Product Description: Cuando Messala, el amigo de la infancia de Ben-Hur, regresa a Judea adoctrinado por las enseñanzas romanas, se burla cruelmente de las creencias judías de Ben-Hur. Messala está trabajando para Gratus, el nuevo gobernador romano, quien ha planeado un desfile inaugural por las calles de la ciudad...read more

From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles-just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details-plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette-To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.

Product Description: From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles-just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord...read more

Explores the social history of the American wedding, from the discreet private ceremony of the past to the elaborate public event of the present, discussing the influence of such factors as wealth, class, gender, and the rise of popular media on the changing world of the marriage ceremony. Original. 35,000 first printing.

A essential guide simplifies the name-selection process by providing thousands of current alphabetical listings, the history and meanings of many names, trendy variations and nicknames, traditional and unique names, and more. Original

A sumptuous catalog of distinctive Victorian collectibles and treasures presents some two hundred illustrations of English and American Victoriana, organized according to six rooms in a typical Victorian house--parlor, library, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, and nursery.

Offers advice to parents on how to teach age appropriate manners and social behavior to children (view table of contents)

Follows the lives of Frances and Hart Drummond, married nearly forty years, and their grown children, as they cope with communication problems, love, marriage, and Connecticut real estate.

An easy-to-follow guide to photography for amateurs takes readers step-by-step through every aspect of photographing children, discussing the type of camera to use, lighting, film, selecting the proper clothing, and more. Simultaneous.

Tells the stories of wealthy nineteenth-century American heiresses who married British nobelman

Researching the life of a nineteenth-century American heiress who married an English aristocrat, Sarah Llewellyn finds herself drawn to the heiress's present-day descendant, the future Earl of Saltire, and caught in a web of dangerous secrets from the past

Surveys the history of dance, examines the development of ball gowns and other dancing costumes, and discusses the depiction of dance in art