Collection of the official accounts, in detail, of all the battles fought by sea and land, between the navy and army of the United States and the navy ... Britain, during the years 1812, 13, 14, & 15 Fay H A Книга по Требованию

A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup • From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to the Andes. Throughout history adventurous women have made epic, record-breaking journeys under perilous circumstances. Whether escaping constricted societies back home or propelled by a desire for independence, footloose females have ventured to the four corners of the earth and recorded their exploits for posterity • For too long their triumphs have been overshadowed by those of their male counterparts, whose honourable failures make bigger news. In curating this collection of first-hand accounts, broadcaster, writer and traveller Mariella Frostrup puts female explorers back on the map

Architects of the Southwest: Building in the Desert includes residential projects and landscape design works built in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. All the projects highlight the Southwest as an unparalleled region with a rich variety of landscapes—rolling hills, mountains, canyons, mesas, deserts, and volcanoes. These conditions offer unique design challenges and opportunities to create works that adapt to the natural environment—no matter how harsh it is—rather than conquer it while addressing sustainability

Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain. As she did with her pre-history of Britain in Ancestors, Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead

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The book features seventh to fourth century BC objects from the State Hermitage's unique collection of Scythian art. In includes both well-known masterpieces and less known and expressive works, all of which equally reflect the culture of Scythian kings and nobility. by no mere chance most of the objects are made of precious metals, primarily gold, and sumptuously decorated in the so-called animal style typical of Eurasian nomadic art • The museum history of Scythian antiquities is traced back to the 18th century, yet a major part of their discoveries were made in the 19th and 20th centuries. Nowadays excavations of Scythian burial-mounds are carried on and provide new finds to keep the Hermitage collection of Scythian treasures growing. The present book comprehensively presents the great collection and offers detailed reproductions of its objects which may be of interest to art historians

In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated administrators, and that they could reap huge profits by nudging it fractions of a percent to suit their trading portfolios. Tom Hayes, a brilliant but troubled mathematician, became the lynchpin of a wild alliance that included a prickly French trader nicknamed Gollum; the broker Abbo, who liked to publicly strip naked when drinking; a nervous Kazakh chicken farmer known as Derka Derka; a broker known as Village (short for Village Idiot) who racked up huge expense account bills; an executive called Clumpy because of his patchwork hair loss; and a broker uncreatively nicknamed Big Nose who had once been a semi-professional boxer

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over a century after work on the cathedral began in 1296, the proposed dome was regarded as all but impossible to build because of its enormous size. The greatest architectural puzzle of its age, when finally completed in 1436 the dome was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world. It has gone down in history as a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture • This book tells the extraordinary story of how the cupola was raised and of the dome's architect, the brilliant and volatile Filippo Brunelleschi

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour. She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction • Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s, Jennifer tells the story not only of the women she treated, but also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) and the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained

Альбом содержит триста произведений миниатюрной портретной живописи. Это - наиболее полная публикация русской миниатюры XVIII - начала XX века. В альбом включены только произведения, принадлежащие Государственному Русскому музею, представлены характерные для разных исторических периодов образцы, позволяющие видеть в русской портретной миниатюре самостоятельную национальную школу • Издание состоит из двух томов (частей). Обе части содержат таблицы с репродукциями и каталог произведений. Нумерация таблиц и нумерация произведений в каталоге для каждой части самостоятельны. Расположение таблиц в альбоме в основном придерживается хронологической последовательности. Произведения одного автора даются совокупно и расположены по хронологии. Миниатюры воспроизводятся в величину оригинала или в уменьшенном размере; в последнем случае на это указывается в подписи к таблице

Издание представляет собой сборник авторских песенок на английском языке, которые направлены не только на усвоение фонетики и лексики иностранного языка, но и на развитие вокальных навыков, музыкального слуха и вкуса. С помощью этого материала можно превратить уроки английского языка в весёлую игру, в забавный спектакль, детский мюзикл, объяснить ребенку специфические понятия простым и понятным образом • Сборник адресован педагогам дошкольных образовательных учреждений, детских центров, детских музыкальных школ и школ искусств, руководителям детских творческих коллективов