Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368040065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368040065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Public Laws of the United States of America, Passed at the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress; 1861. ...
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Publications
Author: Academy of Pacific Coast HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Flying
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso
Author: Ernesto CardenalPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253209030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"... very well translated... Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America." --Booklist "Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence, treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of Central America and Mexico's] past and present." --World Literature Today "Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'." --Nicaragua Update "... a remarkable text.... El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and the translation is likewise masterful." --Colonial Latin American Historical Review In this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the "discovery" of the American continent to recent historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.
Contributions
Author: Museum of the American Indian, Heye FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Al-Andalus
Author: Howard HeadworthPublisher: New Generation Publishing
ISBN: 1785071009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
The exciting historical novel by Howard Headworth takes us to the 1480s in Spain. For the Spaniards it is the dawn of the golden age of the country. For the moors of Al-Andalus in the south, it is the beginning of a bitter harvest. And Far west, a new world beckons..... Glorious descriptions of battles and conflicts, the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, the tracing of historical events leading to the entrance of the Catholic monarchs in Granada in 1492, a panoply of characters, profiles of the traditions and skills of the Muslim peasants in Al-Andalus, and finally the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Indies, make this book a unique treasure. Howard Headworth lives in Almeria, Spain, for twenty years. He was born in Wales and studied geology at the university there and in London. He uses his great experience as a scientific director as well as his passion for the history of his adopted country in this historical novel.
Wild Harvest
Author: Karen HardyPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178570124X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In some places, plant remains rarely survive and reconstructing plant use in pre-agrarian contexts needs to be conducted using a range of different techniques. This lack of visible evidence has led to plants being undervalued, both in terms of their contribution to diet and as raw materials. This book outlines why the role of plants is required for a better understanding of hominin and pre-agrarian human life, and it offers a variety of ways in which this can be achieved. Wild Harvest is divided into three sections. In section 1 each chapter focuses on a specific feature of plant use by humans; this covers the role of carbohydrates, the need for and effects of processing methods, the role of plants in self-medication among apes, plants as raw materials, and the extent of evidence for plant use prior to the development of agriculture in the Near East. Section 2 comprises seven chapters which cover different methods available to obtain information on plants, and the third section has five chapters, each covering a topic related to ethnography, ethnohistory, or ethnoarchaeology, and how these can be used to improve our understanding of the role of plants in the pre-agrarian past.
British and Foreign State Papers
Author: Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
Volumes for 1950-19 contained treaties and international agreements issued by the Secretary of State as United States treaties and other international agreements.
