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Changing Conceptions of National Biography
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 15.00In his Leslie Stephen Lecture the great historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of the Oxford DNB itself, a project with which he himself has been closely involved since its inception. more...
The Ends of Life
Oxford University Press, UK 2009; US$ 18.99The Ends of Life examines the ways in which English men and women between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries sought to lead fulfilling lives. In doing so it illuminates the central values of the period, while at the same time throwing incidental light on some of the perennial problems of human existence. - ;How should we live? That question... more...
Man and the Natural World
Penguin Books Ltd 1991; Not AvailableAn account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800, and comparing and contrasting this with our present attitude towards it. more...
Religion and the Decline of Magic
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableWitchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion,... more...
The Ends of Life
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 24.95How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday... more...
Riding the Corporate Ladder
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2007; US$ 6.99Riding the Corporate Ladder more...
The Finley Sisters' Oath of Romance
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2011; US$ 6.99Ten years ago, Mona, Rene and Dawn were the closest and most popular friends at Finley High School. Everyone knew they would be kindred spirits forever, but after graduation the real world lured them in three different directions, and the trio has little contact until their high school reunion. The girls, now women, are instantly inseparable again,... more...
Fixing Tyrone
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2011; US$ 6.99Mia used to have a taste for thugs and hoodlums, but now she's moved on. All the thug life gave her was two fatherless children and a lifetime's worth of heartbreak. She's finally turned her life around and is making a go of it as a successful single mother when she gets a letter: Tyrone, the father of one of her children, is gettingout... more...
A Good Dude
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2011; US$ 6.99Candace shouldÕve listened to her father. He warned her about gangster rappers and forbade her to go to RillaÕs concert, but his strong guidance only fueled her defiance. Candace sneaked to the show anyway, and, at seventeen, she got the thrill of her life when Rilla invited her onstage for a special serenade. Candace gave herself to him... more...
Blow by Blow
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2012; US$ 6.99Lanisha Elder thought she found a diamond in the rough. Her sexy boxer beau has nine first-round knock-outs under his belt, and Lonzo put a ring on her finger, promising to never stray as he pursues his championship dreams. But its hard to keep a roof over their heads in the meantime. Strapped for cash, Lonzo goes to work for a notorious crime... more...









