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The young Victoria
Par Alison Plowden. 1981
Victoria's early years at Kensington Palace where she was brought up by her German mother in an atmosphere of family…
feuds, her succession to the throne at the age of 18 and marriage to Albert when she was twenty. 1981.The woman he loved
Par Ralph G Martin. 1973
A dramatic account of the famous couple, Wallis Warfield of Baltimore and King Edward VIII of England, before and after…
the king's abdication. The author reveals how their romance affected families, friends, adversaries, and lovers. 1974, c1973.The Windsor secret: new revelations of the Nazi connection
Par Peter Allen. 1983
It is well-known that the Duke of Windsor was a Nazi sympathizer, and met with Hitler and Goring in 1937.…
In this book, Allen looks at this meeting, but also includes the disclosure of a 1940 meeting in Lisbon between the Duke of Windsor and Hess. c1983. Uniform title: Crown and the swastikaThe unruly queen: the life of Queen Caroline
Par Flora Fraser. 1996
The universe from flat earth to quasar (Pelican Ser.)
Par Isaac Asimov. 1983
The noted scientist and science fiction author explores the exciting implications of black holes, taking the reader on an engaging…
tour from the atom's innermost core to the outermost reaches of the universe. 1983.The turning point: science, society, and the rising culture
Par Fritjof Capra. 1982
The physicist author contends that the mechanistic world view of Cartesian-Newtonian is outdated and dangerous in the modern world. He…
espouses a new holistic vision of reality more in keeping with our technological and social advances. 1982.A groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics…
to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes. Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman's overview of current research as we attempt to build a 'theory of everything', but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory. 2008.The six wives of Henry VIII
Par Alison Weir. 1991
A collective biography of the six women who were married to Henry VIII. Weir gives a flavour of life in…
Tudor England and tells of the ceaseless plotting in and around the royal court during a reign which was tempestuous and bloody, yet extraordinary in its tone and influence. 1991.The secret file of the Duke of Windsor
Par Michael Bloch. 1988
Using secret papers from the Duke of Windsor's archives, confided many years ago to his lawyers with a view to…
publication eventually, this book sets out to tell the whole story of his exile, his bitter relationship with his family and his passionate but unsuccessful efforts to return to England with the woman he loved. It sheds new light on the paradoxical role of royalty in the modern world. 1988.The Royal family at war (Charnwood Large Print Ser.)
Par Theo Aronson. 1993
This is a very readable account of the contribution made to the United Kingdom during World War II, not only…
by George VI and Queen Elizabeth, but also by the entire royal family. These contributions strengthened and popularized the monarchy. 1993.The royals
Par Kitty Kelley. 1997
This unauthorized biography covers the lives of the members of England's House of Windsor from 1917, when the family name…
was changed to conceal its German roots, to the 1990s and the divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Kelley interviewed past and present Crown employees, royal friends and relatives, and members of Parliament. c1997.The quantum labyrinth: how Richard Feynman and John Wheeler revolutionized time and reality
Par Paul Halpern. 2017
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his…
teaching assistant. The soft-spoken Wheeler was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet a lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born that led to a complete rethinking of the nature of time and reality. 2017.The Queen Mother
Par Elizabeth Longford. 1981
The Queen behind the throne
Par Michael De-la-Noy. 1994
The author examines both the achievements and the foibles of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who has been called the most…
loved and admired member of Britain's Royal Family. The Queen Mother's influence on the monarchy has been considered decisive, but the author questions whether it has always been a force for good. 1994.The physics of hockey
Par Alain Haché. 2002
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play hockey, but consider this: the same universal principles that sent…
men to the moon also go into launching a slapshot, crashing into the boards, accelerating across the blue line, or cutting down a shooter's angle. The author, a physicist, explores and explains the science behind the game, including how a sharpened blade glides on ice, or why Bobby Hull's slapshot zipped through the atmosphere so much faster than his modern counterparts' did. Haché even includes explanations on how a Zamboni works. 2002.The Princes of Wales
Par Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. 1982
The prince of Wales: a biography
Par Jonathan Dimbleby. 1994
For this remarkable study of the heir to the British throne, Jonathan Dimbleby was given unprecedented access to his subject.…
As well as spending many hours in wide ranging and candid conversations with Prince Charles, the author has interviewed scores of people, including his personal staff and close friends, most of whom have never talked openly about the prince before. The author has also drawn freely from the prince's own archives, including more than 10,000 letters, private journals and diaries, none of which have hitherto been made public. 1994.The princes in the tower
Par Alison Weir. 1995
The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the young King Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of…
York, is one of the great mysteries of English history, one with profound moral and social consequences, and rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. This re-examination of the evidence - including that against the princes' uncle, Richard III, reconstructs the whole chain of events leading to their murder and sets out to reveal how, why, and by whose order they died. 1995.The Poison King: the life and legend of Mithradates, Rome's deadliest enemy
Par Adrienne Mayor. 2010
Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen…
after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman citizens in 88 BC, he seized Greece and modern-day Turkey. Fighting some of the most spectacular battles in ancient history, he dragged Rome into a long round of wars and threatened to invade Italy itself. His uncanny ability to elude capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals. Descriptions of violence. 2010.Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the…
mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and explains why this discovery is so important, and what it means for the future of physics. 2013.