The Battle of Stoke, the last and most neglected armed clash of the Wars of the Roses, is one of history's great might-have-beens. The forces of the first Tudor king Henry VII confronted the rebel army of the pretender Lambert Simnel and his commander the Earl of Lincoln. Henry's victory over the Yorkists was decisive - it confirmed the crown to the House of Tudor for more than a century. David Baldwin's fascinating and meticulously researched study of the battle gives a keen insight into ...

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Master the intricacies of Tableau to create effective data visualizationsKey FeaturesArm yourself with an arsenal of advanced chart types and geocoding to efficiently and engagingly present informationMap a grid over a network node diagram and use that grid to demonstrate loads, processing time, and more in TableauIntegrate R with Tableau by utilizing R functions, libraries, and saved modelsBook DescriptionTableau has emerged...

Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario.On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. He had spent much of his life working as a bricklayer at St John's Abbey, Colchester, but, unusually for a bricklayer, he could read Latin. Reluctant to give any account of his back...

Elizabeth Woodville is a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress, as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed and vilified by her contemporaries and five centuries of historians, dramatists and novelists, but what was she really like?In this revealing account of Elizabeth's life...

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Wheel of WaterFrom snow falling on a Los Angeles morning to the glow of a ham radio dial, these pages trace a son's long look at the parents who made, and unmade, a home. Set against mid-century southern California, aircraft carriers and Disneyland. segregated pools and Friday-night fights, this memoir-in-moments captures how memory shifts while feelings stay true. A quiet, razor-sharp father speaks most comfortably in Morse code; a drama-queen mother lifts a marti...

Birthed from a jailhouse Bible study, Demystify the Devil tackles some of the toughest spiritual questions regarding the devil. Unsatisfied with the quality of his overall response that night, Baldwin embarked on an exhaustive biblical word search regarding the devil. The Scriptural answers that Baldwin found not only clarified the greater role that the devil plays within creation, but also served to enhance Baldwin's relationship with Jesus, his trust in God, and a greater sense of peace ...

In 1533, Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIII’s closest friend. She would go on to serve at the court of every Tudor monarch except Henry VII and Mary Tudor. Duchess of Suffolk at the age of fourteen, she became a powerful woman ruling over her own households and wielding influence through her proximity to the king. She grew to know Henry well. In 1538, just three months after Jane Seymour’s death, it was reported that they had been ‘masking and visiting’ together, and ...

Has Douglas Lockwood inadvertently resurrected the ghost of a long dead man after a hiking accident on Wildheath Crags, a vast tract of treacherous moorland surrounding Watholme, a Yorkshire village?What will be the effects of this on Jane, Agnes and Violet Dean, who own the hotel where he is staying?What is the meaning of the mournful wailing coming from the moors?Did the three famous novelists, the Ayre sisters, who have made Watholme a popular tourist attraction,...

This book is devoted to the work of Robert A. Dahl, who passed away in 2014. Dahl was one of the most important American political scientists and normative democratic theorists of the post-war era, and he was also an influential teacher who mentored some of the most significant academics of the next two generations of American political science. As an incredibly productive scholar he had a career that spanned more than half a century, his first book was published in 1950 his last was in 20...

Everyone has heard of Robin Hood, the brilliant archer who robbed the rich to give to the poor and who always triumphed over the forces of evil, but the man behind the legend is as mysterious as King Arthur. There were outlaws who lived in the royal forests preying on unwary travelers, and Robin Hoods whose names are recorded in historical documents: but no one has been able to prove that one of these real Robins was the individual whose exploits were commemorated in ballad and song.