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Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

The Elder Pliny's Natural History provides a wide-ranging account of human achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. This book re-examines Pliny's work for the first time since the 1920s. Modern experiments, simulating the techniques described by Pliny, and an in-depth study of his development of a technical language, confirm his unique contribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome.

The Grass Arena
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

The Grass Arena

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-07-31
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. In his searing autobiography Healy describes his fifteen years living rough in London without state aid, when begging carried an automatic three-year prison sentence and vagrant alcoholics prowled the parks and streets in search of drink or prey. When not united in their common aim of acquiring alcohol, winos sometimes murdered one another over prostitutes or a bottle, or the begging of money. Few modern writers have managed to match Healy's power to refine from the brutal destructive condition of the chronic alcoholic a story so compelling it is beyond comparison. 'Sober and precise, grotesque, violent, sad, charming and hilarious all at once' Literary Review 'Beside it, a book like Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London seems a rather inaccurate tourist guide' Colin MacCabe

Mining and Metallurgy in the Greek and Roman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Mining and Metallurgy in the Greek and Roman World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Religion of the Nabataeans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

The Religion of the Nabataeans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The history of the Nabataean Kingdom of Hellenistic-Roman times, centred on Petra, is now well known, but until the publication of this book, no monograph has been devoted to Nabataean religion, known to us principally from inscriptions in Nabataean Aramaic, iconography, archaeology and Greek literary texts. After a critical survey of the sources, the author analyses systematically the information on the individual gods worshipped by the Nabataeans, including a detailed illustrated account of temples and iconography. A further major section discusses religious themes: aniconism, henotheism, death-cult and the divinisation of kings. In a final chapter, Nabataean religion is considered in relation to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The book will be of particular interest to historians of religion in the Graeco-Roman Near East and to Semitic epigraphists.

Register of Retired Commissioned and Warrant Officers, Regular and Reserve, of the United States Navy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 832
The Only Good Lawyer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

The Only Good Lawyer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

What the "Chicago Sun Times" calls "one of today's best American mystery series" continues as Cuddy comes to the aid of Allan Spaeth, accused of murdering a man who was seduced by Spaeth's ex-wife. Taking the case puts Cuddy at odds with the entire Boston Police Department--and with his girlfriend, who has her own history with the murdered man.

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2988

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Naval Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1300

Naval Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1919
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Lineal List of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Marine Corps Reserve
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

Lineal List of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Marine Corps Reserve

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1959
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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