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The Peloponnesian War BC

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: de Sousa, Philip / Sousa, Philip / de Souza, Philip, PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing (UK), It is a testament to the fascination of the subject that even today the events of the Peloponnesian War are studied for what they can teach about diplomacy, strategy and tactics. This book reveals the darker side of Classical Greek civilization. From the horrific effects of overcrowding and the plague on the population of Athens, to the vicious civil strife that often erupted in cities allied with Athens or Sparta, this volume offers vivid and at times disturbing insights into the impact of warfare on the people who are celebrated as the founders of Western civilization.

The Ghosts of Charleston

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Macy, Edward / Buxton, Julian, PUBLISHER: Beaufort Books, Charleston, SC is one of the most haunted cities in North America. Buxton and Macy tell chilling stories about the ghosts that inhabit Charleston's historical buildings. Timeless legends and recent accounts of spirits abound in this long-awaited book. Stories include: the Gentleman Ghost and Headless torso of the Battery Carriage House Inn, the despairing ghost in the beautiful Aiken-Rhett House, the tragic death of a young doctor and his return to a house on Church Street, and the ghost car on the imposing Cooper River Bridge, among many others. These are the stories behind the haunts of the Holy City.

Jacqueline Wilson's Superstars

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Jacqueline, PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Publishers UK, Two of Jacqueline Wilson's most well-loved stories. Two of Jacqueline Wilson's most popular stories together in one fantastic collection. In "The Suitcase Kid, " Andy is struggling to cope with her parents' divorce: one week with Mum, one week with Dad. But all she wants is to go back to how things were before. "Winner of the Children's Book Award" In "The Lottie Project," Charlie invents a Victorian servant girl as part of her school project. Lottie's life was very hard, but the two might have more in common that Charlie realised.

Oatley: Cities, Economic (P) Competition and Urban Policy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Oatley, Nick, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), This book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the major realignment that has taken place in English regeneration policy and practice since . It analyzes the changes which have led to an emphasis in policy on competitiveness, integrated approaches to economic decline and social exclusion, and the shift away from formula-driven funding mechanisms towards controversial competitive bidding. It also examines changes in governance practices, the spread of multisector partnerships, the new localism' and the emergence of a contract culture. The book concludes with a summary of contemporary policy themes and an assessment of the Labour Government's policy proposals.

Drive Around California: Your Guide to Great Drives Top 25

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cass, Maxine / Gebhart, Fred, PUBLISHER: Thomas Cook, The best of California, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, Palm Springs and Hollywood, Disneyland and Universal Studios, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley and the Napa Valley. Thomas Cook Drive Around Guides are designed to provide you with a comprehensive but flexible reference source to guide you as you tour a country or region by car. This guide divides California into touring areas - one per chapter. Major cultural centers or cities form chapters in their own right. Each chapter provides at least a day's worth of activities - often more.

The Treasures of Ancient Egypt: From the Egyptian Museum in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Egyptian Museum, PUBLISHER: Rizzoli International Publications, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo houses the world's most celebrated collection of Egyptian antiquities. Because of the encyclopedic nature of the collection, this comprehensive, illustrated guide to the museum is required reading for anyone interested in Ancient Egyptian history and culture. With over 900 color illustrations, thorough explanations, and detailed descriptions of over 570 objects, this book is a wealth of information. The Egyptian Museum is currently touring a show throughout the United States called The Quest for Immortality: Treasures from the Egyptian Museum. Currently in Boston, it will travel to seven cities before the end of . Acquista Ora

Pappagalli parlanti da riproduzione

Allevamento di pappagalli parlanti coppie da riproduzione,più gabbie di varie misure: I pappagalli sono molto docili e coccoloni. Nel prezzo é inclusa la gabbia e tutti gli accessori..con una guida su CD,completo di cites e regolare microcip f.o.i.regalo.coppia di cenerini 600euro,350 euro per chi prende uno singolo. Coppia di ara ararauna 600 euro, 350 per chi prende un singolo. Coppia di ara macao 600 euro, 350 per chi prende un singolo.Tutti i nostri pappagalli sono garantiti, soddisfatti o rimborsati con regolari documenti cities e fattura. Massima serietà. contattare se veramente motivati e interessati grazie

