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Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon, England (ca 1088-ca 1154) has been admired for centuries as the author of the monumental Historia Anglorum. The recent discovery of the Anglicanus ortus opens a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of...

This book reprints Virginia Brown's five lists of recently discovered Beneventan manuscript items, which first appeared in the journal "Mediaeval Studies." A preface and comprehensive indexes compiled by Roger E. Reynolds are also included.Author: Virginia BrownISBN-10: 0888441797ISBN-13: 9780888441799Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval StudiesLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Populations of the red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) have experienced massive declines since European colonization of North America. This is due to extensive habitat loss and alteration. Logging of old-growth pine forests and alteration of the fire regime throughout the historic range of the species...

There are countless under-studied or ignored authors from the Byzantine Empire awaiting scholarly attention. In the area of Byzantine spirituality the twelfth century as a whole has received little consideration, primarily owing to the perceived lack of any significant or noteworthy author. While the...

Equipped with some sort of commission from Henry VIII, John Leland began to record the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 and carried on until 1536 or shortly after, when the first dissolutions occurred. His booklists were compiled in preparation for his comprehensive...

This book consists of an annotated translation of a history of a Cistercian monastery known as the Henryków Book (1268-1310) and of some thirty charters further illustrating that history, as well as a sustained introductory essay.Author: Piotr GoreckiISBN-10: 088844155XISBN-13: 9780888441553Publisher: PIMSLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 296Format:...

Mainstream historiography has traditionally found the roots of peasant action, and much of the meaning of that action, in legal status difference between lords and peasants, and among peasants themselves. In the last several decades, this older class conflict model has lost some ground...

Scholarship of the past few decades has succeeded in questioning the wholly objective status typically attributed to the terms of religious affiliation common in early modern England. This is not to say that expressions such as puritan, Arminian, Calvinist are without meaning. But it...

Twenty-one love stories from the Bible captured by a story-teller who creates a seamless, timeless link between the Old Testament and twenty-first century couples.Author: Victoria Register-FreemanISBN-10: 088270964XISBN-13: 9780882709642Publisher: Bridge-LogosLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2004Pages: 127Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 6.86h x 5.88w x 0.61d

The conversion of Lutz Löb and Jenny van Gelder from Judaism to Roman Catholicism dramatically changed the lives of the extended Löb family. This scientific-historical study traces the personal and spiritual journey of Lutz and Jenny from their baptisms in 1907 through the lives...

3 1/4 X 4 1/2 In, 64 Pp, Line Drawings The Humor-Tinged Quips Include * All The Foofaraws In Texas Ain't Worth A Tear In One Good Woman's Eye. * The Right One Is Worth A Million Wrong Ones. * When You Find The...

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 129.Modern theories of mass and heat transfer in the biosphere, based on notions of a soil-plant-atmosphere thermodynamic continuum focused on water, were generally formulated by the mid-20th century. They tended...

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 106.Seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges was recognized more than 30 years ago as the key which unlocked the plate tectonic revolution. Ridges are not only the locus of the most...

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 183.For carbon sequestration the issues of monitoring, risk assessment, and verification of carbon content and storage efficacy are perhaps the most uncertain. Yet these issues are also the most critical...

What do we do with life? Sometimes life's crises, or even its predictability, can derail us from the path of God's purpose. He intends, however, that we live to the full. Learning to wait on Him for His overcoming strength will enable us to...

Drawing from his experience as mayor, Bill Hudnut describes the plight of first-tier suburbs and reveals how they have been left behind as the spotlight has focused on downtown revitalization and growth in outlying areas. Learn how these areas are turning around and becoming...

The Great War remembered "This book is not a history of World War I, nor is it a history of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front. Rather, it is a collection of essays that examines how the wartime generation and those...

Ambrose Bierce's In the Midst of Life, the second volume of The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, is hailed by critics and scholars alike as his most important literary work. In Ambrose Bierce's Civilians and Soldiers in Context: A Critical Study, Donald T. Blume...

Robert A. Taft, prominent political leader and vocal critic of the expanding powers of the federal government and of the enlargement of America's international commitments, played a significant role in the development of Republican party politics. This second volume of The Papers of Robert...

Provides the first complete edition, annotated and with modernized spelling, of these important late-Elizabethan letters, written by Rowland Whyte as the personal agent and advisor at court of Robert Sidney, Viscount Lisle and first Earl of Leicester. His series of 292 surviving letters to...

Australian senators who served from 1963 to 2009 are featured in this third volume in the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate series. Prepared by academics and parliamentary researchers, individual articles on the senators provide biographical accounts and a telling history of the term...

This volume contains biographical sketches and photographs of twenty-six first ladies, from Helen W. Fowle to Carolyn L. Hunt, who lived in North Carolina's Executive Mansion from 1891 to 2001.Author: Marie Sharpe Ham,Debra A. Blake,C. Edward MorrisISBN-10: 0865262942ISBN-13: 9780865262942Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives...

Small enough to read from cover to cover but with enough information to serve as a comprehensive reference on all aspects of traumatic brain injury, this book is unique in the field. You will find full sections on topics ranging from pathophysiology, initial evaluation...

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's greatest fiction writers. His long literary career began in the 1950s and includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for television and film. His work is loved by generations of...

