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9781784421205 | Shire Pubns, January 24, 2017, cover price $14.00

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Product Description: The iron industry was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution, producing a vital source of iron without which none of the great engineering achievements of the Victorian age would have been possible. This book charts the growth of iron making from the Middle Ages, describing the changing ways in which iron was produced, the people involved in its production, and the uses to which iron was put...read more

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9780747814832 | Shire Pubns, February 16, 2016, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The iron industry was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution, producing a vital source of iron without which none of the great engineering achievements of the Victorian age would have been possible.

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Product Description: The Reformation transformed England forever. From peasants in the lanes and fields to the court of Henry VIII, no life was left untouched as the Roman Catholic Church was replaced as the centre of the nation's religious life. Emerging from a dense mesh of European ecclesiastical and political controversy and Tudor dynastic ambition, the English Reformation ended with the Pope supplanted as the head of the national church, the great monasteries -owners of much of the country's land-disbanded and destroyed, the Latin Mass replaced by vernacular services and the colourful wall paintings of parish churches whitewashed...read more

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9780747814849 | Shire Pubns, March 24, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The Reformation transformed England forever.

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Product Description: The Holy Grail and Holy Thorn explores the legends of King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury and how their influence has been felt from medieval to modern times. Joseph was said to have built at Glastonbury the first church in Christendom, which made it a center of medieval pilgrimage, and gave Glastonbury an international profile in the fifteenth century...read more

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9781781550496 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, October 19, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The Holy Grail and Holy Thorn explores the legends of King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury and how their influence has been felt from medieval to modern times.

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Product Description: Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Inspired by the illustrations in book margins where heads were used to terminate trails of foliage, they were usually carved in the form of human masks, cats' or demons' heads...read more

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9780747807841 | Shire Pubns, June 22, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

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Product Description: Although misericords were originally installed on the hidden undersides of church folding seats to provide comfort to those standing for long periods of prayer, the have gradually become more ornately carved and decorated. Now they, along with the benches installed in parish churches in the later middle ages, are the objects of a large proportion of the surviving medieval woodcarving in Britain...read more

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9780747807445 | Shire Pubns, October 20, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Although misericords were originally installed on the hidden undersides of church folding seats to provide comfort to those standing for long periods of prayer, the have gradually become more ornately carved and decorated.
9780852639962 | Shire Pubns, April 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Although misericords were originally installed on the hidden undersides of church folding seats to provide comfort to those standing for long periods of prayer, the have gradually become more ornately carved and decorated.

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Product Description: Trees are special, being bigger than us both physically and metaphorically. Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization is an account of our relationship with them. Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge and the great tree Yggdrasil was central to Norse mythology...read more

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9781852852993 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, January 1, 2004, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this book, Richard Hayman traces the different values and virtues people have seen in trees and forests over the course of history, reflecting the changing use of woodland and the effects of deforestation and urbanization.

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9781847250513 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 30, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Trees are special, being bigger than us both physically and metaphorically.

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9781852851392 | Hambledon Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $55.95

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9781852855666, titled "Riddles in Stone: Myths, Archaeology And the Ancient Britons" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 15, 2007, cover price $65.00

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Product Description: From the heady days at Coalbrookdale on the banks of the Severn to the decline of a once-mighty industry, Richard Hayman tells the story of iron and its effects on Britain and the world.

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9780752433745 | Tempus Pub Ltd, August 15, 2006, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: From the heady days at Coalbrookdale on the banks of the Severn to the decline of a once-mighty industry, Richard Hayman tells the story of iron and its effects on Britain and the world.

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Product Description: From the wild windswept snowfields of its source in Tibet to the rich farmlands of its delta on the Yellow Sea, the mighty Yangzi has always had symbolic and practical significance for the Chinese. They refer to it simply as Changjiang, or Long River...read more

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9789622177055 | 2 edition (Odyssey Pubns, October 30, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From the wild windswept snowfields of its source in Tibet to the rich farmlands of its delta on the Yellow Sea, the mighty Yangzi has always had symbolic and practical significance for the Chinese.

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Product Description: Part of the Tempus History & Guide series, this book offers an in-depth look at the British settlement of Ironbridge. Charting the rise and fall of the iron, clay, and coal industries of Ironbridge, this book brings to life the communities that worked in them.

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9780752414607 | Tempus Pub Ltd, December 1, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Part of the Tempus History & Guide series, this book offers an in-depth look at the British settlement of Ironbridge.

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Product Description: Wrought iron has been used as a decorative element in architecture from the eleventh century to the twentieth. At first a device to strengthen and embellish doors, wrought iron was soon adopted for free-standing screens and railings, examples of which can still be seen in churches and cathedrals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780747804413 | Shire Pubns, March 22, 2011, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Wrought iron has been used as a decorative element in architecture from the eleventh century to the twentieth.

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