Pappagalli parlanti da riproduzione

Allevamento di pappagalli parlanti coppie da riproduzione,più gabbie di varie misure: I pappagalli sono molto docili e coccoloni. Nel prezzo é inclusa la gabbia e tutti gli accessori..con una guida su CD,completo di cites e regolare microcip f.o.i.regalo.coppia di cenerini 600euro,350 euro per chi prende uno singolo. Coppia di ara ararauna 600 euro, 350 per chi prende un singolo. Coppia di ara macao 600 euro, 350 per chi prende un singolo.Tutti i nostri pappagalli sono garantiti, soddisfatti o rimborsati con regolari documenti cities e fattura. Massima serietà. contattare se veramente motivati e interessati grazie.

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hopkinson, Nalo, PUBLISHER: Invisible Cities Press, The lushness of language and the landscape, wild contrasts, and pure storytelling magic abound in this anthology of Caribbean writing. Steeped in the tradition of fabulism, where the irrational and inexplicable coexist with the realities of daily life, the stories in this collection are infused with a vitality and freshness that most writing traditions have long ago lost. From spectral slaving ships to women who shed their skin at night to become owls, stories from writers such as Jamaica Kincaid, Marcia Douglas, Ian MacDonald, and Kamau Brathwaite pulse with rhythms, visions, and the tortured history of this spiritually rich region of the world.

Lonely Planet's Best in Travel

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet s Best in Travel The best places to go and things to do all around the world right now Drawing on the knowledge, passion and miles travelled by Lonely Planet s staff, authors and online community, we present a year s worth of travel inspiration to take you out of the ordinary and into some unforgettable experiences. HighlightsLonely Planet ranks the top 10 countries, regions and cities to visit in .The best travel experiences for the year ahead, from enjoying Europe s latest City of Culture in Slovakia to touring Addis Ababa, Africa s rising star.Over 35 events mapped out month by month in the travel planner.

Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Porter, Dorothy, PUBLISHER: Routledge, "Health, Civilization and the State" examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. Focusing on Britain, Continental Europe and the United States, Dorothy Porter provides a comprehensive outline of the development of public health care from the ancient world to the modern state. Covering a broad range of historical issues, the book includes discussion of: pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times; the Enlightenment and its effects; health care centralization in Victorian Britain; localization of health care in the United States; population issues and family welfare; the rise of the classic welfare state; and current attitudes towards public health as we approach the twenty-first century.

Antica rara toilette navale dell'800

Rarissima tazza toilette completa di meccanica-oggetto d'epoca vittoriana in ceramica marchiato "Westhead Moore co Antique Victorian Washstand"trattasi di un servizio igenico "gabinetto" (mi avevano detto che proveniva da un vecchio veliero inglese) completo di pesi contropesi con allacci il tutto funzionante,è stato inserito (come dimostrasi da foto) all'interno di un tavolino e ricoperto con una grande finestra in bronzo di nave (questo solo per ripararlo da eventuali pericoli) oggetto autentico e introvabile,accetto baratti con oggetti particolari o antiche affettatrice Berkel meccaniche a volano in buono stato, juke box-jukebox con meccanismo a vista o proponete offerte (non ridicole) si prega di contattare solo se interessati,grazie,per eventuali chiarimenti,Carlo..

Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bosselaar, Laure-Anne, PUBLISHER: Milkweed Editions, Deep in the concrete canyons of even the largest cities, nature lurks. Its unpredictable energies animate not only squirrels and microorganisms, not only ginkgoes, roots, and rivers, but also the engines of human desire. Urban Nature captures the many faces of wildness in the city with poems by more than 130 emerging and recognized poets. Rather than just lamenting the loss of paradise, these poems celebrate nature's resiliency. They memorialize a salamander's last stand in a parking lot, link the cosmos to the consumer ethos ("The Pleiades / you could probably get downtown"), evoke horses galloping between skyscrapers, and track geological time in a pothole.

