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“Modern Medicine in the Holy Land” provides an in-depth assessment of the pioneering work of British Hospitals in Palestine in the nineteenth century, and finds these institutions made great contributions to the modernization of the country. The large numbers of Europeans, spearheaded by British...
Prior to the Revolutionary War, everything west of Albany was wilderness. Safer travel and the promise of land opened this frontier. The interaction between European settlers and Native Americans transformed New York, and the paths they walked still bear the footprints of their experiences, like...
Graphic, detailed history of US naval aviation from the early twentieth century to the end of the Second World War.
Pioneer Merchants Of Singapore, The: Johnston, Boustead, Guthrie And Others
(Instructional). Tony Rice is known world-wide for his spectacular technique, brilliant improvisation and powerful soloing. In this lesson, he personally passes on to you the style he has developed during his two decades as the top bluegrass flatpicker of his generation. In careful detail, Tony...
Geological Pioneers of the Jurassic Coast
Dr. Dudley Allen Buck was a brilliant young scientist on the cusp of fame and fortune when he died suddenly on May 21, 1959, at the age of 32. He was the star professor at MIT and had done stints with the NSA and Lockheed. His latest invention, the Cryotron—an early form of the microchip—was...
Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural colour moving picture system. He was also a pioneer in the filming of war, science, travel, actuality and news, a fervent...
This book is a narrative history of Wall Street’s most important M&A bankers: what made them, drove them, how they won deals, lost others, tales of them leaving firms that nurtured them, losing bruising internal political battles which forced their resignation and their return to the spotlight by...
Jolie Anderson’s collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado’s plains and includes a look at some of the state’s early pioneers like the “59ers” who promoted the state through travel guides and newspapers, exaggerating tales of gold discovery and even providing...
This is the first book to offer a systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction. In doing so, the book addresses two fundamental questions: Prevention: What assurances can the law give buyers (and later owners and occupiers) of homes that construction work –...
In 1908, “Pop” Ernest Doelter was crowned the Abalone King. In the kitchen of his Alvarado Street restaurant in Monterey, California, Pop transformed rubbery gastropods into an epicurean delight. Working with red abalone collected by Monterey’s community of Japanese divers, Pop dipped the foot in...
The first book on the Century Guild of Artists (CGA) and its influential periodical, the Century Guild Hobby Horse. The significance of the CGA in the development of the Arts and Crafts movement and its modernist successors is assessed.
Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more- a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960sSpace-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens,...
Bebés sin cólicos es, además, un curso acelerado de crianza, probado con éxito en cientos de casos, que te convertirá en el protagonista de la salud de tu hijo. Con este libro resolverás uno de los problemas más temidos durante la crianza: los cólicos del lactante, ese amplio concepto que aplicamos...
Archaic humans were present for over a million years in western Mediterranean Europe where they left very many traces of their early stone-age activities and behaviour, and sometimes even human skeletal remains. This book evaluates archaeological findings about their life-ways at many important...