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John Hawkins
What is the Yeti? Has more than one race of aliens visited Earth? This book explores the hidden stories behind unexplained, scary, and weird phenomena - subjects that are of…
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John & Ward Hawkins
THE FLOODS OF FEAR
Spring is late, and the warm rains of June create a flood that threatens all the small towns and farms in its path. The dikes need…
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Harry Kelsey
A portrait of the colourful Elizabethan slaver, merchant and admiral, Sir John Hawkins. Although he committed treason, murder and adultery at various points in his career, he was knighted in…
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In 1998, Hurricane Mitch pounded the isolated village of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan in mountainous western Guatemala, destroying many homes. Much of the community relocated and this study followed the two…
James Anthony Froude
THIS 40 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: English Seaman in the Sixteenth Centuries, by James Anthony Froude. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766186245.
William George Hawkins
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: J.P. Jewett and company Subjects: Temperance Prohibitionists Biography
John HW Hawkins was one of the most prominent public figures of his time, serving as both a politician and a judge. In this comprehensive biography, his life and legacy…
Demonstrates a link between how languages are used and the conventions of their grammars. This book sets out a theory in which performance shapes grammars and accounts for the variation…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
A General History of the Science and Practice of Music - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is editor of the literature…
Probationary Odes for the Laureatship: With a Preliminary Discourse is a book written by John Hawkins and published in 1787. The book is a collection of poems that were submitted…
Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789), a lawyer and member of the Academy of Ancient Music, published his pioneering five-volume history in 1776 just after the first volume of Burney’s. Despite Hawkins’…
This classic work by John Hawkins provides a thorough overview of the history of music and its practice, from the ancient Greeks to the 18th century. Featuring detailed analyses of…
This book is a comprehensive history of the science and practice of music, providing insight into its development over time. It includes discussions of musical theory, the lives of famous…
First published in 1986, this book draws together analyses of English and German. It defines the contrasts and similarities between the two languages and, in particular, looks at the question…
First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of definite and indefinite reference, on the basis…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The assertive secular humanism in recent years has damaged the social and cultural fabric of many western nations and has opened the door to creeping totalitarianism. This short history book…
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