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The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful ...

The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful ...

Jasper Ridley

Though not a mason himself, Jasper Ridley nonetheless refutes many of the outrageous allegations made against Freemasonry, while at the same time acknowledging the masons’ shortcomings: their clannishness, misogyny, obsession with secrecy ...
Maximilian and Juarez

Maximilian and Juarez

Jasper Ridley

"Jasper Ridley has written a riveting account of an episode which is exciting throughout and tragic at the end; it is also essential reading to understand the history of the United States today."--Antonia Fraser.
Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

Jasper Ridley

First published in 1962, Jasper Ridley’s biography of Thomas Cranmer, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I, examines the attitude of Cranmer’s biographies and critics from ...
Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue

Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue

Jasper Ridley

From the biographer of Henry VIII, an appraisal of his youngest daughter, the woman who would rule England during its golden age.
A Brief History of the Freemasons

A Brief History of the Freemasons

Jasper Ridley

This book separates myth from truth and describes the development of the society from its origins amongst the masons working upon the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages.
Mussolini: A Biography

Mussolini: A Biography

Jasper Ridley

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two decades.
Lord Palmerston

Lord Palmerston

Jasper Ridley

Lord Palmerston was one of the most successful of all British politicians.
A Brief History of the Tudor Age

A Brief History of the Tudor Age

Jasper Ridley

From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age.
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

Peter Godwin

Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a government-employed doctor, his father an engineer.
Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England's Terror

Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England's Terror

Jasper Ridley

A gripping acount of Mary Tudor and her reign of terror details her ascension to the English throne in 1553, her restoration of Roman Catholicism, her marriage, and her inability to conceive a child, which led to the fires at Smithfield ...
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

William Godwin

(London, 1992). The Diary of William Godwin, ed. Victoria Myers, David O'' Shaughnessy, and Mark Philp (Oxford, 2010), . Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, ed. F. E. L. Priestley, 3 vols. (Toronto, 1946). The Letters of William Godwin, 1 vol. to date (Oxford, 2011–), i: 1778– 1797, ed. Pamela Clemit (Oxford, 2011). The Plays of William Godwin, ed. David O''Shaughnessy (London, 2010). Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin, ed.
Jasper's Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies

Jasper's Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies

Herbert Henri Jasper

Prev. ed.: Jasper's basic mechanisms of the epilepsies / editors, Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta ... [et. al.]. 3rd. ed. c1999.
Vincent River

Vincent River

Philip Ridley

Ridley has a cult status among many young theater goers and a strong cult following.
The Plays of William Godwin

The Plays of William Godwin

David O''Shaughnessy

This book offers academics the chance to build a complete picture of Godwin as a writer and political figure.
Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human

Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human

Matt Ridley

Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome.
Down to Earth: A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems

Down to Earth: A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems

Matt Ridley

This volume brings together a selection of 30 of Dr Ridley's 'Down to Earth' columns which appeared in The Sunday Telegraph.
Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers Illustration Art Auction #604

Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers Illustration Art Auction #604

Ivy Press

FRANK GODWIN(1889-1959) Ociginal Magazine Stoty Illustcation, c. 1930 Pen and ink on papet I/iin. x 25in. (sight size) Signed at the lowet tight: Ftank Godwin Pcovenance: Motns Weiss collection 25090 FRANK GODWIN (1889-1959) ...
William Godwin and the Theatre

William Godwin and the Theatre

David O''Shaughnessy

This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.
When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace.
The Origins of Virtue

The Origins of Virtue

Matt Ridley

What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

By picking one newly discovered gene from each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine.
The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

Peter Godwin

Told with Godwin’s brilliant eye for detail and natural story-telling gifts, this tale of corruption and violence is punctuated by moments of humour and goodwill, and populated by extraordinary characters whose lives have been shaped by ...
Game

Game

Barry Lyga

And he taught Jasper every trick he knows. A series of gruesome murders in New York gives Jasper the chance to prove that he’s not his father’s son. It’s time to hunt a killer. But the game has just begun.

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