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King Arthur

By: Daniel Mersey

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From his court at Camelot, King Arthur ruled over a unified Britain in a mythical age of peace and prosperity. His glory, however, would be short-lived. For even as he drew the sword from the stone, a doom settled over Arthur that would see his kingdom fall to betrayal and war. In this book, Daniel Mersey retells the great stories of Arthur, from his winning of Excalibur and his marriage to Guinevere, through his battle with the giant in France and his war against the army of Rome to the treachery of Mordred and his death at Camlann. Supporting this narrative is an exploration of the different facets of Arthurian myth, including the numerous conflicting theories of his historical origin, the tales of Welsh folklore and Medieval romance, and even his various portrayals in the modern media. Presented with both classic and newly commissioned artwork this book is an easy-to-read, yet highly detailed introduction to the complex body of myth and legend that surrounds Britain's greatest hero.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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178200937X

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Unsinkable

The Full Story

By: Daniel Allen Butler

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Unsinkable

The Full Story

By: Daniel Allen Butler

The first modern work to give a comprehensive picture of the RMS Titanic and the people intertwined with her fate, from disaster to recovery. Drawn from primary sources and contemporary accounts and updated to coincide with the April 2012 anniversary, this new heart-rending narrative allows readers to come to their own conclusions about this legendary vessel. Daniel Allen Butler spend more than 30 years researching the work, delving into the lives of every principal participant. In addition to examining the roles played by individual, he also looks into the problems of equipment and errors in technical data that resulted in the deaths of 1502 people. Rather than focussing on the night of the tragedy alone, he also investigates the events leading up to and following the fateful night.

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305

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Frontline Books

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1848326416

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9781848326415

The Men Who Would Be Kings

Colonial Wargaming Rules

By: Daniel Mersey

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The Men Who Would Be Kings

Colonial Wargaming Rules

By: Daniel Mersey

The Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid to late 19th Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial clashes tended to be one-sided affairs, but there are countless reports of brief, frantic skirmishes in every colonial war, where either side could be victorious, and these are the battles that The Men Who Would Be Kings seeks to recreate. Although focusing on the British colonial wars against the Zulus, Maoris and others, these rules will also permit players to explore the empires of France, Germany, and other nations, as well as allowing for battles between rival native factions. Gameplay is very simple, and is driven by the quality of the officers leading your units, in the true spirit of Victorian derring-do and adventure, where larger than life characters such as the (real) Fred Burnaby and the (fictional) Harry Flashman led their troops to glory and medals or a horrible end at the point of a spear tip.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472815017

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9781472815019

The Beatles' Landmarks in Liverpool

By: Daniel K. Longman

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The Beatles' Landmarks in Liverpool

By: Daniel K. Longman

This fascinating collection of photographs and stories traces the ways in which The Beatles' home town has changed over the past 50 years.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144565234X

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9781445652344

Australasiatic Reminiscences

By: Daniel Bunce

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Australasiatic Reminiscences

By: Daniel Bunce

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375171994

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9783375171995

Our Travelling Party to the Alps and Rhine

By: Daniel Clarke Eddy

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Our Travelling Party to the Alps and Rhine

By: Daniel Clarke Eddy

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385433886

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9783385433885

Environmental Oceanography: Topics and Analysis

By: Daniel C Abel,Robert L McConnell

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Environmental Oceanography: Topics and Analysis

By: Daniel C Abel,Robert L McConnell

Environmental Oceanography: Towards a Sustainable Marine Environment is an interactive text and casebook designed to teach students about pressing marine environmental issues using critical thinking and basic math. The text uses an innovative approach to teaching environmental oceanography, consisting of marine environmental issues resented as self-contained analytical exercises, with information and questions on sustainability integrated throughout the text. Appropriate for a wide range of readers, Environmental Oceanography works well as a stand-alone text when supplemented with web-based activities, a lab-based course book, and as a supplement to main texts in oceanography and marine science for those instructors who would like to add an active learning focus to their course. Regardless of whether you are teaching a large or small course, Environmental Oceanography will engage and excite your students and prompt them to think critically about pressing environmental issues.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449655815

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9781449655815

Wirral Tragic Tales

By: Daniel K Longman

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Wirral Tragic Tales

By: Daniel K Longman

Fresh from his research into the dark side of Wirral's history, in his first book 'Criminal Wirral', Daniel K. Longman has plunged back into a brand new selection of terrible and tragic tales.

