Author: Antony Eastmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107167566
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraordinary connections across continents and cultures from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. This book will be important for students and scholars of Byzantine, Crusader and Islamic history, art and architecture.
Tamta's World
Author: Antony Eastmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107167566
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraordinary connections across continents and cultures from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. This book will be important for students and scholars of Byzantine, Crusader and Islamic history, art and architecture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107167566
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraordinary connections across continents and cultures from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. This book will be important for students and scholars of Byzantine, Crusader and Islamic history, art and architecture.
Encyclopedia of World Religions
Author: Bruno Becchio
Publisher: Foreign Media Group
ISBN: 9781601360007
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Enhanced by more than one thousand full colour illustrations, a concise guide features thousands of references to literature, art, history, famous figures, and philosophy with respect to religion, covering the beliefs, doctrines, practices, teachings, rites of passage, and specific rituals of the world's major religions.
Publisher: Foreign Media Group
ISBN: 9781601360007
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Enhanced by more than one thousand full colour illustrations, a concise guide features thousands of references to literature, art, history, famous figures, and philosophy with respect to religion, covering the beliefs, doctrines, practices, teachings, rites of passage, and specific rituals of the world's major religions.
World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations
Author: F. A. Buttress
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468487426
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
This edition of well over 50,000 entries not only updates its predecessor but considerably increases the coverage of Latin America and Eastern Europe. I have been aided in this work by two colleagues at Glasgow University Library, Dr Lloyd Davies and Barbara MacMillan, and in general revision by Kate Richard. Close on 20% of the text has been altered. The equivalences, introduced into the last edition, linking acronyms in different languages for the same organization, have been extended. New to this edition is the cross-referencing between a defunct organization and its successor. Otherwise the policies adopted in previous editions have been retained: strictly local organizations are omitted, but the subject scope includes activities of all kinds; the country of origin of a national organization is given in brackets, unless it is the home country of the title language or can be readily deduced from the title itself. Acronyms of parent bodies of subsidiary organizations are also added in brackets. A select bibliography guides the reader to specialist works providing more detailed information. Particularly at a time of such widespread political change affecting organizational structures in so many countries, it is impossible to ensure complete up-to-date accuracy in a work of this kind. Readers are earnestly invited to inform me of any errors and omissions for attention in a later edition of this work. H. H. Bibliography Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary. 13th edn. Gale Research Co. , Detroit, 1989.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468487426
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
This edition of well over 50,000 entries not only updates its predecessor but considerably increases the coverage of Latin America and Eastern Europe. I have been aided in this work by two colleagues at Glasgow University Library, Dr Lloyd Davies and Barbara MacMillan, and in general revision by Kate Richard. Close on 20% of the text has been altered. The equivalences, introduced into the last edition, linking acronyms in different languages for the same organization, have been extended. New to this edition is the cross-referencing between a defunct organization and its successor. Otherwise the policies adopted in previous editions have been retained: strictly local organizations are omitted, but the subject scope includes activities of all kinds; the country of origin of a national organization is given in brackets, unless it is the home country of the title language or can be readily deduced from the title itself. Acronyms of parent bodies of subsidiary organizations are also added in brackets. A select bibliography guides the reader to specialist works providing more detailed information. Particularly at a time of such widespread political change affecting organizational structures in so many countries, it is impossible to ensure complete up-to-date accuracy in a work of this kind. Readers are earnestly invited to inform me of any errors and omissions for attention in a later edition of this work. H. H. Bibliography Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary. 13th edn. Gale Research Co. , Detroit, 1989.
