Satow: 10 books
The Plaza
The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row.
From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode...
Diplomat in Japan
An Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
A fascinating inside account of the epic clash between the Japanese in the West in its earliest days.
Sir Ernest Satow entered the British diplomatic service in 1861, a fresh graduate of London University, shortly arriving in Yokohama as the pressure of the Western powers heightened to force...
by Roberta Satow
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Lilly and Gertie Abramovitz unwittingly gave access to Ramon Mercader to plunge an ice pick into the back of Leon Trotsky's neck. Based on a true story, Two Sisters of Coyoacán brings the conflicts of the artistic, intellectual and political world of New York, Paris and Coyoacán, Mexico in the 1930’s...
by Barbara Satow
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Expected to marry within the family, the Woodrow sisters don't circulate among the ton. Getting their portrait painted in an artist's studio is a treat, especially when the artist is the handsome and notorious Stephen Mills. While Lady Samantha smiles and Lady Georgiana flirts, it's the introspective...
by Barbara Satow
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Lord Castleton hardly expects to find love on the fringes of Polite Society. But when an injury sidelines him to the corner of ton functions, the dashing baron discovers his ideal woman in the person of Miss Portia Kirby. While his friendship flatters the intriguing spinster, Portia...
by Barbara Satow
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Sarah Christopher is desperate to expose Sylvie Girard’s true nature. The alluring Frenchwoman is an expert at using her feminine wiles to get what she wants, and has set her sights on ensnaring the affections of Sarah’s brother Frederick. Only Arthur Ponsby seems immune to Sylvie’s charm....
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...
Doing the Right Thing
Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even If They Didn't Take Care of You
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
Now in paperback, one of the first books to help navigate the profound emotional challenges of caring for elderly parents in a strained parent-child relationship.
by Satow
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Ernest Mason Satow
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
My thoughts were first drawn to Japan by a mere accident. In my eighteenth year an elder brother brought home from Mudie's Library the interesting account of Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan by Lawrence Oliphant, and the book having fallen to me in turn, inflamed my imagination with pictures...