Product Description: With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient Greek and Roman worlds were noticed by travelers and scholars from the very beginning of research on antiquity from the late 18th century onwards, the architectural, economic, logistical, political, urban and other social aspects of fortifications have been somewhat overlooked and underestimated by scholarship in the 20th century...read more

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Product Description: Wenn Delfine keine Kiemen haben, welches Tier mit scharfer Rückenflosse und Kiemen folgt dann den Kajaks? Wie frei fühlt man sich, wenn man neben der Freiheitsstatue paddelt? Und fällt Schnee immer in Richtung Erde, oder kann die Physik auch mal auf den Kopf gestellt werden? Peter Schneider beantwortet diese und weitere Fragen in einem amüsanten und packenden Reisebericht, garniert mit einigen Informationen zu Land und Geschichte...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This book grew out of a course which I gave during the winter term 1997/98 at the Universitat Munster. The course covered the material which here is presented in the first three chapters. The fourth more advanced chapter was added to give the reader a rather complete tour through all the important aspects of the theory of locally convex vector spaces over nonarchimedean fields...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A Runaway Horse by Martin Walser revolves around two friends, long separated, who meet on vacation. One is an idle teacher; the other an optimistic go-getter. The teacher discovers that one cannot avoid dealing head-on with life any better than one can reason with a runaway horse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Lured to post-Communist East Berlin by an inheritence that includes an old apartment building, Eduard, a German scientist, soon finds the city transforming his life in bizarre, absurd ways. 10,000 first printing.

Eduard, a molecular biologist living in West Berlin, along with his friends Theo and Andre from East Berlin, scientifically examines every form of love and its complications, ironies, and angst during the re-unification of the Germanies.

Featuring 102 new roses, a guide that reflects the dramatic changes in the market for roses in the past few years includes 392 roses and features heartier varieties to replace disease-prone roses and the new David Austin roses. Original.

A renowned expert offers a volume of lively information on all types of roses including planting, growing, feeding, pest control, cultural notes, recommendations, and detailed descriptions and provides everything rose gardeners need to know--highlighted by stunning color photographs.