"When human beings first arrived in North America at the end of the last Ice Age, they encountered a teeming variety of animals, from ground sloths and mastodons to zebras and camels. This spectacularly illustrated book takes us on a captivating journey back to that time, showing us the entire continent and its incredible wildlife as it looked 13,000 years ago. The book travels the ancient continent region by region, from the icy Arct ..."
" What impact does sport have on the lives of ordinary people? How does sport help to perpetuate inequalities in society? What can social theory tell us about the role of sport in society? At their origin competitive sports were institutionalized in Western cultures for the privilege of white, heterosexual men. Over time sport has become more open to categories of people traditionally marginalized in society: women; those from lower soc ..."
"Similar in format to the "Billboard Book of Number One Hits" and "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits", this book traces the history of soul and R&B music by focusing on the songs that topped Billboard's Top R&B Singles chart over the past 40 years. All the great Motown hits are covered as are the classic tunes by such non-Motown stalwarts as Sam Cooke, James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Sam and Dave, ..."
A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland(1stEdition) Comprising a Translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen, a Translation from Isaac de ... Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series) by F. Martens, AdamWhite Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-00813-6, ISBN: 1-108-00813-5
"The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume (published in 1 ..."
A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland(1stEdition) Comprising a translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen: a Translation from Isaac de ... Twelve Days (Hakluyt Society, First Series) by AdamWhite Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-1284-7, ISBN: 1-4094-1284-9
"The first text is from an English collection published in 1694; the second from the Relation du Groenland, Paris, 1663; the third is the text of Edward Pelham's tract, London, 1631. The supplementary material consists of the 1855 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1855."
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Motown(1stEdition) The Sound of Young America by AdamWhite, Barney Ales, Andrew Loog Oldham Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-29485-7, ISBN: 0-500-29485-2
"Now in paperback, the definitive visual history of Motown, the Detroit-based record company that became a music powerhouse.The music of Motown defined an era. From the Jackson 5 and Diana Ross to Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy and his right-hand man, Barney Ales, built the most successful independent record label in the world. Not only did Motown represent the most iconic recording artists of its time and produce countle ..."
John Clare's Romanticism(1stEdition) by AdamWhite Hardcover, 332 Pages, Published 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-3-319-53858-7, ISBN: 3-319-53858-6
"<P>THIS BOOK OFFERS A MAJOR REASSESSMENT OF JOHN CLARE’S POETRY AND HIS POSITION IN THE ROMANTIC CANON. ALERT TO CLARE’S KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORK OF HIS ROMANTIC CONTEMPORARIES AND NEAR CONTEMPORARIES, IT PUTS FORWARD THE FIRST EXTENDED SERIES OF COMPARISONS OF CLARE’S POETRY WITH TEXTS WE NOW THINK OF AS DEFINING THE PERIOD – IN PARTICULAR POEMS BY ROBERT BURNS, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, LORD BYRON, AND JOHN KEATS. IT MAKES FULLY EVIDENT ..."