The Homesman
Author: Glendon Swarthout
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471136051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Homesman is a devastating, humane story of early pioneers to America's West in the 1850's. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of-the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by that life of bitter hardship. When a nineteen-year-old mother loses her three children to diphtheria in three days, or a woman left alone for two nights has to shoot wolves as they crash through the window, it is no wonder they should lose their minds. After a dreadful winter, the Rev. Dowd finds there are four such cases in his parish and, as yet, no asylum in this frontier town. A 'homesman' must be found to escort the women East to civilization. Not a job anyone would volunteer for, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, ex-teacher, spinster-indomitable, resourceful, "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone, and the only companion available is the low-life and untrustworthy "George Briggs," a claim-jumper.Thus begins a trek East, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, loneliness, and the unceasing aggravation of a disparate group of mad women, which provides a series of tough, fast-paced adventures and introduces two wonderful, idiosyncratic characters. Coming to cinemas in 2014 with an incredible cast - featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank and John Lithgow. Not to be missed!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471136051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Homesman is a devastating, humane story of early pioneers to America's West in the 1850's. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of-the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by that life of bitter hardship. When a nineteen-year-old mother loses her three children to diphtheria in three days, or a woman left alone for two nights has to shoot wolves as they crash through the window, it is no wonder they should lose their minds. After a dreadful winter, the Rev. Dowd finds there are four such cases in his parish and, as yet, no asylum in this frontier town. A 'homesman' must be found to escort the women East to civilization. Not a job anyone would volunteer for, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, ex-teacher, spinster-indomitable, resourceful, "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone, and the only companion available is the low-life and untrustworthy "George Briggs," a claim-jumper.Thus begins a trek East, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, loneliness, and the unceasing aggravation of a disparate group of mad women, which provides a series of tough, fast-paced adventures and introduces two wonderful, idiosyncratic characters. Coming to cinemas in 2014 with an incredible cast - featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank and John Lithgow. Not to be missed!
The Bijou Biography of the World: a Reference Book of the Names, Dates, and Vocations of Distinguished Men and Women of Every Age and Nation, Including Living Celebrities
Author: William John Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc
Author: Hastings Rashdall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Honolulu Index of Plastic Surgery
Author: Frank McDowell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Comprehensive index to world literature of plastic surgical literature from text and abstracts of journal Plastic and reconstructive surgery, as well as from other sources. Index medicus format with authors and subjects interfiled. Entry gives bibliographical information for abstract location in Plastic and reconstructive surgery and also for original source.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Comprehensive index to world literature of plastic surgical literature from text and abstracts of journal Plastic and reconstructive surgery, as well as from other sources. Index medicus format with authors and subjects interfiled. Entry gives bibliographical information for abstract location in Plastic and reconstructive surgery and also for original source.
The Town of N
Author: Leonid Dobychin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810115897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This text represents an extraordinary example of late Russian literary development. It is populated with characters who are petty, grasping, perfidious and cruel, quite unlike the positive heroes of contemporary socialist and realist novels.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810115897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This text represents an extraordinary example of late Russian literary development. It is populated with characters who are petty, grasping, perfidious and cruel, quite unlike the positive heroes of contemporary socialist and realist novels.
Fruit World & Market Grower
Comprehensive Natural Products III
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0081026919
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 4266
Book Description
Comprehensive Natural Products III, Third Edition, Seven Volume Set updates and complements the previous two editions, including recent advances in cofactor chemistry, structural diversity of natural products and secondary metabolites, enzymes and enzyme mechanisms and new bioinformatics tools. Natural products research is a dynamic discipline at the intersection of chemistry and biology concerned with isolation, identification, structure elucidation, and chemical characteristics of naturally occurring compounds such as pheromones, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and enzymes. This book reviews the accumulated efforts of chemical and biological research to understand living organisms and their distinctive effects on health and medicine and to stimulate new ideas among the established natural products community. Provides readers with an in-depth review of current natural products research and a critical insight into the future direction of the field Bridges the gap in knowledge by covering developments in the field since the second edition published in 2010 Split into 7 sections on key topics to allow students, researchers and professionals to find relevant information quickly and easily Ensures that the knowledge within is easily understood by and applicable to a large audience
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0081026919
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 4266
Book Description
Comprehensive Natural Products III, Third Edition, Seven Volume Set updates and complements the previous two editions, including recent advances in cofactor chemistry, structural diversity of natural products and secondary metabolites, enzymes and enzyme mechanisms and new bioinformatics tools. Natural products research is a dynamic discipline at the intersection of chemistry and biology concerned with isolation, identification, structure elucidation, and chemical characteristics of naturally occurring compounds such as pheromones, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and enzymes. This book reviews the accumulated efforts of chemical and biological research to understand living organisms and their distinctive effects on health and medicine and to stimulate new ideas among the established natural products community. Provides readers with an in-depth review of current natural products research and a critical insight into the future direction of the field Bridges the gap in knowledge by covering developments in the field since the second edition published in 2010 Split into 7 sections on key topics to allow students, researchers and professionals to find relevant information quickly and easily Ensures that the knowledge within is easily understood by and applicable to a large audience