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A multi-disciplinary study of the notion of the baroque, using examples of music, art, visual culture, literature and architecture, revealing it to be a global phenomenon -- .

Featuring 60 beautiful and detailed maps, Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated, and ultimately declined, and discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world.

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Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, this collection presents a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland.

Have you ever looked at a coin in the palm of your hand and wondered where it has been, what it has seen and heard, and what stories it could tell? Well, in a nutshell, that is what PENNY is about as this very special one-cent piece passes through the hands of ordinary people, the famous, the infamous, the saints, and the sinners and hangs out in churches, honkytonks, and everywhere in between. This book tells the stories of the people whose h...

A multi-disciplinary study of the notion of the baroque, using examples of music, art, visual culture, literature and architecture, revealing it to be a global phenomenon

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A meditation on twilight in Western thought, painting and literature, which combines memoir, literature and art history.

A new collection of evocative essays from the celebrated nature writer. Explores landscapes, art and experiences.

A neat series of truly portable guides designed for the nature-loving traveler.

Biographies of twelve of the leading personalities in turbulence research chart the development of the subject from Osborne Reynolds onward. Written by leading researchers in a style that requires no specialist knowledge, this book is a must for every scientist, engineer and mathematician interested in the history of the subject.

Biographies of twelve of the leading personalities in turbulence research chart the development of the subject from Reynolds onward.

Excerpt from The Pentateuch Vindicated: From the Objections and Misrepresentations of Bishop Colenso Another of Bishop Colenso's remarkable principles, which seems to have a good deal to do with his assault on the Pentateuch and the whole Bible, is his doctrine of the universal justification of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This bo...

Der geborene Österreicher Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) gilt als der Begründer der Allgemeinen Systemtheorie. Die Querschnittswissenschaft Systemtheorie hat damit ihre Grundlage bekommen. Mark Davidson, Schriftsteller, Journalist, ehemaliger Professor für Kommunikationswissenschaften an der California State University in Dominguez Hills, hat mit diesem Buch Bertalanffy ein Denkmal gesetzt und eine leicht lesbare Einführung in die Systemwi...

This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive reference on lipidology. It will serve as a stimulus to the reader to continue to learn about the ever changing and fascinating field of therapeutic lipidology. It will also empower readers to improve and extend the lives of the patients they so conscientiously serve.

A meditation on twilight in Western thought, painting and literature, combining memoir, literature and art history.

Peter Davidson (1837-1915) was a Scottish musician and violin maker, homeopath, herbalist and publisher of The Morning Star, who was associated with the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. The HBL was founded in 1884 by Max Théon (1848-1927), perhaps born Louis-Maximilian Bimstein, a Polish Jewish Kabbalist and Occultist who established the "Cosmic Philosophy" based on occultist material "received" or channeled by Théon's wife Alma (Mary Chrystine ...