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A Miracle in Stone: or, The Great Pyramid of Egypt by Joseph A. Seiss This book gives a succinct comprehensive account of the oldest and greatest existing monument of intellectual man, particularly……続きを見る

INAS. 689. After that Ceadwalla, late K. of the Westsaxons was gone to Rome, where he departed this life (as afore is shewed) his coosen Inas or Ine was made king of the Westsaxons, begining his rei……続きを見る

Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America offers an essential perspective on the post-1960 movement for women’s equality and liberation. Tracing the histories of feminist activism……続きを見る

Theodore Warrender was still at Oxford when his father died. He was a youth who had come up from his school with the highest hopes of what he was to do at the university. It had indeed been laid out……続きを見る

A late sun, red and vivid, cast beams of light over a dark river, flowing slowly. The stream was a full half mile from shore to shore, and the great weight of water moved on in silent majesty. Both ……続きを見る

Media, War and Postmodernity investigates how conflict and international intervention have changed since the end of the Cold War, asking why Western military operations are now conducted as high-tec……続きを見る

When Richard Steele, in number 555 of his ‘Spectator’, signed its last paper and named those who had most helped him ‘to keep up the spirit of so long and approved a performance,’ he gave chief hono……続きを見る

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their e……続きを見る

L'ancien professeur de rhétorique bien connu et si estimé, auteur de la belle traduction qu'on va lire, M. Talbot, n'est plus. Il est mort plein d'années, entouré de respect et d'affection. Outre la……続きを見る

Ce livre est issu d’un cours professé à l’Université de Nancy pendant le semestre d’hiver de 1907-1908. C’était là une matière bien nouvelle pour le public éclairé auquel nous nous adressions, et qu……続きを見る

Cette division ternaire de notre oeuvre nous a été donnée par la science elle-même; car notre découverte des grands mystères de cette science repose tout entière sur la signification que les anciens……続きを見る

Idiots très-illustres, et vous, tourneurs de tables très-précieux, onques ne vous avisâtes-vous de reconnaître en la personne sacrée du joyeux curé de Meudon, l'un de nos plus grands maîtres dans là……続きを見る

A number of publications have appeared, first and last, concerning the author and his career, as was naturally to have been expected. The Alabama was the first steamship in the history of the world……続きを見る

As counsel for Pennzoil's successful effort to recover billions of dollars in damages from Texaco over the acquisition of Getty Oil Company, the Baker & Botts law firm of Houston, Texas, achieved wi……続きを見る

Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did……続きを見る

A jargon-free, non-technical, and easily accessible introduction to women's studies!All too many students enter academia with the hazy idea that the field of women's studies is restricted to housewo……続きを見る

As the world of politics and public affairs has gradually changed beyond recognition over the past two decades, journalism too has been transformed... yet the study of news and journalism often seem……続きを見る

The year 2005 marked the centennial of the founding of the United States Forest Service (USFS). Samuel P. Hays uses this occasion to present a cogent history of the role of American society in shapi……続きを見る

A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through Nort……続きを見る

RICHARD THE FIRST, Second sonne to Henrie the second. An. Reg. 1. 1189. Richard the first of that name, and second sonne of Henrie the second, Wil. Paruus. began his reigne ouer England the sixt day……続きを見る

It is natural to suppose that the arrival of the new Rector was a rather exciting event for Carlingford. It is a considerable town, it is true, nowadays, but then there are no alien activities to di……続きを見る

A canoe containing two boys and a man was moving slowly on one of the little lakes in the great northern wilderness of what is now the State of New York. The water, a brilliant blue under skies of t……続きを見る

The strangest figure that meets us in the annals of Oriental thought is that of Confucius. To the popular mind he is the founder of a religion, and yet he has nothing in common with the great religi……続きを見る

The Methvens occupied a little house in the outskirts of a little town where there was not very much going on of any description, and still less which they could take any share in, being, as they we……続きを見る

When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western na……続きを見る

This hugely successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional ……続きを見る

Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including……続きを見る

One of the most interesting questions that can be raised about the twentieth century world concerns the degree to which industrialization created a common culture for all peoples. Reported here are ……続きを見る

Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and……続きを見る

During the heady, democratic days of the fifth and fourth centuries, the poorer members of Athenian society, the lower two classes of zeugitai and thetes, enjoyed an unprecedented dominance in both ……続きを見る