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Abraham Lincoln - A Life by Michael Burlingame; Jonathan W. White (Editor)
Category: Biography
Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, a ...Show more
Australian Submarines2nd Edition: a History by Michael White
Category: Military
The book commences with a discussion of the policy issues as to whether Australia needed submarines and then the decision to buy AE1 and AE2. It then goes through their coming to Australia, the tragic loss of AE1 in New Guinea on 14 September 1914 and the bravery and daring of the AE2 crew in penetratin ...Show more
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford; Michael White (Introduction by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the ...Show more
Beautiful Assassin by Michael C. White
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Moynihan, a young journalist, has hit the jackpot. It's 1992 and a chance remark has sent her to a small farm in the middle of nowhere in Colorado. There resides Russia's most notorious sniper-turned-spy, the one-time beautiful assassin, Tat'yana Levchenko, and she's ready to tell her story.Du ...Show more
Borgia Ring by WHITE Michael
Category: Fiction
When builders dig up an ancient skeleton in the City of London, they have no idea of the poisonous legacy they have just unleashed. For on the skeleton's finger is a beautiful emerald ring that once belonged to Lucrezia Borgia, the most powerful - and most evil - woman of the Renaissance. Hours later th ...Show more
C.S. Lewis : the Boy Who Chronicled Narnia - A Biography by Michael White
Category: Biography Memoir
In 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in the UK. The last six US Presidents have all claimed C. S. Lewis to be one of their favourite writers (as have Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair). He was an acc ...Show more
C. S. Lewis, the Boy who Chronicled Narnia: A Biography by Michael White
Category: Biography Memoir
Clive Staples Lewis is one of a rare group of writers with universal appeal. His most popular work, the seven-book Chronicles of Narnia, has sold over a hundred million copies since The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe appeared in 1950. But Lewis was much more than a novelist. He was a brilliant acad ...Show more
Classico E Moderno: Essential Italian Cooking by Michael White
Category: Food and Drink
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "PUBLISHERS WEEKLY" Having won or been nominated for just about every known prestigious culinary award, Michael White is hailed by food critics as the next great hero of Italian gastronomy. His reach extends around the globe with a clutch of acclaimed fine dini ...Show more
Coffee with Isaac Newton by Michael White
Category: Maths Physics Chemistry | Series: Coffee With...Series
Sir Isaac Newton formulated the concept of gravity, devised a radically new theory of light, and created a calculus that revolutionized mathematics. Join him for a mind-expanding tour of the principles of modern science! You'll discover that there was far more to Sir Isaac than his great discoveries. Mi ...Show more
Coffee with Shakespeare by Michael White
Category: Fiction | Series: Coffee with... S.
A chat with William Shakespeare turns into an evocative journey into the personal and professional worlds of the greatest writer in the English language. Over the past four centuries his iconic status as a poet and dramatist has come to represent what it means to be a genius, and his words have given us ...Show more
Darwin : A Life in Science by John Gribbin & Michael White
Category: Biography Memoir
Today Charles Darwin is regarded as one of the most -- if not the most -- influential scientists of all time. Yet in his lifetime his radical new intepretation of evolution based on natural selection earned him as much antagonism as it did accolades. In fact he faced a huge barrage of criticism for his ...Show more