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Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa is a book written by the well known husband and wife botanical team, John & Sandra Burrows who also produced the definitive work on ferns of the region in their Southern African Ferns and Fern-Allies (1990). Eleven years in the making, this authoritative work provides detailed information on the 48 native figs (Ficus) of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi.
Also included are the commonly cultivated figs which were introduced into the region for economic and ornamental horticulture, and the other members of the Fig family (Moraceae) found in the region, including the cultivated mulberry (Morus), the breadfruit (Artocarpus), and the timber tree which produces iroko lumber (Milicia).
A total of 88 species are covered.
Mozambique is a land of immense variety of landscape and biological
diversity. However, its forests and woodlands are being cleared at
an alarming rate. With few exceptions, the country has no inventory
of its trees and shrubs, the component that forms the web or
skeleton of Mozambique’s vegetation. Trees and Shrubs of Mozambique
provides the first accurate and comprehensive account of the woody
plants of Mozambique and their distribution and how to identify
them through the use of keys, descriptions and illustrations. Aimed
at botanists – both amateur and professional – conservationists,
foresters, university and secondary school students, NGOs and
eco-tourists, this book covers some 1,780 species of trees and
shrubs, illustrated with over 9650 colour photographs, as well as
leaf line drawings and distribution maps.
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its
children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a
dazzling new series: " Classic Starts." The stories are abridged;
the quality is complete. "Classic Starts" treats the world's
beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at
an incomparable price.
He robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, and had escapades
enough to please any adventure-loving child. Now even the youngest
readers can have the chance to enter Sherwood Forest with Robin's
band of merry men, and meet such unforgettable characters as Friar
Tuck, Little John, Allan-a-Dale, the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham,
and wicked King John. Every moment of the story is filled with
action and excitement.
Not only has Glasgow produced some incredible personalities, it has
also been witness to some of the greatest happenings of our times.
These outstanding people and epoch-making events are featured in
Glasgow: Tales of the City. As a result of painstaking research,
some startling new facts have emerged about the life and times of
some of the city's most interesting characters. The many
individuals documented in this book include the world's greatest
pilot, whose many flying feats are still held in great awe today
and unlikely ever to be repeated. He was hailed as a hero in
America, they gave a him a ticker-tape reception in New York and
Hollywood begged him to be a star. More recently, Glasgow was
popularised by a TV programme about the city's tough police officer
Taggart. The role of the Glasgow detective made Mark McManus one of
Scotland's first international TV stars, and Mark's own life story
makes equally compelling reading. Before Billy Connolly, Glasgow's
greatest-ever comedian was Lex McLean. He smashed all the
box-office records in a Glasgow theatre and became a legend in his
own lifetime. His story has never before been told in such detail.
This is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating studies of
Scotland's largest city ever published.
Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories
as Glasgow. The city has been the silent witness to some of the
most significant events of the past century, from major triumphs to
cataclysmic calamities, and the best of these anecdotes are
compiled here to form this unique collection. Amongst the notable
events revisited are the launching of the Queen Mary, which
captivated the city's inhabitants in 1934, the victorious 16-month
work-in campaign by the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in the early
1970s, the Ibrox disaster of 1971 and the plague that gripped the
Gorbals in 1900. Some of Glasgow's most successful people are also
covered, including Clydeside revolutionary John Maclean, founder of
the Barras Maggie McIver and the inimitable Billy Connolly, whose
humour and colourful personality are synonymous with the city. From
the Battle of George Square to the bravery of the Glasgow people
during the Blitz, Great Glasgow Stories provides an
all-encompassing view of the city throughout the eras.
Saddam Hussein sought great power and prestige in the Middle East.
He had been secretly researching and developing nuclear weapons for
years and he was determined to use them against Israel. He started
his Middle East expansion in 1990 when he invaded Kuwait. It was
obvious that Saudi Arabia would be his next target. However Saudi
Arabia called in their old American and British friends who, with
modern weaponry put the Iraqi military and National Guard into an
embarrassing and bloody retreat. It had never been the intention of
America and Britain to continue on into Iraq so Saddam was allowed
to have what remained of his army. Maybe we thought that that would
be the end of things but we were wrong. Saddam was hatching a
devilish plan which would bring Israel, America and Britain to
their knees. This story starts with three, seemingly disconnected,
murders in different parts of the world and it ends with a terrible
race against time in London and New York.
The afterlife really does exist. There is an enormous amount of
evidence proving that it is so. It has been by confirmed by
professors, scientists, doctors, lawyers and even converted
sceptics. Some of the more convincing evidence comes from the Scole
experiments, cross-correspondence, and solid materializations All
of the evidence proves that the personality lives on and that when
we die we will meet our loved ones again. We should all look
forward to that day. And although there are no churches or
religions there, I hope that, like me, it brings you peace of mind.
Have a good life
The afterlife really does exist. There is an enormous amount of
evidence proving that it is so. It has been by confirmed by
professors, scientists, doctors, lawyers and even converted
sceptics. Some of the more convincing evidence comes from the Scole
experiments, cross-correspondence, and solid materializations All
of the evidence proves that the personality lives on and that when
we die we will meet our loved ones again. We should all look
forward to that day. And although there are no churches or
religions there, I hope that, like me, it brings you peace of mind.
Have a good life.
