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Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Do Not Show Charles King Charles King discusses Gods of the Upper Air : How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth ... to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves. About the author: Charles King ...

King Charles III
Written by Mike Bartlett
Paperback 128 Pages
Drama
January 2016 |

before him. But how to rule? Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play, King Charles III ... Communications Group (Drama) 9781559365307 King Charles III ... Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son Charles ascends the throne ...

Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor
Written by Catherine Mayer
Hardcover 272 Pages
British & Irish
February 2015 |

of hearts, he often creates heartache, for himself and others. Born to Be King explains how and why Charles ... Company (British & Irish) 9781627794381 Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor ... A provocative, surprising, and utterly fresh portrait of Charles, Prince of Wales He is one ...

The White King: Charles I and the English Civil War
Written by Leanda De Lisle
Hardcover 464 Pages
British & Irish
August 2017 |

of the population died than in World War I. At the head of the disintegrating kingdom was King Charles I. ... The White King: Charles I and the English Civil War ... story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life. Less than ...

Written by Charles Spencer
Hardcover 336 Pages
British & Irish
May 2018 |

In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed ... based on extensive archive material, Charles Spencer, bestselling author of Killers of the King , uses ...

Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Written by Charles Spencer
Paperback 352 Pages
British & Irish
February 2016 |

9781620409145 Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I ... Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell's army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. ... at the castle. Yet still the king refused to accept he had lost the war. As France and other allies mobilized ...

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Written by George Cooper
Hardcover 204 Pages
Economics
March 2014 |

show how to do this for economics: Charles Darwin, the man who discovered evolution, and William Harvey, doctor to King Charles I and the first man to understand blood flow and the workings of the human ...

A King Condemned:The Trial and Execution of Charles I
Written by C V Wedgwood
Paperback 253 Pages
British & Irish
June 2011 |

9781848856882 A King Condemned:The Trial and Execution of Charles I ... The reign of Charles I, defined by religious conflict, a titanic power struggle with Parliament, and culminating in the English Civil Wars, the execution of the king, and the brief abolition of the monarchy, ...

The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
Written by Don Jordan
Hardcover 400 Pages
European
August 2016 |

9781681771687 Jordan, Don 2016-08-02 Pegasus Books (European) 9781681771687 The King's Revenge: Charles II ... When Charles I was executed, his son made it his role to seek out retribution, producing ... years. When he ascended to the throne in 1660 as Charles II, his search for revenge intensified, ...

The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II
Written by Don Jordan
BB 368 Pages
European
March 2016 |

of Charles II reveals much about the man he was and why he lived and ruled as he did. The King's Bed ... Books (European) 9781605989693 The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II ... To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life ...

The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II
Written by Don Jordan
Paperback 368 Pages
European
June 2017 |

(European) 9781681774275 The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II ... To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life ... courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom.Charles ...

Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Written by Linda Porter
Hardcover 448 Pages
European
February 2018 |

Renegades , Porter examines the turbulent lives of the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars. The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son as Charles II eleven years later. But what happened to the king's six ...

Little Guides to Great Lives: Charles Darwin
Written by Dan Green
Paperback 64 Pages
Biographies
Middle Grade (8-12)
September 2022 |

Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution caused both outrage and wonder, and quickly made him ... Dan 2022-09-13 Laurence King (Biographies, Middle Grade (8-12)) 9781510230293 Little Guides to Great Lives: Charles Darwin ...

The Tyrannicide Brief:The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
Written by Geoffrey Robertson
Paperback 464 Pages
British & Irish
October 2007 |

and love of civil liberties gave him the courage to bring the king to trial. As a result, Charles I ... Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above ...

Ray Charles
Written by Stephane Ollivier
WW 28 Pages
African American Nonfiction
Art, Music & Dance
December 2016 |

Follow Ray Charles's rise from humble beginnings, overcoming hardship, loss, and blindness to become the undisputed king of rhythm 'n' blues. Each spread relates a different stage of his ... American Nonfiction, Art, Music & Dance) 9781851034444 Ray Charles ...

Charles I's Killers in America: The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe
Written by Matthew Jenkinson
Hardcover 288 Pages
European
August 2019 |

When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum ... a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. Charles I's Killers in America traces the gripping story of two of these men -- Edward ...

Rene-Charles: NYC: Little Bulldog in the Big City
Written by Evan Cuttic
Hardcover 184 Pages
Pets
September 2016 |

City tastemaker. Whether he's dining at the finest restaurants or luxuriating in his king ... 9780762460014 Rene-Charles: NYC: Little Bulldog in the Big City ...

Charles I and the People of England
Written by David Cressy
Hardcover 416 Pages
British & Irish
June 2015 |

The story of the reign of Charles I -- told through the lives of his people. Prize-winning ... courts, to explore the aspirations and expectations not only of the king and his followers, but also ... parish politics and ecclesiology, military, cultural, and social history, Charles I and the People ...

Charles Darwin
Written by Dan Green
Hardcover 64 Pages
Biographies
October 2018 |

2018-10-02 Laurence King (Biographies) 9781786272959 Charles Darwin ... Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution caused both outrage and wonder, and quickly made him one of the most famous men in history. From his five-year voyage across the high seas to 20 years ...

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Written by Anna Brett
Hardcover 64 Pages
Science, Nature & Math
February 2021 |

of evolution to apprentice naturalists everywhere. 9781786278869 Brett, Anna 2021-02-16 Laurence King (Science, Nature & Math) 9781786278869 Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species ...

Charles Williams: The Third Inkling
Written by Grevel Lindop
Hardcover 464 Pages
Literary Criticism
December 2015 |

This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary ... Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams--novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru--was ... writer, who still has a cult following. C.S. Lewis thought his poems on King Arthur and the Holy Grail ...

Turning the Black Sox White:The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey
Written by Tim Hornbaker
Hardcover 400 Pages
Sports & Games
Chicago
March 2014 |

Charles Albert "The Old Roman" Comiskey was a larger-than-life figure--a man who had ... Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York ... Turning the Black Sox White:The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey ...

Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Written by Sally Bedell Smith
Hardcover 624 Pages
British & Irish
April 2017 |

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new ... Charles, the oldest heir to the throne in more than three hundred years. This vivid, eye-opening ... authoritative treatment of Charles's life that sheds light on the death of Diana, his marriage to Camilla, ...

Papi and the King
Written by Mark Heath Howard
Paperback 28 Pages
Picture Books (3-7)
September 2019 |

Things get really interesting when a protective Chihuahua and a friendly Cavalier King Charles Spaniel meet a new addition to the family. 9781691506859 Howard, Mark Heath 2019-09-10 Independently Published (Picture Books (3-7)) 9781691506859 Papi and the King ...

Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty
Written by Jr Charles R Smith
Hardcover 40 Pages
September 2021 |

Charles R. Smith Jr. scores another slam dunk. What's your game? Can you fly like Blake Griffin? ... poems infused with his indomitable wordplay, Charles R. Smith Jr. captures the agility and finesse ... inspiration at the end. 9781536210354 Smith, Charles R, Jr. 2021-09-21 Candlewick Press (MA) 9781536210354 ...