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by James Rada Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Catoctin Mountain runs from northern Frederick County, Md., to northern Loudoun County, Va., crossing the Potomac River as it does. Its natural history dates back to prehistoric times. Its history during the era of man is more recent and more fascinating filled with crimes, secrets, monsters, and...
History of Medicine, Second Edition
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual...
Measuring History
Cases of StateLevel Testing Across the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of statelevel testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the particular state history...
by Conevery Bolton Valencius
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of experts as contributors, this new book will examine the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and...
History of the Telugu Christians
A Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Christian communities in the state Andhra Pradesh of south India and the Telugu Christians in diaspora have passed their stories from one generation to the next by oral traditions as well as in scattered texts. These memories have sustained Telugu Christian communities for over four centuries. Yet...
by FLORIAN CAJORI
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. In the History of Math, Florian Cajori reveals the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the present day. How do these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world?
Follow the history of Mathemtics fom ancient...
by Francois Guizot
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Every history, and especially that of France, is one vast, long drama, in which events are linked together according to defined laws, and in which the actors play parts not ready made and learned by heart, parts depending, in fact, not only upon the accidents of their birth, but also upon their own...
A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
From the Origins to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This is the first encyclopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book features more than 150 authoritative and accessible articles by an international team of leading experts...
Colonial Latin America
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design...
On History
Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K....
A History of Iran
Empire of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today
Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim...
Egypt
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, and complex...