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Author: James Alexander Miller & New York Academy of Medicine

Author: P.C. McIntosh

Originally published in 1957, the first part of this volume examines physical education in classical Greece and Imperial Rome during the first and second centuries A.D. and in Italy and England during the Renaissance. Ea ...

Author: Marios Gavalas

This highly-illustrated regional history examines noted the landmarks, architecture, natural features and personalities around Fiordland and Southland and on Stewart Island/Rakiura, comparing archival documents and foota ...

Author: James Bailie Ronald

Title: Landmarks of Old Stirling.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 15 ...

Author: William C. Brumfield

A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject.

Author: William C. Brumfield

A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject.

Author: Mark Mayo Boatner

Zooming in on key locations connected to the American Revolution, this expanded and completely revised edition of Col. Mark M. Boatner III's < I>Landmarks of the American Revolution< /I> goes beyond U.S. borders when pro ...

Author: Wade C. Roberts

War, genocide, and foreign occupation have taken their toll on Cambodia. These events have demolished infrastructure, overturned ruling parties, and led to the deaths of millions. Although these events are now past, many ...

Author: Mike Croll

Landmines and their antecedents have been used on the battlefield from ancient times, through the world wars, to the modern conflicts in the developing world. Their use in the developing world caused tens of thousands of ...

Author: Jack P. Greene

Intended as a plausible psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, thi study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values. It calls attention to what motivated him, to the majo ...

Author: Rhys Isaac

Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Rhys Isaac mines this remarkable document - and many other sources - to re ...

Author: Sir Sidney Colvin

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...th ...

Author: Ralph Gibson

Author: Jane Rowlandson

Oxyrhynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman Empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the rural hinterland. ...

Author: John Jackson & Matthias Christian Sprengel

Title: Landreise aus Ostindien nach Europa, unternommen im Jahre 1797 auf einem ... wenig bekannten Wege durch die ... Tu rkey, Siebenbu rgen, Ungarn und Teutschland. Auszugsweise aus dem Englischen u bersetzt. L. Degran ...

Author: Stan Sesser

A rare and illuminating look at one of the most fascinating places in the world--a place of tyranny and repression that is also a place of beautiful people who warmly welcome the visitor, of ancient cultural traditions t ...

Author: Piotr Wandycz

Author: Edward H Hall

Title: Lands of Plenty in the New North-West. A book for all travellers, settlers and investors in Manitoba and North-West Territory. [With illustrations and a map.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsTh ...

Author: George Nugent Temple Grenville

Title: Lands, classical and sacred.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over ...

Author: Daniel J Gargola

In "Lands, Laws, and Gods," Daniel Gargola examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 B.C.). During this pe ...