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Navigate your way around Southampton with this detailed and
easy-to-use A-Z Street Atlas. Printed in full-colour, paperback
format, this atlas contains 50 pages of continuous street mapping.
The main mapping extends beyond central Southampton at a scale of 4
inches to 1 mile, featuring postcode districts, one-way streets,
park and ride sites, and safety camera locations. Areas covered
include: • Eastleigh • Fawley • Hythe • Romsey •
Southampton Airport • Totton • Chandler's Ford •
Hamble-le-Rice • Hedge End • North Baddesley The large-scale
street map of Southampton city centre – at a scale of 8 inches to
1 mile – includes: • Postcode map of the Southampton area •
Road map of the Southampton area • New Forest National Park
boundaries A comprehensive index lists streets, selected flats,
walkways and places of interest, place, area and station names.
Additional healthcare (hospitals, walk-in centres and hospices) are
indexed as well.
Discover new places with authoritative atlases, beautifully
designed and packaged. A fully revised and updated fourteenth
edition of this major world atlas in the authoritative and
prestigious Times Atlas range. This beautifully designed atlas has
all the information you need, whether planning a trip, keeping in
touch with world news, solving quizzes and crosswords or just
exploring the world from your armchair. Comprehensive reference
mapping with 155,000 place names providing an amazingly detailed
view of the world, and the illustrated thematic content covers the
most important geographical issues of the day, making this atlas a
valuable addition to any reference collection. Mapping updates
include; • Country name changes – Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
and North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia) • Place name changes in
New Zealand • Administrative structures in Bangladesh, France,
Ghana, India, Norway, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and UK • Changes to
capital cities in Burundi, Kazakhstan, Chile and Palau • Airports
and other transport infrastructure revisions, new rail and road
bridge across Kerch Strait • Aral Sea outline, Polar sea ice
extents and Antarctic research bases Produced in a quality finish
the world atlas comes in a protective slipcase.
Have you ever wondered about the place-names that appear on Scotch
whisky bottles? What language the names come from, what they mean
or if they are even real places? If you feel baffled about where to
start looking for such information, then this reliable and
informative book is for you. Within its pages, you will be able to
find out about the derivation and identity of any of these
place-names. This book discusses each place-name that is concerned
in some way with Scotch whisky, either as the name of the whisky
itself, or as the name of the distillery. For each of these names
the author provides an informative discussion of the origin,
history and development of the name from a linguistic and
historical perspective. He also offers an early spelling of the
name, the original meaning (where known) and the correct
pronunciation. Where applicable he has added curious information,
such as a proverb or extract of poetry that mentions the
place-name. No special linguistic or local knowledge is assumed.
Additionally, there is an introduction for the educated
non-specialist dealing with the various languages of Scotland:
Gaelic, Scots, English, Norse and Pictish. At the end is a full
list of sources used, and an appendix identifying some 'lost'
distilleries. Peppered throughout the book are information boxes
about particular pertinent topics, such as Inver- and Aber- names
and tautological names. As a professional place-name researcher,
the author has ensured that the material in this book derives from
primary sources (many of which are unpublished) and has been
rigorously researched, allowing the reader to distinguish between
genuine and spurious names. Interest in Scotch whisky, the
Highlands, Gaelic, Scots and place-names has never been higher, and
there is an increasing demand for reliable works on these subjects.
This is an informative and entertaining book that sets the standard
for whisky place-names.
For centuries, the peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa have been
producing domestic and professional embroidery to decorate
themselves, their families, clients, homes and public spaces.
Embroidery is an expression of artistic, personal, family, regional
and even political creativity which has played an important role in
the social and cultural lives of people throughout the region. It
has also reflected economic and political changes over time as well
as social, religious and artistic contexts. This is the first
reference work to describe the history of embroidery throughout
Africa south of the Sahara from the early modern period through to
the present. From quilted armour to embroidered caps and leather
sandals, it offers an authoritative guide to all the major
embroidery traditions of the region and a detailed examination of
the material, technical, artistic and design dimensions of the
subject. Generously illustrated with 395 images (362 in colour) of
clothes, accessories, and examples of decorated soft furnishings
such as cushions, bed linen, curtains, floor coverings and wall
hangings, the Encyclopedia is an essential resource for students
and scholars of the subject.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom
was described as one vast aircraft carrier anchored off the coast
of Europe. During a seven year period 500 airfields were
constructed to serve the needs first of the RAF and later the USAAF
as they carried the war to German-occupied Europe. The airfields
that were constructed took many different forms from training
airfields and Advanced Landing Grounds to grass fighter airstrips
and vast complexes used to accommodate heavy bombers. This book
charts the history of each Second World War airfield in and around
the UK providing a unique insight in to the construction,
operational life and post-war history of each airfield. Alongside
detailing the history of each airfield, this work comprehensively
records the details of each unit that operated from airfields
around the UK. The information provided in this meticulously
researched book is supported by a wealth of 690 photographs
providing an illustration into the life of each wartime station.
Over the last two decades, the encyclopedic museum has been
criticized and praised, constantly discussed, and often in the
news. Encyclopedic museums are a phenomenon of Europe and the
United States, and their locations and mostly Eurocentric
collections have in more recent years drawn attention to what many
see as bias. Debates on provenance in general, cultural origins,
and restitutions of African heritage have exerted pressure on
encyclopedic museums, and indeed on all matter of museums. Is there
still a place for an institution dedicated to gathering,
preserving, and showcasing all the world's cultures? Donatien
Grau's conversations with international arts officials, museum
leaders, artists, architects, and journalists go beyond the history
of the encyclopedic format and the last decades' issues that have
burdened existing institutions. Are encyclopedic museums still
relevant? What can they contribute when the Internet now seems to
offer the greater encyclopedia? How important is it for us to have
in-person access to objects from all over the world that can
directly articulate something to us about humanity? The fresh ideas
and nuances of new voices on the core principles important to
museums in Dakar, Abu Dhabi, and Mumbai complement some of the
world's arts leaders from European and American
institutions-resulting in some revealing and unexpected answers.
Every interviewee offers differing views, making for exciting,
stimulating reading.
The Bible, as we hold it today, is esteemed by many religious
institutions and especially Conservative Christians to be the
inspired, inerrant Word of God. This doctrinal position affirms
that the Bible is unlike all other books or collections of works in
that it is free of error due to having been "given by inspiration
of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God
may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Tim.
3:16, 17). While no other text can claim this same unique
authority, the Apostolic Fathers included in this volume (also
called the Ante-Nicene Fathers), covers the Early Christian
writings from the beginning of Christianity until the promulgation
of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea, which was
convened in Bithynia by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325.
As such, writings contained in this volume of The Researchers
Library of Ancient Texts (Volume Two: The Apostolic Fathers:
Includes Clement, Anthenagorus, Mathetes, Polycarp, Ignatius,
Barnabas, Papias, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus), provides literature
that follows the chronology of New Testament texts, which
frequently are used or assigned as supplemental works within
academic settings to help students and scholars discover or better
understand cultural and historical context of the early Christian
Church. These ancient texts provide commentators valuable insight
into what many ancient Jews and early Christians believed when,
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past
unto the fathers by the prophets" (Heb. 1:1). The Researchers
Library of Ancient Texts is therefore intended to be a supplemental
resource for assisting serious researchers and students in the
study of the Bible and the early Church age. Contained in this
volume: The works of Clement, Anthenagorus, Mathetes, Polycarp,
Ignatius, Barnabas, Papias, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus.
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