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The stunning beauty of 44 of Korea's traditional crafts - sorted into ceramics, fibre arts, paper, inlay, metal, wood, and painting - is presented in detail with over 400 pictures. This is the first English-language guide that brings these diverse genres together in a single volume.

Examines the fundamental problems in the investigation of free concentrated vortices. The possibilities of mathematical modelling of whirlwinds (tornadoes) are discussed, it states and solves the problem of physical (laboratory) modelling of whirlwinds without using mechanical whirling devices. The issues of generation and stability of free vortices and methods for controlling their characteristics are also analysed.

Geoffrey Chaucer's most significant literary accomplishment may well be Troilus and Criseyde, a single, profoundly philosophical narrative of a tragic love affair. In this edition, the manuscript text is preserved as much as possible and the original Middle English text is used. Difficult words are glossed in the margins, and explanatory footnotes help with references and allusions.

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The first full study of women's participation in the British anti-slavery movement. It explores women's distinctive contributions and shows how these were vital in shaping successive stages of the abolutionist campaign.

Timber monuments form an important part of the Neolithic monumental repertoire, yet tend to play a relatively minor role in discussions of this period. This volume is an attempt to remedy this imbalance and, through an examination of the cropmark and excavation records, considers the variety of timber monuments built during the Neolithic period in Scotland. Recorded as cropmarks on aerial photographs or as chance discoveries during excavations...

This book is an historical document presenting the author's doctoral thesis on health and disease in the Pacific Islands, completed in 2001. The study was conducted using a sample from the Solomon Islands in Melanesia and another sample from two burial mounds in Tonga, Polynesia. The primary aim of the study was to assess whether the presence of malaria in Melanesia adversely affected the overall health of these people compared to the Polynesi...

La excavación arqueológica de la calle Hospital Viejo de Logroño descubrió un complejo alfarero de dilatada trayectoria. Consiste en tres obradores superpuestos en funcionamiento durante los siglos XIII, XIV y XV, documentándose hornos, basureros, zanjas y canteras de arcilla, una pileta, útiles de alfarero, materia prima y un abultado conjunto de materiales cerámicos, metálicos, óseos y líticos, junto con desechos de producción. Pudieron pert...

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The first volume of a new translation of Snorri Sturluson's history of the Norwegian kings, with introduction and notes. The second edition is corrected and updated.

January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the count arrives at her country home to pay court, one of Ursula's household staff is found dead. An accident - or something more sinister?

Published in collaboration with Georgetown University's Center for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

Seeking to challenge the focus on 'big data' by understanding it outside of the computational power required to process it, this volume explores the role of digital methods in the future of digital humanities research.

Jon Solomon's new book offers an exciting and detailed study of the Ben-Hur brand, tracking its spectacular journey from Wallace's original novel through to twenty-first century adaptations, and encompassing a wealth of previously unexplored material along the way

The Imperial Bank of Persia, established in 1889, was the first bank to issue banknotes and attempt to establish a modern banking system in Iran. Its banknotes are, in fact, some of the most beautiful and largest notes ever issued for any nation, yet, the story of the Imperial Bank and its notes is complex and complicated because there are very few remaining specimens, especially of the earliest notes and those of higher denominations. This la...

The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government covers the main areas of study in subnational politics by exploring the central contributions to the comparative study of institutions, behaviour, and policy in the American context.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Islamic Theology.

Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamer's stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the storm that has brought Syria to near-disintegration.

Some fail. Some never fit in. Some vent a rage against the foulest of humanity. A ten year enquiry into the murders of several young boys has gone cold. No witnesses, no suspect. Or so police believe, until a mysterious phone call leads the police to the remains of a young boy found near the ancient ruins of an Anasazi settlement. Is this a random act or the work of a serial killer? When the young son of Albuquerque's Mayor is kidnapped, Detec...