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Historic Floors: Their History and Conservation (Butterworth - Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology)

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998

Leading authorities, archaeologists, architects and archivists consider the latest methods of recording and repairing cathedral floors, including those of cathedrals, country houses, the monumental tiled pavements of the Palace of Westminster and other public buildings. Management policies to protect outstanding floors in over-visited sites are...

Rome in the Pyrenees

Routledge, 2007

Written by an acknowledged authority on this period and region, this is the first full-length book published in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae.

Drawing from the extensive excavation that he has carried out on...

Wine For Dummies (Cooking)

For Dummies, 2006

Wine enthusiasts and novices, raise your glasses! The #1 wine book has been extensively updated! If you’re a connoisseur, Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition will get you up to speed on what’s in and show you how to take your hobby to the next level. If you’re new to the world of wine, it will clue you in on what...

Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals

Oxford University Press, 2006

The invitation to write an introduction to this collection offered a welcome opportunity to reflect on some of the historical, scientific, and artistic approaches that have been developed in the linking of mathematics and music. The two have traditionally been so closely connected that it is their separation that elicits surprise. During the late...

Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity

Oxford University Press, 2007

a truly important contribution to the study of the legal history of the later Roman Empire Gregory Halfond, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Humfresss engaging book makes an original, incisive contribution to our understanding of the continuity of legal practice in the later empire and to the role of forensic advocacy by Christians in the genesis and...

The Thirteen Books of the Elements (Euclid, Vol. 2--Books III-IX)

Dover Publications, 1956

Volume 2 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports,...

The Medieval City (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World)

Greenwood Press, 2005

After a long decline in urban life following the fall of the Roman Empire, towns became centers of trade and of liberty during the medieval period. Here, the author describes how, as Europe stabilized after centuries of strife, commerce and the commercial class grew, and urban areas became an important source of revenue into royal coffers. Towns...

Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Consider the possibility that a modern twenty-fi rst century intellectual discipline might be in a phase of development similar to medieval science resting on conceptual foundations that impede and mislead rather than enable and enlighten. Consider further that this crippled intellectual discipline underlies the most spectacular technological...

A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

A History of INTEREST RATES

The late Sidney Homer published the First Edition of A History of Interest Rates in 1963 because he believed that a comprehensive history of this universal and basic economic and commercial price was necessary. Now in its Fourth Edition, A History of Interest Rates has become a classic in the fields of...

A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Hundred Years

University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

“A highly-respected series . . . [a] 30-year project known for its high quality of research, editing, and printing. . . . Recommended for all libraries”—Choice

“Like the Crusades themselves, this History will . . . long stand as a monument to the vision of its founders and the dogged persistence...

A Chinese Bestiary : Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas

University of California Press, 2002

A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas,...

Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications

IGI Global, 2007

When I mentioned that I was putting together an encyclopedia of portal technology and applications that would have around 200 articles, a college at Victoria University asked me whether there was enough material in the world written on portals to do that. I replied that even if there was not, there soon would be. The final product you are reading...

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