"Detailed travel information for Albania, Andorra, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Yugoslavia (Montenegro and Serbia). This guide is designed for all budgets, providing essential information for independent travellers. It covers transport, accommodation, eating, "sights", and language. Over 200 maps of countries, cities and towns are inc ..."
"A Brief History of the Mosaic -- The First Mosaics of Alexandria -- Imitating Painting, Color Conquers -- Techniques and Style -- The Iconography of Mosaics -- Mosaics in Their Architectural Context -- The Organization of Production -- Late ..."
Pancreatic Disease(Reprint) Basic Science and Clinical Management by Colin D. Johnson, Clement W. Imrie Paperback, 490 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-4471-3491-6, ISBN: 1-4471-3491-5
"Glaucoma is a condition of the eye in which the optic nerve is damaged due to increased fluid pressure in the eye. Left untreated, the condition may lead to permanent blindness.
This book is a guide to the diagnosis and management of glaucoma.
Beginning with an overview of the condition and its symptoms, the following chapters cover diagnostic and treatment methods for different causes and types of glaucoma.
The text concludes with disc ..."
"Every year, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi of Tanta. Since the thirteenth century millions of believers from neighboring regions and countries have flooded into Tanta, Egypt’s fourth-largest city, to pay devotional homage to al-Badawi, a much-loved saint who cures the impotent and renders barren women fertile.This book ..."
"In the Greco-Roman catacombs of Alexandria, uniquely decorated tombs from the time when religious boundaries blurred and syncretistic beliefs flourished have long been known. But it was only in 1993 that researchers discovered faint traces of paintings on walls previously thought to be blank,or underneath other painted scenes: the hidden scenes could be partly made out and photographed using ultraviolet light. Then in 2012, new computer ..."
Victoria College(1st Edition) A History Revealed by Sahar Hamouda, ColinClement Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by The American University In Cairo Press ISBN-13: 978-977-424-756-9, ISBN: 977-424-756-6
"This book is at once the history of a remarkable and fascinating phenomenon -- a British-style public school rooted in Egyptian soil boasting such alumni as King Hussein of Jordan, Omar Sharif, and Edward Said -- and a reflection of the spirit of Alexandria during the first half of the twentieth century. Its publication in October 2002 is timed to coincide with the school's centenary. Victoria College, Alexandria, founded in October 190 ..."
"Empereur, Jean-Yves: Mitglied des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts "Der kometenhafte Aufstieg Alexandrias beschäftigt den französischen Archäologen Jean-Yves Empereur seit mehr als zehn Jahren. Er leitet das Institut zur Erforschung Alexandrias, das "Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines". Seine Forschungsergebnisse zeigen die antike Metropole als Stadt von gewaltigen Dimensionen.""
"If Alexandria has become as Lawrence Durrell put it "The capital of memory", if there exists such a thing as the Alexandrian myth, it is because, for the best part of a century, Alexandria was a free city, a space suspended in time, the symbol of an open Mediterranean unlike the sea of today, sealed along all its coasts by petty nationalism. This openness was not simply cosmopolitanism. Alexandria was neither New York nor Paris. What wa ..."
Angels Don't Marry And Other One Act Plays by Florence Ryerson, ColinClements Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2012 by Literary Licensing Llc 01/05/2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-258-24031-8, ISBN: 1-258-24031-9