Product Description: Michael J. Franklin's Romantic Representations of British India is a timely study of the impact of Orientalist knowledge upon British culture during the Romantic period. The subject of the book is not so much India, but the British cultural understanding of India, particularly between 1750 and 1850...read more

Product Description: Despite the significant ongoing work in the development of new database systems, many of the basic architectural and performance tradeoffs involved in their design have not previously been explored in a systematic manner. The designers of the various systems have adopted a wide range of strategies in areas such as process structure, client-server interaction, concurrency control, transaction management, and memory management...read more

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Product Description: - A fascianting book with stunning ilustrations throughout. - Includes the works of artists such as Lucie Mabel Attwell and Owen Jones. - Written by an expert in the field of decorative art.

Product Description: Welcome to the Second International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM2001). The conference serves as a forum for the exchange of technical ideas and research results in the areas of mobility and database management. This year, we have a very exciting program for MDM2001...read more

Product Description: Covers the careers of three very different bishops: Master Gerald Pucelle, Hugh de Nomat and Geoffrey Muschamp. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This edition provides a representative selection of the key works of Sir William Jones (1746-94), one of the foremost Orientalists and intellectual pioneers of his generation. The range of his interests and accomplishments was diverse and this volume provides convenient and reliable points of access to Jones's remarkable work which extended to 13 volumes in the collected edition of 1807 (recently reprinted by Curzon/New York University)...read more

Product Description: Dorothy Owen has made a major contribution over half a century to our knowledge of the history of the English church, especially but not exclusively in the middle ages. While her published work has focused largely on eastern England, she has never lost sight of the wider universal context, and is one of the leading scholars of medieval canon law...read more

Product Description: The latest volume in the highly acclaimed English Episcopal Acta series, this edition provides an invaluable primary source for one of the wealthiest and most important sees in medieval England. The volume contains 199 acta, 84 of which are previously unpublished.

Product Description: A visual catalogue of old British biscuit tins. A must-have book for the collector.