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“simon leyland”

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  • Witch, Please

    A Cultural History of Women Who Wouldn’t Behave

    de Simon Leyland ...
    A witty, culturally engaged history of the witch as one of Western society’s most enduring and adaptable figures.The witch has always functioned as a cultural screen onto which societies project their deepest anxieties about women, power, knowledge, sexuality, and autonomy. She emerges whenever female independence becomes unsettling, intelligible, or in need of explanation. She is simultaneously ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • A Splendidly Smutty Dictionary of Sex

    de Simon Leyland ...
    Did you know that women never wore knickers until the late 18th century? That Cleopatra reputedly invented the first vibrator? The rather odd history of the condom? What it means to give someone a green gown—and who was the first person to join the mile-high club?Within this paean to the world's favourite pastime, you will discover:• The "perils of self-pollution"• Why Popes had to have their ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Life of Vegetables

    The Hidden History Behind the World's Most Unassuming Foods

    de Simon Leyland ...
    A lively, erudite, and delightfully digressive tour through the secret lives of vegetables, revealing how humble plants have shaped our culture, cuisine, superstitions, language, politics, and even love.We think we know our vegetables. We chop them, roast them, forget them in the crisper drawer. But beneath their humble surfaces lies a world far stranger, funnier, and more consequential than ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • A Curious Guide to London

    de Simon Leyland ...
    From petticoat duels and lucky cats to the Stiffs Express, Lord Nelson's spare nose, the Piccadilly earthquake and the Great Beer Flood of 1814, A Curious Guide to London takes you on a captivating, wildly entertaining tour of the city you think you know, unearthing the capital's secrets and commemorating its rich, colourful and unusual history.Brimming with tales of Londo... ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Men Who Stare at Hens

    Great Irish Eccentrics, from WB Yeats to Brendan Behan

    de Simon Leyland ...
    Have you heard of Frederick Hervey, the atheist Bishop of Derry who hated church bells? What about Samuel Boyce, the poet who couldn't afford trousers? Not even Mary Monckton, who once stole a live hedgehog from a dinner party? The Men Who Stare at Hens is a gentle meander down the byways and highways of Irish history, remembering the wonderful array of eccentrics that made their mark on their ... Leer más

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    de Josephine Tey ...
    Series Libro 5 - Inspector Alan Grant
    Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III, the hunchback king, whose remains were recently discovered. The Daughter of Time investigates his role in the death of his nephews, the princes in the Tower, and his own death on the battlefield. Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. ... Leer más

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  • Life in a 17th Century Coffee Shop

    de David Brandon ...
    Looks at what it was really like in the first cafes, as coffee drinking became more popular. This book also deals with such questions as: what else did the shops sell? How did coffee shop life influence politics, the media and everyday life? We have all seen the hilarious depiction of Mrs Miggins' coffee shop in 'Blackadder', but what was it really like in the first cafes, as coffee drinking ... Leer más

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  • The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women

    de Rosalie Gilbert ...
    A "wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking" look at romance, courtship, and other intimacies behind closed Medieval doors (Dr. Markus Kerr, PhD, MDR).Were medieval women slaves to their husband's desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn't ... Leer más

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  • The Stories Behind London's Streets

    de Peter Thurgood ...
    The streets of London flourish like possibly no other city on earth, with stories from its rich history, stories of death - fire - disease, of riots, and grisly murders, but also of tales of happiness, determination and success. Behind every story and every street however, are the people who lived, worked, played, and even murdered there.Everyone thinks they know of the legend of Dick Turpin, the ... Leer más

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  • Sordid Sex Lives

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    What do the rich and famous really get up to behind closed doors? When does sexual passion become sordid perversion? Who are history's most shocking deviants and what are their sex secrets? The pages of this book reveal 45 shocking, scandalous - and often disturbing - stories of promiscuity and sexual perversion throughout the ages. Uncovered here are the orgies of Cleopatra and the incest of the ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Useless Sexual Trivia

    Tastefully Prurient Facts About Everyone's Favorite Subject

    de Shane Mooney ...
    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Never Knew to AskDid you know that in Middle-Eastern Islamic countries it is not only a sin but also a crime to eat a lamb that you've had sex with? Or that the world vanilla comes from a Latin word meaning "vagina" because of the vanilla pod's resemblance to the female genitalia? Or that Grand Tetons literally means "big tits"?You've probably ... Leer más

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  • Napoleon's Privates

    2,500 Years of History Unzipped

    de Tony Perrottet ...
    A fun and informative look at the naughty bits of history, from kinky 18th-century British sex clubs to J. Edgar Hoover's favorite party outfit, and more from "a terrifically funny writer" ( Boston Globe )."It's so great to have a truly funny (and poetic) writer putting the lurid colors back on the pale marble, where they belong. . . . Full of the 'get-a-load-of-this' factor—those juicy, vivid ... Leer más

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