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The English and their History: The First Thirteen Centuries

The English and their History: The First Thirteen Centuries

Robert Tombs

In 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

The Tombs of Anak

Frank E. Peretti

The 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

Ancient Tombs

Legendary Games

Among 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

Byeways

Robert Hichens

Robert 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

The Literary Review

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Allan 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

La France et le Royaume-Uni: Des ennemis intimes

Robert Tombs

Cet 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 ...

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

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons

The 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

ROCK TOMBS OF EL AMARNA

Seymour De 1881-1942 Ricci

This 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

The Cemetery at Tell Es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan

James B. Pritchard

A 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

Dire Tombs: Dungeon Tiles

James Wyatt

This 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 ...

That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun ...

Isabelle Tombs

This 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

Little Pilgrimages Among French Inns

Charles Gibson

Combining 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

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

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This 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:

Historikerdialoge:

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Socialists 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

Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror

Angela Wright

13 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, ...

The Polish Crisis and Relations with Eastern Europe, ...

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Documents 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

The Seventeenth Century

Madeleine Mainstone

Sculpture - 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

Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt

Lila Perl

A 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

Safety Crimes

Steve Tombs

This 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 ...

The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological ...

Kwang-chih Chang

Paleolithic 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

The Early Iron Age: The Cemeteries

John K. Papadopoulos

This 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

Egypt

Roberts Russ

Harry 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

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

New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization

Jeffrey Quilter

This 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

Secrets of the World's Undiscovered Treasures

Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe

Treasures 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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