"This biography also adds considerable information about Russell's private life, which has not appeared in any previous biography, much of it based in private letters not heretofore used by historians."--BOOK JACKET.
Way out in the Atlantic, a gigantic ridge of land has arisen from the ocean floor, causing America and Europe to be hit with massive tidal waves. But this is only the prelude to an even more unprecedented event: an invasion of both continents by hordes of prehistoric monsters! Then reports come in of a gigantic domed city resting on the newly risen plateau, whilst out in space a spacecraft of unknown design is spotted orbiting the Earth. Are these occurrences connected? That's the mystery and challenge facing Violet Ray Brant, The Golden Amazon and self-appointed Governess of Earth. But even this superwoman will struggle to unravel the maze of mystery that's the deadly legacy of ancient Atlantis! The thrilling second volume in the Golden Amazon Saga.
This is a book about memory and the city of London, where the author lived for nearly 50 years. The book offers a tour of the key aspects of the city and its notable citizens throughout the centuries. A combination of text and illustrations from the likes of Canaletto, Tissot, Hogarth and Rowlandson, show the city's diversity and development.
A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engineered the defeat of the Russians in the Crimean War, and played a major role in the development of liberalism and the Liberal Party. This comprehensive biography, informed by unprecedented research in the statesman's personal archives, gives full weight not only to Palmerston's foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestic political activity, political thought, life as a landlord, and private life and affairs. Through the lens of the milieu of his times, the book pinpoints for the first time the nature and extent of Palmerston's contributions to the making of modern Britain.
"The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Russell on Religion presents a comprehensive and accessible selection of Bertrand Russell's writing on religion and related topics from the turn of the century to the end of his life. The influence of religion pervades almost all Bertrand Russell's writings from his mathematical treatises to his early fiction. Russell contends with religion as a philosopher, as a historian, as a social critic and as a private individual. The papers in this volume are arranged chronologically for optimum coherence of the development of Russell's thinking and are divided into five main sections: * Personal statements * Religion and Philosophy * Religion and Science * Religion and Morality * Religion and History. Students at all levels will find this a valuable insight into Russell's thought on religion.