The Sword of Saint Isidores - A Viking SagaLegendary battles, Nordic mythology, romance, mystery and intrigue. Circa 926 A.D: The English King Athelstan gifts a jewelled sword to the Norwegian King Harald Fairhair and sets in place a series of events that shape the future of Norway. The sword is believed to carry a curse and affects the lives of all that come into its possession. A wayward monk and beautiful Asturian woman, are enslaved by Vik...
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The English Lake District 1663 AD.Three young cousins are complicit in the disappearance of a woodcutter and rumours are rife in the village. Thomas is caught up in Major Rathbone's persecution of Quakers and threatened with transportation. His friends shelter him whilst they devise an escape, but the major's son Rufus learns of their deception and gathers his constables in hot pursuit. History, folklore and superstition are infused with dark ...
A perfect reference source for the practising plastic surgeon, the Oxford Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is a comprehensive reference text detailing all aspects of plastic surgery pertinent to a surgeon in training for specialisation while also suitable for use in preparation for the Intercollegiate Examination.
Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric patients and Soviet prisoners of war), a...
An invaluable and authoritative guide to British automotive radiator and accessory mascots produced between 1896 and 1960. A great source of information for collectors and enthusiasts.
Excerpt from Memory: What It Is and How to Improve ItThe antidote for this baneful effect Of memory is to be sought in a method of training that associates effects with causes, and individuals with species, that associates one idea with another through its essential relations, and not by its accidental properties. One must put thought into the act of memory.Memory is not one faculty, so to speak, but a con dition of activity of all faculties. ...
Excerpt from Education and EducatorsA system of education, with these principles clearly in view, if generally adopted and carried out through several generations, could not fail to change the entire face of society, and to banish from its midst much, if not all, of the evils and crime that at present exist in the world. Three generations of a wise and virtuous race, says one, would nearly efface the mischiefs of all the ages of sin and sorrow...
Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric patients and Soviet prisoners of war), a...
Excerpt from Austria-HungaryIT is sometimes said that Englishmen as a rule know comparatively little of foreign countries and of probably no other foreign country of the same importance - pre senting so many points of interest to us, or having so many claims on our attention, do we actually know so little as of Austria of the present day. When we think of it, it is rather of the Austria of the past than of the present - the Austria of before 1...
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