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A group of -enlightened- people gather in a small mid-western town to discuss the coming cataclysm: the capsizing of the earth and the end of life on earth as we presently know it, including specific instructions and training in survival tactics for such a dire event for those that do survive, and suggestions of how life might continue on the -new- earth.

First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD.

Byron’s work considers the empire in its entirety, assessing the highs and lows across a thousand year period. He provides insights into trade, culture, the organs of state, religion, the imperial rulers, and the battle with the Ottoman Empire, which would ultimately end in the fall of the...

»Das Meisterwerk der Reiseliteratur.« - Bruce Chatwin

Nach seiner Grand Tour durch Italien bis nach Griechenland (Europa 1925, Band 373) und seiner Reise in die Mönchsklausen der Orthodoxie (Der Berg Athos. Reise nach Griechenland, Band 422) machte sich Robert Byron 1933 auf den Weg nach Oxiana. Die Stationen seiner Forschungsreise führten ihn von Venedig über Palästina und Jerusalem bis nach Persien und Afghanistan. Die europäischen Klassiker langweilten diesen gelehrten Dandy; verliebt war er in die byzantinische und islamische Kultur.

»Verglichen damit ist New York...

Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror had yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, which took an astounding seven days, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous last years of the British Raj. Gandhi was imprisoned, while rioting and clashes between Hindus and Muslims had become commonplace. Finally Byron entered Tibet, the forbidden country. Exploring "The...

"This is the turtle that slid into the pond and ate the snake that dropped from a branch and swallowed the fish that swam after the frog -- JUMP, FROG, JUMP " This infectious cumulative tale will soon have the young frogs you know jumping and chanting with joy.

"This is the turtle that slid into the pond and ate the snake that dropped from a branch and swallowed the fish that swam after the frog -- JUMP, FROG, JUMP " This infectious cumulative tale will soon have the young frogs you know jumping and chanting with joy.

The latest edition of The Almanac of British Politics has been thoroughly revised and updated to include full details of the new constituencies following the comprehensive boundary changes which will come into force throughout the United Kingdom at the next election. It has firmly established itself as the definitive guide to the electoral map of the UK for nearly twenty-five years, covering in detail each of the constituencies sending representatives to the House of Commons.

Its comprehensive coverage provides a witty and informative biographical profile of every Member of...