In 1848 Scotland, where towering castles, mist-cloaked glens, and forgotten ruins still whisper of an ancient world, the past is far from silent.Lady Evelyn Edeglair was born to a life of privilege, with her future already shaped by duty, wealth, and an unwanted marriage. Determined to choose her own path, she flees into the Highlands with Alexander MacEirden, the man she loves—a shipwright of outlawed Highland blood and a former soldier.Their escape becom...

Ready to make delicious, crispy meals without spending hours in the kitchen?Ninja CRISPI Air Fryer Cookbook for Beginners is a practical guide for anyone who wants to get comfortable using their air fryer and prepare simple, satisfying meals with confidence.Whether you're completely new to air frying or simply looking for easy ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, leftovers, and desserts, this cookbook gives you straightforward recipes and helpful techniques to make e...

The war isn’t going well. New recruits come off the line as fast as the Collective can engineer them. Very few of those recruits make it through a full tour. But, for Peter Tallow, the odds may just be looking up. Dying nine times is the requirement. After day one disastrous day of training camp and three months in a rejuvenation pod, Peter only has eight more deaths to live through.Genetically engineered to excel at Remote Operated Vehicle control, Peter stands out as one of the b...

The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of "God's cause"-a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts of this period concentrate on the court, Christopher Hill focuses on those who mourned the passing of the most radical era in English history. The radical protestant clergy, as well as republican intellectuals and writers generally, had to explain why providence had forsaken the agents of God's work.In Th...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Japanese scientists and doctors spent 15 years studying the remarkable benefits of blue-green algae Spirulina. The Secrets of Spirulina reveals their discoveries for the first time in the West. Their findings show that Spirulina is not only a complete health food, but is also an important aid n the treatment of various chronic diseases. However, in 1981 the medical research in this book was judged by the FDA to be part of the labeling claims made for Spirulina. Under present regulations, t...

In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular representations: instead of a gloomy, sexless "Puritan", we have a dashingly thinker, branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine.

In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social changes of the period as well as the expressions of liberty, the law and the hero-worship of the outlaw defiance. As well as chapters on gypsies and vagabonds, Hill analyzes class, religion and the shift away from the importance of the church after the Reformation. Liberty against the Law

John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world.In A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, Christopher Hill reassesses the well-known author to recover Bunyan's significance as a preacher-a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and resulted in long years of imprisonment. It ...

In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 she possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialized power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and tries to explain how England won her unique position in the world.This is a story that opens with the break with Europe and charts the tumultuous period of war, revolutions, and the a cultural and scientific flowering that made up the early modern period. Yet, during this period...

In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Professor Hill shows Puritanism as a living faith, one that responded to social as well as religious needs. It was a set of beliefs that answered the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, merchants and artisans in the tribulations of early modern Britain, a time of extraordinary turbulence. Over this period, Puritanism, he shows, was interwoven into daily...

One of the most significant innovations in international industrial organization over the past half-century has been the vertical disintegration of production, with different stages carried out in different countries-a process widely known as the Global Manufacturing Value Chain (GMVC). Trade based on global production sharing within GMVC has been the primary driver behind the dramatic shift in world manufacturing exports from developed to developing countries. However, there are growing c...