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A Chinese Bestiary : Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas
A Chinese Bestiary : Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas
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,...
Domesday: The Inquest and the Book
Domesday: The Inquest and the Book
Domesday Book is the oldest and most precious of the public records, but historians still disagree on its purpose. In arguing that the writing of Domesday Book was no part of the Domesday survey, this book proposed a solution to a riddle that will change our perception of the Norman Conquest and Norman kingship.

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The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
A million people hear John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard has gathered together his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, human inventiveness, and the history of engineering. The book brims with insightful observations, offering an intriguing glimpse into...
Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)
Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history?when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar,...

Perspectives on Early Islamic Mysticism: The World of al-?ak?m al-Tirmidh? and his Contemporaries (Routledge Sufi Series)
Perspectives on Early Islamic Mysticism: The World of al-?ak?m al-Tirmidh? and his Contemporaries (Routledge Sufi Series)

This monograph explores the original literary produce of Muslim mystics during the eighth–tenth centuries, with special attention to ninth-century mystics, such as al-Tustar?, al-Mu??sib?, al-Kharr?z, al-Junayd and, in particular, al-?ak?m al-Tirmidh?. Unlike other studies dealing with the so-called ‘Formative...

The Templar Code For Dummies
The Templar Code For Dummies

A captivating look into the society of the Knights Templar

Brought to you by the author of Freemasons For Dummies, The Templar Code is more than an intriguing cipher or a mysterious symbol – it is the Code by which the Knights Templar lived and died, the Code that bound them together in secrecy, and the Code...

The Art of Conjecture: Nicholas of Cusa on Knowledge (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)
The Art of Conjecture: Nicholas of Cusa on Knowledge (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)
"Learned ignorance," the recognition that God is beyond us and our knowing capacities is the theological concept for which Nicholas of Cusa is most famous. Despite God's apparent absence Nicholas offers original ways to think about God that would unite his presence with his absence. He called these proposals...
Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression
Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression
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...
The Middle Ages: 500-1450 (The History of Medicine)
The Middle Ages: 500-1450 (The History of Medicine)
During the Middle Ages (ca. 529-1100), the rise of Christianity had a definite effect on the practice of medicine. Pope Gregory (ca. 540-604) stressed the importance of prayer over medicine, and over time that sentiment became pervasive. Each time a person was healed, it was considered a miracle. The church taught that since God sometimes sent...
Viking Silver, Hoards and Containers: The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050 (Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World)
Viking Silver, Hoards and Containers: The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050 (Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World)

It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance, regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these contacts is mainly in the form of silver artefacts predominantly found in hoards in Northern and Central Europe – the Baltic...

Taxes 2007 For Dummies
Taxes 2007 For Dummies
Tax season doesn’t just have to be about paying Uncle Sam his due. Sure, giving up your hard-earned dollars hurts, but you can turn lemons into lemonade by turning knowledge into immediate and long-term tax savings. What’s more, wising up about your tax situation can only increase your financial savvy and bolster your future...
Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals
Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals
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...
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