A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel
 Author: Lawrence Peel Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9781432536510 ISBN: 1432536516 Number Of Pages: 324 Publication Date: 2007-06 [... more]
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Pepper Martin: A Baseball Biography
The "Wild Hoss of the Osage" comes to life!: This is an excellent biography of one of baseball's truly remarkable characters. Although names like Dizzy Dean, Frankie Frisch and Leo Durocher are more reknowned, Pepper Martin was the true heart [... more]
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Blood and Gold
From Amazon.com: Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but for the "blood god," the wounds of the heart sometimes stay open and raw for centuries. So it is for Marius, Anne Rice' [... more]
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Flashing Steel: Mastering Eishin-Ryu Swordsmanship
Very clear and concise presentation of concepts: This book covers the philosophy and techniques of Eisshin-ryu iaido, probably the most popular of the many schools of Japanese swordsmanship. Eisshin-ryu iaido is especially well-known, for example, for [... more]
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The Unburied
From Amazon.com: Though putatively a mystery set (mostly) in the Victorian age, Charles Palliser's The Unburied has more in common with Umberto Eco than Arthur Conan Doyle. Like The Name of the Rose, this novel is set in a scholarly community and [... more]
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Leaving Cheyenne: A Novel
a unique concept well done: I read this book some years ago and I was very impressed. I enjoyed just about all of Larry McMurtry's early (pre-Lonesome Dove) works. Indeed, I felt that his three greatest works were "The Last Picture Show", " [... more]
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Strongman: The Doug Hepburn Story
Remarkable: Impossible to read "Strongman: The Doug Hepburn Story" without coming away both drained and inspired. Thurston's approach to the telling of Hepburn's life is as remarkable as the great man himself. Hepburn should have died long [... more]
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Richard II
Thorough but definitely not for laymen!: If you are not well-versed in this period of English history, then reading this book could be a struggle at times. It is not the best-organized book I have read; there were several times I had to re-read for 4-5 [... more]
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
quality man, quality book: Well researched, entertaining chronicle of the developmental years of a remarkable man, of a sort we don't see today. I could hardly put it down. Morris is a superb writer, and captures the nature and personality of his subject [... more]
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Beethoven
A New Study of Beethoven: The work of great artists is inexhaustible. In Beethoven's case, his music remains a stunning achievement. His achievement as a composer, together with the nature of his character, his deafness, his thwarted love affairs, and [... more]
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English
Chronique amazon.fr: What is it about the English? Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? As Jeremy Paxman remarks in his preface to The English, being English " [... more]
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All Brave Sailors
Author does justice to this remarkable story: The remarkable tale of those lucky few that survived the sinking of the English merchant ship, the Anglo Saxon by a German raider is a compelling story. But author J. Revell Carr does not leave it at that. He [... more]
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