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In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholar, this is the first detailed survey of the world's cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.

From one of America's most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White.With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Donald Murray would be more appropriate. Then again, what ...

Clark takes us on a geographical journey through Churchill's life, following his footsteps through Britain and Ireland. More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter Clark's book, however, is not merely another Churchill biography. Churchill's Britain takes us on a geographical journey through Churchill's life, leading us in Churchil...

Essays on crucial aspects of late medieval history.

The Changing South of Gene Patterson celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. The editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1960 through 1968, Patterson wrote directly to his fellow white southerners every day, working to persuade them to change their ways. His words were so inspirational that he was asked by Walter Cronkite to read his most famo...

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The Black brigade of Cincinnati, being a report of its labors and a muster-roll of its members, - Together with various orders, speeches, etc., relating to it is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1864.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of hi...

Title: The Scripture-doctrine of original sin, stated and defended: in a summer-morning's conversation, between a minister and a neighbour: containing remarks on a late anonymous pamphlet, intitled, "A winter-evening's conversation, upon the doctrine of original sin, between a minister and three of his neigbours, accidentally met, " &c., : with an appendix in reply to a supplement in the New-Haven edition of that pamphlet.Author: Peter ClarkPu...

Title: A defence of the principles of the "Summer-morning's conversation -- concerning the doctrine of original sin" against the exceptions of the author of the "Winter evening's conversation vindicated" ...: concluded with an expostulatory address.Author: Peter ClarkPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphl...

Title: The rulers [sic] highest dignity and the people's truest glory: a sermon preach'd in the audience of His Excellency the Governour, the Honourable His Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, May 30th, 1739: being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for the province.Author: Peter ClarkPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based o...

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From one of America's most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White.With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Donald Murray would be more appropriate. Then again, what ...

Based on five walks in central London, Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens's London, his life, his journalism and his fiction. He also explores `The First Suburbs' (Camden Town, Chelsea, Greenwich, Hampstead, Highgate and Limehouse) as they feature in Dickens's writing.

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Between Earth and Empire focuses on the crucial position of humanity at the present moment in Earth history. We are now in the midst of the Necrocene, an epoch of death and mass extinction. Nearing the end of the long history of Empire and domination, we are faced with the choice of either continuing the path of social and ecological disintegration or initiating a new era of social and ecological regeneration. The book shows that conventional ...

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This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.

Excavations at Chalk Hill, Ramsgate in south-eastern Britain were primarily aimed at investigating the remains of a possible early Neolithic causewayed enclosure visible on aerial photographs. However, the monument could not in fact be categorised as a causewayed enclosure, but instead represented a type of early Neolithic ritual monument unique to the British Isles. The earliest significant features recorded on the site dated to the early Neo...