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Martin Edwards
Members of the Detection Club, the most prestigious group of crime writers in the world, celebrate the eightieth birthday of their former president - the original king of cozy crime…
This book illuminates the history of one of Manchester's most influential families. Charting the lives of Henry, Emily, Ernest and Shena Simon, it demonstrates their significance through tracing their work…
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Stuart Martin
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.
THIS 32 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Mystery of Mormonism, by Stuart Martin. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766139360.
Contents: Mormonism declares itself; infant church; polygamy revelation and the death of Joseph Smith; Brigham Young’s rise to power; Mormon via Dolorosa; handcart tragedy; bloody reformation of 1856-57; Mormon war…
The Polygamy Revelation And The Death Of Joseph Smith is a historical book written by Stuart Martin. The book is a detailed account of the life and death of Joseph…
Stuart Martin (Magdalene College, Cambridge)
The Schur algebra is an algebraic system providing a link between the representation theory of the symmetric and general linear groups. The approach is combinatorial where possible, making the presentation…
Research monograph on a branch of algebra.
Stuart B. Martin
This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the…
Stuart Martin (Magdalene College Cambridge)
Martin Stuart
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Are you one of those guys who doesn’t wash his hands after he flushes, and then greets people with a warm handshake? When you chew, does food fly out of…
Martin Butler (University of Leeds)
Presenting the story of the masques and court festivals staged under James I and Charles I, this book dispels the notion that they were merely frivolous and expensive entertainments. Butler…
Terry Deary
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the SLIMY STUARTS, including why some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas, which king picked his nose and never washed his…
Martin Sutherland
Traditional approaches to early Nonconformity have divided its history at the Toleration Act of 1689. The intellectual history of the movement has largely focused on the ideas of Richard Baxter…
Martin Stuart-Fox
The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Laos-through its chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and…
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New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China’s relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from…
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Joseph T Stuart,Barbara A Stuart
Joseph and Barbara Stuart highlight the watershed events of the reformation period (including the Protestant schism and Council of Trent), profile the main Catholic and Protestant figures such as Martin…
Stuart Taberner
Explores the performance of aging in the late style of Gunter Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser.
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
An English translation of Investigations into Magic that deals not only with magic in all its forms, from the manipulation of angelic and demonic powers to straightforward conjuring and illusion…
Martin Philippson,Queen Mary
Title: Histoire du Re gne de Marie Stuart.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest…
Martin Stuart-Fox (University of Queensland)
The book highlights Laos’ complex and shifting political alliances.
This history traces events in this developing country from ancient monarchy, through its establishment as a French colony, to independence in 1953, through the course of the People’s Democratic Republic…
Its chapters on Laos especially make significant contributions to their field. Engaging Asia is thus a volume that will stimulate and satisfy, while also honouring a scholar whose unusual career…
This is more than a hagiography, however. Its chapters on Laos especially make significant contributions to their field. Engaging Asia is thus a volume that will stimulate and satisfy, while…
J. Abernethy,Martin Stuart
Greyfriars Bobby is a well-known scamp on the streets of Edinburgh but, when trouble looms, can Bobby save the day?
Stuart Wexler,Larry Hancock
Chronicling a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr., Hancock and Wexler have sifted through declassified and never-before-seen files to reveal a terrorist network never before described in contemporary…
Uncovering previously unknown FBI files and sources, as well as new forensics, the authors of America’s Secret Jihad convincingly make the case that Martin Luther King was assassinated by a…
Oscar Wilde
Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure…
A work of the authors who see their intellectual roots in Marty Maehr’s theoretical and empirical work. It contains two sections: Motivation and Self, and Culture and Motivation.
Martin Stuart-Fox,Simon Creak,Martin Rathie
Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as…
Carl-Martin Hissler
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,7, Universitat Potsdam (Politische Theorie und Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Der Gesetzesbegriff in den Sozialwissenschaften - historisch-semantische Perspektiven…
Robert Martin,Robert Martin,Stuart Adam,Stuart Adam
This edition examines the Canadian Constitution and its effect on the principle of freedom of expression. The balance of the book directs attention to the laws that have been enacted…
Amniote Origins integrates modern systematic methods with studies of functional and physiological processes, and illustrates how studies of paleobiology can be illuminated by studies of neonatology. It provides a synthesis…
Presents a systematic approach to the topic of motivation and religion through the lens of theories of motivation as expectancy-value, self-determination, and achievement goal theory. This book features scholars offering…
Roderick Bucknell,Martin Stuart-Fox
Explores the nature of Buddha’s enlightenment and the meaning of Buddhist symbolism, discussing the relationship between Buddhist meditative techniques and examples of Buddhist symbolism found in early Pali texts and…
Stuart J. Murphy
With a few blocks, a board, and a protractor to measure the angles, the hamster champs have built a ramp that lets them fly high! But will this stunt be…
20 essays, predominantly focusing on the archaeology of the fifth to seventh centuries in southern England. Papers publish new discoveries, and both funerary and non-funerary deposits are analysed to explore…
Jose Manuel Garcia Valverde, Peter Maxwell-Stuart
The first full modern English version of Del Rio's treatise, unrivalled in its breadth, detail, and scholarship, on the occult sciences as they were understood, experienced, and combatted at the…
Peter Maxwell-Stuart,Jose Manuel Garcia Valverde
The most comprehensive treatise on all aspects of magic, witchcraft, and allied subjects produced in the early modern period.
Stuart E. Eizenstat
In The Future of the Jews, Stuart E. Eizenstat, a senior diplomat of international reputation, surveys the major geopolitical, economic, and security challenges facing the world in general, and the…
