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Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71
InfoStrategist.com 2004; US$ 4.99Captain Cook?s Journal during his first voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark ?Endeavour? 1768-71. more...
Encyclopedia of Ancient Literature
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 90.00"Encyclopedia of Ancient Literature" offers comprehensive coverage of the literary works, writers, and concepts of the ancient world, from the beginnings to approximately 500 CE. Ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to China, Egypt, Japan, India, Persia, Babylonia, the Hebrew world, and more, this accessible A-to-Z encyclopedia provides students... more...
The Journals of Captain Cook
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableCook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific. Accounts based on Cook's journals were issued at the time, but it was... more...
African American Writers and Classical Tradition
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 25.00Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions... more...
Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 22.50A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni—one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus... more...
The Best American Crime Writing 2005
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics... more...
Practical Field Ecology
Wiley 2011; US$ 84.95This book introduces experimental design and data analysis / interpretation as well as field monitoring skills for both plants and animals. Clearly structured throughout and written in a student-friendly manner, the main emphasis of the book concentrates on the techniques required to design a field based ecological survey and shows how to execute an... more...
The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York
NYU Press 2004; US$ 45.00It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro, and Reinhold Niebuhr lectured church and nation... more...
Whirlwind
Continuum International Publishing 2002; US$ 130.00This collection of essays focuses on the book of Job, exploring the complex interplay of methodology and hermeneutics. There are two major parts: approaches that are primarily historical, i.e. the recovery of what the text 'meant'; and those that are contextual, i.e. that take seriously the context of reading. Both approaches engage the theological... more...
The Best Places to Stay in Britain on a Budget
Rough Guides Ltd 2012; Not AvailableThe Rough Guide to the Best Places to Stay in Britain on a Budget reviews over 250 establishments, from the Isles of Scilly to Orkney and Windermere to Winchester, taking in rural B&Bs, cool townhouses, historic inns, hikers' hostels and canal boats. Our selection includes everything from comfortable ?12 dorms to ornate ?80 doubles, showing that you... more...









