Fascinating, surprising and illuminating, join metal detecting cousins, Ellie and Lucie, on their journey into the search for hidden history in this story of nature, lost lives and long buried objects in this treasure trove of a book.
The revised and updated edition of Texas Then and Now features the most prominent locations from around the state, pairing vintage photographs with modern shots of the same sites today.
A timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinating new detail.
'Entertaining and absorbing' - The Sunday Times A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation.
Bilbao y su ria experimentaron un notable crecimiento desde mediados del siglo XIX, intensificado a principios del XX, siguiendo una tradicion comercial de siglos anteriores.
This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future.
There is a story in the name of almost every street and district in Glasgow, with some tracing their origins to pagan times, long before Glasgow could even be called a city.
In this informative and beautifully illustrated book, Carol Foreman traces Glasgow's history through buildings which have been demolished, but which once played a central part in the life of the city.
Lost Dundee brings the second city of renaissance Scotland back to life showing, through previously undiscovered photographs and drawings, the life and the maritime quarter of this great port.
In this classic memoir of rural life in the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd chronicles his years in a remote glen before the introduction of electricity.
Este es un libro singular, que no se entiende sin la particular mirada de su autora,sus profundos conocimientos de la villa de Madrid, obtenidos de innumerableslecturas e investigaciones y de no pocas horas invertidas en pasear con mirada curiosapor la capital y sus aledaños.
Die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in 75 Objekten – von Bestsellerautor Andreas MatléEin Dreivierteljahrhundert nach Gründung der Bundesrepublik blickt dieses Sachbuch zum Erscheinen im Oktober 2024 zurück auf die Geschichte Deutschlands – und erzählt sie anhand von 75 Alltagsobjekten.
Entdecken Sie die Vielfalt und Tiefe der deutschen Kultur und IdentitätKulturelle Wurzeln und nationale Identitäten erlangen eine immer größere Bedeutung.
Hasta el momento, el discurso tendencialmente esotérico en torno al cerro Uritorco, la ciudad de Capilla del Monte, el centro intraterreno de Erks y sus "próceres" –Ángel Cristo Acoglanis, Guillermo Alfredo Terrera y José Hipólito Trigueirinho– fue monopolizado por individuos que buscan sobre todo adoctrinar y lucrar.
Este libro traza la evolución poblacional y social de Paso de Burgos, una pequeña comunidad establecida en la ribera del Riachuelo durante el siglo XIX.
We have a book in our hands that is the result of nearly thirty years spent collecting its material, compiling it, and presenting it in a readable and understandable way that is not satisfied with the old as it is and does not embrace the new without distinction.
We have a book in our hands that is the result of nearly thirty years spent collecting its material, compiling it, and presenting it in a readable and understandable way that is not satisfied with the old as it is and does not embrace the new without distinction.
The Arabian Gulf region is one of the important and strategic regions in the yellow continent of Asia, and indeed in the entire world, due to its location that connects the East to the West, and its recent mineral resources (petroleum), as it is the lifeline of most industrialized and developing countries, whether in Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, or Africa, in addition to what it contains.
In his valuable study of the conditions of the Bedouins and tribes in the Arab countries, the author relied on his observations and observations resulting from his living with the endemic or semi-endemic tribes and clans on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, in addition to his knowledge of what was written about those areas by orientalists and Arab specialists, gathering the common denominators of the conditions of the Bedouins and tribes, He classified them smoothly and concisely.
In this unique book, Father Anstani Al-Karmeli collects the news and narratives contained in ancient Arab coins, their origin, classifications, circumstances of their formation, and the political, economic and social factors that contributed to their development over successive eras, in a work that goes beyond its historical and documentation function to an aesthetic one by describing coins as part of the crystallization of what was later known as art.
Is Jerusalem, whose name is allegedly mentioned in the Torah, the same city mentioned in the Holy Book of Judaism as "Jerusalem," and do the two names together indicate one specific place, as the contemporary Israeli narrative says?
