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Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Search for Tutankhamun

Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Search for Tutankhamun

Brian Fagan

Brian Fagan’s narrative expertly weaves these two lives together, showing similarities and differences between these two powerful men.
Elixir: A Human History of Water

Elixir: A Human History of Water

Brian Fagan

Brian Fagan tells the story of 5,000 years of human endeavour. Deeply researched and elegantly written, Elixir illustrates that the past teaches us that technologies for solving one or another water problem are not enough.
Writing Archaeology, Second Edition: Telling Stories About ...

Writing Archaeology, Second Edition: Telling Stories About ...

Brian Fagan

Telling Stories About the Past Brian Fagan. WRITING THE FIRST DRAFT Rule 6: Make writing a daily habit. THE MOMENT YOU GENERATE sentences that might appear in your completed account, you have begun your writing,” writes Harry ...
The Best of Chelsea Fagan:

The Best of Chelsea Fagan:

Chelsea Fagan

Thought Catalog The Best of Chelsea Fagan A THOUGHT CATALOG ORIGINAL © 2013 Chelsea Fagan Published By: Thought Catalog Books Division Thought & ExpressionLLC Williamsburg, Brooklyn www.thought.is Additive Credits Cover  ...
I'm Only Here for the WiFi: A Complete Guide to Reluctant ...

I'm Only Here for the WiFi: A Complete Guide to Reluctant ...

Chelsea Fagan

Chelsea Fagan has felt the pressures and expectations of young adult life firsthand.
Clash of Cultures

Clash of Cultures

Brian M. Fagan

This seminal book includes case studies covering a wide variety of societies, including the Khoikhoi of South Africa, the Aztecs of Mexico, and the Tahitians.
Archaeologists: Explorers of the Human Past

Archaeologists: Explorers of the Human Past

Brian Fagan

P| O N E E R O F CLASS C A L A R C H A E O L O G Y came to Rome to open the eyes of those who will come after me,” wrote Johann Joachim Winckelmann in a letter to a friend in 1756. He succeeded with a vengeance, using Greek art to ...
Snapshots of the Past

Snapshots of the Past

Brian M. Fagan

For serious archaeologists, the book represents a collection of works of one of the important synthesizers of the field. For the avocational archaeologist, the book provides a fascinating, readable update on issues of current concern.
Time Detectives: How Archaeologist Use Technology to ...

Time Detectives: How Archaeologist Use Technology to ...

Brian Fagan

Recent findings of modern archeologists who use technology and scientific methods include the earliest Bronze Age shipwreck and a newly discovered Mayan city
Egypt of the Pharaohs

Egypt of the Pharaohs

Brian M. Fagan

In this handsomely illustrated work, Egypt, one of mankind's oldest and most remarkable civilizations, comes alive from its beginnings about 6,000 B.C. to the height of its power and eventual dramatic decline. 160 illustrations.
Les Buveurs de lumière

Les Buveurs de lumière

Jenni Fagan

Dans ce roman éblouissant au lyrisme radical, peuplé de personnages étranges et beaux, Jenni Fagan distille une tendresse absolue qui donne envie de hâter la fin du monde.
Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Civilizations

Dr. Brian Fagan

This book covers the earliest civilizations and the great powers in the Near East, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, the Mediterranean world in the first millennium, Imperial Rome, northeast Africa, the divine kings in southeast ...
From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological ...

From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological ...

Brian Fagan

A noted archaeologist and popular writer offers an engaging historical account of the enduring love of ancient architecture--the irresistible impulse to visit strange lands in search of lost cities and forgotten monuments.
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the ...

Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the ...

Brian Fagan

[7] For pilchards, see Michael Culley, The Pilchard: Biology and Exploitation ( New York: Pergamon, 1971). [8] Kowaleski, “Western Fisheries,” pp.27–28. [9] On Hy-Brasil, see Morison, European Exploration, pp.102–105. [10] Mark Kurlansky  ...
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

Brian M. Fagan

The anthropologist-author of The Little Ice Age analyzes the seminal impact of climatic change on the evolution of all of human history over the course of the last fifteen thousand years since the last Ice Age.
Take Out Your Earrings Before You Fight (and Other Things I ...

Take Out Your Earrings Before You Fight (and Other Things I ...

