A scientist who has studied eclipses for many years tells their story and explains their importance today.

Providing a perspective on Islam, this work incorporates the patterns of emigration from Muslim-majority countries and the independence of the post-Soviet Muslim states of Central Asia. The maps, which employ design techniques to show shifts in borders and populations, are supplemented by short essays on a variety of themes.

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This book is a detailed review of all the fixed wing losses suffered by the USAF, USN and USMC over a 12 year period. It includes information on unit, personnel, location and cause of loss. Information is also provided on the background or future career of some of the aircrew involved.

Chronicles the history of Everest exploration since the early years of the 20th century. This book contains 400 photographs that record the surveying, planning, reconnaissance expeditions, and actual attempts that the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club jointly launched from 1921.

Wanda Rutkiewicz was the finest woman alpinist in the world, a charismatic person and a stronger, more accomplished climber than many men. She climbed with twenty expeditions spread over 22 years. But on 12 May 1992 she vanished without trace at 8300 metres while attempting to add Kanchenjunga to the eight 8000-metre peaks she had already climbed. Even now, so long after the event, her friends ...

Illustrated with detailed battlefield maps as well as historical images, this 448-page volume presents a telling of the most important battles of the Civil War, delivered by one of America's most beloved historians.

More than 500 years of African American history brought compellingly to life through words and pictures.

Aimed at the general reader, this book is an account of natural catastrophes and oddities, as well as man-made accidents. With first-hand accounts and commentary, the authors offer scientific explanations for these events.

This work stresses the ancient, rooted nature of Irish culture, but also looks beyond received ideas of Irish history to explore the patterns of fragmentation and change which have been characteristic of Ireland's past. The text is supplemented with a chronology of Irish history, and maps.

Laurence Olivier is not merely one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, but perhaps of all time. Add to this his achievements as a director of both plays and films, his central role in the founding of the National Theatre and the off-stage dramas of his private life, and he makes a rich subject for a biography.

Part of the complete reissue of The Oxford History of English Literature , this volume reassesses the work of England's greatest medieval author and attempts to survey the 15th century in the light of modern scholarship.

A superlative reference work against which the Bible and its stories can be fully appreciated and understood.

Probes with documents and sources into the Bush-Saudi connection via companies such as the Carlyle group that, apart from Bush Sr, counts John Major as one of its advisors. This work exposes the opaque corporate relationships between these powerful families and reveals a story of Orwellian proportions replete with political deception.