James was regarded by Paul as a 'Pillar of the Church' and certainly he became very prominent in the church of the time. James comments on trials and temptations faced…

This memoir tells the story of the life and career of Matthew Knight, a prominent Manchester businessman and philanthropist. Knight's extraordinary career spanned many fields, including manufacturing, finance, and public…

Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing…

How did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? This volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects…

In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. This edition reprints the original…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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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…