Oliver Twist

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dickens, Charles / Tavner, Gill / Donnelly, Karen, PUBLISHER: Skyview Books, IDW is proud to introduce a new line of graphic novels that adapt some of the best-loved books of all time. The second book in the line is Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan who is subjected to ill-treatment in institutions in Victorian England. He falls into the clutches of the ghastly Fain and comes into contact with the seediest parts of London. The adventures of young Oliver are a story of fear, poverty, and the darkness of the human soul. Our young hero, caught between good and evil, has to survive amidst crime and a group of characters who are each worse than the other.

Hell Bent for Santa Fe: The Texan Santa Fe Expedition of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Purcell, Jack, PUBLISHER: NineLives Press, The Republic of Texas claimed all the Mexican territory west to the Pacific Ocean. President Mirabeau Lamar sent these 300 bravos to enforce the boundary. They failed, but today cities and counties throughout the State of Texas are named for them.Hell Bent for Santa Fe is a true story of men, mistakes, misery and mutiny set to fiction with maps and illustrations. McLeod, the drunken commander betrayed by Mexican spies and a traitorous officer. The most famous men in Texas folklore surrendered and walked home in rags. Experience the day-by-day actual adventure of the lowest moments in Texas history.

How to Catch a Bogle

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jinks, Catherine, PUBLISHER: HMH Books for Young Readers, "If ever a chill entered her soul, or the hope suddenly drained from her heart, she knew a bogle was to blame." Ten-year-old orphan Birdie McAdam is tougher than she looks. She's proud of her job as apprentice to Alfred the Bogler, a man who catches monsters for a living. Birdie lures the bogles out of their lairs with her sweet songs, and Alfred kills them before they kill her. On the mean streets of Victorian England, hunting bogles is actually "less "dangerous work than mudlarking for scraps along the vile Thames river. (See glossary) Or so it seems--until the orphans of London start to disappear...

Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rasula, Jed / Conley, Tim, PUBLISHER: Action Books, Poetry. BURNING CITY acts as a "multisensory Baedecker" to the many incarnations of international modernism from . Inspired by the abandoned plans of the early avant-garde poet Yvan Goll to write a history of modernity through the poetry of that era, scholars Jed Rasula and Tim Conley have carried out Goll's project, scouring the small journals and magazines of the period for both lost and seminal texts. BURNING CITY is organized not just according to the cities which inspired the texts--Paris, Cracow, Buenos Aires, and so on--but according to such icons of the modern urban experience as "Cineland," "Music Hall," "Electric Man." BURNING CITY makes a new contribution to anthologies of both poetry and modernism by its thematic focus on city life, by its inclusion of poets from languages and nationalities seldom represented in standard US surveys, and by its preservation of the typographic versatility of the this feverishly innovating period."'The fascination of cities, ' wrote Langston Hughes, 'seizes me, burning like a fever in the blood.' BURNING CITY enacts that passion with astonishing skill and learning. Whatever else Modernism was or was not, its geography was that of the New Urbanism: from Paris and Berlin to Sao Paulo and Shanghai, from such icons as the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building to Moscow's Nikitin Circus, it is the City in all its contradictions, its splendors and miseries, that was to become the laboratory of modernism, still dominating our dreams and nightmares a century after the fact. Truly global in its reach, yet local in its exacting particularities, BURNING CITY breaks down the old familiar isms and genre divisions, introducing us to writings we've never seen before, printed side by side with our favorite poems by Huidobro and Musil, Mayakovsky and Mina Loy. In a nutshell, the map of modernism will never be the same "--Marjorie Perloff

A Journey in Khorassan and Central Asia. March and April,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kennedy, Robert John / Kennedy, Bertha Jane Hon, PUBLISHER: British Library, Historical Print Editions, The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Kennedy, Robert John; Kennedy, Bertha Jane Hon.; p.; .s.24.

