This selection of work by Professor Charles Thomas, Cornwalls leading historian, focuses on the more elusive titles from his long and illustrious career and covers the whole range of his output from folklore and archaeology to military and local history, and from cerealogy to cryptozoology. The book also includes unpublished material, as well as specially composed introductions to each chapter, a full biography and a select bibliography. Professor Charles Thomas CBE DL DLitt FBA FSA is a former President of the Council for British Archaeology, the Society for Medieval Archaeology, the Royal...
This selection of work by Professor Charles Thomas, Cornwalls leading historian, focuses on the more elusive titles from his long and illustrious care...
In 1952, Bill and Dulcie Johnson joined the burgeoning masses migrating to Australia, a subsidised exodus seeking refuge from the rigours and privations of post war England. They were boat people of their time, trying to find their bearings in a traumatised world; ten pound POMEs who could only guess at what was in store for them, simply hoped for the best. Theirs was the age-old parental quest for a better life for their offspring, a safe haven they could adopt as their own.
In 1952, Bill and Dulcie Johnson joined the burgeoning masses migrating to Australia, a subsidised exodus seeking refuge from the rigours and privatio...
Our best-selling poetry introduction offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation. Part 1, Life and Times, traces Larkins early years and follows his development, within his career as a university librarian, into one of the most important and popular voices in twentieth-century poetry. Part 2, Artistic Strategies, explores a range of methodologies and aesthetic influences by which Larkin was empowered to create poetry at once both accessible and profound. Part 3, Reading Larkin,...
Our best-selling poetry introduction offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which ...
Armed only with German from an English University, where -spoken proficiency was neither thought necessary nor encouraged-, the author arrives in Innsbruck at the age of 21 to take up a posting as the English language assistant in an Austrian school. All he knows about his home for the next year is that the men wear funny leather shorts and you can ski there. Unfortunately the school is closed, he has nowhere to live and no money. Assisted, and sometimes hindered, by a cast of colourful characters, In Need of Assistants describes his journey from student to teacher as he adapts to life in the...
Armed only with German from an English University, where -spoken proficiency was neither thought necessary nor encouraged-, the author arrives in Inns...
This work presents a new method for the calculation of elasto-plastic building ground deformations and elasto-plastic building ground failure with included wave propagation in the ground. The presented procedure is a hybrid method, based on several common calculation methods. Included is the nonlinear calculation with the finite element method (FEM), a nonlinear HHT-
This work presents a new method for the calculation of elasto-plastic building ground deformations and elasto-plastic building ground failure with inc...
FORMAT NORMAL BROCHE Le Dictionnaire du cri de l'Est de la Baie James (Dialecte du Sud): francais-cri est la premiere edition imprimee des dictionnaires cri-francais et francais-cri, disponibles en ligne sur le site eastcree.org depuis l'annee 2007, avec quatre editions electroniques subsequentes. Cette edition imprimee comprend environ 35000 sous-entrees en francais et plus de 18 000 mots cris. ISBN 978-1-927039-48-9
FORMAT NORMAL BROCHE Le Dictionnaire du cri de l'Est de la Baie James (Dialecte du Sud): francais-cri est la premiere edition imprimee des dictionnair...
