Robert Blake - Böcker

When she hurts her paw on the fourth day of the race, Akiak can no longer compete in the Iditarod?the famed dogsledding race through 1,151 miles of Alaskan terrain. Her musher has no choice but to leave her behind. The rules say once a dog is drop...

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Illuminates 250 years of constitutional history by discussing the relations between the Prime Minister, the Crown, the Cabinet and both Houses of Parliament.

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Churchill was an extraordinary figure. There has never been anyone quite like him, and inevitably legends have accumulated. How can he be treated both realistically and fairly after so much has been written about his controversial career by himsel...

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Togo wasn't meant to be a sled dog--he's too feisty and independent. But he and his trainer are determined, and soon Togo becomes one of the fastest sled dogs in history. Full color.

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There is often confusion over the meaning and usage of terms such as efficiency, economy, effectiveness, optimization and perfection in biology. This book defines and discusses these concepts within a broad evolutionary perspective and considers h...

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There is often confusion over the meaning and usage of terms such as efficiency, economy, effectiveness, optimization and perfection in biology. This book defines and discusses these concepts within a broad evolutionary perspective and considers h...

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In his preface Robert Blake writes, 'The title of this book is taken from a remark attributed to Asquith after he had attended Bonar Law's funeral in Westminster Abbey. ''It is fitting,'' he is reputed to have said, ''that we should have buried th...

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First published in 1966, Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli is one of the supreme political biographies of the last hundred years. An outsider, a nationalist, a European, a Romantic and a Tory - Disraeli's story is an extraordinary one...

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Therewas no more appropriate person to write this book. Robert Blake was the doyen of Tory historians being most famous for his unsurpassed biography of Disraeli (to be reissued in Faber Finds). His history of the Conservative Party was first publ...

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Between the disintegration of the Liberal Party in 1915 and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour in 1964, Britain weathered a turbulent half-century including two world wars and many profound socio-political changes. What did not survive this tu...

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Between the disintegration of the Liberal Party in 1915 and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour in 1964, Britain weathered a turbulent half-century including two world wars and many profound socio-political changes. What did not survive th...

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'Lively and entertaining... [Disraeli's Grand Tour] concentrates on one colourful episode, or sequence of episodes, in the young Disraeli's life: the tour through the Mediterranean and Near East which he undertook with the man who was intended to ...

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'Lively and entertaining... [Disraeli's Grand Tour] concentrates on one colourful episode, or sequence of episodes, in the young Disraeli's life: the tour through the Mediterranean and Near East which he undertook with the man who w...

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Churchill was by no means a spontaneous orator, and it was claimed by one of his acolytes that for every minute of a speech he had prepared for an hour. Whether true or not, this suggests an incredibly serious approach to speech-making and its hig...

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The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a new foreword by Lord Lexden. Disraeli was one of the least orthodox of Prime Ministers. He was an adventurer who fought his way to the...

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Written in a style similar to the best-selling Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek On The Brain explores the customs, cognition and behaviour of the characters from the Star Trek films and episodes from the original Star Trek series, The Next Generati...

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Winston Churchill is probably still the best-known Prime Minster of Great Britain. Born at Blenheim Palace, he joined the army after Harrow, but in 1899 resigned his commission to report on the Boer War. Elected to Parliament in 1900, he served in...

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Life story of a career Marine officer decorated for valor in three wars. A memoir of war and peace in the U.S. Marine Corps in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Recipient of 2007 The Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award At fifteen, Earl Burrus Dickerson stowed away on a train in Canton, Mississippi, fleeing the racial oppression of his native South. But Chicago, the boy's destination, was no ha...

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New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education. Vol. 161 General Editors: Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg

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The Literacy Primer is devoted to the most recent topics in literacy studies, such as the meanings of literacy, the invention of alphabetic writing, a history of reading, the consequences of literacy, teaching the two modes of knowing - literary a...

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"Aprend a nunca permitir que me dijeran que no se poda hacer. Recuerden que mientras que tengan corazn, siempre tendrn la posibilidad de obtener el xito." Estas son las palabras de Roberto Renteria quien es el Vice-presidente y Funcionar...

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Het verloren legaat door Robert Blake Een opwindend avontuur vol intrige, romantiek, mysterie en spanning dat je in spanning zal houden vanaf de eerste bladzijde. Het verloren legaat Een levendige avonturenthriller vol spanning en mysterie die zic...

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