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John Rodman sat in the doorway and looked out over his domain. The little cottage behind him was empty of life save himself alone. In one room the slender appointments provided by Government for the……続きを見る

There is something so mysterious and thrilling about Secret Service that the subject must inevitably appeal to the public, and especially to the more imaginative section of it. Secret Service is the……続きを見る

A war against Iraq will spur radical changes in the way the country is governed, how its people live, and its relationship to its neighbours and to the West. This book depicts the evolution of Iraq ……続きを見る

This book is about the way that professionals in archaeology and in other sectors of heritage interact with a range of stakeholder groups, communities and the wider public. Whilst these issues have ……続きを見る

A MIDNIGHT SUMMONS When did you last hear from Nayland Smith?" asked my visitor. I paused, my hand on the siphon, reflecting for a moment. "Two months ago," I said: "he's a poor correspondent and ra……続きを見る

THE BACHELOR IN PUBLIC. The average man is judged by his appearance and his deportment in public. His dress, his bearing, his conduct toward women and his fellow-men, are telling characteristics. In……続きを見る

Nas Caldas da Rainha Na quarta feira de manhã, o comboio em que eu vim para as Caldas da Rainha regorgitava de viajantes. E desde quarta feira não tenho visto senão chegar ás Caldas gente, gente, ge……続きを見る

In accompanying the present edition of the Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven with a few introductory remarks, I at once acknowledge that the compilation of these letters has cost me no slight sacrific……続きを見る

PUBLISHER'S AMONG the representative freethinkers of the world Mr. George J. Holyoake takes a most prominent position. He is a leader of leaders, he is the brain of the Secularist party in England, ……続きを見る

Far out in the broad island-dotted and island-fringed Pacific Ocean lies an island group known as the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands. The brave voyager Captain Cook, who discovered these Hawaiian Isla……続きを見る

The Mahabharata, Book 9: Shalya Parva Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr. Om! Having bowed down to Narayana, and Nara the foremost of male beings, and the goddess Saraswati also, must the word Jaya be uttered……続きを見る

Many persons have asked me why the space visitors should have chosen me for contact rather than some other individual whom they considered eminently better qualified for such a contact than myself. ……続きを見る

The hugely popular Gareth Malone recounts the heart-warming stories and transformations behind the award-winning BBC2 series The Choir For the first time, Gareth reveals everything he has learned fr……続きを見る

This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by ……続きを見る

The scope of ecology. The clue to the field of ecology is found in the Greek word, οκος, home. The point of view in the following treatise is constantly that which is inherent in the term itself. Ec……続きを見る

To give proper variety to this little collection, the selections are equally divided between portraits and “subject” pictures of religious or legendary character. The Flora, the Bella and the Philip……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

This paper is the third of a series of preliminary studies of aboriginal ceramic art which are intended to be absorbed into a final work of a comprehensive character. The groups of relics selected f……続きを見る

Who needs tall tales, legends, and myths when the turmoil and tribulation that resulted in the birth of the United States is chock-full of inspiring deeds and triumphs? In this volume, noted histori……続きを見る

Vasari introduces himself sufficiently in his own prefaces and introduction; a translator need concern himself only with the system by which the Italian text can best be rendered in English. The sty……続きを見る

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world’s earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations. This is the exciting, true adventu……続きを見る

This standard account of one of the most controversial wars in which Americans have fought is again available, with introductory materials and a bibliography revised to reflect the advances in schol……続きを見る

A LA MEMORIA SOBRE MISIONES El aislamiento en que vivían los padres de la Compañía de Jesús en sus misiones del Paraguay, cuyo acceso impedían a los mismos españoles, ha hecho ignorar hasta ahora el……続きを見る

Sr. Henrique Marques Junior. Pede-me V. algumas palavras para acompanhar o decimo volumesinho da sua encantadora bibliotéca infantil; e eu, abrindo uma excéção aos meus hábitos, de bom grado lhe env……続きを見る

Considero necesario dar una explicación sobre el origen de este libro. Una casa editorial cinematográfica de los Estados Unidos me pidió hace un año una novela para convertirla en film, recomendándo……続きを見る

THE science of Heraldry has faithfully preserved to modern times various phases of some of those remarkable legends, which, based upon a study of natural phenomena, exhibit the process whereby the g……続きを見る

To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research, previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now known as Israel. Abraham David here focuses on the S……続きを見る

No such throng had ever before been seen in the building during all its eight years of existence. People were wedged together most uncomfortably upon the seats; they stood packed in the aisles and o……続きを見る

Wie eine falsche Karte den Wettlauf zum Nordpol auslöste - Ein hinreißend erzähltes Wissensabenteuer für alle Leser von Dava Sobel, Simon Winchester und Sten Nadolny Nordpol: Ort der Sehnsucht und E……続きを見る

“Many Swans” is based upon a Kathlamet legend, the main theme and many of the episodes of which I have retained, while at the same time augmenting and freely departing from it in order to gain a wid……続きを見る