Product Description: What Daniel Boorstin did for science in The Discoverers, Timothy Ferris for cosmology in Coming of Age in the Milky Way, and Robert Heilbroner for economics in The Worldly Philosophers, Colin Wells now does for history in A Brief History of History...read more

A history of the Byzantine empire describes the vibrant cultural, artistic, religious, philosophical, and scientifc heritage of Byzantium that was preserved in the wake of Byzantium's 1453 fall to enemy conquerors and its profound influence on Western civilization. Reprint. 22,500 first printing.

A history of the Byzantine Empire describes the cultural, artistic, religious, and scientific heritage of Byzantium that was preserved in the wake of the empire's 1453 fall to enemy conquerors, and its influence on Western civilization.

Examines and explains the concept of abuse of process and how it operates within the criminal justice system. This book includes the relevant UK and European case-law as well as an examination of other jurisdictions. It also deals with abuse of process at the police station, breach of PACE Codes and the role of the police station adviser.

Presents approximately 75 detailed period photographs from 'The Francis Frith Collection' with extended captions and introduction. Suitable for tourists, local historians, and general readers, this title includes Victorian county maps, an aerial photograph, and a historic Ordnance Survey.

A comprehensive study of Saudi Arabia journeys behind the scenes of this complex, oil-rich Middle Eastern nation, discussing its early history, the rise of the House of Saud, the influence of Saudi oil, everyday life, Islamic fundamentalism, the country's connection to the September 11th terrorist attacks, and its future. Original.

At the close of the eighteenth century, Timothy Dwight--poet, clergyman, and, later, president of Yale College--waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of "infidelity." The Devil and Doctor Dwight reexamines this episode by focusing on The Triumph of Infidelity (1788), the verse satire that launched Dwight's campaign and, Colin Wells argues, the key to recovering the deeper meaning of the threat of infidelity in the early years of the American Republic. The book also features the first modern, annotated edition of this important but long-overlooked poem.Modeled after Alexander Pope's satiric masterpiece, the Dunciad, Dwight's poem took aim at a number of his contemporaries, but its principal target was Congregationalist Charles Chauncy, author of a controversial treatise asserting "the salvation of all men." To Dwight's mind, a belief in universal salvation issued from the same naive faith in innate human virtue and inevitable progress that governed all forms of Enlightenment thought, political as well as religious. Indeed, in subsequent works he traced with increasing dismay a shift in the idea of universal salvation from a theological doctrine to a political belief and symbol of American national identity. In this light, Dwight's campaign against infidelity must also be seen as an early and prescient critique of the ideological underpinnings of Jeffersonian democracy. (view table of contents)

Ronald and Sam Tanaka work with their neighbor to investigate an old mystery concerning a stolen stamp collection.

Surveys the landscape, palaeoecology and archaeology of Over Wyre, Lytham Moss, the Lune Estuary Mosses, and the Arndale/Silverdale area of North Lancashire. The book examines the background and mythology and it develops with evidence from the late glacial though to post-medieval periods.

Offers a history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235. (view table of contents)