When Cobb's friend dies by suicide the police say that it is an
open and shut case, but Cobb is far from satisfied. He follows his
nose and a few psychic intuitions, and what was a simple suicide
turns into a series of devilish crimes. Cobb tears himself away
from his university lecturing and follows a very dangerous course
to put all the clues together. He ends up asking himself the
question "how can a dead man have committed these crimes?" It is a
very traumatic time in Cobb's life. Not only does he escape death
by a hair's breadth, he finds himself having a passionate but
loving relationship with a younger woman
Cobb finds it difficult to go on. Though he finally brought an end
to Kyle, he also lost the meaning to his life. He returns to his
university lecturing 'to keep his head on straight' but allows
himself to dwell in the past, a time when every day brought new
miracles. Now, there could be no more miracles - or could there?
Trouble has a way of finding Cobb and it is a strange route he
follows, and a number of attempts on his life, before he realizes
what is going on. I hope that you have read DEAD AGAIN before
reading this sequel since some important events carry over from one
to the other. I would appreciate it, too, if you did not disclose
the revelations in the early chapters of this book
When Cobb's friend dies by suicide the police say that it is an
open and shut case, but Cobb is far from satisfied. He follows his
nose and a few psychic intuitions, and what was a simple suicide
turns into a series of devilish crimes. Cobb tears himself away
from his university lecturing and follows a very dangerous course
to put all the clues together. He ends up asking himself the
question "how can a dead man have committed these crimes?" It is a
very traumatic time in Cobb's life. Not only does he escape death
by a hair's breadth, he finds himself having a passionate but
loving relationship with a younger woman
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ 'Malvern Illustrated'.; Volume 2 Of Grosvenor Series 2 Edward
John Burrow
In visiting vast primitive, far-off woods one naturally expects to
find something rare and precious, or something entirely new, but it
commonly happens that one is disappointed. Thoreau made three
excursions into the Maine woods, and, though he started the moose
and the caribou, had nothing more novel to report by way of bird
notes than the songs of the wood thrush and the pewee. This was
about my own experience in the Adirondacks. The birds for the most
part prefer the vicinity of settlements and clearings, and it was
at such places that I saw the greatest number and variety.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
In visiting vast primitive, far-off woods one naturally expects to
find something rare and precious, or something entirely new, but it
commonly happens that one is disappointed. Thoreau made three
excursions into the Maine woods, and, though he started the moose
and the caribou, had nothing more novel to report by way of bird
notes than the songs of the wood thrush and the pewee. This was
about my own experience in the Adirondacks. The birds for the most
part prefer the vicinity of settlements and clearings, and it was
at such places that I saw the greatest number and variety.
In visiting vast primitive, far-off woods one naturally expects to
find something rare and precious, or something entirely new, but it
commonly happens that one is disappointed. Thoreau made three
excursions into the Maine woods, and, though he started the moose
and the caribou, had nothing more novel to report by way of bird
notes than the songs of the wood thrush and the pewee. This was
about my own experience in the Adirondacks. The birds for the most
part prefer the vicinity of settlements and clearings, and it was
at such places that I saw the greatest number and variety.
This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual
historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and
consideration of the past has had in the western world over the
past 2500 years, treating the practise of history not as an
isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential
part of the cultural history of Europe and America. It
magnificently brings to life the work of historians from the Greeks
to the present, explaining their distinctive qualities and allowing
the modern reader to appreciate and enjoy them. But is also
examines subjects as diverse as the new perspectives brought about
by the rise of Rome, the interests of medieval chroniclers, the
effects of Romanticism and the emergence towards the end of the
nineteenth century of an historical profession. It sets out to be
not the history of an academic discipline, but a history of choice:
the choice of pasts, and the ways they have been demarcated,
investigated, presented and even sometimes learned from as they
have changed according to political, religious, cultural and (often
most importantly) patriotic circumstances.
This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims
to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the
ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can
be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining
the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta
families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to
reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow
and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as
corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version
Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the
B-text tradition.
This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims
to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the
ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can
be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining
the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta
families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to
reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow
and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as
corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version
Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the
B-text tradition.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Nouvel Essai De Medecine Pratique Sur Les Cancers ...: Avec
Une Nouvelle Methode Plus Sure & Plus Efficace D'employer La
Cigue On Y A Joint L'extrait D'un Autre Essai Sur La Guerison Des
Fistules ... John Burrows Jean-Baptiste Dessain ((Paris)) chez
Dessain junior, 1767
This book presents an accessible introduction to Maculey's major
work with a masterly introduction by John Burrow. Thomas Babington
Macaulay's "History of England from the Accession of James II" was
his masterwork and one of the great enduring classics of English
historical writing. The first two volumes were published in 1848
and achieved a huge success. They were published in numerous
editions both in Great Britain and in the United States. This
volume in the "Continuum History Series" contains the celebrated
third chapter which inherently contributed to the development of
social history by presenting a highly contextually relevant
extensive survey of English society in the year 1685, in terms of
such things as population, cities, classes and tastes. Macaulay's
approach to his subject, as John Burrow explains in his masterly
introduction, was that of a definite advocate of 'progress'. He saw
many real achievements in British and World history as resulting
from policies pursued by Whig political interest. 'The history of
our country' he wrote 'during the last hundred and sixty years is
eminently the history of physical, or moral and of intellectual
improvement'. Macaulay's work must be of compelling interest to any
student of history today. As a writer of the finest English prose,
he is beyond compare.
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