Merchants and Explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot, and Networks of Atlantic Exchange 1500-1560
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In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port...
Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the Context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention - A Thematic Study: Volume 2
Clive Ruggles and Michel Cotte
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This joint venture between ICOMOS, the advisory body to UNESCO on cultural sites, and the...
MotoGP: 25 Years of Dorna: The Official Celebration of World Championship Motorcycle Racing from 1992 to 2017
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This eye-catching book tells the story of World Championship motorcycle racing over the past 25...
Walks and Climbs in the Pyrenees: Walks, Climbs and Multi-Day Treks
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Essential guidebook of walks and climbs in the Pyrenees, with over 170 day walks, multi-day walks,...
Napoleon: On War
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This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the...
The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution
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A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar...
Christie's: The Jewellery Archives Revealed
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For centuries, the stories of the world's great jewellery collections have lain hidden within the...
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam
Alain George and Andrew Marsham
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When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet...
Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts
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Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but...
Abraham Hanibal: Prince of Logone, Pushkin's African Ancestor
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Hanibal [1697- 1761] was probably the most outstanding African in Europe in the 18th Century, his...