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This specialised and technical contribution to the debate surrounding the anatomical evolution of modern man and variations between Neanderthals and modern humans is based on the analysis of one specific jaw bone, the medial mandibular ramus, and its soft tissue attachments.

Reveals the horrors and hardships experienced by British officers and men in the Crimean War. The ill preparedness and lack of administration were a deadly disgrace. Draws on 40 contemporary personal accounts (diaries and letters).

Providing a modern English translation of a key selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umari¿s Mas¿lik al-abs¿r, this book offers a rich description of Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of the fourteenth-century A.D. It provides a fascinating snapshot of the physical and administrative geography of this crucial region as well a

Over the course of three decades, in works spanning questions of theory, technique, and clinical practice, Charles Brenner has emerged as one of the preeminent analysts of his generation, a thinker whose probing estimation of mental conflict has promoted the evolutionary growth of analysis as theory even as it has clarified the clinical import of analysis as therapy. In Psychoanalysis: The Science of Mental Conflict, distinguished theorists an...

Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades, this is a translation of Bahä al-Din Ibn Shaddad¿s account of his life and career. Ibn Shaddad (1144-1234) was clearly a great admirer of Saladin and was a close associate of his, serving as his qadi al-¿askar (judge of the army), from 1188 until Saladin¿s death in 1193. His position and his access to information make ...

Held by the Near Eastern History Group at Oxford, June 26-30, 1967.

Ibn al-Athir, who died in the 13th century, is one of the most important historians of Islam. His major chronicle, "the Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the greatest achievements of Muslim historiography. This title covers the early years of conquest and the period of the 'great sultanate'.

Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades, this is a translation of Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad's (1144-1234) account of his life and career.

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

D.S. Richards' translation of the 13th century Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh covers the period of the 'great sultanate'. With copious annotations, the translation is an invaluable aid and resource for students and scholars.

The Peninsula Years is a thrilling and fast moving narrative of the bloody campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as showing insight into the everyday hardships common to the ordinary British redcoat. The contrary nature of the infantryman of that time is effectively illustrated in the long and arduous retreat to Corunna with its accompanying scenes of drunken and licencious behaviour yet, when the occasion called for it, he was capable o...