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Following on from his first two books, Rhodes completes his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an Introduction Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War, Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which should be useful...

What determined success or failure in Renaissance monarchy? Why was warfare endemic in Europe in the early sixteenth century and how did the great cultural and artistic changes of the period flourish amid this conflict? How did rival kings relate to each other and...

This book provides a fascinating history of Ireland, focusing on the ways in which the nation has been depicted by competing interests, from political factions to religious groups to commercial powers. The book examines the origins of Ireland's various identities, looking at Irish culture,...

Sometimes reunions aren't happy...Still reeling from an unexpected loss, FBI profiler Nathan Thomas finds himself embroiled in war on two fronts - against a cartel that's declared open season on his team, and a shrewd serial killer desperate for Nathan's undivided attention. Vital Secrets...

A fairytale retold like never before. Fantasy, sci-fi, reverse harem romance. Areanna has always had her head in the clouds. She dreams of exploring the universe, visiting different planets and their people. However, being the youngest of eleven daughters has put her under her...

Though stylistically distinct, the architects Solano Ben tez (born 1963) and Javier Coraval n (born 1962) are brought together by the cultural context of their mutual homeland, Paraguay. In this publication they demonstrate that, given its natural resources and local economy, Paraguay is ready...

Life is not easy for baby animals in the wild--they have to learn how to find food, stay safe, and avoid being eaten. Discover some of the interesting behaviors baby animals and their parents engage in to help ensure their survival! This nonfiction book...

Two residential buildings by Brazilian architects are studied in depth in this volume. Invisible from the street, Angelo Bucci's house reveals itself in sequences until one reaches the highest point--and 360-degree views. Carla Jua aba's vacation house in a remote, virgin forest is a...

Hockey Drills is a collection of activities and practices designed to enliven and improve coaching sessions at all levels of the game. The drills are organized into chapters according to a particular skill or phase of the game; from the warm up and cool...

This book aims to provide and challenge coaches and rowers with best practice, advice, principles, and training programs to improve their rowing experience and performance. Regardless of whether you are looking to improve on-water performance, set an indoor rowing personal best, or enhance the...

Be prepared to learn a lot about the culture while you follow Amanda on her adventure."--Laura Best, author, Bitter, Sweet "What a great way for a young person to learn about a culture and to be inspired to experience other countries themselves.--Irene Butler, author,...

Welcome to The Confident Ummah, Adab Series. We were inspired to create books for our children and ummah so they can refer to them throughout their early years and better themselves as Muslims. The first 10 years of a child's life are the most...

Describes and interprets the Peak District through time, explaining and mapping the landscape.Author: John BarnattISBN-10: 1848023790ISBN-13: 9781848023796Publisher: Historic England in Association with LiverpooLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2019Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.55lbsSize: 10.50h x 8.40w x 0.80dAbout the AuthorJohn Barnatt is an archaeologist and underground explorer, who worked...

Following on from her Forward prize-winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form, relocate experiences in both past and future...

On returning north to Amsterdam from a writer's residency in the south of Holland, poet and novelist Lieke Marsman received grave news: the shoulder pain that had been bothering her for years, and that had recently become unbearable, was found to have been caused...

Liverpool was a burgeoning trading centre and rapidly growing town in the early 18th century, developing into a thriving mercantile metropolis by the 19th century. The demand for new housing was high, and court housing largely filled that need. Court housing was a form...

Is nowhere a place we can get closer to? In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles the circularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures. These poems rip into pockets of histories, trying to change facts and...

Walking, getting lost, and finding that home is half way between refuge and a place to look out from at the unsettling and unsettled world, are the dominant themes in Sarah Corbett's fifth collection. Written from an intimate knowledge of the countryside of the...

Over the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world through a series of studies, courses, seminars, and publications. The Barcelona Reader hinges together a selection of the best...

This collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 1350-1550. It showcases innovative research on the history of the book from a range of established and younger scholars from the US and Europe in the...

Mona Arshi's debut collection, Small Hands, introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the center of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brother's death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised...

In her third full-length collection Blood Child, Eleanor Rees hones and extends her startling use of language and imagery to enact the many aspects of change - fleeting, elusive or moored in a negotiation of the material world as she roams through the landscapes...

Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale". The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to...

The story of propaganda and patriotism in First World War Britain too often focuses on the clichés of Kitchener, 'over by Christmas' and the deaths of patriotic young volunteers at the Somme and elsewhere. A common assumption is that familiar forms of patriotism did...

Since the onset of the troubles in the late 1960s, people in Northern Ireland have been working together to bring about a peaceful, non-violent end to the conflict. In doing so, they have used their efforts as a means to support the transition to...

THE #1 BEST-SELLER THE ESTABLISHMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ...Born on three adjacent beds, a mere three seconds apart, our three heroes are united by nature but divided by nurture. As a result of their different upbringings, they spend their lives chasing three very...

Set in a technicolour world of dreams, ghosts, classical music, and Key West storms, Jodie Hollander's compelling second collection charts the emotional journey of the daughter of a professional classical pianist. These bold and arresting poems, rich with musicality, and fierce in their emotional...

