Arisiag & Morar, Norse & Gaelic, the 'river-mouth bay' & the 'great water', an area so rugged & desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. Where, despite clearance & emigration, potato blight & deer forest, poverty & hardship, a new road & railway were eventually driven, a fishing indus ...

Aristocracies dominated the social, economic, & institutional history of all European countries until only a few generations ago. William Doyle strips away the myths & beliefs which have always surrounded them, looking at how these very distinctive go ...

For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws & guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery & extremes of both selflessness & greed. James also illuminates how the aristocracy's infatuation with classical art has forged our heritage, how its love of sport has shaped our pastimes & values
- & how its scandals have entertained the public. Impeccably researched, balanced & brilliantly entertaining, ARISTOCRATS is an enthralling history of power, influence & an extraordinary knack for survival. This book has 448 pages & is 12.8 x 3.3 x 19.5 cm
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Helps readers learn to unravel the circuitous claptrap of politicos ranging from Caesar to Condoleezza Rice, & Genghis Khan to Al Sharpton. This title enables you to learn how to identify tricks such as the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy & the Fallacy Fallacy or Argumentum ad Logicam. ...

When Tex Scarron, six foot of whipcord & steel, rode home to the Bar X in Arizona, he found Parson Dean & his gang working a lucrative 'protection' racket. Tex's earlier experience fighting hoodlums came in handy, & the gunplay was fast & furious before he rid the territory of the Parson, solved the mystery that lay behind the racket. ...

This title teaches you the most aesthetic & yet devastating finishes of all: the bars & locks. It covers arm bars, face bars, leg/ankle/foot bars, finger locks, neck cranks from every position, all used to control or ultimately destroy an opponent on the ground. ...

The author of the MASTERS OF THE SEA series, is back with a standalone battle book that will blow all others out of the water. 1587. Two nations are locked in bitter conflict. One strives for dominance, the other for survival. After decades of religious strife, Elizabeth sits on the throne of Engl&. The reformation continues. Catholic revolts have been ruthlessly quashed, & Elizabeth has ordered the execution of her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. On the continent bloody religious wars rage, but England stands apart, her surrounding seas keeping her safe from the land armies of her would-be enemies. Only at sea do the English show their teeth. Sea captains & adventurers, hungry for the spoils of trade from the Spanish Main, regularly attack the gold-laden galleons of Catholic Spain. They are terriers nipping at the feet of war-horses but their victories disrupt the treasury of Spain, England's greatest threat, & Elizabeth's refusal to rein in her sea-captains further antagonises Philip II. Thomas Varian is a captain in Drake's formidable navy, rising quickly through the ranks. But he guards a secret ...

Presents a collection of twelve writings on war & peace that range from a recollection of the destruction of Dresden in WW II to a short story about 3 privates & their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. ...

Details: But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance
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Comedy starring John Candy. Frank Dooley (Candy) is an ex-cop, thrown out of the force after being framed by corrupt colleagues. Norman Kane (Eugene Levy) is an out-of-work attorney who quit because he lost his nerve. Both men turn to a private security f ...