns for Scottish Independence in Scotland and England but what about his expeditions to Ireland? In the early summer of 131...
Robert the Bruce's Forgotten Victory
Graham Bell · ISBN 9780752433233
Julkaistu 2005 Kieli englanti nidottu
Waged on 14 October 1322, the battle of Byland (an area north-east of Thirsk) was fought between the two monarchs, Edward II and Robert the Bruce, and their forces. The Scots' m...
Robert the Bruce: pocket GIANTS
Fiona Watson · ISBN 9780752493558
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti nidottu
From disastrous beginnings after he took the throne of Scotland, having murdered a powerful rival, Robert I became a military leader of consummate genius. Throwing away the rule...
Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision
Kyle Mills; Robert Ludlum · ISBN 9780752883809
Julkaistu 2012 Kieli englanti pokkari
The brand new Covert-One thriller from a master storyteller and global bestseller.
This enchanting collection of more than 80 poems captures the essence of the natural world, as seen through the eyes of Scotland's beloved bard. Each chapter explores a differen...
Life of one of the greatest British Prime Ministers - by an author who knows the scene from his years as a senior Minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.Robert Peel, as much as...
Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780754604716
Julkaistu 2005 Kieli englanti sidottu
This is the first English translation of Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana, a Latin prose chronicle describing the First Crusade. In addition to providing new and uniqu...
While Robert Greene was the most prolific and perhaps the most notorious professional writer in Elizabethan England, he continues to be best known for his 1592 quip comparing Sh...
Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780754630463
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti sidottu
Lynda Pratt's collection of specially commissioned essays is the first edited volume devoted to the multiple connections between Robert Southey (1774-1843) and English Romantic...
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination
Ann C. Colley · ISBN 9780754635062
Julkaistu 2004 Kieli englanti sidottu
In her distinguished and hauntingly rendered book, Ann C. Colley provides a fresh insight into Stevenson's multi-voiced South Seas fiction, as well as into the particulars and c...
Robert Stephenson – The Eminent Engineer
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780754636793
Julkaistu 2003 Kieli englanti sidottu
Robert Stephenson, the leading engineer of the mid-nineteenth century whose substantial public works brought about considerable social change is now the subject of this excellen...
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries a...
Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585)
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780754656616
Julkaistu 2007 Kieli englanti sidottu
When Planetomachia was published in 1585, Greene himself-always the best advertiser of his own books-promised his readers a perfectly balanced diet of edification and entertainm...
Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community
Simon J. White · ISBN 9780754657538
Julkaistu 2007 Kieli englanti sidottu
Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteent...
Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780754658627
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti nidottu
This is the first English translation of Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana, a Latin prose chronicle describing the First Crusade. In addition to providing new and uniqu...
Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific
Roslyn Jolly · ISBN 9780754661955
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
Robert Louis Stevenson's departure from Europe in 1887 coincided with a vocational crisis prompted by his father's death. Impatient with his established identity as a writer, St...