Product Description: Peripheral Concerns examines the influence of one "core" region of the ancient Near Eastern world-Egypt-on urban development in the southern Levant in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, with emphasis on the relative stability and sustainability of this development in each era...read more

Product Description: The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's greatest hour of need, potent social and cultural symbol. Though the role of midwife has existed since time immemorial, it is only since the Victorian era that it has been a recognized and regulated profession...read more

Product Description: Trench warfare, advances in weaponry and disastrous military planning led to horrific types of injuries and an unprecedented scale of mass casualties during World War I. This is the amazing and little known story of the medical service personnel and the organized system of critical care which provided a lifeline of hope and humanity in the midst of devastation, disfigurement and death during the Great War...read more

Product Description: Best known for their brass bands and uniformed officers, the Salvation Army is uniquely recognizable worldwide. What is less known is the extent of their work which goes far beyond a commitment to temperance, bugles and bibles, prayer and preaching...read more

Product Description: In Susan Cohen's Throat Singing, yearning takes shape in these poems' gorgeous, sonorous lines.

Product Description: When the first Women's Institute was formed in Llanfair, Wales in October 1915, no one could have foreseen how this small-scale experiment would grow to become, by the early twenty-first century, an organisation with a membership of approximately 205,000 in 6,500 branches in towns, cities and villages across Britain...read more

Product Description: A nostalgic look at the world’s most popular beverage! The experience of taking tea is steeped in history, ritual and tradition, and this traveler’s companion looks at the fascinating story from all angles: the tea leaf, tea ceremonies, the customs associated with teatime, and tea paraphernalia...read more

Combines the fascinating history and traditions of tea with an up-to-the-minute guide to the places where it can be sampled at its very best. Tea is steeped in history, ritual and tradition. Susan Cohen takes a nostalgic look at the story of the world's most popular drink, covering everything including the tealeaf, the tea dance, customs and habits associated with taking tea, as well as the paraphernalia that surrounds it. This story is illustrated with beautiful, and often amusing, sketches and photographs that perfectly capture the feeling of pleasure that is associated with tea drinking. This guide looks at over 50 of the best places to take afternoon tea in Britain. There are over 20 suggestions for London, from the opulent splendor of the Lanesborough and the Ritz, to the architectural wonder of the Great Court at the British Museum. There are also recommendations for places in the great historical cities, such as Bath, Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Windsor, as well as the beautiful spots of the Lake District, the Cotswolds, Devon, and Cornwall.

Product Description: Gesher is a small Middle Bronze Age IIA cemetery site located in the central Jordan Valley in Israel. Initial excavations in 1986-1987 indicated the site's importance for examining population and settlement in the interior of Canaan in the early second millennium BCE...read more

Accompanied by travel information, a hair-raising anthology of stories, centering around America's most terrifying locations, invites readers to enter an eerie world of monster sightings, UFO landings, and hauntings from every state. Original. (view table of contents)

An updated study of the 1988 terrorist attack describes the tragedy, documents the struggle the authors have endured to learn the truth about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed their daughter Theo, and provides a close-up look at the recent trial of alleged Libyan terrorists. Reprint.

Product Description: Now you can transform garden furniture, ornaments, and accessories using a wide range of painting techniques adapted for outdoor durability! OUTDOOR PAINT EFFECTS takes well-known and contemporary techniques and adapts them using durable exterior paints and varnishes to create a new genre of decoration for the garden...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Documents the struggle the authors have endured to learn the truth about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which killed their daughter Theo.

Product Description: The gutsy performance of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team held millions of Americans captivated. Their gold medal team victory came to symbolize self-sacrifice, teamwork, and heroism--and landed them on the covers of Time and People magazines...read more

Dispels many popular myths about drugs and drug use among teenagers, and details the history of drug abuse and the short- and long-term effects of drug experimentation

Provides information on the location, hours, costs, and attractions of museums, parks, and other sites in the United States and Canada which display dinosaur fossils, models, and related materials

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Uses interviews, personal anecdotes, and scientific research to teach teenagers how stress affects them physically and psychologically, and how to recognize and deal with common stressful situations, from sex to parents. Reprint. VY.