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Providing a history of England, this book recounts the achievements, personalities and idiocies of the royal family since the arrival of William the Conqueror in 1066. It is intended for tourists or those interested in history.

Raised in a Flemish working-class district by her strict grandmother, two aunts, and three uncles, the author recounts her struggles growing up as a bastard in Belgium during the Great Depression.

'Heartbreak Hospital' is one of the most popular TV soap operas. The character everyone loves to hate is Andrea Harmon, the classic Bitch, played by Sunday Tyler, a ruthless actress. The only person who has seen Sunday's softer side is Bill Troy of the New York Police Department Movie/TV Unit, who is drawn into the case when she is murdered.

In his introduction to this now classic anthology, Karl Beckson traces the development of the Decadent or Aesthetic movement, illuminating the selected work of artists such as Wilde, Yeats, Symons, and Beerbohm that follows.

Exploring from the rise of nationalism in Europe to the fall of Constantinople to Allied forces, this title documents not only battles, advances and retreats, but also the singular individuals who influenced the war's outcome.

Translated into twenty-three languages, Design for the Real World is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design.

A story of a provincial lady who slogs through the mud of a collective farm, copes with Soviet trains and hotels, and rubs shoulders with robust citizens, at a public beach.

In this volume, Edith Nesbit sets out to make 11 of Shakespeare's plays more accessible to young children, without sacrificing the essential elements. Each are no longer than 10 pages and written in modern English to encourange children to discover for themselves the magic of Shakespeare.

In 1941 as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for women to join the Russian air force. Women responded and flew incessant bombing runs; the Germans, who came to dread them, called them 'night witches'.

Features Gothic narratives, stories of the macabre and supernatural tales which demonstrate the author's instinct for weaving terror and suspense into scenes of ordinary everyday life.

In this first U.S. publication of a richly comic classic -- originally published in England in the 1920s -- the pitfalls and vicissitudes of home building are presented in sharp and unforgettable detail, in the form of letters to and from the architect -- a hapless young man named James Spinlove, who, in his valiant attempts to create the Honeywood mansion for Sir Leslie Brash, encounters a motley collection of contractors, surveyors, plumbers and town planners -- to say nothing of intensely litigious lawyers, and Sir Leslie Brash himself, along with his good lady. There are letters from the subsidiary but crucial characters named Nibnose & Rasper, Mr Snitch, V. Potch and Hoochkoft the surveyor of bricks, among others.