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Over the past two thousand years, Christianity has grown from a small and persecuted sect - 'crucified or set on fire', Tacitus wrote of them in Nero's Rome, 'so that when darkness fell they burned like torches in the night' - into an immense congregation that straddles the globe. The Faith traces the astonishing journey it has made from Jesus and the Cross to the present day. This is a story of fierce drama and incomparable scope, and Brian Moynahan tells it superbly. The apostles are here, and...

The battle of El Alamein and ‘Operation Torch' bring the Allies victory in North Africa, 1942-43. This, the fourth in the eight volumes of the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War describing the war in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres, narrates the defeat of the Axis forces in North Africa in 1942-43. The survival of Malta against determined Axis assaults enabled the Allies to cripple supplies to Rommel's Afrika Korps, while building up their own land, air and...

Published for the School's 75th anniversary, this book is a chronicle of Ryde School on the Isle of Wight. It includes the recollections of former staff and pupils, and is illustrated with 12 pages of photographs. In near fine condition, this book would be of particular interest not only to Old Rydeians, but also to anyone with an interest in changes in education since 1921.

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Dr Polina Prokopovich is a Cardiff Academic Fellow in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and School of Engineering at Cardiff University, Wales, UK and she is a Visiting Academic Fellow in the Center for Biomedical Engineering of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. She has an international reputation for her research in the area of biomaterials and biotribology, particularly the development of novel biomedical materials with functional properties.

A survey of the Jain religion's literature concerning the history of ancient India. It discusses certain fundamental issues such as the date of their founder, Mahavira, and of the beginning of the earlier Saka, Vikrama, and Saka eras, as well as other important dates.

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Details One of the 'Great Twelve' livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors' Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This history charts the remarkable story of the Company and its members from its origins until the 1950s, encompassing the lives and achievements of men such as Sir Thomas White (founder of St John's College, Oxford) and the celebrated chronicler, John Stow, as well as the roles played by the Company in the City and beyond in different periods...

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Details the various ages of the Earth, from the age of bacteria to the era of mammals that we know today. Subsequent chapters illustrated with more than 150 photographs, maps, and diagrams cover: sea life; land life; mass extinctions; causes of extinctions; effects of extinction; evolution of species; the life cycles; unique life forms; and strange habitats.

This internationally renowned text provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from the earliest times through the earliest civilizations. Written in an accessible way, People of the Earth shows how today's diverse humanity developed biologically and culturally over millions of years against a background of constant climatic change.

A fascinating little book explaining how Sunshine Health Shop started back in 1927, up to the current day. Includes an interview with Ray Hill about everything the Hill family have done throughout the years.

Introduction. The Palaeolithic origins of butchery. From hunter-gatherers to farmers. The earliest civilisations. Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Meat trading in the Anglo-Saxon period. The Middle Ages trading boom. The rise of the Guilds Merchant and Craft Guilds. A profile of the urban meat trade. Markets and fairs. Statutory and other controls of meat trading. The standing of the Guilds and their function. Meat consumers and meat consumption. Meat supplies and marketing. Developments...

In this volume, Julius Goebel Jr. details the creation of a national judiciary in the United States and traces the Supreme Court's development through its first decade of existence.

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