This examination of an important year in Western history is published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of 1968. 1968, like 1948, was a year in which the Western world seemed to hover on the brink of revolution, and much of the impetus for change came from the student movement. In Paris, rioting..
From the Carolina Outer Banks to New York's Fire Island, from Iceland to the Netherlands and Colombia to Vietnam, barrier islands protect much of the world's coastlines from the ravages of the sea. Although these islands are vastly different in many ways, they also share many common features. Most d..
Kate Romilly, recently divorced, is determined to solve a series of local murders, when she begins to suspect that she may be the next victim Author: Fraser, Anthea Publisher: Doubleday Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0385235437 ISBN-13: 9780385235433..
Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially..
African art & leadership Author: Douglas Fraser Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0299058204 ISBN-13: 9780299058203..
Product Description John Fraser explores a major paradox about the USA: that after the Civil War, in a country now officially dedicated to rational, pacific, industrial progress and equality, there was a growing enthusiasm in the North for chivalric values. With a wealth of examples, modern and medi..
Upon receiving death sentence messages from the "April Rainers," some of the city's most unpopular inhabitants are found murdered Author: Fraser, Anthea Publisher: Doubleday Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0385410883 ISBN-13: 9780385410885..
Veteran school administrators, Streshly and Frase, have taken their classic "quick reference" and combined it with the insight and experience of a practicing school attorney for a comprehensive, updated edition. Author: Frase, Larry E. Publisher: Corwin Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: ..
"Fraser's rousing historical novel tracks the rise and fall of the real-life boxer Tom Molineaux, a Virginia slave who fought his way to freedom and then to celebrity in England in the early 1800s."--New York Times Book ReviewBringing historical fact spiritedly to life, Fraser tells the rollicking t..
Conversations taped between June 1973 and May 1975 with more than three hundred survivors of the Spanish Civil War provide a chronological account of the fratricidal struggle, which brought violence and desperation to every family in Spain Author: Fraser, Ronald Publisher: Pantheon Binding: Paperbac..
Conversations taped between June 1973 and May 1975 with more than three hundred survivors of the Spanish Civil War provide a chronological account of the fratricidal struggle, which brought violence and desperation to every family in Spain Author: Fraser, Ronald Publisher: Pantheon Binding: Hardcove..
Research into the role of diet in chronic disease can be difficult to interpret. Measurement errors in different studies often produce conflicting answers to the same questions. Seventh-day Adventists and other groups with many vegetarian members are ideal study populations because they have a wide ..
Illustrates the usefulness of the thermodynamic approach to geological problems by means of examples based on natural rock systems. Author: Fraser, D. G. Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0198599277 ISBN-13: 9780198599272..
A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume II of the Flashman Papers When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice ..
The aging but heroic soldier, Harry Flashman, is caught in the middle of the Chinese Taiping Rebellion and is unwittingly called on to champion the fortunes of a concubine, a Minister, and a female bandit, all to his own personal gain Author: Fraser, George MacDonald Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardco..
In 1845, Harry Flashman is given the task of infiltrating the decadent court of the Punjab, where he must match wits with a lacivious Maharani, her minions, and other dangerous foes as they compete over the fabulous Koh-i-nor diamond Author: Fraser, George MacDonald Publisher: Knopf Binding: hardcov..
This ninth volume of The Flashman Papers finds that history’s most unheroic hero, Sir Harry Flashman, is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy deals with a ravishin..
In this volume of the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, the redoubtable adventurer who appears in battle with General Custer attired in full evening dress and tails, recounts his escapades of glory in the Old West Author: George MacDonald Fraser Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISB..
George MacDonald Fraser's famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an exciting new series style, ready to please his legions of old fans and attract armies of new ones. The illustrious Flashy gets up to his old tricks in another installment of The Flashman Papers. 'Forwar..
George MacDonald Fraser's famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an exciting new series style, ready to please his legions of old fans and attract armies of new ones. The illustrious Flashy gets up to his old tricks in another installment of The Flashman Papers. 'Forwar..
340 Pages...First American Edition(Stated) Author: Fraser, George MacDonald Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394498933 ISBN-13: 9780394498935..
When his beautiful and brainless wife Elspeth is abducted from Singapore by a half-breed ex-Etonian millionaire, Harry Flashman sets out on an odyssey of reluctant pursuit Author: Fraser, George MacDonald Publisher: Random House Inc Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394501357 ISBN-13: 9..
From a former Christian Scientist, the first unvarnished account of one of America's most controversial and little-understood religious movements.Millions of americans-from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman-have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Found..
Book by McTaggart, David Fraser Author: McTaggart, David Fraser Publisher: Morrow Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0688033857 ISBN-13: 9780688033859..