Cassell's Chronology of World History

Cassell's Chronology of World History

Author: Hywel Williams

Publisher: Cassell

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 767

ISBN-13: 9780304357307

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Uses a year-by-year format to provide a comprehensive, chronological summary of world history from the earliest recorded events to 2004.


World History of Warfare

World History of Warfare

Author: Christon I. Archer

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9780803244238

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This book provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of warfare across times and cultures. Its main strengths are its ability to provide context for each period discussed, comparison between developments in Europe, Asia, and the colonized world, and critical and up-to-date bibliographies that allow the reader to pursue subjects in greater depth. - Jacket flap.


Cassell's Atlas of World History

Cassell's Atlas of World History

Author: John Haywood

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2001-09-13

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780304357574

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Now available in paperback, the first entirely new historical atlas for 20 years, covering every region of the world at every period of its history


Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1600

ISBN-13: 9780304366361

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With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results


Cassell's Atlas of Evolution

Cassell's Atlas of Evolution

Author: Dougal Dixon

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780304355112

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This major new atlas offers the first complete look at the evolution of the Earth, from the beginning of the solar system to the present-day. Its six sections are divided into 18 chapters setting out the geological and biological developments of each major geological period. The volume's final section looks at the ways in which the Earth and its biosphere are still evolving today. The distribution today of types of rock, geological formations, fossils and modern species are explained, and the processes of natural evolution and of landscape formation through plate tectonics are revealed here as never before.


Soul Make a Path Through Shouting

Soul Make a Path Through Shouting

Author: Cyrus Cassells

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 9781556590665

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Drawing from Greek mythology, children's rhymes, and African-American oral traditions, the author of Mud Actor brings his poetry inward, searching the voices of Guernica, Auschwitz, and Terezin to find evidence of probity and persistence.