This history of practitioners of "service magic" in medieval and early modern Europe reveals the central place they occupied in everyday life and how they helped soothe the anxieties of both commoners and nobles. "Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval...

"A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning the globe and thousands of years of untold stories. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite math's reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong -- warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of...

"This history is a culinary romp through 50 dishes that shaped humanity-from prehistoric roasted mammoth to space-age dehydrated soup"--

Draws on interviews with combat Marines from numerous wars to offer insight into their motivations and capacity for military battles, in a tribute to U.S. Marine Corps veterans who went on to become influential civil servants in the public sector.

This title introduces the very old religion of Judaism. Jewish history is simply explained with the stories of Abraham and Moses along with more recent historical events. Young readers will learn about the Hebrew Bible and the covenants made between God and his people. Important practices and holidays are described in easy-to-understand text paired with colorful photographs. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further...

This title will help readers understand the causes for the great destruction, timeline, and aftermath of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The title is complete with glossary, index, and additional facts. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core Standards & correlated to state standards.

For those of you that have raised the same questions and picked up this book looking for an answer. This isn't it. 'United We Stand, Divided We Fall', is a complex rough correlation of historical events with a modern day vantage point of American and World History. In a raw and uncut lens, the negative, and the positive. As Where's Waldo of an effort the latter may be to find at times.

Book blurbColchester's Arts Centre is one of this towns popular entertainment venues, which occupies the former church of St. Marty's at the Walls. Follow my journey of discovery into the rise and decline of this former church, as I uncover the unique story of its survival through 700 years of history.Discover the church's social history through wars and plague. Read how the parishioners twice financed the rebuilding of the church and the determination...

Es mi propósito en este libro analizar los escritos 68 a 72, pertenecientes a la Parte III de The Urantia Book, con el fin de facilitar su comprensión. La traducción de dichos textos (Los escritos de Urantia), realizada por mí del inglés, aparece tras estas palabras introductorias. Como el mismo título denota, hay que reconocer que es un tema árido, aunque no por ello menos interesante e iluminador, porque a través de su lectura nos acercamos...

FALL, AND RISE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION Western Civilization has been falling since 1964, with roots going back to 1948, and earlier. Every time National Retail-Grocery Stores are forced to CLOSE, within specific locations, due to high costs of shop-lifting, vandalism, and CRIME, is the fatal result of POST-1964 legislation, demonstrates symptoms of Western Civilization's, over 60 year, falling decline. Every time Nationwide Police Officers...