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Product Description: Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived within short walking distance of their workplace. However, all of this has now changed and many people commute large distances to work, often taking around one hour in each direction...read more
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9781473862906 | Pen & Sword, October 31, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived within short walking distance of their workplace.
Product Description: For many of us, the very expression ‘Concentration Camp’ is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Germans, who were the chief driving force behind the development and use of concentration camps in the Twentieth Century...read more
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9781473846296, titled "British Concentration Camps: A Brief History: From 1900 - 1975" | Pen & Sword, April 19, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: For many of us, the very expression ‘Concentration Camp’ is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust.
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9781532921230 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 31, 2016, cover price $6.44
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9781530003310 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 31, 2016, cover price $7.50
Product Description: George Chapman, also known as Severin Klosowski, was a London poisoner who was hanged in 1903. During his trial, a number of people began to suspect that he was, or had been, Jack the Ripper. These people included Frederick Abberline, who had been an important detective on the Ripper case back in 1888...read more
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9781523871797 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 31, 2016, cover price $10.50 | About this edition: George Chapman, also known as Severin Klosowski, was a London poisoner who was hanged in 1903.
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9781523920662 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 31, 2016, cover price $12.94
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9781530229260 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 31, 2016, cover price $7.50
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9781473827189 | Pen & Sword, January 20, 2016, cover price $24.95
Product Description: Who was Saint Valentine, and how did he become the patron saint of lovers? Is it true that Valentineâs Day originated in a bawdy pagan festival? If it started in the Middle Ages, then how was the unfortunate Queen Anne of Bohemia involved? These and other questions are examined by author (and incurable romantic) Simon Webb in this entertaining book, which concludes with a convincing theory about how February 14th became a festival of romance...read more
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9781519387509 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 4, 2016, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: Who was Saint Valentine, and how did he become the patron saint of lovers?
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9781523460502 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 31, 2015, cover price $7.50
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9781523296767 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 31, 2015, cover price $7.50
Product Description: Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain. The great majority, over 80%, were hanged for murder, but in addition to this, 11 men were shot by firing squad at the Tower of London...read more
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9781473833975, titled "First World War Trials and Executions: Britainâs Traitors, Spies and Killers, 1914-1918" | Pen & Sword, December 19, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain.
Product Description: The History of King Richard III by Thomas More, the celebrated ‘man for all seasons’, gives us King Richard red in tooth and claw; every inch the merciless tyrant the Tudors wanted us to believe he was. The Langley Press edition of this neglected classic includes modern spelling and punctuation, and an introduction showing how the recent discovery of the king’s skeleton sheds light on More’s spectacular hatchet-job...read more
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9781519249869 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 6, 2015, cover price $14.26 | About this edition: The History of King Richard III by Thomas More, the celebrated ‘man for all seasons’, gives us King Richard red in tooth and claw; every inch the merciless tyrant the Tudors wanted us to believe he was.
Product Description: The Voyage of St Brendan, first written down over a thousand years ago, recounts the strange adventures of a sixth-century abbot and his crew of monks, as they wander the oceans for seven years in their sturdy leather boat. This edition also contains translated extracts from biographies of Brendan written in Latin and Irish, an introduction and suggestions for further reading...read more
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9781522787488 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2015, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: The Voyage of St Brendan, first written down over a thousand years ago, recounts the strange adventures of a sixth-century abbot and his crew of monks, as they wander the oceans for seven years in their sturdy leather boat.
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9781522948254 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2015, cover price $14.26
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9781522816805 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2015, cover price $13.37
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9781523206254 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2015, cover price $7.50
Product Description: With 100 colorful photographs of all sorts of forms of transport, including cars, trains, bikes, aircraft, boats, tractors, diggers and trucks, youngsters will enjoy adding all the stickers, familiarizing them with numbers from 1-100...read more
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9781907604812 | Stk edition (Award Pubns Ltd, August 15, 2015), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: With 100 colorful photographs of all sorts of forms of transport, including cars, trains, bikes, aircraft, boats, tractors, diggers and trucks, youngsters will enjoy adding all the stickers, familiarizing them with numbers from 1-100.
Product Description: With 100 colorful photographs of all sorts of forms of transport, including cars, trains, bikes, aircraft, boats, tractors, diggers and trucks, youngsters will enjoy adding all the stickers, familiarizing them with numbers 1-100, to create an exciting book they can keep...read more
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9781907604805 | Stk edition (Award Pubns Ltd, August 15, 2015), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: With 100 colorful photographs of all sorts of forms of transport, including cars, trains, bikes, aircraft, boats, tractors, diggers and trucks, youngsters will enjoy adding all the stickers, familiarizing them with numbers 1-100, to create an exciting book they can keep.
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9781783400645 | Pen & Sword, October 19, 2014, cover price $39.95
Product Description: When blind runner Simon Webb was training for his first marathon in London 2011, aware that he wouldn’t be able to pass the time during the race by admiring the sights of the city, he researched a few facts about some of the points of interest around the 26...read more
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9781496064264 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 27, 2014, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: When blind runner Simon Webb was training for his first marathon in London 2011, aware that he wouldn’t be able to pass the time during the race by admiring the sights of the city, he researched a few facts about some of the points of interest around the 26.
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9780312516772 | Priddy Bicknell Books, March 18, 2014, cover price $9.99
Product Description: What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles, or the Internet? Imagine a time when sharing music meant taking a gramophone record to your friend's house; when making a quick phone call could involve lining up outside a telephone booth! This book offers an affectionate and lighthearted look at the fads and fashions, music, hobbies, and TV programs which defined the â70s for many British youngsters...read more
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9780752488158 | Trafalgar Square, June 1, 2013, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles, or the Internet?
Product Description: Following the disruption, hardship, and challenges of the Second World War, the postwar years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. This new book follows the lives of the nation’s schoolchildren through the two decades following the war years, recalling what it was like for those experiencing the creation of a new school system; a system underpinned by the introduction of the 11 plus exam and the provision of free secondary education for all...read more
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9780752486376 | Trafalgar Square, April 1, 2013, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Following the disruption, hardship, and challenges of the Second World War, the postwar years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime.
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9780752482866 | Trafalgar Square, March 1, 2013, cover price $18.95
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