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Excerpt from After Five Years in India: Or Life and Work in a Punjaub DistrictA number of the illustrations are from photographs by Messrs. Bourne and Shepherd, or by the Lahore School of Art, to whom my acknowledgments are also due.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses sta...

Excerpt from Letters on Ancient History: Exhibiting a Summary View of the History, Geography, Manners, and Customs, of the Assyrian, Babylonian, Median, Persian, Egyptian, Israelitish, and Grecian Nations, For the Use of Schools and Young PersonLetter I V - Babylon, the first Kingdom of which there is any authentic Record, founded, B. C. 2230 - Assyria the Second - both united by Ninus - Progress of his Conquests.About the PublisherForgotten B...

Una citazione per ogni giorno dell'anno come antidoto alla follia della vita moderna. Queste 365 meditazioni, sagge, audaci, divertenti, provocatorie, profonde aiutano la donna lavoro-dipendente ad affrontare in maniera diretta e positiva questo modo di comportarsi per aprirsi alla serenità e all'autonomia. Ad ogni meditazione l'autrice accompagna una citazione tratta da opere di donne diverse per cultura, formazione, età e punto di vista in m...

bTitle:/b After Five Years in India: or, Life and work in a Punjaub district.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include ...

Todays libraries are facing continually increasing challenges regarding information organization, consumer presentation and, on a financial level, taxpayer accountability. Analyzing and upgrading library services while staying within a limited budget is a problem which concerns many librarians. Written by professionals with practical experience, this volume presents a new approach to performance assessment and improvement through the combined ...

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Excerpt from After Five Years in India: Or Life and Work in a Punjaub District During five years' residence in India, in a secluded district of the Punjaub, of which my husband held charge as deputy-commissioner, magistrate, and collector, I had many opportunities of studying the life of the people and the methods of administration employed by the British government. On my return to England I found that comparatively speaking so little is kno...

This important book looks at the entire history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from the earliest experiments by the Pythagorean alchemists of Ptolemaic Egypt in the fourth century BC to the commerical production of spirits in the British Isles to the year 2000. The author links the art of distilling to alchemical practice, to the Dionysian cults of ancient Greece and Rome, to the development of the art by the Gnostic mystic Christ...

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The Book of Marmalade Revised Edition C. Anne Wilson "A delightful definitive study."--New York Times "An excellent study and a model of its kind."--William Woys Weaver "Wilson has found out just about everything anyone could ever have wanted to know about the splendid preserve."--Bristol Evening Post "The history is laid out lovingly on a plate, garnished with historical and up-to-date recipes."--Caterer and Hotelkeeper "Fascinating and ...

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A new instalment in "The English Kitchen", a history and recipe book for lovers of marmalade, evocatively and attractively illustrated.

C. Anne Wilson Traces culinary practices and preferences from our earliest prehistoric forbears down to the generation of the Industrial Revolution, and offers an extraordinary taste of the times. She provides a tabletop perspective on class structure, religion, politics, and social custom, generously seasoned with such culinary and cultural tidbits as the importance of salt in English history and the role of romance in England's first taste o...