"A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel," by the poet-laureate of Santa Barbara, ranges through philosophy, art and history--both global and domestic--to skillfully chronicle the darkness that is our current age and condition...more details Format:Paperback Pages:67
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780312468668
How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama -- over the course of only one semester? In "Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief...more details Format:Paperback Pages:341
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007307722
The monarchy is one of Britain?s longest surviving institutions - as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:488
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007432004
The monarchy is one of Britain?s longest surviving institutions - as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:520
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780701169398
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, famed as England's most successful ruler yet actually doing little...more details Format:Hardback
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780701174767
This lavishly illustrated book ties in with a major international exhibition opening at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on 1 May 2003. Timed to commemorate the 400th anniversary since the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603...more details Format:Hardback
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007154784
A brilliant and compelling account of the apprentice years of Elizabeth I. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world...more details Format:CD-Audio
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780099286578
Published to accompany a Channel 4 series, Starkey turns the paradox into a person. This new approach to the enigma of Elizabeth's character presents a retelling of her reign...more details Format:Paperback
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780767046817
From Shakespeare to the Spanish Armada, the reign of Queen Elizabeth embraced some of the most important events and personalities in British history...more details Format:DVD
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780061367434
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler...more details Format:Paperback
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780060959517
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780867095746
Peter Elbow claims that "a good essay or biography requires just as much creativity as a good poem; and . . . a good poem requires just as much truth as a good essay." The contributors to "Genre by Example" would agree. Their book argues that creativity need not be muted simply to meet the perceived boundaries of the academic essay...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007288700
How and why did Henry VIII turn from a glamorous Renaissance prince into this country's greatest tyrant? David Starkey's magesterial concluding biography...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007247714
The first instalment of the highly anticipated biography of Henry VIII, written by one of the UK's most popular, established and exciting historians. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Henry's accession to the throne...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
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ISBN:9780007273355
The first instalment of the highly anticipated biography of Henry VIII, written by one of the UK's most popular, established and exciting historians. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Henry's accession to the throne...more details Format:CD-Audio
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780803260085
Political pundits never tire of reminding us of the great cultural divide between conservative "red" states and liberal "blue" ones. But common sense tells us that not all people in these states can be politically like-minded. David Starkey...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:344
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007259946
David Starkey's 'Monarchy' charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century. With both authority and verve...more details Format:CD-Audio
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007247660
David Starkey's thrilling new paperback charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007247509
David Starkey' s magisterial new book Monarchy charts the rise of the British crown from the insurgency of the War of the Roses, through the glory and dangers of the Tudors...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007201914
The thrilling launch of David Starkey's new mammoth venture - MONARCHY: three books linked to 18 hours of television on the Kings and Queens of England...more details Format:CD-Audio
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780701176785
Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English monarchy has meant...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780099445104
Henry VIII was almost never alone. He was surrounded, twenty four hours a day, by the small group of intimates and personal attendants who made up the staff of his Privy Chamber. They organised his daily life...more details Format:Paperback
THE QUEENS OF HENRY V111:Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: CATHERINE OF ARAGON the Catholic Spanish Princess, who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a son...She was the mother of Mary Tudor; ANNE BOLEYN...more details Format:Book
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007219322
What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary, says Dr David Starkey, the King was seeking happiness -- as well as hoping for a son....more details Format:Downloadable audio file
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007219315
What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary, says Dr David Starkey, the King was seeking happiness -- as well as hoping for a son....more details Format:Downloadable audio file
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David Starkey
ISBN:9781417628490
No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study...more details
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780060005504
No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study...more details Format:Paperback Pages:880
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780701172985
THE QUEENS OF HENRY V111:Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: CATHERINE OF ARAGON the Catholic Spanish Princess, who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a son...She was the mother of Mary Tudor; ANNE BOLEYN...more details Format:Hardback
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780867094329
"Teaching Writing Creatively" represents a challenge to conventional notions of genre. It seeks to break down the artificial, antiquated barriers between "creative" and "academic" writing...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007218776
The thrilling launch of David Starkey's new mammoth venture -- MONARCHY: three books linked to 18 hours of television on the Kings and Queens of England...more details Format:Downloadable audio file
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007218769
The thrilling launch of David Starkey's new mammoth venture -- MONARCHY: three books linked to 18 hours of television on the Kings and Queens of England...more details Format:Downloadable audio file
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David Starkey
ISBN:9780007155125
What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary, says Dr David Starkey, the King was seeking happiness -- as well as hoping for a son. The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon...more details Format:CD-Audio
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James P Carley;David Starkey
ISBN:9780712347914
King Henry VIII was one of the most intelligent and widely read monarchs of the renaissance. From surviving catalogues, which tell us what books he had...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:160
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Wendy Bishop;David Starkey
ISBN:9781893056084
"In recent years, the old connection between ars poetica and ars rhetorica has been reclaimed thanks in large measure to these two editors.....more details Format:Paperback Pages:228
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Wendy Bishop;David Starkey
ISBN:9780874216295
Wendy Bishop and David Starkey have created a remarkable resource volume for creative writing students and other writers just getting started. In two- to ten-page discussions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:219
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ISBN:9780060514303
No one in history has a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. He took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was 17. Their 24-year union was relatively stable...more details Format:CD
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David Starkey;Patricia Hodge
ISBN:9780060513511
No one in history has a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. He took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was 17. Their 24-year union was relatively stable...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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David Starkey;Rafael Peerea De La Cabada
ISBN:9781932482546
From North Dakota, where "emptiness / takes up a lot / of space," to Alabama, where a mother offers "nothing / Less than plenty," David Starkey's poems mark him as nothing less than a "fool / For life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:108
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David Starkey;P Ward
ISBN:9781872501895
This vast catalogue of the possessions of the Henry VIII on his death in 1547 contains c.18,000 entries; these range from the Crown jewels to bandages for the kings ulcerated leg The Inventory provides a huge amount of information for historians on the material success of Henry and his forebears...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:112
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REID CHR STARKEY DAVIDRAMSTER JOHN
ISBN:9781861761248
Fish and fishermen have played a fundamental role in the provision of food in England for the last 1,000 years and this work sets out to get to the heart of every aspect of England's fisheries. Fishing has always been a complex human activity. Seafood and diet...more details Format:Hardback
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David J Starkey
ISBN:9780859895330
"Exploiting the Sea" offers new perspectives on Britain's vital but changing relationship with the sea since the late nineteenth century. It assesses the significance to the British economy of sea-reliant industries such as shipping...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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David J Starkey;Michaela Holm PoulBarnard
ISBN:9781844075270
Rarely has humanity's underestimation of the impacts of its activities been so starkly demonstrated as in the marine environment. For centuries the seas appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:223
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David J Starkey;E S De Moor J AVan Eyck Van Heslinga
ISBN:9780859894814
Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or without the law. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such assaults reached new heights as the development of trans-oceanic empires increased massively the wealth and extent of sea-borne trade...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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Starkey David
ISBN:9780007307715
The monarchy is one of Britain?s longest surviving institutions - as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Starkey David
ISBN:9780007307708
The monarchy is one of Britain?s longest surviving institutions - as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole...more details Format:Hardback Pages:524