1362 results for '"SMITH,A"'

Buried beneath the crumbling grey walls of England’s majestic castles lie some of the most colourful stories in history – tales of triumph and disaster, courage and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal,...

American life is filled with talk of progress and equality, especially when the issue is that of race. But has the history of race in America really been the continuous march toward equality we'd...

Hardback edition, 233 pages. Published by University press Oxford by Vivian Ridler. Printer to the University. Printed in Great Britain Oxford University press 1975.Taken from inside dust jacket flap...

Much has been written about the crusades, but very little about the crusaders. What moved them to go? What preparations did they need to make? How did they react to their experiences? This book comes...

A major comic artist in Republican Rome, Plautus left a legacy of twenty extremely inventive comedies. Ostensibly Latin versions of Greek plays staged in Athens several generations earlier, they...

Environmental chemical hazards are a highly contentious topic in modern life. Nearly every nation on earth has faced its own environmental crises, and also shares perspectives on the possibility of...

The ultimate design bible for the Victorian home, placing period features and 19th-century design in context and exploring how today's designers are adapting these houses in innovative ways for...

Offers a clear, practical approach to the New Testament, with three chapters of basic historical coverage and nine chapters of analysis and interpretation. Focus is on the writings themselves rather...

In recent years there has been an increasing awareness that a comprehensive understanding of language, cognitive and affective processes, and social and interpersonal phenomena cannot be achieved...

How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their childrenHow do American parents pass their religion on to their children? At a time of overall decline of traditional...

This interpretive history of Latin America has been brought up to date in all areas, including the ongoing war against international drug trafficking, the difficulties and promises of NAFTA, the...

Virgil's Aeneid 5 has long been among the more neglected sections of the poet's epic of Augustan Rome. Book 5 opens the second movement of the poem, the middle section of the Aeneid that sees the...

Foreword / Frank K. Roberts -- The Cold War Past And Present / Richard Crockatt -- Technology For A Cold War / Lord Zuckerman -- The Origins Of The First Cold War / Bruce R. Kuniholm -- Britain And...

A fascinating welcome to the wonderful world of insects' - LoveReading4Kids 'Fun, inspiring, and well researched.' - Kirkus Reviews, starred review A beautifull illustrated tour of some of the...

Events in Russia since the late 1980s have created a rare opportunity to watch the birth of democratic institutions close at hand. Here Steven Smith and Thomas Remington provide the first intensive,...