This impeccably produced hardback volume features large-format reproductions of 72 photographs by leading New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart. They provide a nearly comprehensive record of 50 New Zealand "Digger" memorials (those featuring statues rather than abstract sculpture), and a representative range of their Australian...

J. C. Beaglehole, best known as a historian and Cook scholar, was also a passionate writer of letters. He wrote frequently, at length, and throughout his life, to family, friends and colleagues-- wittily, affectionately, intimately, eruditely, acerbically, and always with an eye to style--and...

Ben Cauchi's photographs seem to arrive from another time and place, yet are thoroughly of the present. His use of the mid-19th-century wet collodion photographic process to explore the modern world gives insights into both that world and the photographic method. The Evening Hours...

Featuring beautifully lit, atmospheric photographs of dilapidated buildings, industrial settings, and domestic interiors, this unique record highlights the vanishing components of New Zealand. A collaboration between the photographer and five writers, this handbook features handpicked photographs accompanied by short essays examining the city of...

"Atwan's 1996 interview with bin Laden in his Afghanistan redoubt was one of the first and remains one of the best. Atwan 'got it' from the moment bin Laden appeared on the scene. . . . What many [Muslims] hate is not the American...

An immense understanding of the Qur'an is offered here, a vast treasure of knowledge and deep insight and a valuable exposition of some social, political, economic and legal teachings of the Qur'an. But what makes this work unique is that it presents the Qur'an...

The city of Exeter was one of the largest and most prosperous of British historic towns. Between 1971 and 1980 the Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit carried out over 30 excavations in the city which uncovered an exceptionally rich and varied collection of finds....

In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish, probably composed in the second half of the fifteenth century, was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. This eagerly awaited edition of the...

'Rainbows for Rainy Days' is a collection of 40 uplifting devotional readings for when the weight of the world is dragging you down. Everyone has rainy days. Sometimes it's only a light shower, but other time the torrential downpour makes it unbearable to even...

Intermetallic Matrix Composites: Properties and Applications is a comprehensive guide that studies the types and properties of intermetallic matrix composites, including their processing techniques, characterization and the various testing methods associated with these composites. In addition, it presents modeling techniques, their strengthening mechanisms and...

The fragmentary plays of Euripides are a body of texts still regularly increasing in number and extent. They are of very great interest in themselves, apart from the significant aid they give to the fuller appreciation of the surviving complete plays.Author: CollardISBN-10: 0856686182ISBN-13: 9780856686184Publisher:...

Tirso de Molina enjoys enduring popularity as a writer of irreverent comedies, though his critical reputation as a major dramatist rests largely on his more serious works. Don Gil of the Green Breeches as befits a high farce is much concerned with disguise, mistaken...

Suitable for postgraduates and researchers this book provides essential new findings by experts in the field.Author: Eric DickinsonISBN-10: 0854046380ISBN-13: 9780854046386Publisher: Royal Society of ChemistryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2005Pages: 508Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.98lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.49w x 1.28d

This is the first fully illustrated monograph of Barbara Rae's career to date. One of Britain's outstanding contemporary painters, Rae is a Royal Academician and the recipient of numerous awards including two doctorates and Commander of the British Empire (CBE). Known for their use...

Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp built for women. Its history constitutes a crossroads in the various stages of the Third Reich's persecution of women accused of offending the Nazi state and of those ethnically and racially persecuted. Women from different social...

This is the story of perhaps the world's most unusual Jewish community, told through the eyes of the oldest member of one of its most unusual families. Solomon 'Momy' Levy is one of the best known figures in Gibraltar. Levy was the Rock's first...

Sir Sigmund Sternberg was born and raised in a comfortable middle-class family in Hungary. On the eve of the World War II, as an 18-year old, Sternberg was forced to flee his home. He joined his extended family in Britain, helping his cousin Solomon...

Leslie H. Hardman, a Jewish chaplain, entered Belsen camp two days after its liberation by the British Army. This book tells the story of what he found there, and what he did. The horror which first confronts him is overwhelming, and something other than...

Organized into bite-size installments, this book is specifically designed to deepen the understanding and heighten the relevance of the weekly sidrah for the young adult and student generation. The book provides ethical and religious guidance for confronting the vicissitudes of life and handling of...

Bergen-Belsen was the only major Nazi concentration camp to be liberated on the British front, some three weeks before the end of the war in Europe in 1945. This book contains accounts which should ensure that the horrors of the camp are on the...

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes...

Re-evaluates the way Jews lived among Poles without abandoning their Jewish heritage. By focusing on the history of the Jewish press, schools and other cultural institutions, the book examines how Jews in the same community created varying ethnic and national identities in order to...

The masterpieces of small-house living featured here will serve as inspiration to those who struggle with the challenges presented by contemporary life in petite-size homes. Dreaming Small is a celebration of jewel-box homes, each marked by a sense of style that marries eclecticism, practicality,...

The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series provides students, pastors, and laypeople with up-to-date, accessible evangelical scholarship on the Old and New Testaments. Presenting the message for each passage, as well as an overview of other issues relevant to the text, each volume equips pastors and...

Grace, Faith and Holiness examines the doctrines of God, humankind, salvation, and sanctification. H. Ray Dunning also examines the sources of theology as well as the nature and scope of the theological task. On the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the seminal Wesleyan...

Author: Janice MathewsISBN-10: 0828027862ISBN-13: 9780828027861Publisher: Review & Herald PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2014Pages: 30Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.31h x 8.07w x 0.34d