Barbara H Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European Byzantine & Islamic) in a lively narrative that is complemented beautifully by 70 full-color plates 46 maps & 13 genealogies many of them new to this edition The fourth edition begins with an essay entitled Why the Middle Ages Matter Today & the book now covers East Central Europe in some depth This edition

Includes:: three Seeing the Middle Ages features each discussing a work of art in depth An Ivory Diptych of Christ & the Virgin Saint Luke Gospel Book of Otto III; & A Shrine Madonna The sections for further reading have been updated & ancillary materials including study questions can be found on the History Matters website (wwwutphistorymatterscom)

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In this newest edition of her bestselling book Barbara H Rosenwein integrates the history of European Byzantine & Islamic medieval cultures-as well as their Eurasian connections-in a dynamic narrative 392 pages 93 Illustrations unspecified Rosenwein Barbara H ...

Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg he shattered foundations of western Christendom The Reformation of doctrine & practice that followed Luther's seismic action & protest against sale of indulgences fragmented the Church & overturned previously accepted certainties & priorities 256 pages 5 Maps Parish Helen L ...

A Short History of US Interventions in Latin America & the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of US military invasions & interventions in Central America South America & the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day Engages in debates about the economic military political & cultural motives that shaped US interventions in Cuba Nicaragua Puerto Rico Haiti the Dominican Republic Panama Guatemala Mexico & elsewhere Deals with incidents that range from the taking of Florida to the Mexican War the War of 1898 the Veracruz incident of 1914 the Bay of Pigs & the 1989 invasion of Panama Features also the responses of Latin American countries to US involvement Features unique coverage of 19th century interventions as well as 20th century incidents &

Includes:: a series of helpful maps & illustrations

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' For the first time in my life I felt that death was a possibility; a stupid pointless lonely death on the aptly named Mondulkiri Death Highway' The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military engineering in history But since the end of the Vietnam War much of this vast transport network has been reclaimed by jungle while remaining sections are littered with a deadly legacy of unexploded bombs For Antonia a veteran of ridiculous adventures in unfeasible vehicles the chance to explore the Trail before it's lost forever was a personal challenge she couldn't ignore
- yet it would sometimes be a terrifying journey Setting out from Hanoi on an ageing Honda Cub she spent the next two months riding 2000 miles through the mountains & jungles of Vietnam Laos & Cambodia Battling inhospitable terrain & multiple breakdowns her experiences ranged from the touching to the hilarious meeting former American fighter pilots tribal chiefs illegal loggers & bomb disposal experts The story of her brave journey is thrilling & poignant a unique insight into a little known face of Southeast Asia
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play As murder follows murder with the beautiful Maria as the obvious suspect; bumbling Inspector Clouseau drives his boss Dreyfus mad by stubbornly vowing to prove her innocence! ...

Evocative of ‘the blue remembered hills’ of his youth Alfred Edward Housman’s A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty & feeling Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire Housman’s verse considers the helplessness of man the fragility of life & the terrible effects of war against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside Inspirational for generations of readers A Shropshire Lad with its sweeping themes of youth & love has found its way into the canon of English folksong & has been set to music by composers George Butterworth John Ireland & Ralph Vaughan Williams This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of A E Housman&s A Shropshire Lad features the superb wood engravings of the Vorticist artist & illustrator Agnes Miller Parker & is accompanied by an afterword by Dr David Butterfield Editor of the Housman Society Journal Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love & treasure ...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series stunning clothbound editions of ten favourite poets which present each poet&s most ...

AE Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day & A Shropshire Lad & Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions by Archie Burnett & an afterword by John Sparrow' What are those blue remembered hills What spires what farms are those?' In this collection A E Housman's poems including' To an Athlete Dying Young' ' Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now' & ' When I Was One-&-Twenty' conjure up a potent & idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss & sadness Their scope is wide
- ranging from religious doubt & doomed love to intense nostalgia for the countryside & patriotic celebration of the life of the soldier
- & they are made all the more memorable by their distinctive diction & perfectly modulated rhythm & sound This volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime A Shropshire Lad (1896) & Last Poems (1922) along with the posthumous selections More Poems & Additional Poems & three translations of extracts from Aeschylus Sophocles & Euripides that display his mastery of Classical literature This edition has been revised by Archie Burnett &

Includes:: updated notes on the text & indexes of first lines & titles In his afterword John Sparrow discusses Housman's methods of writing & melancholic temperament Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as AE Housman was an English poet & classical scholar now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad If you enjoyed A Shropshire Lad & Other Poems you might like John Clare's Selected Poems also available in Penguin Classics



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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Shoya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class Shoko Nishimiya because she is deaf But as the teasing continues the rest of the class starts to turn on Shoya for his lack of compassion When they leave elementary school Shoko & Shoya do not speak to each other again Until an older wiser Shoya tormented by his past behaviour decides he must see Shoko once more He wants to atone for his sins but is it already too late? Contains the film on Blu-Ray with both the English dub & the original Japanese track with English subtitles ...