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Secret Cities
This series focuses on the history of great discoveries, showing how archaeologists and historians gather clues and piece together evidence to give a picture of how people once lived and how civilizations developed. This book investigates some of the most famous sites in the world, including Machu Picchu, Knossos, and Great Zimbabwe.
The Resurrection of the Romanovs
The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished materials and unexplored sources to probe the most enduring Romanov mystery of all: the fate of the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, whose remains were not buried with those of her family, and her identification with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed ...
Acrylic Watercolor Painting
Demonstrating how acrylic paints not only lend themselves to all basic watercolor techniques, this guide offers step-by-step coverage of painting surfaces, colors, and mediums as well as basic techniques: washes, wet-in-wet, drybrush, scumbling, opaque, and more. Includes 75 paintings by leading American watercolorists demonstrating extraordinary variety of techniques. 126 illustrations, including 21 in full color.
E-Journal Invasion
Written by an authoritative practitioner, this book explores the changing nature of cataloguing in the aftermath of e-journal invasion. It traces the development of the issue by examining changes in AACR2 and CONSER rules, focusing on the revision of AACR2, Chapter 12, and emergence of the concept of 'Continuing Resources'. The book analyzes challenges of e-journal cataloguing that stem from an ever-growing number of online publications and aggregator databases. It assesses the complexities of incorporating commercially produced cataloguing into a local database, and offers practical solutions to the most common questions in the process. The book concludes with a look into the future of e-resource cataloguing from technical and conceptual standpoints. - Helps understand terminology and key elements of e-serials cataloguing with examples - Focuses on challenges of e-journal cataloguing in aggregator database environments - Explores local considerations for implimetation of commercial cataloguing products
Persuasion After Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism
This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards persuasion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
“Brisk [and] forceful.” Sight & Sound "Lucidly argued.” Total Film Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German Cinema movement. Julian Preece considers what makes Katharina Blum new and radical, in particular in respect of women's cinema and its portrayal of the ordeal of its female lead in a world run by men. Drawing on archival material including drafts of the screenplay, brochures and props, reviews and interviews, Preece traces the conception of the film and its development from Heinrich Böll's original novel. Preece analyses how the film continues to resonate with our contemporary moment and has influenced film-makers from the German-Turkish director Fatih Akin to the British screenwriter Peter Morgan.
Genealogy of the Schoenwieser Janzens
Heinrich Janzen (ca.1752-1824) emigrated with his family from Rosenkranz, Prussia to Schoenwiese, South Russia, where he served as the elder of the Frisian church. Direct descendant Jacob H. Janzen (1885-1938) married Maia Wiebe and emigrated from South Russia to Rabbit Lake, Saskatchewan. Descendants and relatives lived in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and elsewhere. Includes some Janzen individuals and families where direct relationship is not shown. Includes some relatives and their descendants in South Russia.
