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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.
Engineering
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Annual Report
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The London Gazette
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Sons of Adam
A discussion of the ancient Scottish and Irish origins of the families McAdams, followed by a collection of McAdams family histories. McAdamses immigrated to nearly every one of the colonial United States and can now be found throughout the country.
Jazzy and Rhumbi Become Chefs
Please join Jazzy and Rhumbi as they share with you some of their ideas about why they love cooking and baking. They have created new recipes, and have worked on them to make them even more delicious for you. Some of their creations were inspired by their trip to Paris, where they had exciting and unusual adventures. Feel free to invent some of your own recipes based on the ones in this book. Jazzy and Rhumbi would like to thank you for joining them while they keep creating and inventing.
Roman Arabia
The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from the fourth century B.C. to the age of Constantine. The book opens with the arrival of the Nahataean Arabs in their magnificent capital at Petra and describes the growth of their hellenized culture based on trade in perfume and spices. It traces the transformation of the region from an Arab kingdom under Roman influence into an imperial province, one that played an increasingly important role in the Roman strategy for control of the Near East. While the primary emphasis is on the relations of the Arabs of the region with the Romans, their interactions with neighboring states, Jewish, Egyptian, and Syrian, are also stressed. The narrative concludes with the breakup of the Roman province at the start of the Byzantine age.
They Suffered under Pontius Pilate
Although, according to the Christian Gospels, three men were crucified ca. 30 CE outside Jerusalem under the prefect Pontius Pilate, both popular wisdom and mainstream scholarship focus solely on the fate of a single man. The story is indeed told, once and again, as if only Jesus of Nazareth had been the target of Roman repression, as if only his suffering were worthy of attention, and as if the other men crucified at Golgotha had nothing to do with him. The present book forcefully argues that, from an epistemological and even an ethical perspective, this is an odd and worrying state of affairs: the prevailing approach entails one-sided oversight of significant information, betrays a strong ...
