If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 066 must have a strong claim. King Harold faced invasion not just from William and the Normans across the English Channel but from the Dane, King Harald Hadrada. Before he faced the Normans at Hastings in October he had fought and defeated the Danes at York and neighboring Stamford Bridge in September. What dramatic changes of fortune, heroic marches, assaults by land and sea took place that year! This book explains what really happened and why in what is arguably the 'best-known' but worst understood battle in British history.
Author: Peter Marren Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 9781783460021 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2004 176 pages
Substantial progress has been made in seed science during the past few years, emphasizing its important role in advancing plant biotechnology, agriculture, plant resource management, and conservation. Providing comprehensive coverage of the latest seed science research including germination,
dormancy, development, and desiccation tolerance, this book also details the most advanced methods and practices in seed biology, ecology and technology.
Author: S.C. Navie; S.W. Adkins; S. Ashmore Publisher: CABI ISBN: 9781845931988 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2007 460 pages
Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family’s hands to this day. Inside, it is a very private, unmistakably English, manor house; a lived-in family home where the bejewelled sits next to the threadbare. The house and the family were the real inspiration for Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons.
Never before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets. And so the rich, dramatic history of one landed family unfolds in parallel with the history of England itself over a millennium, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot; through the tale of the disputed legacy that inspired Dickens’ Bleak House; to the secret love behind Elgar’s Enigma Variations; and the story of the scandal of Lord Beauchamp, the disgraced 7th Earl.
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Author: Jane Mulvagh Publisher: Transworld ISBN: 9781409009443 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer and to prolong these questions through the close examination of individual works and the exploration of a broad array of examples. Chapters on Henry James, Kafka, and the form of the villanelle are interspersed with wider-ranging inquiries into forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction, with examples ranging from Auden to Proust and Rilke, and from Calvino to Jean Rhys and Yeats. Literature is a form of pretence. But every pretence could tilt us into the real, and many of them do. There is no safe place for the reader: no literalist’s haven where fact is always fact; and no paradise of metaphor, where our poems, plays and novels have no truck at all with the harsh and shifting world.
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Author: Michael Wood Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780511128721 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2005 217 pages
Master Accelerated Grammar to Take Your Spanish to the Next Level
A proven grammar-based approach that gives you a real mastery of the Spanish language
Use Advanced Spanish Step by Step’s progressive, grammar-based approach to conquer intermediate and advanced Spanish-language topics. This step-by-step approach gives you real confidence and the tools you need to achieve a high Spanish proficiency.
You’ll get a quick review of the key grammar basics, then move on to more advanced topics that you need for true mastery of the language. With complete coverage of verb tenses beyond the present and past, irregular verbs, sentence structure, parts of speech, and more, this book gives a thorough overview of advanced grammar topics. It also introduces you to hundreds of new vocabulary words that are reinforced with readings that put the new terms in everyday context.
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Author: Barbara Bregstein Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education ISBN: 9780071768740 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2012 304 pages
When the glowing form of a beloved deceased Chihuahua appears, is it a ghost, or is someone teaching a dead dog new tricks – like murder?
Tripping Magazine is a quirky low-budget magazine that reports on travel destinations for believers in the paranormal. A few fake ghosts away from throwing in the towel, the Tripping staff get the tip of a lifetime when they get a call from Charlotte Baskerville, the rich founder of a clothing company for small dogs. Charlotte thinks that her Chihuahua, Petey, has come back from the dead, and she’s desperate for someone to come verify his appearances.
The magazine’s three-person reporting team travels to Manitou Springs, Colorado, sure that the ghostly dog will be a work of fiction. But, when they arrive, they see evidence of Petey with their own eyes. And he’s not just floating by – he’s howling advice and spelling out threats with tiny paw prints. Is the ghost real, or is the whole phenomenon an elaborate ruse?
The Tripping team must navigate the kooky world of coffin races, scheming husbands, and doggie fashion to solve the mystery – and get their story written at the same time. Uproariously funny and a great mystery to boot, Chihuahua of the Baskervilles is sure to leave you in stitches.
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Author: Esri Allbritten Publisher: St. Martin’s Press ISBN: 9781429940535 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2011 288 pages
We are just beginning to discover the importance of vitamin C in the health of natural and man-made ecosystems. Synthesis of ascorbic acid is well understood, but algae as the only source of ascorbate in the aquatic food pyramid has not been explored. There is an expanding field of the culture of aquatic organisms that demand formulated feeds to best meet their requirements for health, growth, and reproduction. With over 100 species now cultured for human consumption, the question arises as to whether we have reliable information for the dietary needs for vitamin C for even a small percentage of these organisms.
A comprehensive approach to the role of vitamin C at the cellular level as well as in the aquatic food chains, this book discusses growth and reproduction, disease resistance, and toxicology of aquatic organisms.
Ascorbic Acid in Aquatic Organisms was written as the offshoot of a special session on aquatic organisms and practical aquaculture at the 1998 World Aquaculture Society (WAS) meeting.
This book reviews the research already available and identifies new directions for research. It is a unique combination of good nutrition research, ecology, and practical aquaculture (for instance brine shrimp enrichment). This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to marine fish culturists, aquatic biologists, comparative and evolutionary cellular physiologists, and environmental toxicologists.
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Author: Konrad Dabrowski Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 9781420036312 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2000 304 pages
Principles of Field Ionization and Field Desorption Mass Spectrometry delves deeper into field ionization and field desorption.
The book covers the five main subareas of field ionization and field desorption mass spectrometry that has grown in importance. Coverage includes the theory of field ionization and field desorption; field ionization and field desorption techniques and sources; high field surface chemistry; kinetics and mechanisms of decompostion of field ions in the gas phase; and qualitative and mixture analysis with field ionization and field desorption mass spectrometry.
The text is recommended for students, experts, and researchers in chemistry, especially those who wish to learn more or have an in-depth study about field ionization and field desorption, its principles, and its applications in chemistry.
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Author: H. D. Beckey; R. Belcher; H. Frieser Publisher: Elsevier Science ISBN: 9781483156910 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2016 355 pages
The central position that the fireplace has in holding a family together is explained in an enchanting manner. Warner claims that modern advancements have led to the deterioration of family values, chivalry and courtesy. The work captivates the fancy and presents the charms of the days gone by.
Author: Charles Dudley Warner Publisher: ReadHowYouWant ISBN: 9781442936836 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700–900
Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region’s history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political power. But Farfa’s avoidance of domination by the pope throughout its early medieval history, despite one pope’s involvement in its early establishment, reveals that papal aggrandizement had strict limits. Other parties – local elites, as well as Lombard and then Carolingian rulers – were often more important in structuring power in the region. Many were also patrons of Farfa, and this book reveals how a major ecclesiastical institution operated in early medieval politics, as a conduit for others’ interests, and a player in its own right.
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Author: Marios Costambeys Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780511388989 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2007 411 pages