The Banco de Londres y Am rica del Sud in Buenos Aires was built between 1959 and 1966 through the efforts of a large team of designers and engineers, headed by the collaborative offices of Sepra and Clorindo Testa. Long admired by connoisseurs of...

Welcome to The Confident Ummah, Adab Series. We were inspired to create books for our children and ummah so they can refer to them throughout their early years and better themselves as Muslims. The first 10 years of a child's life are the most...

Sunny and his kinfolk were content with their way of life. During the dry season, their clan lived alone. They hunted whenever they chose, gathered an array of plants, told stories, and took part in debates. In the rainy season, they united with the...

Author: Courtney PeppernellISBN-10: 1771682639ISBN-13: 9781771682633Publisher: Central Avenue PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2021Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d

As long as there have been gardens, box has played a part. In A Gardener's Guide to Box, experienced box specialist, Jenny Alban Davies, describes the use of box in a wide range of garden designs and situations. Along with useful information about the...

Gardening on a Gradient: Designing and Establishing Sloping Gardens is a complete guide to tackling one of a garden designer's biggest challenges. Whatever the size or the gradient, creating a garden on a sloping site presents lots of conflicting possibilities and potentially expensive choices....

This publication examines Berlin's emerging architecture during the 1960s, including such famous developments as Stalinallee, Alexanderplatz, Breitscheidplatz and the M rkisches Viertel. Historical documents illustrate political, social and technical visions for a divided city recovering from its wartime devastation.Author: Thomas KöhlerISBN-10: 3803007933ISBN-13: 9783803007933Publisher: WasmuthLanguage:...

Since the inclusion of medieval studies in the modern academy, professional scholars have insisted on distinguishing their work from extra-academic lovers of medieval culture. Richard Utz analyzes the semantic, institutional, and sociopolitical history of the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. He provides a...

A thorough guide to the weapons forms, aimed at advanced Wing Chun students and instructorsWeapons training focuses on core elements of power usage and precision, improving stance, structure, and strength. Mastering control of the weapons focuses on the need for total body control and...

The fifth collection from poet Blake Auden, To Drown as a Cure for Thirst, is a delicate exploration of grief and how it affects--and is affected by--time and memory. Written in the wake of a global pandemic, the book touches on themes including loss,...

Refreshing and devastating--The Oklahoman Despised and feared by her sprawling family, Victoria Hastings Harrison Greene refuses to go quietly from her long life without revealing the secrets she's held locked away for more than fifty years--the same secrets consistent with the rumors her grandchildren...

Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man's Finery (1926) and La hija del capitán/ The Captain's Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farceswritten by Ramón del Valle-Inclán for the theatre. Translated here for the first time into English, the plays demonstrate the dramatist's...

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Anthologies and Collections Award, 2012. Two of the most pervasive aspects of modern Jewish life are interaction with people of other faiths and exposure to their beliefs to a degree unknown in the past. Jewish thinking regarding...

How Jews use media to connect with one another has profound consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. This volume explores how the use of media can both create communities and divide them because of how different media shape actions and project anxieties, conflicts,...

The Kingdom of Poland, also known as the Congress Kingdom or Russian Poland, was created by a decision of the Congress of Vienna as part of its attempt to set up a post-Napoleonic European order. It incorporated lands that for many decades had been...

A Tale of Two Cities, published originally in 1859, remains one of Charles Dickens's consistently popular works, admired as much for its succinct plot as for its vivid setting in the French Revolution. Dickens himself thought it the best story he had ever written....

An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication via LUP's website and OAPEN. Indigenous arts, simultaneously attuned to local voices and global cultural flows, have often been the vanguard in communicating what is at stake in the interactions, contradictions,...

Now in paperback! Can we alter our dreams and stories from the past to create a better future for our children? Zane and Skye are two misfit teens drawn together by their love of music and their loneliness, both part of Seattle's grunge scene...

In his third poetry collection, Itch, Zane Frederick scratches memory. He pokes the bear of his past. Ventures further out into its woods to see what still lurks and what needs to be settled. Itch captures the complexity of revisiting memory and the whirlwind...

Ranked by many scholars as the greatest master of early Italian Renaissance painting, Masaccio (1401-1428) was the first artist to use effects of light to create three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional plane. This achievement, revolutionary in Masaccio's day, is one of the painter's significant...

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in Bilbao on 29th September 1864. He wrote novels, essays, poems and plays, and in addition to these he played an important part in the political and intellectual life of Spain - an involvement that led to...

Text with translation, commentary and notes.Author: P. HowellISBN-10: 0856685909ISBN-13: 9780856685903Publisher: Liverpool University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.89h x 6.09w x 0.45d

An EPIC collection of 50 unique dinosaur coloring pages Great quality designs of fan favorites like the mighty T-Rex, Stegosaurus, Spinosaurus, Brontosaurus and Triceratops plus so many more (see full list below). No 'made-up cartoony' dinos here Full of varied prehistoric scenes and cool...