Invertebrates

Richard C. Brusca

Wendy Moore

Gonzalo Giribet

Oxford University Press Academic US

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, A good, near very good, clean and sound copy in black cloth boards, gilt title on spine with a good dust jacket. viii, 373 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.. Mary Eleanor Bowes became one of Britain's richest heiresses at the age of eleven. Pregnant with her lover's child and with her first husband dead, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney, who had defended her honour in a duel with the Revd Henry Bate, the 'Fighting Parson'. Mary was bowled over and married Andrew Stoney within the week, having been told that his death was imminent. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney survived, he was broke and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Even the famous duel was a fake. Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home and kidnapping his own sister. But finally after many years, a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day and was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her and undertook a week-long rampage of terror and cruelty until the law finally caught up with him. Biographies and Autobiographies.. Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-359) and index.. .

History

World

Europe

Phoenix

Briefly describes the history and geography of Malaysia, identifies points of interest, and offers advice on shopping, dining, entertainment, and travel

Malaysia: Land of Spice and Tropical Splendor (Asian Guides Series)

Asia

NTC Pub. Group

Into The Void. With Ace Frehley

Pitbull Publishing

Moore Recipes to Love

David, Moore

Self-published

The remarkable story of one woman's triumph over years of appalling violence and abuse' DAILY EXPRESS. Wedlock will be featured as one of the best reads in the new TV Book Club viewing on Channel 4 in March.

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The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of brandy. Onto this scene came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, Elliotson was determined to transform medicine from a hodge-podge of archaic remedies into a practice informed by the latest science. In this aim he was backed by Thomas Wakley, founder of the new magazine, the Lancet , and a campaigner against corruption and malpractice. Then, in the summer of 1837, a French visitor - the self-styled Baron Jules Denis Dupotet - arrived in London to promote an exotic new idea: mesmerism. The mesmerism mania would take the nation by storm but would ultimately split the two friends, and the medical world, asunder - throwing into focus fundamental questions about the fine line between medicine and quackery, between science and superstition.

The Mesmerist

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Out of the Void

Moore

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