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The Wagners The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty

Biographies & Memoirs

WAGNER, Nike

Arts & Literature

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The Governess

When the wealthy Victorian Thackerton household is stunned by a murder, and all the evidence points to the governess, it is the family's beloved Nanny who solves the mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Evelyn Hervey

Thrillers & Suspense

Dark and Light: The Story of the Guinness Family

Wilson, a respected Historian, offers a deeply researched history of 1 of Ireland's most legendary families. In this fascinating book Derek Wilson traces the Guiness Family from it's lowly beginnings into the Protestant ascendancy to the present day through 3 main narrative threads corresponding to different lines of the family; brewing, banking and missionary work.Wilson's account suggests that the path to success for the brewery was never assured, built as it was against a background of the Napoleonic wars, the establishment of the Irish free state and Civil war, and 2 further world wars. After some setbacks in the early 19th century Robert co-founded the Guiness Mahon banking dynasty in England. The Bank remained a family concern despite the 1929 crash and IRA kidnapping until the accidental death of John Guiness, and in 1988 the bank went under Yokohama control. The family was not without it's decorated heroes and it's professional soldiers, fighting in both world wars, the Boer war, and India. In many ways the branch of the family that went into missionary work is the most interesting, and includes 2 medical missionary brothers, 1 in China and the other 1st in the Belgian Congo where he spent much of his career campaigning against the Belgians cruelty, and then also in China during the Japanese invasion. This is not to say there weren't wastrels and eccentrics: there were, particularly in this century, and these Wilson describes with aplomb if not relish.

Dark and light: The story of the Guinness family

DEREK WILSON

WEST OF IRELAND SUMMERS: A COOKBOOK is a celebration of food. In this vivid account of summers spent in the remote beauty of the west of Ireland Tamasin Day-Lewis rekindles the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the tastes of her family holidays since childhood. Tamasin Day-Lewis's passion for cooking is evident in more than 100 dishes; some traditional Irish recipes, some recapturing the tastes of her childhood and others created by Tamasin herself. These combined with stunning photographs and a lively text make this a truly irresistable cookery book.

West of Ireland Summers

Tamasin Day-Lewis

<p>Offveat travel account based on a journey fly-fishing across the outmost northern reaches of Russia which also uncovers Soviet Russia's Gulag history.</p>

HOOKED

Sports & Outdoors

Montaigne, Fen

Hunting & Fishing

Physical description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm. Subjects: Ireland - History - 20th century. Pictorial works.

The Irish Century

Arts & Photography

MacCarthy-Morrogh, Michael

Photography & Video

An illustrated account of the short life and death of one of Ireland's most enduring heroes.

Michael Collins

Connolly, Colm (1942-)

Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs―how they have altered our very being―and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.

Intoxicating Minds

Regan, Ciaran

Science & Math

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