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The Murder of King James I

By: Alastair James Bellany,Thomas Cogswell

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The Murder of King James I

By: Alastair James Bellany,Thomas Cogswell

A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually plunge the British Isles into civil war and revolution. Illuminating many hitherto obscure aspects of early modern political culture, this eagerly anticipated work is both a fascinating story of political intrigue and a major exploration of the forces that destroyed the Stuart monarchy.

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659

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Yale University Press

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0300214960

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9780300214963

'All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity'

A Bio-Bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621 - 1675

By: Alastair Compston

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'All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity'

A Bio-Bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621 - 1675

By: Alastair Compston

All manner of industry and ingenuity' is the first book that combines the biographical, bibliographical, and scientific analyses of Thomas Willis.

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825

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Oxford University Press

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0198795394

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9780198795391

The Queen Mother

By: Alastair Burnet,Independent Television News

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The Queen Mother

By: Alastair Burnet,Independent Television News

An illustrated history of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

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124

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1854790161

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9781854790163

The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland

By: Alastair J. Mann

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The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland

By: Alastair J. Mann

This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the Scottish book trade in this period was surprisingly large, consisting of over 150 printers and over 400 booksellers, but its rate of growth was not constant as it was buffeted by the winds of economic and political circumstances. It is the public, not private world of book dissemination that is examined. Emphsis is placed more on supply than on demand. It is shown that the unique qualities of the printed book, with its blend of commerce and technology on the one hand, and intellect and ideology on the other, ensured that authority - burghs, church, governemt (crown and executive) and law courts - reacted with a complex response of liberty and prohibition. So it was for all nations experiencing the arrival of printing, but Scotland had its own particular range of dynamics, a distinct Scottish tradition.

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303

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788854195

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9781788854191

McAlpine's Multiple Sclerosis

By: Douglas McAlpine,Alastair Compston

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McAlpine's Multiple Sclerosis

By: Douglas McAlpine,Alastair Compston

Comprehensive text highlighting current clinical research in the area of multiple sclerosis. Includes expanded coverage of genetics, neurobiology, pathophysiology, and historical background.

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992

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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044307271X

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9780443072710

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

By: Alastair Hamilton,Julius L. Goebel, Jr.,Alexander Hamilton

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The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

By: Alastair Hamilton,Julius L. Goebel, Jr.,Alexander Hamilton

Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of Anglo-American criticism over the past thirty years and proposes some possibilities for reform.

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942

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Columbia University Press

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ISBN 10

0231089449

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9780231089449

In Private--in Public

The Prince and Princess of Wales

By: Alastair Burnet

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In Private--in Public

The Prince and Princess of Wales

By: Alastair Burnet

Contains 200 color photographs portraying the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children at home, abroad, at work, and at play.

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168

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067163304X

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9780671633042

The Church and the Slums

The Victorian Anglican Church and its Mission to Liverpool’s Poor

By: Alastair Wilcox

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The Church and the Slums

The Victorian Anglican Church and its Mission to Liverpool’s Poor

By: Alastair Wilcox

Organised religion played such a central part in Victorian life that it is impossible to understand this era without some reference to it. Yet the question, which worried the Victorians, still remains, how religious was the mass of Victorian society? Recent scholarship has challenged the orthodoxy that the working classes, and the working classes of large urban centres in particular, were irreligious. Yet Liverpool, with its large migratory population, including Roman Catholics from Ireland and Nonconformists from Wales and Scotland, appeared to offer unpromising ground for the Anglican Church to sow its seed. Within the city, Liverpool’s notorious slums seemed to offer the most barren ground of all. What strategies did the Anglican clergy employ to make their churches work at a grassroots level? How could they overcome the problems they faced, which ranged from the hostility of the local community to severe financial constraints? How helpful was the advice dispensed by Church handbooks in dealing with these challenges? More important, is it now possible to estimate the success in gaining not only worshippers, but a wider penumbra of working class adherents to church-based activities? Some of Liverpool’s more aristocratic churches were overwhelmed by the encroaching city slums, and the reaction of at least one clergyman was to retreat within his vicarage, and ‘shut up shop’. However, other clergy set about energetically working the slums. Largely Oxbridge men, with a very different background in social and educational terms to their flock, they made surprising progress. By drawing upon a variety of local sources, including many hitherto unused, this book contends that it is possible to evaluate the success of the Anglican Church in the slums. The Church had successes not only to be judged solely by the number of working class worshippers, but also by the uses the local community made of rites of passage, philanthropic activities and the clubs and societies offered by the Anglican Church in Liverpool. This book is aimed at readers interested in researching family and local history as well as those following wider national trends in religious history.

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260

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443859974

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9781443859974

News in the Regions

Plymouth Sound to Moray Firth

By: Alastair Hetherington

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News in the Regions

Plymouth Sound to Moray Firth

By: Alastair Hetherington

This book gives an inside view of journalists at work in the Midlands, Yorkshire, South-East England and Central Scotland - with relevance also to other areas. It examines news priorities, decision-making, sources and the differences between newspapers, television news and radio.

