Alexander 1, ruler of Russia for the first quarter of the 19th century, is remembered: as the Tsar who refused to make peace with the French when Moscow fell in 1812...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:520
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780719566400
For centuries the East End has been synonymous with poverty and sweated labour, with Cockney solidarity and popular protest. The poverty is still there but now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
For centuries the East End has been synonymous with poverty and sweated labour, with Cockney solidarity and popular protest. The poverty is still there but now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:220
"Fictional Minds" suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:276
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780803218352
"Fictional Minds" suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process...more details Format:Paperback Pages:276
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9781841196343
By 1812, when Napoleon invaded Russia, his empire covered most of Europe. The invasion was to be its crowning glory. Instead it ended in disaster...more details Format:Paperback
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780719562877
We pass through the legendary castles of Elsinore and Halsingborg to enter the Baltic world. From early Viking days and then under the Byzantine empire...more details Format:Hardback Pages:464
In the days of sail Viking longships and Hanse roundships plied the waters of the Baltic, and for centuries the area formed the axis of a five-nation power struggle...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:464
This history of the 20th century covers events up to June 1998. The text is organized alphabetically for ease of reference and has been updated with over 70 new entries....more details Format:Paperback Pages:576
Distinguished biographer and historian of modern Europe Alan Palmer tells the story of the war in Flanders as a conflict that has left a deep social and political mark on the history of Europe...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780814211410
Social Minds in the Novel is the highly readable sequel to Alan Palmer’s award-winning and much-acclaimed "Fictional Minds." Here he argues that because of its undue emphasis on the inner...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:220
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780571256099
A study of traditional diplomacy at its peak of influence in the nineteenth-century and the first years of the twentieth. It focuses on the clashes of personality between crowned heads of the old empires and between rival statesmen and ambassadors seeking advancement...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780571278138
Offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire's decline from the failure to take Vienna in 1683 to the abolition of the Sultanate in 1922 by Mustafa Kemal...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780571275373
The East End as an idea is known to every Londoner, and to many others, though its boundaries are vague. This title provides a historical overview of the area that takes its extent to be the traditional limits of Hackney and Tower Hamlets...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:234
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780571255122
'The Gardeners of Salonika' as Clemenceau contemptuously labelled them, could well be called the forgotten army of the First World War. This book tells the story of this extraordinary polyglot army - it included...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:302
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780571258963
Presents a study of the political development over the last century and a half of the lands between Germany and Italy in the west and Russia in the east. This title focuses on six countries in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:424
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780199233281
The auditory brain is the second volume in the Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science. It brings together some of the leading authorities in the world to describe what we know about the brain bases of hearing. Following the first section on structure and function...more details Format:Hardback Pages:608
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780802137876
When an armistice was finally signed in the forest of Compiegne outside of Paris, the Great War had shuddered to an end, but not before it had been fought on three continents...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Alan Palmer
ISBN:9780297841241
"Victory 1918" is not only concerned with what happened in France and Flanders. There were four great armistices that autumn, as there had been battlefronts on three continents...more details Format:Hardback Pages:379
For the politically minded or even the mildly curious, this former mayor's volume offers insight and humour into the inner workings of small town government. It is a "how-to" book for the aspiring politician...more details Format:Paperback
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Alan Palmer;Martin Gilbert
ISBN:9780786712632
Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem, said Field-Marshal Prince Mikhail Kutuzov in September 1812, and then he predicted...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Alan Palmer;Veronica PalmerPalmer
ISBN:9780312220860
This major new reference book presents more than 700 biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries and richly illustrates the variety and complexity of the life of the period he lived. With its useful glossary of unusual terms...more details Format:Paperback Pages:306
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Alan Warwick Palmer
ISBN:9780571260331
Clement von Metternich held continuous office at the head of Europe's affairs for a longer period of time than any other statesman in modern history. The 'Age of Metternich' lasted for more than a generation...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:422
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Palmer Alan
ISBN:9780143504290
A delightfully quirky picture book that shows us short cuts aren't always the best way to solve your problems.
When Lucy gets tired of her mother demanding she does the dishes her clever solution only creates more problems...more details Format:Paperback / softback