House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France 9781541604773, 9781541604759

House of Lilies 9781541604773, 9781541604759

“A joy to read…one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years” (Dan Jones, Sunday Times),

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The Fall of the House of Murdoch: Fourteen Days That Ended a Media Dynasty 9781908717436, 1908717432

Follows the exposes, resignations and arrests resulting from an extraordinary series of events that has shaken the estab

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The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of

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The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty 9780755624379, 9781784531768

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisi

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The House of Godwine: The History of a Dynasty 1472598903, 9781472598905

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The House That Jacob Built 9781608934591, 9781608934584

In 1940, the 1780-farmhouse that noted Maine essayist and curmudgeon John Gould’s great-grandfather built burned to the

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The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty 9780300225655

A fascinating history of the family behind the popular firearm that changed America and the world Arguably the world’s

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House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty 9780297857631, 0297857630

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Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made Of 9783839462003

Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly

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16 Marriages That Made History

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