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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into ...

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into ...

Christopher de Hamel

Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and sometimes about the modern world too.
Hamel, the Obeah Man

Hamel, the Obeah Man

Cynric R. Williams

Hamel, the Obeah Man is set against the backdrop of early nineteenth-century Jamaica, and tells the story of a slave rebellion planned in the ruins of a plantation.
Army and Power in the Ancient World

Army and Power in the Ancient World

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1 ' C'est ainsi que nous résumons les conculsions de la soigneuse analyse de Debra Hamel, qui réfute le point de vue opposé de Lawrence Tritle. Voir D. HAMEL, 'Strategoi on the Bema. The Separation of Political and Military Authority in ...
Who Is Phaedrus?: Keys to Plato's Dyad Masterpiece

Who Is Phaedrus?: Keys to Plato's Dyad Masterpiece

Marshell Carl Bradley

4 A Herm was a sculpture with a head above a plain lower section, usually squared off, on which male genitals were carved. Debra Hamel describes Herms as “like big Pez dispensers with penises” (Hamel, The Mutilation of the Herms, 1).
The Medieval Book: Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of ...

The Medieval Book: Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of ...

Christopher De Hamel

This book was presented on the occasion of Christopher de Hamel's sixtieth birthday, and celebrates his many accomplishments during his years at Sotheby's and more recently as the Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library at ...
Les Bettencourt: derniers secrets

Les Bettencourt: derniers secrets

Ian Hamel

Au-dela de l'affaire politique, Ian Hamel retrace l'histoire familiale des Bettencourt et met a jour les racines du conflit opposant Liliane a sa fille.
L'affaire Bettencourt : derniers secrets

L'affaire Bettencourt : derniers secrets

Ian Hamel

Au-delà de l'affaire politique, Ian Hamel retrace l'histoire familiale des Bettencourt et met à jour les racines du conflit opposant Liliane à sa fille.
La vérité sur Tariq Ramadan: Sa famille, ses réseaux, sa ...

La vérité sur Tariq Ramadan: Sa famille, ses réseaux, sa ...

Ian Hamel

Ian Hamel révèle un Tariq Ramadan aux antipodes de tous les écrits sensationnalistes qui lui sont consacrés depuis une décennie.
Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous ...

Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous ...

Debra Hamel

Building on Apollodorus' speech from the trial and other source material, Debra Hamel recreates Neaira's life and experiences from her lowly origins in a brothel in Corinth, to a highly paid courtesan and sex slave, her retirement and 30 ...
Spotlight Science 8: Framework Assessment Resource Bank

Spotlight Science 8: Framework Assessment Resource Bank

Lawrie Ryan

... mark mark mark mark mark mark mark mark mark mark mark mark Total = 25 marks 1 a) Choose words from this box to answer the Spotlight Science 8 - Framework Edilion © Nelson Thornes Ud 31 ©U Respiration Scheme TESTA MARK.
Xavier Bertrand: les coulisses d'une ambition

Xavier Bertrand: les coulisses d'une ambition

Ian Hamel

Pour raconter l'ascension de ce faux gentil, Ian Hamel a interrogé les hommes politiques, ses frères du Grand Orient et ses copains du "Club 33", qui réunit chaque mois les notables de Saint-Quentin.
Lean Math: Figuring to Improve:

Lean Math: Figuring to Improve:

Mark R. Hamel

The book consistently encourages the practitioner to engage in math-assisted plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycles, employing approaches that include simulation and “trystorming.” Lean Math truly transcends the “numbers” by reinforcing ...
Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard ...

Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard ...

Mark R. Hamel

The Kaizen Event Fieldbook brings this all together as an indispensable reference for lean leaders and implementers within any industry and for use at any stage within the lean implementation journey.
Young Runaways

Young Runaways

Keith West

MARK: STUART: MARK: STUART: MARK: STUART: MARK: STUART: MARK: ( Bursting in) Didn't you hear the commotion? (Yawning and stretching) What? ( peeved) The ambulance, everything! Gran's had another stroke. She's in hospital.
About: Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad: "Competing For The ...

About: Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad: "Competing For The ...

André Berndt

The book is divided into 12 chapters, which I am succeeding going to summarise.
Mark Noble: or, The button necklace, by the author of ...

Mark Noble: or, The button necklace, by the author of ...

Margaret Duns

Ah, Mark, had you known who it was, you would not have passed on. It was Rose calling, " Mark Noble," and echo answering, "Mark Noble ! " Mark still continued at the High School, though the year was out. He was clever, and determined to ...
Mark Taylor: Genesis (Prequel in the Mark Taylor Series): (A ...

Mark Taylor: Genesis (Prequel in the Mark Taylor Series): (A ...

M.P. McDonald

Mark's story continues in, NO GOOD DEED: Book One in the Mark Taylor Series. Mark Taylor discovers firsthand that no good deed goes unpunished when the old camera he found during a freelance job in an Afghanistan bazaar gives him ...
Competing for the Future

Competing for the Future

Gary Hamel

In this book, they develop a coherent model for how today's executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplace.
A History of Illuminated Manuscript

A History of Illuminated Manuscript

Christopher De Hamel

With its lively narrative and many new and superb illustrations, this new edition of a much-praised book provides the perfect introduction to a large and fascinating subject.
The Rise of Maritime Containerization in the Port of ...

The Rise of Maritime Containerization in the Port of ...

Mark Rosenstein

Mark Rosenstein Morristown, New Jersey 07960 http://www.apparent-wind.com/ Copyright © 2000 by Mark ... Data Rosenstein, Mark The Rise of Maritime Containerization in the Port of Oakland 1950 to 1970 / Mark Rosenstein. viii, 130 p.
The Perk

The Perk

Mark Gimenez

Also by Mark Gimenez The Colour of Law The Abduction The Common Lawyer Accused The Governor's Wife Con Law The Case Against William The Absence of Guilt THE PERK Mark Gimenez Published by Sphere Copyright © Mark.
American song: the complete musical theatre companion

American song: the complete musical theatre companion

Ken Bloom

Ode to a List (L: Mark Houston); Peace for Our Children (inst.); Ten O'Clock Friday Night (C/L: Mark Houston, Ben Oakland, Christopher T. Thompson); Tomorrow I'll Be Gone (L: Mark Houston); Wild Geese (L: Mark Houston) 1973 Pop Songs ...
Mark Twain: Legendary Writer and Humorist

Mark Twain: Legendary Writer and Humorist

Lynda Pflueger

Resa Willis, Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him (New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1992), p. 33. 2. Ibid., p. 36. 3. Ibid., p. 38. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid., p. 39. 6. Margaret Sanborn, Mark Twain: The ...
Sydney Carlyle Cockerell

Sydney Carlyle Cockerell

Christopher De Hamel

The poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was also a life-long bibliophile, and his wide-ranging reading and collecting interests had a demonstrable effect on his writing
The Battle of Arginusae: Victory at Sea and Its Tragic ...

The Battle of Arginusae: Victory at Sea and Its Tragic ...

Debra Hamel

Aimed at classics students and general readers, the book also provides an in-depth examination of the fraught relationship between Athens’ military commanders and its vaunted sovereign democracy.
Scribes and Illuminators

Scribes and Illuminators

Christopher De Hamel

Looks at the work of medieval paper, parchment, and ink makers, scribes, illuminators, binders, and booksellers

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