Antonia: 412 books
A Walking Life
Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
For readers of On Trails: an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we've designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it
"I'm going for a walk." How often has this phrase been uttered by someone...
Gunpowder Plots
A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family.
This book draws on the...
by Professor Antonia Darder
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book serves as an important companion to Freire's seminal work, providing powerful insights into both a philosophically sound and politically inspired understanding of Freire's book, supporting application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today.
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by Antonia Chitty
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Are you making the most of social media to promote your business? In this short eBook discover three essential places to help you extend your business reach, beyond Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn is a great place to link up with other business contacts, but not all business owners make the most of it.
Motorcycle Messengers 2
Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Motorcycle Messengers 2 is another collection of stories from some of the leading writers in the motorcycle travel genre ... plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Rekindle memories of your own trips, find inspiration for new rides, or learn a few lessons from...
My History
A Memoir of Growing Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author shares vivid memories of her childhood and recalls the experiences that set her on the path to a writing life.
Ever since she received Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall as a Christmas present in 1936, Antonia Fraser's deep love of...
Black Tide
The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
A searing look at the human face of BP's disaster in the gulf
It is the largest oil disaster in American history, and it could happen again. It is more than a story of ruined beaches, dead wildlife, corporate spin, political machinations, and financial fallout. It is a riveting human drama...
The Weaker Vessel
Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous...
Choking on Marlon Brando
A Film Critic's Memoir About Love and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In this witty and bittersweet memoir, the film critic shares her misadventures as a lover of film stars who seeks movie romance in the real world.
Antonia Quirke was ten years old when she first saw Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. It was the first film she ever saw, and her reaction...
The Tyranny of Oil
The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Juhasz bravely and expertly exposes the inner workings of an industry and a government riddled with secrets, lies, and deception.”
—Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
In the tradition of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient...
The King and the Catholics
England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
From beloved historian Antonia Fraser comes the dramatic story of how Catholics in the United Kingdom won back their rights after two centuries of official discrimination.
In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread,...
Faith and Treason
The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce...
by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi, among others.
by Maria Antonia Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
CONTENTS Preface Translation of the Names of the Missions. CHIMES OF MISSION BELLS Chapter I. Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Preface In presenting this modest volume to the public, I wish to call the attention of my readers to the following...