Authors:Hans Christian Andersen, Christian Birmingham,
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Keywords: andersen, christian, hans, treasury, classic
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2002-08-26
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 076241393X
ISBN-13: 9780762413935

Award-winning English illustrator Christian Birmingham--one of the rising stars of children’s illustration--brings eight time-honored fairy tales to life in dazzling, full-color artwork for this charming collection. Sure to become a treasured part of any childhood library, this sumptuously illustrated book includes the read-aloud favorites The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, and The Princess and the Pea.

Authors:Professor David Birmingham, David Birmingham,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: history, introductions, africa, decolonization
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 1995-11-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1857285409
ISBN-13: 9781857285406

This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was restored to Egypt, and 1994, when non-racial democracy was achieved in South Africa, no less than 54 new nations were established in Africa. Written within the parameters of African history, as opposed to imperial history, this study charts the process of nationalism, liberation and independence that recast the political map of Africa in these years. Ranging from Algeria in the North, where a French colonial gover

Author: Stephen Birmingham
Publisher: Syracuse University Pre
Keywords: modern, jewish, history, jews, european, america, eastern, rise
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0815606141
ISBN-13: 9780815606147

In the last of Stephen Birmingham’s historical trilogy, he spotlights the successes of Eastern European Jews, from Samuel Goldwyn to Helen Rubinstein and Irving Berlin, and what each individual brought to the changing early-century American landscape.

Author: David Birmingham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: africa, portugal
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1999-08-14
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0312223196
ISBN-13: 9780312223199

The late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the Roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic tradition. Although their empire struggled to survive centuries of Dutch and English competition, it revived in the 20th century on a tide of white migration. Settlers, however, brought racial conflict as well as economic modernization and Portuguese colonies went through spasms of violence which resembled those of Algeria and South Africa. Liberation eventually came but peoples of the old colonial cities clung tightly to their acquired trad

Author: David Birmingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, portugal, history
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-12-08
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521536863
ISBN-13: 9780521536868

This concise, illustrated history of Portugal presents an introduction to the people and culture of the country and its search for economic modernization, political stability and international partnership. The first single-volume account of Portugal’s history since the days of dictatorship and colonization, this updated second edition also covers the state of historical writing on Portugal at the turn of the millennium. First Edition Hb (1993): 0-521-43308-8 First Edition Pb (1993): 0-521-43880-2 David Birmingham is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent, Canterbur

Author: Stephen Birmingham
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Keywords: aristocracy, secret, america
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1987-10
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0316096504
ISBN-13: 9780316096508

Author: Duncan Birmingham
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Keywords: pets, suicidal, over, themselves, kill, featuring
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0307589889
ISBN-13: 9780307589880

PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS. SOME PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS A LITTLE TOO MUCH.Who could blame Mr. Whiskers for trying to high-dive from a penthouse window or Fluffy for crawling into a washing machine? After being dressed up for Halloween, married off in elaborate weddings, toted everywhere in baby backpacks, or just plain coddled within an inch of their sanity by obsessively doting owners, these pets are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or worse. They’d call the suicide hotline–but they don’t have fingers.