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Goodman, in his elaborate and valuable book on the Maya Inscriptions, has made up his Tables on the supposition that the beginning day of the month was not called Day 1, but Day 20, giving the day this number because in his view the Mayas counted the number of days which had passed and not the current...

Extrait : "Je me sentis de bonne heure la vocation la plus prononcée pour le noble état d'imprimeur, et je n'aspirais pas à moins qu'à recueillir l'héritage à la fois honorable et lucratif des Alde, des Manuce, des Étienne et des Elzévier ; mais comme avant de devenir général d'armée, il faut...

Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renée Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health...

Here is a guide to devotions for each week of the year. The priests of old tended the fire in the tent of meeting, where the people offered their gifts and rededicated themselves to God. Because of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, we no longer worship with burnt offerings. Yet we must tend and preserve...

With soft green grass beneath your feet and nothing but vapour trails in the sky above, relax with ten tales from a warm English summer, wiled away at a restful car boot sale.

Henry Kavalauskas spends most of his time at YVR, Vancouver’s international airport. He works there, he hangs out there -- he knows the world is bigger than his fast-food job and his parents' living room, and he wishes he could find a guy to take him out into it. Someone to shepherd him through its...

Extrait : "Vous avez tous connu Georges Turner, un peintre, plus qu'un peintre, un poète, une de ces natures à la fois chevaleresques et mélancoliques qu'embrase l'amour du beau, qui ont le culte de ce dieu invisible qu'elles appellent l'idéal, et qui cherchent partout, même en ce monde, des preuves de la présence de leur dieu. Je le rencontrai un jour sortant du musée de Dresde."

It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains.In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the...

The object of the Romance which is now presented to English readers, in a translated form, is to convey a generally accurate idea of the court of Akbar, the greatest and best native ruler that ever held sway over Hindustan. The author, Dr. Van Limburg-Brouwer, was an oriental scholar, who strove, by...

A short and humorous novel telling the tale of the greatest Cajun that never was. Jokes and tall tales form the skeleton of a story fleshed out with a light-hearted narrative showing the culture of the Cajuns, a people known for their joie de vie and let-the-good-times-roll attitude, in operation. Anyone...

The book aims to display uncommon expressions that look common but are uncommon in usage and meaning. The uncommon expressions are interwoven within the conversations fitted into suitable situations. Dialogues containing common and uncommon expressions, phrases and idioms are developed in a most fascinating...

Fifteen stories of love, lust and desire that will leave you gasping for breath…From first love, teenage fantasies and forbidden sex to bigamy, deception, selfless love and lesbian romance, the book explores the matters of the heart, mind and body with brazen audacity. Though each story deals with...

All inhibitions evaporated.  Pushing, kicking and punching, the Forrester students sought to prevent their erstwhile opponents from entering the bus.  Their efforts were led by Seenu, the Forrester College light heavyweight who in his militant enthusiasm half got into the vehicle himself.  The students...