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Includes a general introduction; chronology of major events; What the Romans Knew; Rome and Its Institutions; suggested further reading; and, maps, family trees, a glossary, and an index of historical names.

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Includes a general introduction; chronology of major events; What the Romans Knew; Rome and Its Institutions; suggested further reading; and, maps, family trees, a glossary, and an index of historical names.

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A collection of essays on one of the most important environmental and ethical issues: the rise of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, where increasing amounts of the world's meat, dairy, eggs, fish, and seafood are produced. It analyzes and depicts the devastating impacts and conditions in and around factory farms.

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The triumphant return of the 1975 cult classic and seminal graphic novel -- it's a nightmare you can't awake from.

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The best in new short story fiction from Africa's leading literary award.

(Paperback, 2010 ed.)

The best in new short story fiction from Africa's leading literary award.

(Paperback, 2011 ed.)

Now in its twelfth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africas leading literary prize for short stories.

(Paperback, 2012 ed.)

Now in its thirteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africas leading literary prize for short stories.

(Paperback)

Now in its fourteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africas leading literary prize for short stories.

(Paperback)

Now in its fifteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africas leading literary prize for short stories.

(Paperback)

Now entering its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere.

(Paperback, Reprint)

Secret Histories of the Cairngorms is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes.

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(Hardback)

How does cooperation emerge among selfish individuals This book looks at social dilemmas where cooperative motivations are subverted and self-interest becomes self-defeating. It analyzes to what extent one key facet of human nature - selfishness - can lead to cooperation.

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The daughter of one of the most original artists of the twentieth century offers a unique glimpse at her famous family and "other critters."

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Scottish history is not simply the distillation of Scotlands past: authors shape what we know and how we judge our forebears. This book investigates who decided which Scottish voices of the past would be heard in historys pages and which would ultimately be silenced. An essential landmark text for all undergraduate Scottish history programmes.

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In the spring of 1846, Francis Parkman, a Harvard-educated, Boston-born aristocrat, headed west to experience the untamed regions of America, to acquaint himself with the wild mountain men in the Rockies, and to visit the surviving Indian tribes before all were absorbed by the relentless advance of Western civilization.

(Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

Stretching from Oregon south to the Baja peninsula, the California coast has been the birthplace of extraordinary stories, some based on historic events, others created by immigrants or aboriginal tribes to explain the world around them. This book brings the region alive through historical and contemporary stories, poems, and memoirs. 45 illustrations. Maps & chart.

(Paperback)

Glorious, expansive, and urgent, this is the first significant epic poem of the new millennium.

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Originally published: Berkeley, CA: Aris Books, 1983.

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"Any really interested cook will find The California Seafood Cookbook extremely useful...offering invaluable information on West Coast fish and shellfish."

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(Paperback, Customer-Specific)

Reveals a universe that is vaster, darker, and stranger than anything previously imagined. The author's cosmic horror reflects a peculiarly modern philosophical belief system in which human beings are regarded as insignificant in light of the vastness of time and space.