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The Reign of King Stephen

1135-1154

By: David Crouch

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At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.

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Routledge

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1317892976

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A History of U.S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963

By: David M. Blades,Joseph M. Siracusa

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A History of U.S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963

By: David M. Blades,Joseph M. Siracusa

The story of U. S. nuclear testing between 1945 and 1963 is a vivid and exciting one, but also one of profound importance. It is a story of trailblazing scientific progress, weapons of mass destruction, superpower rivalry, accidents, radiological contamination, politics, and diplomacy. The testing of weapons that defined the course and consequences of the Cold War was itself a crucial dimension to the narrative of that conflict. Further, the central question - Why conduct nuclear tests? - was fully debated among American politicians, generals, civilians, and scientists, and ultimately it was victory for those who argued in favor of national security over diplomatic and environmental costs that normalized nuclear weapons tests. A History of U. S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963 is an examination of this question, beginning with the road to normalization and, later, de-normalization of nuclear testing, leading to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. As states continue to pursue nuclear weaponry, nuclear testing remains an important political issue in the twenty-first century.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442232013

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The Beaumont Twins

The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century

By: David Crouch

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The Beaumont Twins

The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century

By: David Crouch

This book combines a study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England.

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Cambridge University Press

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052109013X

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9780521090131

The Digital Matte Painting Handbook

By: David B. Mattingly

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The Digital Matte Painting Handbook

By: David B. Mattingly

The only how-to guide dedicated to mastering the technique of digital matte painting! Matte painting affords seamless integration between an artist’s painting with live action film footage and allows for greater flexibility and creative input in the appearance of movie settings. This unique book reveals a variety of tools and techniques that are both industry and classroom tested and will enhance your existing skill set. Veteran author and instructor David Mattingly walks you through the process of creating a matte painting, starting with rough concept sketches, working out the perspective drawing, adding light and shadow, and texturing all of the elements in the painting. You’ll gradually upgrade to using Adobe After Effects and Autodesk Maya in order to fulfill your matte painting vision. Escorts you through the process of creating a matte painting, starting with the initial concept sketch, adding light and shadow, texturing elements, and incorporating motion and depth Author is an experienced matte artist and teacher and shares a plethora of unique industry- and classroom-tested tools and techniques Features helpful step-by-step instructions accompanied by screen shots and photos to illustrate the process of creating a matte painting Whether you’re creating a background for a studio production, independent film, TV commercial, or YouTube video, The Digital Matte Painting Handbook helps you successfully complete your project. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118078047

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9781118078044

Ridiculous!

The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam

By: David Kaufman

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Ridiculous!

The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam

By: David Kaufman

From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied - and helped to engender - the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS!, a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays - plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres, on college campuses, and on stages throughout the world, his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler, the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam - including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers - RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year "David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster, this book is informed and passionate." - Mel Gussow, The New York Times "A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence." - Playbill "The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates - which, as reading experiences go, makes his story all the sweeter." - Vanity Fair "This is one helluva piece of work." - Marilyn Stasio, Variety.com

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557835888

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9781557835888

Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam

By: David King

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Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam

By: David King

This volume is a unique compendium of the works of Robert and James Adam, both built and unbuilt. It includes 900 illustrations. The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam is reprinted here in its entirety, updated and corrected. This title covers every one of the 230 or so built works, including 12 that have been recently discovered. It is complemented by a completely new title, Unbuilt Adam. This mentions all the brothers' important unbuilt projects, and it discusses and illustrates 130 of them. This volume gives an exceptionally thorough review of the brothers' designs. From public buildings to country houses, and monuments to ceilings, it is well informed and erudite. It provides a mine of information for both the expert and the general reader, and it uses the works covered to give an understanding of the Adam manner.

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Routledge

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1135142491

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9781135142490

The Wharncliffe Companion to Coventry

An A to Z of Local History

By: David McGrory

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The Wharncliffe Companion to Coventry

An A to Z of Local History

By: David McGrory

An accessible and informative reference to the historic events and cultural importance of this beautiful West Midlands city. Aimed at visitors and residents alike, this companion to the history of Coventry is an indispensable reference guide to its long, eventful, and fascinating history. Essential information on significant people, places, and events is presented in a convenient A to Z format. Famous and notorious individuals are portrayed here. Dramatic and sometimes tragic events are remembered, and familiar local myths and legends are explored. This volume is a source of fascinating insights into Coventry’s past and should provide answers to frequently asked historical questions - the whos, wheres, and whys that make up the rich history of the city.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783408421

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9781783408429

Living Through History

Roman Empire

By: Fiona Reynoldson,David Taylor

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Living Through History

Roman Empire

By: Fiona Reynoldson,David Taylor

Living Through History is a complete Key Stage 3 course which brings out the exciting events in history. The course is available in two different editions, Core and Foundation. Every core title in the series has a parallel Foundation edition. Each Evaluation Pack includes the Assessment and Resource Pack and a free compendium volume student book. The resource packs include a variety of tasks which students should find interesting and enjoyable. They also include differentiated exercises to provide support for less able students and challenging work for more able students. