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Bleakley Brothers Mystery: What Manor of Murder? by Hill Christopher William
Category: Children's | Series: A Bleakley Brothers Mystery
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
Category: History
This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War 'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ... the finest of guides to the man of the times' Trist ...Show more
Liberty Against the Law - Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies by Christopher Hill
Category: Culture
In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social changes of the period as well as the expressions of liberty, the law and the hero-worship of the outlaw d ...Show more
Marius and the Band of Blood (Tales From Schwartzgarten #4) by Christopher William Hill
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Tales from Schwartzgarten
When Bertold, a young pastry chef, escapes Emete Talbor's reign of terror in Schwartzgarten through the city's sewers, he is flushed out into the surging River Schwartz. Only by clinging to a floating wooden crate does Bertold avoid drowning. Swept many miles down river, Bertold washes ashore below the ...Show more
Marius and the Band of Blood (Tales from Schwartzgarten #4 HB) by Christopher William Hill
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Tales from Schwartzgarten
Meet Marius Myerdorf, the newest recruit of Schwartzgarten's most secret of societies. His is a tale of adventure and abduction, friendship and fearlessness, as The Band of Blood race against time to unmask two of the foulest fiends in the history of the Great City. The deeds are DASTARDLY. The twists a ...Show more
Osbert the Avenger (Tales from Schwartzgarten #1 PB) by Christopher William Hill
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Tales from Schwartzgarten
The first book in the gruesomely funny Tales from Schwartzgarten series. Meet Osbert Brinkhoff, the unlikeliest of avengers. His is a tale of dark delights and ghastly goings-on, of injustice and revenge. The villains are vicious. The settings are sinister. And good does NOT always prevail...If you pref ...Show more
Quantum Physics for Poets by Leon Lederman; Christopher T. Hill
Category: Kindergarten
Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole. But for many, the theory remains an impenetrable enigma. Now, two physicists seek to remedy this situation by both drawing on their scientific expertise ...Show more
Tales from Schwartzgarte: Osbert the Avenger ; bk. 1 by Christopher William Hill
Category: Children's | Series: Schwartzgarten Tales
The first book in the gruesomely funny Tales from Schwartzgarten series. Meet Osbert Brinkhoff, the unlikeliest of avengers. His is a tale of dark delights and ghastly goings-on, of injustice and revenge. The villains are vicious. The settings are sinister. And good does NOT always prevail...If you pref ...Show more
The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries by Christopher Hill
Category: History
The failure of the English Revolution in 1660 provoked a variety of responses among radical clergy, intellectuals and writers, as they struggled to accept and account for their defeat in the light of divine providence. Christopher Hill's close analysis of the writings of the Levellers and Diggers, of Fo ...Show more
The Lily-Livered Prince (Tales From Schwartzgarten #3 PB) by Christopher William Hill
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Tales from Schwartzgarten
Meet Eugene, the most portly of princes, and Kalvitas, the most courageous of chocolate makers. Theirs is a tale of cakes and cowardice, bullies and battles, as they set out to defeat a terrifying tyrant. The characters are CURSED. The deserts are DEADLY. And people are NOT always as they appear...
The Lily-livered Prince (Tales from Schwartzgarten #3 HB) by Christopher William Hill
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Tales from Schwartzgarten
Meet Eugene, the most portly of princes, and Kalvitas, the most courageous of chocolate makers. Theirs is a tale of cakes and cowardice, bullies and battles, as they set out to defeat a terrifying tyrant. The characters are CURSED. The deserts are DEADLY. And people are NOT always as they appear...