Lonely Planet's Best in Travel: The Best Trends,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lonely Planet, PUBLISHER: Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet's Best In Travel The best places to go and things to do all around the world right now Drawing on the knowledge, passion and miles traveled by Lonely Planet's staff and authors, you've got a year's worth of travel inspiration to take you out of the ordinary and into some unforgettable experiences. Highlights Lonely Planet presents the top 10 countries, regions and cities to visit in Travel Plannner - over 30 adventures mapped out month-by-month. Contains the best travel experiences for the year ahead, from wildlife-watching in South Africa to catching a space flight launched from the Mojave Desert.

Men of Letters, Writing Lives

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Broughton, Trev Lynn, PUBLISHER: Routledge, Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalization of Life-writing; and the consequent spread of a network of mainly male practitioners and commentators. This study focuses on two case studies from the period : the theories and achievements of Sir Leslie Stephen and the debate surrounding James Anthony Froude's account of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

Avalon Hill Board Game Risk AD Resized english

In the Year , the World is at War As the leader of a warring faction, you control the destiny of your people. On the Earth, in the great underwater domed cities beneath the oceans, in orbit, and even on the Moon, you must marshal your forces, send forth your troops, and hire the right commanders to crush your enemies. Build alliances if you dare, but be wary of whom you trust. Energy is the currency of the 23rd century. spend wisely and you just might conquer the world - and beyond. RISK A.D. also includes everything needed to play the classic game of Risk. - Players: 2-5- Recommended age: 10 years and up- Playing time: 240 min - English language edition

Dishing: Calgary Women Cook

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Chavich, Cinda / Fortier, Pam / Harbrecht, R., PUBLISHER: Whitecap Books, Cowboys, stampedes, ten-gallon hats...those are the images that the city of Calgary evokes. But cooking? You bet your boots Calgary is fast becoming renowned as a cultural hot spot, and these eleven women are leading the way. From appetizers to desserts, recipes such as Foie Gras with Cherries and Balsamic Vinegar and Hazelnut Torte with Ginger-Lime Cream put Calgary on the same culinary map as cities like Paris and Rome. Infused with the creativity and verve that characterize the Wild West, this cookbook serves up the best Calgary has to offer. So rope up your appetites, fire up the stove and get ready to dish it up, Calgary style

In-Ex 02: Customize

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: In-Ex Projects, PUBLISHER: Princeton Architectural Press, Everywhere we see evidence of standardisation, serial production of goods and services, uniformity across the globe, and, increasingly, a reaction against this trend in fields as diverse as product design, building components or urban development. This publication presents fascinating reports on strategies of rebellion discovered in cities such as Paris, Wuppertal, Seoul and London. Interviews with architects in Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, France and the USA reveal a subversive attitude no longer prepared to accept uniform standards and globalisation to the detriment of individuality and idiosyncracy. IN-EX is a group of young Parisian architects (Louis Paillard, Anne-FranAoise Jumeau, David Trottin and Emanuelle Marin-Trottin) who regularly organise architectural exhibitions and events.

Avalon Hill Board Game Axis Allies english

It is . Five major powers struggle for supremacy. The Axis has great momentum and is expanding its conquests in both Europe and Asia.Controlling one of the Axis or Allied powers, you will command both your country,s military forces and its war-time economy. Show that you are a brilliant military strategist by planning your attacks, marshaling your forces into embattled territories, and resolving the conflicts. Victory goes to the side that conquers its opponents on the field of battle and liberates or occupies the greatest cities of the world. Change the course of history in a few short hours!- Players: 2-5- Recommended age: 12 years and up- Playing time: 120 min - English language edition

In Search of Robert Millar: Unravelling the Mystery

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moore, Richard, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins UK, The compelling story of Britain's best-ever cyclist, this book looks to unravel the puzzle surrounding his sudden and dramatic disappearance. Cyclist Robert Millar came from one of Europe's most industrialized cities, Glasgow, to excel in the most unlikely terrain--over the high mountain passes of the Pyrenees and the Alps. He was crowned King of the Mountains during the Tour de France and remains the only ever Briton to finish on the podium of the world's toughest race. Through interviews with Millar's friends, acquaintances, cycling colleagues and ex-classmates, the author seeks to unravel the mystery of this maverick Scotsman, arguably one of the greatest enigmas in a sport full of remarkable characters.

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