Charles Bewitched

Author : Marissa Doyle
Publisher : Marissa Doyle
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781944640026

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Charles Bewitched by Marissa Doyle Pdf

In this novella follow-up to Bewitching Season and Betraying Season, sixteen-year-old Charles Leland is not looking forward to his summer holidays from Eton—not when he has to spend them cramming history. Even the thought of staying with his sister Persy and her husband Lochinvar while his parents are in Ireland can’t cheer him up. But studying quickly takes a back seat to finding out what has happened to Persy, who disappears from home the day he arrives. All signs indicate that she’s been kidnapped, but a Romany boy named Nando convinces Charles that her disappearance has a much more otherworldly explanation. Now Charles must brave the perils of the fairy lands to try to prevent his sister from being forcibly married to a powerful fairy lord. With the help of the fairy lord’s own younger (and alarmingly pretty) sister, a copy of History and Policy of the Norman and Angevin Kings that he must read before September, and her majesty Queen Victoria, he just might succeed. But will he also be able to rescue himself?

Author : E. William Monter
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 260001165X

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A Bewitched Duchy by E. William Monter Pdf

Situé aux frontières linguistique et politique entre la France et le Saint-Empire, l'état tampon de la Lorraine a maintenu une neutralité précaire depuis la défaite de Charles le téméraire en 1477 jusqu'à la Guerre de Trente Ans. Entravée par le cardinal de Richelieu pendant les années 1630, l'autonomie politique de la Lorraine ne fut perdue qu'un siècle plus tard et le dernier duc de Lorraine se réfugia chez les Habsbourg. A Bewitched Duchy est la première histoire de Lorraine en langue anglaise.

Author : Marissa Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944640037

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Charles Bewitched by Marissa Doyle Pdf

In this novella follow-up to Bewitching Season and Betraying Season, sixteen-year-old Charles Leland is not looking forward to his summer holidays from Eton--not when he has to spend them studying history to make up for a less-than-stellar grade last term. Even the thought of staying with his sister Persy and her husband Lochinvar while his parents are in Ireland can't cheer him up.But cramming history quickly takes a back seat to finding out what has happened to Persy, who disappears from home the day he arrives. All signs indicate that she's been abducted by gypsies--but a gypsy boy named Nando convinces Charles that her disappearance has a much more otherworldly explanation.Now Charles must brave the perils and sheer strangeness of the fairy lands to try to rescue his sister from being forcibly married to a powerful fairy lord. With the help of the fairy lord's own very pretty younger sister, a copy of "History and Policy of the Norman and Angevin Kings" that he's supposed to read for school before September, and Her Majesty Queen Victoria, he just might do it. But will he also be able to rescue himself?

Author : Jocelyn Marrow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520291089

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Our Most Troubling Madness by Jocelyn Marrow Pdf

Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology.Ê Why is it that the rates of developing schizophreniaÑlong the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illnessÑare low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to Western countries find that they are at higher risk for this disease after they arrive? T. M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn MarrowÊargue that the root causes of schizophrenia are not only biological, but also sociocultural. Ê This book gives an intimate, personal account of those living with serious psychotic disorder in the United States, India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It introduces the notion that social defeatÑthe physical or symbolic defeat of one person by anotherÑis a core mechanism in the increased risk for psychotic illness. Furthermore, Òcare-as-usualÓ treatment as it occurs in the United States actually increases the likelihood of social defeat, while Òcare-as-usualÓ treatment in a country like India diminishes it.