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The History Press

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0750953322

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9780750953320

The Other Side of the Night

The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost

By: Daniel Allen Butler

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The Other Side of the Night

The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost

By: Daniel Allen Butler

The New York Times–bestselling author of Unsinkable “recounts the disaster from the vantage point of nearby vessels” (Publishers Weekly). A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. While the world has remained fascinated by the tragedy, the drama of those fateful hours was not only played out aboard the doomed liner. It also took place on the decks of two other ships, one fifty-eight miles distant from the sinking Titanic, the other barely ten miles away. The masters of the steamships Carpathia and Californian, Capt. Arthur Rostron and Capt. Stanley Lord, were informed within minutes of each other that their vessels had picked up the distress signals of a sinking ship. Their actions in the hours and days that followed would become the stuff of legend, as one would choose to take his ship into dangerous waters to answer the call for help, while the other would decide that the hazard to himself and his command was too great to risk responding. After years of research, Daniel Allen Butler now tells this incredible story, moving from ship to ship on the icy waters of the North Atlantic—in real time—to recount how hundreds of people could have been rescued, but in the end, only a few outside of the meager lifeboats were saved. He then looks at the US Senate investigation in Washington, and ultimately, the British Board of Trade inquiry in London, where the actions of each captain are probed, questioned, and judged, until the truth of what actually happened aboard the Titanic, the Carpathia, and the Californian is revealed. “Powerful . . . very, very well-done.” —New York Times–bestselling author Clive Cussler

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Casemate

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1935149709

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9781935149705

Criminal Wirral

By: Daniel K Longman

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Criminal Wirral

By: Daniel K Longman

Criminal Wirral is an intriguing and entertaining collection of some of the strangest, most despicable and comical crimes that took place on the Wirral peninsula from the Victorian era up until the early twentieth century. Daniel K. Longman's painstaking research has uncovered many fascinating cases that have been long forgotten, and he sheds new light on local causes celebres. The tales are supported by a number of maps with many contemporary and modern photographs, which help to bring these events and the people featured in them to life. Criminal Wirral will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the darker side of Wirral's history.

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The History Press

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0750953292

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9780750953290

Liverpool Sectarianism

The Rise and Demise

By: Keith Daniel Roberts

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Liverpool Sectarianism

The Rise and Demise

By: Keith Daniel Roberts

Liverpool Sectarianism: the rise and demise is a fascinating study that considers the causes and effects of sectarianism in Liverpool, how and why sectarian tensions subsided in the city and what sectarianism was in a Liverpool context, as well as offering a definition of the term 'sectarianism' itself. By positioning Liverpool amongst other 'sectarian cities' in Britain, specifically Belfast and Glasgow, this book considers the social, political, theological, and ethnic chasm which gripped Liverpool for the best part of two centuries, building upon what has already been written in terms of the origins and development of sectarianism, but also adds new dimensions through original research and interviews. In doing, the author challenges some longstanding perceptions about the nature of Liverpool sectarianism; most notably, in its denial of the supposed association between football and sectarianism in the city. The book then assesses why sectarianism, having been so central to Liverpool life, began to fade, exploring several explanations such as secularism, slum clearance, cultural change, as well as displacement by other pastimes, notably football. In analysing the validity of these explanations, key figures in the Orange Order and the Catholic Church offer their viewpoints. Each chapter examines a different dimension of Liverpool's divided past. Topics which feature prominently in the book are Irish immigration, Orangeism, religion, politics, racism, football, and the advance of the city's contemporary character, specifically, the development and significance of 'Scouse'. Ultimately, the book demonstrates how and why two competing identities (Irish Catholic and Lancastrian Protestant) developed into one overarching Scouse identity, which transcended seemingly insurmountable sectarian fault lines.

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Oxford University Press

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1786940108

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9781786940100

The Wirral Through Time

By: Daniel K. Longman

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The Wirral Through Time

By: Daniel K. Longman

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Wirral has changed and developed over the last century.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445661578

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9781445661575

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

By: Daniel Defoe,Anthony J. Coulson

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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

By: Daniel Defoe,Anthony J. Coulson

Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain

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Yale University Press

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0300049803

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9780300049800

Corporate Romanticism

Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel

By: Daniel M. Stout

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Corporate Romanticism

Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel

By: Daniel M. Stout

Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments—the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action—undermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading works by Godwin, Austen, Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Dickens alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism’s ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action. Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823272257

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9780823272259

Book's by Daniel Mersey

King Arthur

King Arthur

Unsinkable

Unsinkable

The Men Who Would Be Kings

The Men Who Would Be Kings

The Beatles' Landmarks in Liverpool

The Beatles' Landmarks in Liverpool

Australasiatic Reminiscences

Australasiatic Reminiscences

Our Travelling Party to the Alps and Rhine

Our Travelling Party to the Alps and Rhine

Environmental Oceanography: Topics and Analysis

Environmental Oceanography: Topics and Analysis

Wirral Tragic Tales

Wirral Tragic Tales

The Other Side of the Night

The Other Side of the Night

Criminal Wirral

Criminal Wirral

Liverpool Sectarianism

Liverpool Sectarianism

The Wirral Through Time

The Wirral Through Time

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Corporate Romanticism

Corporate Romanticism

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