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Author : John Norris
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752496597
When fighting for honour has tragic consequences...
Author : Richard Hopton
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000122969649
Duelling is embedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and books. This book traces the history of the duel from its medieval antecedents in trial by combat and chivalric tournaments. Using numerous accounts of actual duels, it shows how the arcane rules of the duel evolved.
Author : Michele Ann Young
Publisher : Five Star (ME)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : England
ISBN : 1594144605
A fatal duel leaves Victoria Torrington destitute and at the mercy of a well-known rake, Simon St. John, Earl of Travis. Known as Satan to the ton, the earl has a past shadowed by secrets and a reputation for the luck of the devil. To Victoria's surprise, he declares she must select a bridegroom by the end of the London Season or he will choose one for her. Tired of irresponsible males dictating her life, Victoria disputes his authority. The couple deny a growing attraction to little effect. Beneath the earl's chilly exterior, Victoria senses an honorable and caring spirit. For all Victoria's seeming innocence, Simon knows the full extent of feminine wiles and tries to distance himself. Together they face an enemy armed with the secrets of Simon's past. Will Victoria's determination thaw a heart frozen by betrayal and bring them happiness and love, or will her attempt to rescue him from the sins of his youth bring them both to ruin?Miche le Ann Young lives and writes in Richmond Hill, Canada, where she resides with her husband and two beautiful daughters.
Author : Andrea Pickens
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781614175308
Eliza Kirtland will do anything to see the man who cruelly assaulted her sister brought to justice—even point a pistol at the notorious Lord Killingworth. But her mistaken accusations result in grave injury to the earl's nephew. Now Eliza's sister—a noted healer—feels obliged to nurse the young man back to health, and Eliza has no choice but to help. Killingworth is not pleased with the arrangement. Tensions swirl between the four of them, until new bonds are discovered when evil strikes again and they must work together to fight a relentless enemy, who will stop at nothing to drive Killingworth away from his estate. INTREPID HEROINES SERIES, in order Code of Honor The Hired Hero A Stroke of Luck Pistols at Dawn SCANDALOUS SECRETS SERIES, in order The Banished Bride Lady of Letters The Major's Mistake LESSONS IN LOVE, in series order The Defiant Governess Second Chances The Storybook Hero
Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407086927
Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes and controversies, the parties and technology may have changed over time but political conflict is still dramatised by the competition of ambitious individuals for the highest offices. Over the past two hundred years the size of the electorate has grown enormously and the means of reaching it transformed out of all recognition but human nature itself hasn't changed. In his thought-provoking book John Campbell considers eight pairs of rivals and shows how their antagonism, which often evolved into outright loathing, has determined the course of political conflict. In each of his cases studies - Fox and Pitt, Castlereagh and Canning, Gladstone and Disraeli, Asquith and Lloyd George, Bevan and Gaitskell, Macmillan and Butler, Heath and Thatcher, Brown and Blair - he combines a vivid narrative with an authoritative assessment of the historical legacy that reveals how ideology is inextricably entwined with personality.
Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674504387
Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
Author : Barbara Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596918092
"Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street Journal The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private, public, and political life, and those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted-for, in fact, they were obeying a grand old tradition. Based on her fascinating 1997 Smithsonian article, Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood is the first trade book to trace the remarkable, often gruesome, sometimes comical history of the Western tradition of defending one's honor.
Author : Stephen Banks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747812616
A duel could result from any challenge to a gentleman's honour, from minor insult to major accusation. At a prearranged time, two men at odds would meet, armed either with swords or pistols, to engage in a formal and sometimes fatal exchange. Gentlemen considered it their prerogative to fight, despite the illegality of duelling, and figures as prominent as the Duke of Wellington and Georges Clemenceau defended their honour in this way. Why did participants flout the law, what codes were followed, what were the changing roles of the seconds, and what were the consequences for victims and victors? Stephen Banks answers these questions and examines the evolution from Norman trials-by-combat to the formalised duel, analysing the custom's decline in England by Victorian times and its final disppearance from Europe by the twentieth century.
Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625671899
At the 37th libel suit Thurlow Potts has brought to court to protect the family name, the family’s beleaguered lawyer Charlie Paxton loses the case. Thurlow seems driven beyond reason to protect the million dollar shoe business of his mother, Cornelia Potts, known to the press as the ‘Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe.’ But some people in the courtroom think Thurlow should be taken seriously, including Ellery Queen, who is looking on while waiting with his father, Inspector Queen of the New York Police Department, for another case. Afraid Thurlow will make good on his threats, Paxton begs Queen for help. Paxton’s fiancee is Thurlow’s sister, and she secures Queen an invitation to dinner, where Queen meets the extended and unusual Potts family. But before the meal ends, Thurlow challenges his younger brother to a duel, and not one, but two murders ensue. For the twin victims, and for Queen who must now solve the crimes, the fairytale is over.
Author : M. E. Robertson-Hoon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557475506
There is a new villain in Yarford City, and he's mean and tough and he is a woman, and her only goal is to find the man that savagely murdered her husband Josiah Jessup and she's very eager to find him. And who is this man she is aiming to exact reveng on? Why it's none other than the incomparable Arliss Black!
Author : Ravi Vakil
Publisher : Brendan Kelly Publishing Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1895997046
Powerful problem solving ideas that focus on the major branches of mathematics and their interconnections.
Author : John Derbyshire
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309164801
Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages-and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting for. "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain. Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics-it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us. Algebraists broke new ground when they discarded the simple search for solutions to equations and concentrated instead on abstract groups. This dramatic shift in thinking revolutionized mathematics. Written for those among us who are unencumbered by a fear of formulae, Unknown Quantity delivers on its promise to present a history of algebra. Astonishing in its bold presentation of the math and graced with narrative authority, our journey through the world of algebra is at once intellectually satisfying and pleasantly challenging.
Author : Karen Lingefelt
Publisher : Siren-BookStrand
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610346764
[BookStrand Regency Romance] She thought hiding in plain sight would be the perfect plan—but alas! Susannah Kirk hopes to escape an unwanted marriage by posing as a lady’s companion in the bridegroom’s ancestral home. Surely it’s the last place anyone would look for her—but as Susannah’s luck would have it, a surprise visitor from London isn’t just anyone. He’s Trevor Dalton, one of her reclusive lady’s grandsons—and he may or may not be the very rogue she’s trying to flee. After learning his wastrel cousin plans to satisfy gambling debts by taking a bride he’s never met, Trevor races to Derbyshire to avert scandal. But his efforts are hampered at every turn by his grandmother’s strong-willed, mysterious companion. Suspicious as well as charmed, he’s determined to uncover Susannah’s secrets—even if he has to seduce them out of her...and risk losing his heart. ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance
Author : David McCrae
Publisher : Author House
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491880012
The Sneijders: a longstanding criminal family from the East End of London. Matthias: Head of his familys illicit empire. Living the dual identities of benevolent family man and ruthless Alpha Male gangster, can he be successful in separating and managing his joint commitments? Oscar: Matthias nephew; represents the hope that a Sneijder can make a name for himself outside the life of crime. However after suffering a troubled childhood, will Oscar slip into the underworld that ensnared the rest of his family? Surrounding these two individuals is a web of manipulation, vendettas and violence they both find themselves confronting. Can they successfully overcome the obstacles set before them?
Author : Karl Shaw
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781472136701
The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy. From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to insult someone to provoke a duel that might further their reputation, to the fashionable gambling clubs or 'hells' which were springing up around St James's in the mid-eighteenth century, the often bizarre doings of aristocrats. An eighteenth-century English gentleman was required to have what was known as 'bottom', a shipping metaphor that referred to stability. Taking part in a duel was a bold statement that you had bottom. William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne certainly had bottom, if not a complete set of gonads following his duel with Colonel Fullarton, MP for Plympton. Both men missed with their first shots, but the colonel fired again and shot off Shelborne's right testicle. Despite being hit, Shelborne deliberately discharged his second shot in the air. When asked how he was, the injured Earl coolly observed his wound and said, 'I don't think Lady Shelborne will be the worse for it.' The cast of characters includes imperious, hard-drinking and highly volatile Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who is remembered today as much for his brilliant scientific career as his talent for getting involved in bizarre mishaps, such as his death as a result of his burst bladder; the Marquess of Queensberry, a side-whiskered psychopath, who, on a luxury steamboat in Brazil, in a row with a fellow passenger over the difference between emus and ostriches, and knocked him out cold; and Thomas, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, a Georgian rake straight out of central casting, who ran up enormous gambling debts, fought duels, frequented brothels and succumbed to drug and alcohol addiction. Often, such rakes would be swiftly packed off on a Grand Tour in the hope that travel would bring about maturity. It seldom did.
