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This volume is concerned with the religious architecture of the Sultanate of Oman, a missing chapter in the art history of the Islamic world. It originates from a series of lectures delivered in 1988. The book may be seen by the specialist as the first available documentation of buildings that are fully entitled to enter the corpus of the historic monuments of the Arabian Peninsular and now fills a gap in the general knowledge of Arabian Islam...

This case, set at the Abbey School, begins when a young schoolmaster apparently commits suicide. Dr Watson agrees to replace him, thinking the task an easy one but little does he know that it will not be long before his life is in danger.

Written by Peter Ellis, Gary Coates, Richard Cuttler and Catharine MouldA report on four pieces of fieldwork undertaken in Cambridgeshire (Pode Hole Farm, Paston, Longstanton, Bassingbourn) in 1996 and 1997. Pode Hole Farm provided Bronze Age to Romano-British material, Paston Romano-British, Longstanton Late Saxon and Medieval, and Bassingbourn Saxon and Medieval. Each has a similar format and layout, starting with a review of the processes l...

Contains a biography of Professor Barri Jones by Nick Higham and a bibliography of his published writings. Thirty-three leading archaeologists, colleagues and friends of the late Professor Barri Jones, contribute to this volume of essays offered to the memory of this eminent figure in gratitude for his inspirational teaching, his charismatic academic leadership, and his warmth as a friend and colleague. Although, strictly speaking, several of ...

Historian Rayford Logan was part of a circle of intellectuals at Howard University in the 1930s-1950s that included E. Franklin Frazier, Charles Drew, Sterling Brown, and Alain Locke. In 1944, Logan gathered together essays by fifteen prominent black intellectuals -- Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois and Roy Wilkins among them. The outspoken views expressed in the essays that make up Wha...

In 1944, distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. Logan gathered together essays on the subject "What the Negro Wants" written by fifteen prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Roy Wilkins. The outspoken views expressed in the essays shocked even white liberals by their unanimous call for an end to segregation. The publicati...

This unusual collaboration between a Cuban novelist and a Canadian professor offers uncensored and frank interviews with prominent figures of contemporary Cuban cultural life, from a Grammy-winning jazz artist to world-class filmmakers and actors, writers, ballet dancers, and dramatists.In recent years the small island, with a population of just 11 million, has experienced an astonishing cultural renaissance. The immense popularity of the movi...

A fascinating and in-depth study of witchcraft in contemporary South Africa.

John Knox, more than any other man, laid the foundations of democracy, revitalised Church and Government and brought the benefits of education to the ordinary people of Scotland. One of the most celebrated people of his era, Thomas Carlyle, said that Knox was The one Scotchman to whom of all others his country and the world owe a debt. If you understand Knox then you understand Scotland. Over 200 years after his death, when news reached Britai...

Damit traditionelle Investitionsbewertungsverfahren nicht zu unternehmerischen Fehlentscheidungen führen, lösen immer mehr Unternehmen dieses Problem mit Hilfe des Realoptionsansatzes. Dieser Ansatz erfasst die Bewertung von Investitionsprojekten erstmals mit einer bisher nicht zu erzielenden Genauigkeit. Das Buch vermittelt kompetent die Grundzüge der Realoption und gibt konkrete Hilfestellung bei der Umsetzung im Unternehmensalltag.

We were nearly there when some figures blocked our way. I went cold all over. This was no chance encounter. They had planned this and waited for us. This was it.''Move out of the way Blackie' the skinhead said. 'We got business with your friend.' Star Smith has enough problems in life trying to keep her wacky family a secret. Then a black girl arrives on the scene.... With the racist attitudes of kids in her area Star knows that if she befrien...