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  • The Equality Trap

    by E. Tillyard ...
    Despite the feminist revolution of the past twenty years, most women in America are worse off today than at any time in the recent past. Magazines and television programs profile women bank executives, surgeons, and corporate lawyers, but the vast majority of women still work in relatively low-paying jobs. Women work more hours per week in the house and outside than ever before, and a paying job ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

    King in Waiting

    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad.'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Reality of Brain Injury

    Am I Still Me?

    Series series After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories
    A respected medical professional, family man, and keen athlete, Andrew Tillyard had a full and active life until a vehicle crash changed it all. He sustained a serious head injury and was airlifted to the hospital where he worked, having only just survived. In this book, he recounts the raw, uncompromising struggles he faced to rebuild his life.Drawing from regular blog entries written throughout ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The History of Agathocles (Illustrated Edition)

    Agathocles was King of Sicily, ruling between 304 to 289 B.C. Born to a potter, Agathocles joined the army but was banished for attempting to overthrow the government of Syracuse. He returned in 317 with an army and declared himself tyrant of Syracuse. Agathocles warred with Carthage until 306 B.C. , after which he conquered the better part of Sicily. This edition of The History of Agathocles ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Personal Heresy

    A Controversy

    A repackaged edition of the revered authors set of dueling critical essays with fellow scholar E. M. W. Tillyard in which they debate the role of an authors biography in the critical appraisal of literature.C. S. Lewis-the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The ... Read more

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  • Call Upon the Water

    A Novel

    This “story of passion, possession, and a painful education in love” (Sarah Dunant, author of In the Name of the Family), spanning several decades in 17th-century Great Britain and America, evocatively explores the power of nature versus man and man versus woman by “a lovely writer [who] can take your breath away” (The New York Times Book Review).I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tides of War

    A Novel

    A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011An epic novel about love and war, set in Regency England and Spain during the Peninsular War (1812-15), by the acclaimed historian and bestselling author of AristocratsTides of War opens in England with the recently married, charmingly unconventional Harriet preparing to say goodbye to her husband, James, as he leaves to join the Duke of Wellington's ... Read more

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  • The Elizabethan World Picture

    Edited by E. Tillyard ...
    This illuminating account of ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan Age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Tillyard in the process of its various ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Greek Literature (Unabridged)

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    Unabridged

    2 hours 36 min

    The Greeks were the most intellectual people of the old world. … The study of Greek literature is therefore a proper element in a liberal education. The Greek language, naturally flexible and rich in poetical words, becomes in the hands of the great writers a medium of unequalled force, clearness, and adaptability, able to express as well the highest aspirations of the poet as the subtlest shades ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Call Upon the Water

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    This “story of passion, possession, and a painful education in love” (Sarah Dunant, author of In the Name of the Family), spanning several decades in 17th-century Great Britain and America, evocatively explores the power of nature versus man and man versus woman by “a lovely writer [who] can take your breath away” (The New York Times Book Review).I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Putting Research into Practice

    Building upon presentations given during the conference on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice’, held at University College London in November 2009, the articles collected in this book examine how natural hazards research is accessed and used by practitioners and decision-makers, and conversely, how policy and practice inform research.As with the conference ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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    City of Girls

    A Novel

    Narrated by Blair Brown ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 8 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.**"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD