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The Americans: With Atlas by Rand McNally
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The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century
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C.S. Lewis: A Biography
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The Chronicles of Narnia made C.S. Lewis one of the most successful and best loved writers of the twentieth century. He also won an enormous following through his religious books - "Mere Christianity", "The Screwtape Letters", "Surprised by Joy" - books which are still sold in their thousands today. His works of scholarship - above all his ...
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Winnie and Wolf
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"Winnie and Wolf" is the story of the extraordinary relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1923-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth. Winifred, an English girl, brought up in an orphanage in East Grinstead, married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germany ...
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After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
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A. N. Wilson's follow-up to THE VICTORIANS, his critically well-received popular history of Britain's rise to world power, tells the sequel to the story: the long decline of Great Britain in the 20th century. Wilson provides both a political and a cultural history, showing Great Britain as a central player in all the major world events, including ...
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Lonely Planet Scotland
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Neil Wilson, Alan Murphy
Here is Scotland from the summer Highland games to Hogmanay in Edinburgh, try munro bagging and the Malt Whisky Trail or see the peaks, glens and lochs from the Highlands to the Hebrides. Also shows where to stay with little to pay in one of the friendliest countries in Europe.
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Jesus: A Life
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In a book that is as daring and unconventional as it is scholarly, the celebrated biographer of Tolstoy and C.S. Lewis searches for the elusive historical reality in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Wilson enables readers of every shade of faith or skepticism to discover the man who became the central figure in Western civilization and whose ...
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God's Funeral: The Decline of Faith in Western Civilization
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By the end of the 19th century, almost all the great writers and artists, and intellectuals had abanied Christianity, and many abandoned belief in God altogether. This was partly the result of scientific discovery, particularly the work of Charles Darwin in "The Origin of Species". But as Wilson demonstrates in such diverse lives as those of ...
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The Victorians
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A.N. Wilson does for the Victorians what Peter Ackroyd did for London. People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in this superb portrait of the Victorians in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story. In an entertaining and often dramatic narrative, A.N. Wilson shows us ...
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Hilaire Belloc
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Belloc sought fame, and it came to him early: after a stormy Oxford career, he quickly made a reputation with his novels, essays, and poems, his flamboyant way of life, and his radical politics. With full access to the Belloc archives, the author explores Belloc's private and public life.
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The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry, and the Politics of White Supremacy
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"[Exposes] the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan consciousness ... [and contends] that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and ...
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Casino Gambler's Guide
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Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her
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A.N. Wilson had John Bayley as his tutor at Oxford, which is where he met Iris Murdoch. He remained a close friend of them both throughout her life and it was at Iris's pleading in 1988 that he agreed to write her biography. Bound to be controversial, Wilson pulls no punches in his view of the recent cinematic portrayal of Iris as a victim of ...
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A bottle in the smoke
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Julian embarks on a career as an aspiring actor and sometime novelist, supporting himself as a bartender in a seedy pub frequented by other bohemians in London of the 1950s. Through an old school friend, Julian meets Anne and they fall in love. However, things do not go smoothly.
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Betjeman: A Life
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Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of poet John Betjeman's birth, this biography is the first to use fully the vast archive of personal material relating to his private life, including literally hundreds of letters written by his wife about their life together and apart.
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Biodiversity
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This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. Based on a major conference sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian ...
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Paul: The Mind of the Apostle
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Drawing upon his comprehensive command of the scholarly and theological literature, including the many explications of Pauline teachings, the author has written the first substantive book for a general audience to present a coherent narrative of Paul's life, and his role in the formation of what we have come to know as Christianity.
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The developmental psychology of the black child.
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Amos N. Wilson
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My Name Is Legion
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'So it was that within minutes of Father Vivyan's soul leaving his body and soaring God alone knows where...the silence of that religious house was broken...Had Father Vivyan been killed by his own pride and fanaticism; by his belief that he could 'save' a dangerous and mentally unstable boy? Had he been killed by his own fanatical posture, his ...
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London: A History
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In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a ...
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London: A Short History
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The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the Peasants Revolt, Dick Whittington and the great Livery Companies. In Tudor and Stuart London many believed the city was being wrecked by over-population, over-building and the greed of speculators. ...
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Watch in the Night
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The fifth and final volume in Wilson's roman fleuve, "The Lampitt Papers." Julian Ramsay finally discovers the truth about his long-standing nemesis, Raphael Hunter, and his accusations about James Lampitt's homosexuality and promiscuity. Lampitt was an Edwardian author and the subject of Hunter's literary biography that anticipated Ramsay's plan ...
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Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence: Its Remediation and Prevention
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Eminent Victorians
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Brilliantly written and deeply felt, these brief biographies reveal the works and the spirit of the Victorian age in an entirely new light. Wilson's most recent works of nonfiction, Tolstoy and C.S. Lewis, are to be published in early 1990. 16 pages of full-color and 80 black-and-white photographs.
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After the Victorians
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When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? This is one of the questions which A. N. ...
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