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Execution
The History Press 2011; US$ 21.86Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. This book explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means... more...
A 1960s East End Childhood
The History Press 2011; US$ 11.65Do you remember playing in streets free of traffic? Dancing to the Beatles? Watching a man land on the Moon on TV? Waking up to ice on the inside of the windows? If the answer is yes, then the chances are that you were a child in the 1960s. This delightful compendium of memories will appeal to all who grew up in the East End during the Swinging Sixties.... more...
Dynamite, Treason & Plot
The History Press 2011; US$ 21.86In the years since the 7/7 attacks on the London transport system, many people in Britain seem to have become convinced that we live in uniquely dangerous times and that the threat from terrorism has never been greater. In fact, terrorist attacks have been a feature of life in London for many years. The worst terrorist bombing in the capital before... more...
The Best Days of Our Lives
The History Press 2013; US$ 18.94Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. This new book follows the lives of the nation's schoolchildren through the two decades following the war years, recalling what it was like for those experiencing the creation... more...
A 1970s Teenager
The History Press 2013; US$ 14.57What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles or the Internet? Imagine a time when sharing music meant taking a gramaphone record round to your friend's house; when making a quick phone call could involved queuing outside a red telephone box! This book offers an affectionate and light-hearted... more...
The Colchester Book of Days
The History Press 2013; US$ 14.57Taking you through the year day by day, The Colchester Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different period in the history of Britain's oldest recorded town. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned... more...
Unearthing London
The History Press 2011; US$ 22.96Unearthing London reveals the amost-forgotten ritual landscape which lies beneath the streets of a modern city. It is the city nobody knows; a vast and intricate network of hilltop shrines, tracks, scared rivers, mounds, ditches, enclosures and man-made h more...
Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes
Ebury Publishing 2012; US$ 12.00High in the Pyrenees, a full day's hike from any trappings of civilisation, is no place for a human to be - unless you are searching for the time of your life. This is the roof of a mountain range that stretches from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean coasts, and provides some of the most breathtakingly beautiful landscape to be found in Europe.... more...
Hot Spot Pollutants
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 260.00Hot Spot Pollutants describes how pharmaceuticals and/or endocrine active compounds gain entry into the aquatic ecosystem, effects on specific organisms and the potential risk involved for the whole ecosystem. In addition it presents the latest views and developments regarding legal requirements for assessing the environmental risk of pharmaceuticals.... more...
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