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The Women of Windsor: Their Power, Privilege, and Passions
ISBN: 9780060765859 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Who are the women of Windsor? Queen Elizabeth: Born to duty, adored by her parents, she swore as a teenager to serve her country above all else . . . and she has lived up to her promise, even when her crown has been a burden. Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: Hitler was afraid of her, the English people adored her. Her kind, sparkling blue eyes and cheerful manner belied a backbone of steel. Princess Margaret: Beautiful, talented, vivacious, and complex, the Diana of her day. But the promise of her youth was destroyed when she was betrayed by her sister, now the queen, who... Who are the women of Windsor? Queen Elizabeth: Born to duty, adored by her parents, she swore as a teenager to serve her country above all e... |
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55,53 zł |
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Sex with the Queen : 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
ISBN: 9780060846749 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In royal courts bristling with testosterone--swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals--how did repressed regal ladies find happiness?
In royal courts bristling with testosterone--swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals--how did repressed regal ladies find ... |
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75,38 zł |
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Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India
ISBN: 9780195074888 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history. Born on a caravan traveling from Teheran to India, she became the last (eighteenth) wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir and effectively took control of the government as he bowed to the effects of alcohol and opium. Her reign (1611-1627) marked the highpoint of the Mughal empire, in the course of which she made great contributions to the arts, religion, and the nascent trade with Europe. An intriguing, elegantly written account of Nur Jahan's life and times, this book not only revises the legends that portray her...
Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history. Born on a caravan traveling from Teheran to India, she became the last...
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909,64 zł |
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Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation
ISBN: 9780195113839 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of constructing her power in a patriarchal society. This revisionist study examines her struggle for authority through the representation of her female body. Based on a variety of extant historical and literary materials, Frye's interpretation focuses on three representational crises spaced fifteen years apart: the London coronation of 1559, the Kenilworth entertainments of 1575, and the publication of The Faerie Queene in 1590. In ways...
Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of co...
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406,54 zł |
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King David : A Biography
ISBN: 9780195132731 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. Michaelangelo's magnificent sculpture of him is perhaps the single best known work of art in the world, and the story of the humble shepherd who slew Goliath and became king has assumed a powerful mythological status. But was David a real person--and if so what kind of person was he?
Through a close and critical reading of biblical texts, ancient history, and recent archeological discoveries, Steven L. McKenzie concludes that David was indeed... One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. M...
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412,01 zł |
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Peace with Justice : Selected Addresses of Dwight D. Eisenhower
ISBN: 9780231024723 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. |
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474,17 zł |
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Queen Victoria's Secrets
ISBN: 9780231104814 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Drawing upon feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of Queen Victoria in the minds of her subjects. Drawing upon feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of Queen Vict... |
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140,49 zł |
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Elizabeth I : RULER AND LEGEND
ISBN: 9780252071614 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Making history from the moment of her birth, England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was a legend within her own lifetime. The legends that have grown up around Elizabeth are fascinating, but as this book shows, the truth is just as remarkable.
Making history from the moment of her birth, England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was a legend within her own lifetime. The legends that have grown...
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117,20 zł |
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James II
ISBN: 9780300087284 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. James II (1633-1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and his reign, drawing on a wide array of primary sources from France, Italy, and Ireland as well as England. Miller argues that the king had many laudable attributes--he was brave, loyal, honorable, and hard-working, and he was at least as benevolent toward his people as his father had been. Yet...
James II (1633-1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his ...
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95,62 zł |
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Queen Anne
ISBN: 9780300090246 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, was a period of significant progress for the country: Britain became a major military power on land, the union of England and Scotland created a united kingdom of Great Britain, and the economic and political basis for the Golden Age of the eighteenth century was established. However, the queen herself has received little credit for these achievements and has long been pictured as a weak and ineffectual monarch dominated by her advisers. This landmark biography of Queen Anne shatters that image and establishes her as a personality of integrity...
The reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, was a period of significant progress for the country: Britain became a major military power on land,...
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264,37 zł |
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First Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780312168421 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe. With the special skill for which she is acclaimed, Carolly Erickson electrifies the senses as she evokes with total fidelity the brilliant colors of Elizabethan clothing and jewelry, the texture of tapestries, and even the close, perfumed air of castle rooms. Erickson demonstrates her extraordinary ability to discern and bring to life... In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, di... |
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98,66 zł |
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Great Harry
ISBN: 9780312168582 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs. In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extravagant life and times of one of history's most complex and fascinating men. Based on voluminous records of the period, the story of Henry's life covers his troubled youth, his triumphant early reign, and his agonizing old age. Against the lively backdrop of the Tudor world, with all its splendors and squalors, Carolly Erickson gives us an unforgettable and human portrait of... St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs. In this full-scale popular biog... |
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110,38 zł |
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Victoria's Daughters
ISBN: 9780312244965 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time... Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would face the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by ninetheenth-century women of far less exalted class. Researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects-- in London, Scotland,... Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time... Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were... |
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75,22 zł |
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Alexandra: The Last Tsarina
ISBN: 9780312302382 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of the Soviet Union, acclaimed historian Carolly Erickson's masterful study brings to life the full dimensions of the Empress's singular psychology: her childhood bereavement, her long struggle to marry Nicholas, the anguish of her pathological shyness, and her increasing dependence on a series of occult mentors, the most notorious of whom was... Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But... |
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110,38 zł |
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The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II
ISBN: 9780312305574 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Germany's last kaiser was born in Potsdam on January 27, 1859, the son of Prince Frederick of Prussia and Princess Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest child. William was born with a withered arm---possibly the result of cerebral palsy---and many historians have sought in this a clue to his behavior in later life. He was believed mad by some, eccentric by others. Possessed of a ferocious temper, he was prone to reactionary statements, often contradicted by his next action or utterance. He was rumored to have sired numerous illegitimate children and yet was by all appearances a prig. He was... Germany's last kaiser was born in Potsdam on January 27, 1859, the son of Prince Frederick of Prussia and Princess Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest c... |
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137,72 zł |
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Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown
ISBN: 9780312307127 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1688, the birth of a Prince of Wales ignited a family quarrel-and a revolution. James II's drive towards Catholicism had alienated the nation and his two staunchly Protestant daughters by his first marriage, Mary and Anne, the "ungrateful daughters" who eventually usurped their father's crown and stole their half-brother's birthright. Seven prominent men sent an invitation to William of Orange-James's nephew and son-in-law-to intervene in English affairs. But Mary and Anne also played a key role. Jealous and resentful of her hated stepmother, Anne had written a series of malicious... In 1688, the birth of a Prince of Wales ignited a family quarrel-and a revolution. James II's drive towards Catholicism had alienated the nation an... |
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118,19 zł |
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
ISBN: 9780312320294 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything. Drawn into the horror of the French Revolution, his family was incarcerated and their fate thrust into the hands of the revolutionaries who wished to destroy the monarchy. In 1793, when Marie Antoinette was beheaded at the guillotine, she left her adored eight-year-old son imprisoned in the Temple Tower. Far from inheriting a throne, the orphaned... Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, h... |
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90,85 zł |
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Lilibet: An Intimate Portrait of Elizabeth II
ISBN: 9780312339388 / Angielski / Miękka / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Lilibet, master biographer Carolly Erickson turns her skill at writing un-put-downable narrative to telling the remarkable story of Elizabeth II, Queen of England. With her customary psychological insight, historian Erickson traces the queen's gilded but often thorny path from her overprotected girlhood to her ascension to the throne at twenty-five to her personal and national difficulties as queen. Lilibet shows us an Elizabeth we thought we knew-but shows her in a different light: as a small, shy woman with a sly and at times raucous sense of humor, a woman... In Lilibet, master biographer Carolly Erickson turns her skill at writing un-put-downable narrative to telling the remarkable story of Eliza... |
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110,38 zł |
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Queen Victoria
ISBN: 9780333638071 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dead for little more than one hundred years, Queen Victoria has already been the subject of more biographies than any other woman born since 1800. This newest biography from a well known historian is justified and distinguished by the incorporation of recent research on often-neglected aspects of her life and reign, as well as its relative brevity. Including much of Victoria's own writings from journals and letters, Arnstein takes a thorough look at her personal life and religious views, but also investigates her public role such as her involvement with Britain's army, her political...
Dead for little more than one hundred years, Queen Victoria has already been the subject of more biographies than any other woman born since 1800. Thi...
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174,51 zł |
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The Life of Elizabeth I
ISBN: 9780345425508 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fresh insights on this enigmatic figure. Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, intrigue and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth I and examines the... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely pri... |
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71,36 zł |