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For hundreds of years the vast territory of the Kalahari remained a
blank on the map. Yet it gripped the imagination of poets,
painters, writers, dreamers, adventurers and not a few charlatans.
This book is a whimsical anthology of those who were inspired by
this desert, those who lived in its bitter confines and those who
died in its dry embrace.
The "Handbook of Clinical Neurology" (Series Editors: Michael J.
Aminoff, Department of Neurology, University of California, San
Francisco, USA; FranAois Boller, Bethesda, USA; Dick F. Swaab,
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands)has an international reputation as the ultimate
reference tool for neurologists involved in clinical research and
for neuroscience research workers. It offers comprehensive coverage
of the whole field of neurology edited and written by an
international list of contributors including the leading workers in
the field. This volume is particularly for all those interested in
the fundamental aspects of muscle disease or involved with care of
patients with these disorders. However, a further separate volume
in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series will be devoted to the
muscular dystrophies. The contents include coverage of the latest
developments in the subject such as the regulatory nuclear and
mitochondrial genetic mechanisms, the proteins involved in muscle
function and their remarkable interactions, the nature and function
of ion channels and ionic activity, and the complexity of
inflammatory cascades that has led to a wider appreciation of the
nature of muscle diseases and suggests new approaches for their
management. Clinically there has been the recognition and
description of new entities and improved classifications of groups
of disorders such as the distal myopathies, and the discovery of
disease-causing mutation for many of the muscular dystrophies and
hereditary myopathies.
This Memoir covers Judge Tebbutt’s career as a radio and television
commentator, advocate, judge, judge president of Botswana,
businessman (managing director of Syfrets), chairman of the UCT
Convocation, charity fund-raiser and public figure. Judge Tebbutt
was interviewed on his career by Prof Michael Bruton at Nicolas
Ellenbogen’s Orange Theatre recently in front of an appreciative
audience who showed interest in the forthcoming Memoir.
The concession to mine gold at Tati was granted to a British
baronet, Sir John Swinburne, by Lobengula, last king of the
Matabele. Although called by colonial imperialists as a "savage
king" and a "native despot", Lobengula was "exceedingly well-made
(in height about 6 ft 10 inches), corpulent, with a commanding
presence and, when in a good temper, having a kind heart and a full
appreciation of humour". The gold at Tati, which was discovered by
the geologist Carl Mauch, was actually on the site of pre-historic
diggings that had been mined there 400 years previously by the
Makalanga people. Tati lay on the missionary road to the north,
used by Livingstone and Moffat, and it was part of Cecil Rhodes's
dream of a continuous tract of British imperialism from Cape to
Cairo. The annexation of Bechuanaland was a direct result of the
conflicts between the tribes within the area and the threats from
President Kruger and from Germany which had recently colonised
Angra Pequena. Gold from the early diggings here found its way to
Great Zimbabwe and the famous golden rhinocerous from Mapungubwe
was probably fashioned from gold mined at Tati. This forgotten
corner of the sub-continent encapsulates a chapter of our history
involving five countries, powerful men, much subterfuge, a botched
invasion, a rebellion, land annexation, prospectors, hunters,
traders and adventurers. It is a story begging to be told.
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Title: The Conspiracy of Gianluigi Fieschi, or, Genoa in the
sixteenth century. Translated ... by David H. Wheeler. With a
portrait.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
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with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the
development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights
include the development of language, political and educational
systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents
periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion
into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of
new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The
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British Library Celesia, Emanuele; Wheeler, David Hilton; 1866.
xxxii, 343 p.; 8 . 9150.d.23.
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