Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years Bishop Eusebius a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine broke new ground in writing the History & provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians In tracing the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century & ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine his aim was to show the purity & continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity & its struggle against persecutors & heretics ...

' In the year of grace 1066 the Lord the ruler brought to fulfilment what He had long planned for the English people He delivered them up to be destroyed by the violent & cunning Norman race' Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting & bloody periods in English history the Norman Conquest & its aftermath He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings & the establishment of Norman rule His accounts pf the kings who reigned during his lifetime
- William II Henry I & Stephen
- contain unique descriptions of people & events Henry tells how promiscuity greed treachery & cruelty produced a series of disasters rebellions & wars Interwoven with memorable & vivid battle-scenes are anecdotes of court life the death & murder of nobles & the first written record of Cnut & the waves & the death of Henry I from a surfeit of lampreys Diana Greenway's translation of her definitive Latin text has been revised for this edition ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more

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The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands Colonies were established & a great empire grew Funding their ships & cargoes helped make the City of London into the world's leading financial centre In the 19th century a vast network of docks was created for ever-larger ships behind high prison-like walls that kept them secret from all those who did not toil within Sail made way for steam as goods were dispatched to every corner of the world In the 19th century London was the world's greatest port city In the Second World War the Port of London became Hitler's prime target It paid a heavy price but soon recovered Yet by the end of the 20th century the docks had been transformed into Docklands a new financial centre The History of the Port of London A Vast Emporium of Nations is the fascinating story of the rise & fall & revival of the commercial river The only book to tell the whole story & bring it right up to date it charts the foundation growth & evolution of the port & explains why for centuries it has been so important to Britain's prosperity This book will appeal to those interested in London's history maritime & industrial heritage the Docklands & East End of London & the River Thames ...

What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon 320 pages Saramago Jose ...

History is a rich varied & fascinating subject so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book until now Author Emma Marriott pulls it all together from the world's earliest civilizations to the founding of the United Nations in 1945 passing by the likes of Charlemagne the Ottoman Empire & the Crimean War to name a few 192 pages Marriott Emma ...

The trap is set Failure is not an option in the second book in the thrilling Will Robie series 592 pages Baldacci David ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Ever wish you had the chance to get back at the boss who undermined youthe spouse who cheated on youor the friend who deceived you? One night a down-on-his-luck businessman Allan Campbell (Cole Hauser) meets a mysterious stranger Jonas Arbor (Cuba Gooding Jr) who claims to be a professional hit man Jonas offers to take out five targets free of charge Thinking it&s a bad joke Allan jots down his own private hit list The next day the people he named start turning up dead & all the evidence points to Allen Hunted by the police & haunted by guilt Allan races against time to stop the murders he set in motion In this world vengeance always has a price ...

First a legendary radio series then a bestselling book now a blockbuser movie the immensely successful Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy needs no introduction Reissued to coincide with the film's release this hardback omnibus edition include all five parts of the trilogy incorporating for the first time Mostly Harmless along with a guide to the guide & essential notes on how to leave the planet This single hardback edition is indispensable for any would-be galactic traveller & for old & new fans of Douglas Adams Doctor Who & bestselling science fiction books ...

Introduced by Richard Dawkins & Nick Harkaway First a legendary radio series then a sequence of bestselling books & most recently a blockbuster movie The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the greatest fictional enterprises of the twentieth century Reissued in time for the first novel's thirty-fifth anniversary this hardback omnibus edition

Includes:: all five parts of the trilogy along with a wealth of extra material prefaced & contextualised by Jem Roberts the official biographer of Douglas Adams to complete the canon This unique hardback edition is indispensable for any would-be galactic traveller & a must-read for all Douglas Adams fans

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Fantastic box set containing the four films director Alfred Hitchcock made with the legendary Hollywood producer David O Selznick In ' Rebecca' Joan Fontaine stars as a young woman who after a brief Monte Carlo courtship & a rushed marriage returns with the handsome & mysterious Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) to his Cornish country estate Manderlay The new bride receives a hostile reaction from the housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson) & finds herself intimidated & overcome by the surviving traces of de Winter's first wife Rebecca Then as she becomes more & more unhappy she stumbles upon the secret of Rebecca's death In ' Notorious' Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is a social butterfly recruited by the American government to work as a spy in Rio de Janeiro in the years directly following World War Two Helped by fellow agent Devlin (Cary Grant)
- who soon falls in love with her
- she is ordered to seduce & marry Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains) a member of a covert group of exiled Nazis She succeeds in marrying Sebastian & uncovers a Nazi plot to stockpile uranium but when Sebastian himself realises who is wife is working for he begins to plot to get rid of her In ' Spellbound' psychiatrist Dr Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) is intrigued by the arrival of her new boss Dr Edwardes (Gregory Peck) Edwardes seems to be suffering from amnesia & when he faints it transpires that he is in fact an imposter & may be guilty of murdering the real Dr Edwardes Constance then sets about probing the imposter's psyche in an attempt to discover the truth Finally in ' The Paradine Case' barrister Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) is hired to defend the wealthy Mrs Paradine (Alida Valli) who has been accused of murdering her husband Keane finds himself falling in love with his client becoming obsessive about her to the exclusion of all else However the judge in the case (Charles Laughton) makes things difficult adopting a belligerent attitude towards Keane because he secretly desires the lawyer's wife (Ann Todd) Actors Laurence Olivier Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Directors Alfred Hitchcock Format Box set Dolby PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 4

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