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781598535983

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Madeleine L'Engle: The Wrinkle in Time Quartet (LOA #309) by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning: rediscover an American classic and its three sequels in this deluxe Library of America edition. This Library of America volume presents Madeleine L'Engle's iconic classic A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers ever written, in a newly-prepared authoritative text and, as a special feature, it includes never-before-seen deleted passages from the novel in an appendix. L'Engle's unforgettable heroine, Meg Murry, must confront her fears and self-doubt to rescue her scientist father, who has been experimenting with mysterious tesseracts capable of bending the very fabric of space and time. Helping her are her little brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe, and a trio of strange supernatural visitors called Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which. But A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning of the adventure. Seven other Kairos ("cosmic time") novels followed, collected for the first time in a deluxe two volume collector's boxed set. This first volume gathers Wrinkle with three books that chronicle the continuing adventures of Meg and her siblings. In A Wind in the Door, Meg and Calvin descend into the microverse to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi, evil beings who are trying to unname existence. When a madman threatens nuclear war in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must save the future by traveling into the past. And in Many Waters, Sandy and Dennys, Meg's twin brothers, are accidentally transported back to the time of Noah's ark. A companion volume gathers the final four Kairos Novels, the Polly O'Keefe quartet, in which Calvin and Meg's daughter takes center stage. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Derek Beales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521242401

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Joseph II: Volume 1, In the Shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741-1780 by Derek Beales Pdf

This volume describes the claustrophobic atmosphere, in which Joseph was trained to rule, and his attempts after 1765 as co-regent with his formidable mother.

Author : Juan Antonio LLORENTE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027109190

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The History of the Inquisition of Spain, from Its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. ... Abridged and Translated from the Original Works of D. J. A. Llorente, Etc by Juan Antonio LLORENTE Pdf

Author : Juan Antonio Llorente
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Inquisition
ISBN : UVA:X000265286

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The History of the Inquisition of Spain, from the Time of Its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente Pdf

Author : Robin Briggs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198225829

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The Witches of Lorraine by Robin Briggs Pdf

Based on the richest archive of witchcraft trials found in Europe, this book paints a vivid picture of life amongst the people of a small duchy on the border of France. Robin Briggs' examination of their beliefs in phenomena such as shapeshifting and werewolves proves a vital contribution to historical understanding of witchcraft.

Author : Ian Crofton
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780878027

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History without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton Pdf

Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other more interesting stories to tell - stories which can bring the past vividly and excitingly to life. Imagine a book that tells you the date of the ancient Roman law that made it legal to break wind at banquets; the name of the defunct medieval pope whose putrefying corpse was subjected to the humiliation of a trial before a court of law; the identity of the priapic monarch who sired more bastards than any other king of England; and last but not least the date of the demise in London of the first goat to have circumnavigated the globe - twice. Imagine a book crammed with such deliciously disposable information, and you have History without the Boring Bits. By turns bizarre, surprising, trivial, and enlightening, History without the Boring Bits offers rich pickings for the browser, and entertainment and inspiration aplenty for those who have grown weary of more conventional works of history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNVA001711242

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The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:72980651

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The Westminster Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Bradford
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241958766

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Cesare Borgia by Sarah Bradford Pdf

THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BORGIAS, NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING JEREMY IRONS 'Either Caesar or nothing' was the motto of Cesare Borgia, whose name has long been synonymous with evil. Almost five centuries have passed since his death, yet his reputation still casts a sinister shadow. He stands accused of treachery, cruelty, rape, incest and, especially, murder - assassination by poison, the deadly white powder concealed in the jewelled ring, or by the midnight band of bravos lurking in the alleys of Renaissance Rome. This classic book by acclaimed historian and biographer Sarah Bradford (author of Lucrezia Borgia and Diana), is the drama of a man of exceptional gifts and a driving lust for power. Cesare Borgia dared fortune for the highest goals and when fate turned against him he fell like Lucifer. Set against the brilliant backcloth of High Renaissance Italy, his life had the perfect proportions of a Greek tragedy.

Author : A. Wess Mitchell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691196442

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The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell Pdf

The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. A. Wess Mitchell tells the story of how this cash-strapped, polyglot empire survived for centuries in Europe's most dangerous neighborhood without succumbing to the pressures of multisided warfare. He shows how the Habsburgs played the long game in geopolitics, corralling friend and foe alike into voluntarily managing the empire's lengthy frontiers and extending a benign hegemony across the turbulent lands of middle Europe. The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire offers lessons on how to navigate a messy geopolitical map, stand firm without the advantage of military predominance, and prevail against multiple rivals.

Author : Mrs. Hughs (Mary)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Boys
ISBN : NYPL:33433082353974

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Aunt Mary's Tales by Mrs. Hughs (Mary) Pdf