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A revised edition of a compelling photographic history of Queen Elizabeth II's life and reign This book is a photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, from her first official photograph as a baby in 1926 to her greeting President Obama at Buckingham Palace in 2009. Each of the book's chapters begins with a text by bestselling historian and biographer Philip Ziegler, covering the key royal and historical events of the period, with some conte...

This volume re-examines the history of twentieth-century Christian theology by tracing key concepts, problems and themes as they develop in context with new perspectives opened up by contemporary theology itself.

Offering readers a comprehensive research companion to study of modern theology, this handbook covers the major contexts, developmental trajectories, movements of thought, concerns, figures, and key texts which mark Christian theology from Enlightenment to the present. Two main parts focus on (I) the contexts, trajectories, movements, and concerns of modern theology, and (II) the major theologians of the modern period. A cross reference system...

This anthology provides a comprehensive introduction to the theology of Colin Gunton through a discerning and representative selection of his writings.

This anthology provides a comprehensive introduction to the theology of Colin Gunton through a discerning and representative selection of his writings.

In the SUTTON ILLUSTRATED HISTORY PAPERBACKS series Ziegler's study synthesizes the records of contemporary chroniclers which covered the social and economic upheaval caused by the Black Death in the mid 1300's and the work of subsequent historians to give an overview of this period of history.

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If Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the designation of 'George the Dutiful'. Throughout his life he dedicated himself to the pursuit of what he thought he ought to be doing rather than what he wanted to do. Inarticulate and loathing any sort of public appearances, he accepted that it was his destiny to figure regularly and conspicuously in the public eye, gritted his teeth, largely conquered his...

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He played alongside Richardson, Gielgud and Olivier - and found himself having to choose between two attractive young actresses: Celia Johnson and Peggy Ashcroft. Before marrying his colleague, Ruth Simon, he lived for some years with his wife, Comfort, in the country at weekends, and with Ruth in London during the working week.

This primer demonstrates the significance of apocalyptic readings of the New Testament for systematic theology and highlights the ethical implications of the apocalyptic turn in biblical and theological studies.

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If Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the title of 'George the Dutiful'. He was not born to be king, but he made an admirable one, and was the figurehead of the nation at the time of its greatest trial, the Second World War. This book is about this reluctant public figure, and the private man.

Features hitherto unused material and an unprecedently searching assessment of the eminent Whig statesman of the 1830s/40s. This title tells that Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister should have been dragged through the courts by an aggrieved husband not once but twice.

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A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third of Europe's people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history. Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler o...

At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War, " was his bleak response.In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international turning points - cultural and social as well as political and military - that led the world from one war to another. His approach is panoramic, touching on all parts of the world where history was b...

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The Black Death