Stuart: 2807 books

Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn't know either,...

Sometimes revenge is the deadliest game of all. A derelict farmhouse in the Essex countryside. A deranged family. Innocent victims picked at random. If you're chosen, Turn The Other Way. Simon Bairstow is a top London surgeon. He's performed dozens of life-saving operations. But something goes horribly...

Francisco Pizarro is possibly one of the best known but least understood figures of world history. In 1530, at the age of fifty-four, he set out on his successful and bloody conquest of Peru, thus changing the future of a continent and its peoples forever. It was a long way from his humble beginnings...

Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1837 edition by Charles Tilt, London. This is an illustrated edition. James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's monumental Antiquities of Athens was the first accurate survey of ancient Greek architecture ever completed. Based on precise...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young Pretender's father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian opponents at Prestonpans and...

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Stuart Campbell, social reformer and pioneer in the field of home economics (1839-1918) This ebook presents «Anne Bradstreet and Her Time», from Helen Stuart Campbell. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table...

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll is a biography written by Carroll's nephew and published only 11 months after his death in December 1898. It accidentally started the entire image of Lewis Carroll as a pedophile by deliberately suppressing all the evidence for his sometimes unconventional relationships...

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Through...

One of the most celebrated moments in Scottish history, the Jacobite Rising of 1745 is often romanticized. Drawing on the work of historians and a wide range of contemporary sources, Culloden expert Stuart Reid strips away the myths surrounding the events of the campaign, revealing some of the lesser...

The pioneering and still essential text on semantics, urging readers to improve human communication and understanding with precise, concrete language. In 1938, Stuart Chase revolutionized the study of semantics with his classic text, The Tyranny of Words. Decades later, this eminently useful...

John Stuart Mill’s masterwork: A meditation on the relationship between the individual and society One of the foremost thinkers of his age, John Stuart Mill was a steadfast advocate of individual freedom. This groundbreaking work explores the relationship between freedom and authority, between...

A System Of Logic - Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill, english philosopher, political economist and civil servant (1806-1873) This ebook presents «A System Of Logic - Ratiocinative And Inductive», from John Stuart Mill. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly...

This book brings three timeless classics of Western philosophy which represent the very core of John Stuart Mill's thought. All Mill's major ides, such were his conception of liberty, utilitarianism and call for equality between the sexes, are included in these works. After reading this book you will...