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This is the ultimate card-player's companion, crammed with over 300 pages of games to provide hours of entertainment. It includes a tricks section, which gives you ways to astound friends and family with your seemingly effortless skills. Both games and tricks cater for a range of...
Profiles over seventy people who broke the rules and smashed stereotypes, including such figures as Emma Gonzalez, Andy Warhol, Bjork, Hans Christian Andersen, and Sally Ride.
Three aging divas and their agent all hate each other, but since they are all desperate for money they agree to reunite for a television special.
20 million tourists are drawn to Rome--every year. They admire the Colosseum and St. Peter's Cathedral, sit down on the Spanish Staircase, and stroll along the Campo de Fiori. But the Eternal City offers still more: secrets, clandestine spots, stories sunk into oblivion. Why, for...
"Famous Phonies: Legends, Fakes, and Frauds Who Changed History is the first in a new nonfiction middle grade series that will explore the underbelly of history, making you question everything you thought you knew about history's finest. It's perfect for the history buff, the rel...
" Pope Joan has all the elements one wants in a historical drama - love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book." -Los Angeles Times Book Review In this international bestseller and basis for the 2009 movie of the same name , Do...
"Die junge Freya wird Zeuge, wie ihre von dänischen Wikingern entführte Mutter ermordet wird. Anschließend flieht sie gen Süden, getrieben von der Sehnsucht nach ihrem Großvater Gerold. Bald findet sie heraus, dass Gerold inzwischen in Rom lebt, als Schutzherr des Papstes. Ver...
"Describes several legends that have intrigued people for centuries: the lost civilization of Atlantis, the Amazons, King Arthur, St. Brendan, Pope Joan, and El Dorado"--Provided by publisher.
"A collection of wood engravings, accompanied by short pithy biographies, that showcase some of history's most peculiar figures. Westergard creates a rogue's gallery of notorious rebels and eccentrics like Rasputin, Pope Joan, and Ned Kelly as well as lesser-known oddballs. An in...
"The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category...
Tracing an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and "virtuosic" (The Wall Street Journal) writer explores the past and future of Christianity. Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Ega...
From "the world's greatest tour guide," a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul ( New York Times ). "What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and t...
An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history Born at a time w...
"What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." -Cokie Roberts "If this book doesn't quite settle th...