Gardiner: 219 books

**Author's note: Dear readers: this is a reissue of my memoir "Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to Kill Me". I have always wanted to offer the digital version of this book at an affordable rate and have finally gotten the rights back to my book to do...

5 works of Samuel Rawson Gardiner English historian (1829-1902) This ebook presents a collection of 5 works of Samuel Rawson Gardiner. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: A Student's History of England – Volume I A Student's...

In this account of the naval aspect of Hernando Corts's invasion of the Aztec Empire, C. Harvey Gardiner has added another dimension to the drama of Spanish conquest of the New World and to Corts himself as a military strategist. The use of ships, in the climactic moment of the Spanish-Aztec clash, which...

In February 2010, with the help of a friend who works as a photographer with a National Geographic–sponsored cruise line, Justin Gardiner boarded a ship bound for Antarctica. A stowaway of sorts, Gardiner used his experiences on this voyage as the narrative backdrop for Beneath the Shadow, a compelling...

John Eliot Gardiner groeide letterlijk op onder een van de twee schilderijen die er van Johann Sebastian Bach bekend zijn: het hing in zijn ouderlijk huis. Geen wonder dat juist die componist hem is blijven fascineren. Gardiner heeft als dirigent talloze malen werken van Bach uitgevoerd, en hij wordt...

A sparkling, witty and compelling novel based on the tragic rise and fall of the beautiful seventeenth century swordswoman and opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny (also known as La Maupin), a woman whose story is too remarkable to be true - and yet it is. Versailles, 1686: Julie d'Aubigny, a striking...

Samuel Rawson Gardiner was a prominent historian who specialized in 17th-century English history.  Some of Gardiner’s best known books are on historical figures such as Oliver Cromwell, and events such as The Puritan revolution and the English Civil War.  This edition of The Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648 includes a table of contents.

This biography of a distinguished historian and man of letters is the first study of William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) to be written by a historian who has worked with the very themes explored by Prescott. And it is the first to treat him not only as creative historian but also as family man, as...

In this volume, Stephen M. Gardiner and David A. Weisbach present arguments for and against the relevance of ethics to global climate policy. Gardiner argues that climate change is fundamentally an ethical issue, since it is an early instance of a distinctive challenge to ethical action (the perfect...

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. CHAPTER II. THE BOHEMIAN REVOLUTION. CHAPTER III. IMPERIALIST VICTORIES IN BOHEMIA AND THE PALATINATE ... CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH OF...

It’s time to get your royal on with the first three books in the It’s Reigning Men series from bestselling author Jenny Gardiner, available together for the very first time! SOMETHING IN THE HEIR Sometimes a girl’s gotta sweep a prince off his feet… He’s a prince with...

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Life Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to...

England in America 1580 to 1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler, educator and historian (1853-1935) This ebook presents «England in America 1580 to 1652», from Lyon Gardiner Tyler. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK...

Is there life after death? Is there a world outside our own? Mankind has wrestled with these profound questions for as long as there has been consciouness. Gateways to the Otherworld reveals that ancient man already knew the answers. Acclaimed author Philip Gardiner proves that our ancestors...