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GebondenEngels9780198121640
28-9-1995
The masque had a brief but splendid life as the dominant mode of entertainment at the early Stuart court, and it has increasingly come to be recognized as a genre offering a fascinating insight into the culture and politics of the early seventeenth century. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415144247
13-6-1996
David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415052061
21-10-1993
David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107044098
17-9-2020
The First Quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor is the most fascinatingly problematic of all the early Shakespearean texts. Was it an authorial first draft? Meer
gebondenEngels512 blz.9781107076938
26-10-2017
This is a comprehensive and accessible reference source that documents the theoretical and practical aspects of all the key deterministic and stochastic reserving methods that have been developed for use in general insurance. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367640613
1-6-2022
This is the first book to take an in-depth look at parkrun - the free, weekly, timed 5km run on a Saturday morning - and to examine why its participants love it so much and why it has been such an astonishing success. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367640637
1-6-2022
This is the first book to take an in-depth look at parkrun - the free, weekly, timed 5km run on a Saturday morning - and to examine why its participants love it so much and why it has been such an astonishing success. Meer
gebondenEngels9781137578587
30-1-2016
In this narrative history, David E. Lindsey gives the reader a ringside seat to a century of policies at the US Federal Reserve. Alternating between broad historical strokes and deep dives into the significance of monetary issues and developments, Lindsey offers a fascinating look into monetary policymaking from the Fed's inception in 1913 to today. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515128
7-8-2008
‘I was just a freelance hero doing his best in a hard world.’The spirit of adventure calls Falco on a new spying mission for the Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515173
5-2-2009
In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515234
4-4-2013
But when his girlfriend, Helena, arrives carrying a batch of old copies of the Daily Gazette – with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal – Falco is forced to admit to Petronius his real reasons for being there…‘Infamia’, the pen name of the scribe who writes the gossip column for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099493839
7-2-2008
she acquires a mystery illness – then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest. Falco is pitted against his old rival, the Chief Spy Anacrites, in a race to find the fugitive before her presence angers the public and makes the government look stupid. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515081
7-2-2008
Easier said than done, thinks Falco, as he makes his uneasy way down the Rhenus, trying to forget that back in sunny Rome his girlfriend Helena Justina is being hotly pursued by Titus Caesar. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515159
5-2-2009
Nothing unusual in that…’Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked – by a gruesomely severed human hand. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515050
7-2-2008
The detective Marcus Didius Falco is cynically eyeing up the new Roman emperor, Vespasian. He rescues a young girl in trouble and is catapulted into a dangerous game involving stolen imperial ingots, a dark political plot and, most hazardous of all, a senator's daughter connected to the traitors Falco has sworn to expose. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515067
7-2-2008
They have been sent to investigate the murderous members of a failed coup, now sunning themselves in luxurious villas and on fancy yachts. The idyllic seaside location further complicates his seemingly doomed romance with Helena Justina. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515197
4-4-2013
‘To find a drowned man head-first down a well was slightly unusual, exciting maybe.’For Falco, a relaxed visit to Helena’s relatives in Britain turns serious at the scene of a downtown murder. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099515258
4-4-2013
‘He has no money, no reputation and no famous ancestors.’The love story of the Emperor Vespasian, who brought peace to Rome after years of strife, and his mistress, the freed slave woman Caenis, this book recreates Ancient Rome’s most turbulent period – the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero and Vespasian’s rise to power. Meer