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The English and their History: The First Thirteen Centuries
Robert TombsIn The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from ...
The Tombs of Anak
Frank E. PerettiThe Coopers rely on their Christian faith as they search for their father's coworker, who has disappeared in the cave-tombs of Anak.
Ancient Tombs
Legendary GamesAmong the Dead! Ancient Tombs provides a wealth of knowledge to enhance your Pathfinder campaign wherever your heroes are delving into the funereal grounds and burial chambers of the ancient dead.
Byeways
Robert HichensRobert Hichens. AN. ECHO. IN. EGYPT. That lustrous land of weary music and wild dancing, of reverend tombs and pertArabs, thatEgypt ofplagues and tourists, to whose sandy bosom Society flocks, affects her visitors in many different ways.
The Literary Review
More editionsAllan Massie THE OLD QUARREL That Sweet Enemy ☆ By Robert and Isabelle Tombs (Heinemann 624pp £25) The English and the French have enjoyed a love -hate relationship for centuries. I say 'the English' because the Scots stand ...
La France et le Royaume-Uni: Des ennemis intimes
Robert TombsCet ouvrage retrace avec humour et élégance l'histoire d'une guerre sans fin entre la France et l'Angleterre, un couple historique sans équivalent.
Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial ...
Andrew Arsan... Michael Cook, Faisal Devji, Tim Harper, Simon Jackson, Eric Jennings, Akram Khater, Judy Laffan, Simon Layton, Elisabeth Leake, James McDougall, Thomas Pierret, Cyrus Schayegh, Robert Tombs, Max Weiss and Ben White. Megan ...
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan SimmonsThe mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind.
ROCK TOMBS OF EL AMARNA
Seymour De 1881-1942 RicciThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Cemetery at Tell Es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan
James B. PritchardA portion of the Tell es-Sa'idiyeh mound was used for burials during the Bronze Age. A summary of the pottery types is followed by a description of the contents of each of the 45 tombs.
Dire Tombs: Dungeon Tiles
James WyattThis product adds a new dimension to D&D] games and gives Dungeon Masters an easy-to-use and inexpensive way to include great-looking terrain in their games.
That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun ...
Isabelle TombsThis magisterial book, by turns provocative and delightful, always fascinating, tells the rich and complex story of the relationship over three centuries, from the beginning of the great struggle for mastery during the reign of Louis XIV to ...
Little Pilgrimages Among French Inns
Charles GibsonCombining snippets of history and legend uncovered during explorations of ancient tombs, churches, and fortresses with enchanting descriptions of the villages and landscapes he visited, Gibson introduces us to both charming aristocrats who ...
Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity
Full viewThis volume takes up the architectural challenge in a number of innovative ways, collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholars on time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs, the orders of road-signs, ...
Historikerdialoge:
PreviewSocialists debate their History from the First World War to the Third Reich: German Exiles and the British Labour Party Isabelle Tombs This chapter concerns German debates among exiled socialists. These were rooted mainly in fundamentally ...
Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror
Angela Wright13 and Isabelle Tombs chart, was the wholesale deportation of seven to eight thousand inhabitants of Acadia (renamed Nova Scotia) by the British. According to their account, this brutal resettlement 'helped to make the Seven Years war a ...
The Polish Crisis and Relations with Eastern Europe, ...
PreviewDocuments on British Policy Overseas, Series III Isabelle Tombs, Richard Smith. Acknowledgements In accordance with the Parliamentary announcement cited in the Introduction to this Series, the editors have had the customary freedom in ...
The Seventeenth Century
Madeleine MainstoneSculpture - Movement renered in marble - Tombs - Portrait busts - Painting - Caravaggio - Rembrandt - Rubens - Flemish and Dutch flower painting - Reality dramatised through light - Colour and exuberance - Passion checked by reason - ...
Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt
Lila PerlA fascinating and thorough account of the Egyptian process of mummification and efforts to safeguard places of burial against thieves. "An impressively researched and invitingly written volume." -- Booklist, starred review
Safety Crimes
Steve TombsThis book uses case studies and original analyses of official data relating to crimes against worker safety to examine how much safety crime exists. It also assesses the regulation and sanctioning of safety criminals.
The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological ...
Kwang-chih ChangPaleolithic sites from one million years ago, Neolithic sites with extraordinary jade and ceramic artifacts, excavated tombs and palaces of the Shang and Zhou dynasties--all these are part of the archaeological riches of China.
The Early Iron Age: The Cemeteries
John K. PapadopoulosThis volume, the first of two dealing with the Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, publishes all the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age through the Late Geometric period.
Egypt
Roberts RussHarry Adès, A Traveller's History of Egypt (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2007), pp. 50–51. 3. Ibid., p. 63. 4. Barbara Mertz, Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs : A Popular History of Ancient Egypt. Second Edition (New York: William Morrow, ...
Cyril Norwood and the Ideal of Secondary Education
G. McCulloch... New Education Fellowship Conference held in New Zealand in July 1937, Wellington, Whitcombe and Tombs. Card, T. (1994) Eton Renewed: A History from 1860 to the Present Day, London, John Murray. Carter, M. (2003) Anthony Blunt: ...
New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization
Jeffrey QuilterThis volume brings together essays on the nature of political organization of the Moche, a complex pre-Inca society that existed on the north coast of Peru from c. 100 to 800 CE. Since the discovery of the royal tombs of Sipán in 1987, the ...
Secrets of the World's Undiscovered Treasures
Lionel and Patricia FanthorpeTreasures of many kinds still lie hidden below crumbling castles and ruined monasteries; in macabre tombs; in subterranean labyrinths and sinister caverns. Many sunken treasures lie beneath the seas, oceans and lakes of the world.
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