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Jenny Swann, a recent university graduate, travels to Paris, where she is mysteriously drawn through one of the famous unicorn tapestries in the Cluny Museum into life in twelfth century France. Through the warm, wise mistress of the Cluny chteau, Sophie, and her family--especially her son Guillaume--Jenny's eyes and heart are opened to a new way of life. She is confused and amazed as she walks the labyrinthine path through the Medieval world. Her days in the twelfth century lead her to discover the goal she would seek for the future back in her twenty-first century life.
Over the concluding decades of the twentieth century, the historic preservation community increasingly turned its attention to modern buildings, including bungalows from the 1930s, gas stations and diners from the 1940s, and office buildings and architectural homes from the 1950s. Conservation efforts, however, were often hampered by a lack of technical information about the products used in these structures, and to fill this gap Twentieth-Century Building Materials was developed by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service and first published in 1995. Now, this invaluable guide is being reissued—with a new preface by the book’s original editor. With more than 250 ill...
"This is the second issue in the Global Re-introduction Perspectives series and has been produced in the same standardized format as the previous one. The case-studies are arranged in the following order: Introduction, Goals, Success Indicators, Project Summary, Major Difficulties Faced, Major Lessons Learned, Success of Project with reasons for success or failure. For this second issue we received a total of 72 case-studies compared to 62 in the last issue. These case studies cover the following taxa as follows: invertebrates (9), fish (6), amphibians (5), reptiles (7), birds (13), mammals (20) and plants (12) ... We hope the information presented in this book will provide a broad global perspective on challenges facing re-introduction projects trying to restore biodiversity."--Pritpal S. Soorae.
This is the eighth volume of Dr. Justin Glenn’s comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Volume two highlighted notable members of the next eight generations, including such luminaries as General George S. Patton, the author Shelby Foote, and the actor Lee Marvin. Volume three traced the ancestry of the early Virginia members of this “Presidential Branch” back to the royalty and nobility...
The Planters of Colonial Virginia is a research on the colonial Virginia political and economic experience of the tobacco planter culture. The book covers a time from the founding of Jamestown to the disbursement of the settlers to various other places.
The Western Christian Advocate was published by the Methodist Church until 1939.
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