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Poetry (Paperback): Thomas Oldham Poetry (Paperback)
Thomas Oldham
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Elephantiasis Graecorum, or True Leprosy. Goulstonian Lects., Revised and Enlarged (Paperback): Robert Liveing Elephantiasis Graecorum, or True Leprosy. Goulstonian Lects., Revised and Enlarged (Paperback)
Robert Liveing
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Poetical Works of William Falconer (Paperback): William Falconer The Poetical Works of William Falconer (Paperback)
William Falconer
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Family Tree (Paperback): Albany De Grenier Fonblanque A Family Tree (Paperback)
Albany De Grenier Fonblanque
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Memoir of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth - With Selections from His Correspondence (Paperback): George... A Memoir of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth - With Selections from His Correspondence (Paperback)
George Warburton
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Reply to Lectures on the Nature, Subjects, and Mode of Christian Baptism by John T. Pressly, Part 4 (Paperback): Samuel Williams Reply to Lectures on the Nature, Subjects, and Mode of Christian Baptism by John T. Pressly, Part 4 (Paperback)
Samuel Williams
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
On the Preparation and Medicinal Employment of Aconitine, by the Endermic Method (Paperback): Alexander Turnbull On the Preparation and Medicinal Employment of Aconitine, by the Endermic Method (Paperback)
Alexander Turnbull
R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Life of William Henry Harrison (Of Ohio, ) the People's Candidate for the Presidency (Paperback): Isaac Rand Jackson The Life of William Henry Harrison (Of Ohio, ) the People's Candidate for the Presidency (Paperback)
Isaac Rand Jackson
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
In Memoriam (Paperback): Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson In Memoriam (Paperback)
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Among the Isles of Shoals (Paperback): Celia Thaxter Among the Isles of Shoals (Paperback)
Celia Thaxter
R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Description of the Priory of Chilton-Super-Polden, and Its Contents (Paperback): William Stradling A Description of the Priory of Chilton-Super-Polden, and Its Contents (Paperback)
William Stradling
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Four Lectures on Subjects Connected With Diplomacy (Paperback): Mountague Bernard Four Lectures on Subjects Connected With Diplomacy (Paperback)
Mountague Bernard
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Enchanted Plants, Fables in Verse (Paperback): Maria Henrietta Montolieu The Enchanted Plants, Fables in Verse (Paperback)
Maria Henrietta Montolieu
R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
In-Door Plants, and How to Grow Them (Paperback): E. A. Maling In-Door Plants, and How to Grow Them (Paperback)
E. A. Maling
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hebrew Tales (Paperback): Hyman Hurwitz Hebrew Tales (Paperback)
Hyman Hurwitz
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Patchwork (Paperback): Basil Hall Patchwork (Paperback)
Basil Hall
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Treatise on the Improvement of the Navigation of Rivers (Paperback): William Alexander Brooks Treatise on the Improvement of the Navigation of Rivers (Paperback)
William Alexander Brooks
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Church, in a Series of Discourses (Paperback): Sylvester Judd The Church, in a Series of Discourses (Paperback)
Sylvester Judd
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
America in Literature (Paperback): George Edward Woodberry America in Literature (Paperback)
George Edward Woodberry
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Lecture on the Pursuit of Useful Knowledge (Paperback): John Downes Owens A Lecture on the Pursuit of Useful Knowledge (Paperback)
John Downes Owens
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Address Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Hartford, on the 9Th of November, 1835 - the Close of the Second... An Address Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Hartford, on the 9Th of November, 1835 - the Close of the Second Century, from the First Settlement of the City (Paperback)
Joel Hawes
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History of Medicine from the Earliest Ages to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, Part 916 (Paperback): Robley Dunglison History of Medicine from the Earliest Ages to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, Part 916 (Paperback)
Robley Dunglison
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mr Bridgman's Accomplice (Paperback): John Dann Mr Bridgman's Accomplice (Paperback)
John Dann
R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Growing up in Sussex during the turbulent 17th century, John became involved in the illegal 'owling' trade, where he learnt his seamanship. Whilst carousing in a Rye inn he was unexpectedly pressed into the Royal Navy. In 1694, disgruntled with the ill-fated Spanish Expedition, he joined 'Long Ben' Every's mutiny setting sail as his coxswain to the Indian Ocean in the Fancy, a ship of 46 guns,...'and bound to seek our fortunes' as they declared. It made Henry Every the richest pirate in the world, and was said, the most profitable raid in history. A popular ballad of the time proclaimed: "Here's to gentlemen at sea tonight, and a toast to all free men And when the devil comes to take us home, he'll drink With old Long Ben!" After the hue and cry, the slippery Every changed his name and disappeared. On returning to England John was caught and lost his fortune. Escaping the hangman, he emerges later as a respectable partner to John Coggs a London goldsmith banker, trading from the sign of the Kings Head in the Strand. Unfortunately he became disastrously embroiled in a massive bankruptcy fraud that shook the city.

A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth - 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters (Paperback): Henry Gee A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth - 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters (Paperback)
Henry Gee
R285 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022 'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading this book? - Everybody!' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea. From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you've never seen it before. Life teems through Henry Gee's words - colossal supercontinents drift, collide, and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from 'gregarious' bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly evolved) grasp. Those long extinct, almost alien early life forms are resurrected in evocative detail. Life's evolutionary steps - from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight - are conveyed with an alluring, up-close intimacy.

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen - Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (Paperback): Linda Colley The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen - Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
Linda Colley
R516 R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world. She brings to the fore neglected sites, such as Corsica, with its pioneering constitution of 1755, and tiny Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, the first place on the globe permanently to enfranchise women. She highlights the role of unexpected players, such as Catherine the Great of Russia, who was experimenting with constitutional techniques with her enlightened Nakaz decades before the Founding Fathers framed the American constitution. Written constitutions are usually examined in relation to individual states, but Colley focuses on how they crossed boundaries, spreading into six continents by 1918 and aiding the rise of empires as well as nations. She also illumines their place not simply in law and politics but also in wider cultural histories, and their intimate connections with print, literary creativity, and the rise of the novel. Colley shows how-while advancing epic revolutions and enfranchising white males-constitutions frequently served over the long nineteenth century to marginalize indigenous people, exclude women and people of color, and expropriate land. Simultaneously, though, she investigates how these devices were adapted by peoples and activists outside the West seeking to resist European and American power. She describes how Tunisia generated the first modern Islamic constitution in 1861, quickly suppressed, but an influence still on the Arab Spring; how Africanus Horton of Sierra Leone-inspired by the American Civil War-devised plans for self-governing nations in West Africa; and how Japan's Meiji constitution of 1889 came to compete with Western constitutionalism as a model for Indian, Chinese, and Ottoman nationalists and reformers. Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen is an absorbing work that-with its pageant of formative wars, powerful leaders, visionary lawmakers and committed rebels-retells the story of constitutional government and the evolution of ideas of what it means to be modern.

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