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Written by a leading historian of Latin America, Conquistadors and Aztecs offers a timely portrayal of the fall of Tenochtitlan and the founding of an empire that would last for centuries.

Christopher Reid grew up in Dothan, Alabama, and graduated from Samford University with a degree in political science. Prior to attending law school, he worked at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., as well as Republican leadership. Reid has clerked for the attorney general, been a policy advisor to the governor, and worked for the Alabama Policy Institute under the leadership of now-U.S. Representative Gary Palmer. Reid spent 11 years as a general practice attorney before retiring and pursuing a career in media. He has co-hosted many radio shows throughout the years. He has also ...

T. S. Eliot's best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world. For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs' poems are as witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot's cats.

The Late Sun asserts a balance between memorialisation of the recently dead and celebration of the vitality of the living. Early in the collection is a set of poems about the poet's mother, who died in great age after a life of exotic travel, and the poet's own travels, his sense of both place and displacement, are vibrantly explored in other pieces.

This edition brings together A Scattering and Anniversary into a single book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of 55. A Scattering was first published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning the Costa Book of the Year Award. This moving and fiercely self-reflective collection is divided into four poetic sequences.