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Springer

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1349199524

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9781349199525

The Parish Churches of Loudoun and their Clergy up to 1845 Pt2

By: Alastair Hendry

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The Parish Churches of Loudoun and their Clergy up to 1845 Pt2

By: Alastair Hendry

The Parish Churches of Loudoun and their Clergy up to 1845, is a two-part history of the Loudoun Parish Churches, from the existence of the 12th century Loudoun Kirk covered in Part 1 to the transference of the parish church to Newmilns in Part 2. This book, Part 2 deals with the Parish Church in Newmilns and the various clergy and their service as ministers. The parish church moved from Loudoun Kirk, just outside Galston to the centre of Newmilns due to the shift in population, thanks to the increased industry in weaving and the resultant need to tend to the spiritual needs of the parish closer to the community. The book is historically factual but it still portrays what life was like at that time, living under the umbrella of the 'kirk session' with some quite amusing quotes.

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Lulu.com

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1291173218

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9781291173215

Gardening For Beginners Book

Discovering Your Green Fingers

By: Alastair R Agutter

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Gardening For Beginners Book

Discovering Your Green Fingers

By: Alastair R Agutter

A very big welcome to Gardening for Beginners, a book I was inspired to write from having a real passion since my childhood for gardening. On the book cover you see the words "go green" and having a creative mind, I have provided many great ideas on utilizing old household items that can be transformed and used in the garden. As a result doing your bit recycling and helping the environment. Gardening for Beginners Book is a fabulous gift for friends, family and loved ones of any age seeking to take up the free and healthy pastime of Horticulture. As we become more aware of our environment and wild life, with this book you can take the plunge of creating a mini eco-system around your home for a healthier lifestyle and creating a blaze of colour. Blooming Marvellous! The book comes with many great gardening ideas including the growing of your own organic vegetables for healthier eating and giving new life to items around your home that can be recycled and given a new lease of life as part of the garden landscape. Also a new lease of life for yourself, with healthy free exercise, ensuring a more healthier lifestyle and remaining in good health, both physically and mentally. Gardening for Beginners has been 2 years in the making by Alastair R Agutter Best Selling author of specialist books and found within this publication only encouragement with step by step guides and many great ideas for making your home into a little piece of Eden. CONTENTS Introduction Chapter One – Garden Tools Chapter Two – Garden Equipment Chapter Three – Garden Soils Chapter Four – Garden Soil Preparation Chapter Five – Container Recycling Chapter Six – Hanging Baskets Chapter Seven – Garden Pots and Tubs Chapter Eight – Plant Conditions Chapter Nine – Growing Strawberries Chapter Ten – Healthy Roses Chapter Eleven – Growing Organic Vegetables Chapter Twelve – Garden Plants in Sunny Areas Chapter Thirteen – Garden Plants in Shaded Areas Chapter Fourteen – Propagating Plant Cuttings Chapter Fifteen – Growing and Pruning Fruit Trees Chapter Sixteen - Gardening Good Life and Ideas Reference

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Alastair R Agutter

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1512135348

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9781512135343

Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries

By: Alastair Duke,Andrew Spicer

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Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries

By: Alastair Duke,Andrew Spicer

Alastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for his important work on the impact of religious change on political events which was the focus of his Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990). Bringing together an updated selection of his previously published essays - together with one entirely new chapter and two that appear in English here for the first time - this volume explores the emergence of new political and religious identities in the early modern Netherlands. Firstly it analyses the emergence of a common identity amongst the amorphous collection of states in north-western Europe that were united first under the rule of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy and later the Habsburg princes, and traces the fortunes of this notion during the political and religious conflicts that divided the Low Countries during the second half of the sixteenth century. A second group of essays considers the emergence of dissidence and opposition to the regime, and explores how this was expressed and disseminated through popular culture. Finally, the volume shows how in the age of confessionalisation and civil war, challenging issues of identity presented themselves to both dissenting groups and individuals. Taken together these essays demonstrate how these dissident identities shaped and contributed to the development of the Netherlands during the early modern period.

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506

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Routledge

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1351943480

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9781351943482

Book's by Alastair Burnet

The Murder of King James I

The Murder of King James I

'All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity'

'All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity'

The Queen Mother

The Queen Mother

The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

McAlpine's Multiple Sclerosis

McAlpine's Multiple Sclerosis

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

In Private--in Public

In Private--in Public

The Church and the Slums

The Church and the Slums

News in the Regions

News in the Regions

The Parish Churches of Loudoun and their Clergy up to 1845 Pt2

The Parish Churches of Loudoun and their Clergy up to 1845 Pt2

Gardening For Beginners Book

Gardening For Beginners Book

Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries

Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries

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