Chelsea Fagan

ABOUT THE WRITER Photo by Ludovic Etienne Chelsea Fagan is an American writer living and working in Paris, France. Aside from being an editor at Thought Catalog, Chelsea's work has been featured on The Atlantic.com, Grantland, ...
1815-1823

1815-1823

Daniel O'Connell

[remainder of letter missing] source : O'Connell MSS, UCD 1 Probably William Trant Fagan, J.P., D.L. (1801-59), Feltrim, Co. Cork, son of James Fagan. M.P. for Cork city, 1847-65. 2 John Drew Atkins, attorney. 3 That is, under lease from ...
Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, ...

Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, ...

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7, 1914; D 38729; James Hay, jr., Washington. SINGER (THE) of SHIRAz; a Persian romance in 3 acts, by J. B. Fagan. 3 v. Typewritten. [25703 (C) 1 c. Nov. 14, 1914; D 38812; James Bernard Fagan, London. SINs (THE) of FATHER; miniature ...
The Panopticon

The Panopticon

Jenni Fagan

JENNI FAGAN HAS BEEN NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2013 Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and ...
Irl Porn: One Woman's Journey Through the World of Live Sex ...

Irl Porn: One Woman's Journey Through the World of Live Sex ...

Chelsea Fagan

Thought Catalog editor Chelsea Fagan did, spending an evening in the world of live sex shows and hardcore pornography.
The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: ...

The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: ...

Brian Fagan

"One of the best cruising guides we have ever seen."--National Fisherman "This is the most complete set of sailing directions to come off the presses since the first coast surveys were attempted in the early 1800s."--SEA magazine
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization

Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization

Brian Fagan

John F. Hoffecker et al., “Out of Beringia?” Science 343, no. 6174 (2014): 979–80 . 8. John F. Hoffecker et al., “Beringia and the Global Dispersal of Modern Humans,” Evolutionary Anthropology 25, no. 2 (2016): 64–78. 9. Carrin M. Halffman et ...
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern ...

Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern ...

Brian Fagan

The age of the Cro-Magnons lasted some 30,000 years-longer than all of recorded history. Cro-Magnon is the story of a little known, yet seminal, chapter of human experience.
Saving Grace (What Doesn't Kill You, #1): A Katie Romantic ...

Saving Grace (What Doesn't Kill You, #1): A Katie Romantic ...

Pamela Fagan Hutchins

Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes overly long e-mails, award-winning and bestselling romantic mysteries, and hilarious nonfiction from deep in the heart of Nowheresville, Texas and way up in the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. She is ...
Hell to Pay (What Doesn’t Kill You, #7): An Emily Romantic ...

Hell to Pay (What Doesn’t Kill You, #7): An Emily Romantic ...

Pamela Fagan Hutchins

Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes overly long e-mails, award-winning and bestselling romantic mysteries, and hilarious nonfiction from deep in the heart of Nowheresville, Texas and way up in the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. She is ...
Adams's Parliamentary Handbook: A Key to the Houses of Lords ...

Adams's Parliamentary Handbook: A Key to the Houses of Lords ...

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Francis Stack Murphy - - 1,246 William Trant Fagan - - 1, 220 Col. James Charles Chatterton - 898 W, L. Perrier - 194 William Trant Fagan, Esq. A merchant and an alderman of Cork; has been mayor. A Liberal and Free-trader ; "for the further ...
Off the Map: 25 True Stories to Inspire Your Next Adventure:

Off the Map: 25 True Stories to Inspire Your Next Adventure:

Annie Atherton

Annie Atherton, Robbie Burton, Mink Choi, Chelsea Fagan Thought Catalog. 27 People OnThe Most Important Lesson TheyLearned While Traveling By Chelsea Fagan W e all learn lessons while traveling, some more lasting than others, but ...
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

Brian Fagan

A new perspective on familiar events in history describes how a 500-year change in climate that lasted from A.D. 1300 until 1850 shaped modern European history.
The Washingtons: A Family History: Volume 5 (Part One): ...

The Washingtons: A Family History: Volume 5 (Part One): ...

Justin Glenn

Sophia Allen Lewis (born in Tenn., Oct. 1887; married Jay Fagan, and they resided in Nashville, Tenn.). Children: 13374. Dorothy Fagan (born in Ark., ca. 1906; resided with her maternal grandparents in Stuttgart, Arkansas Co., Ark., 1920).

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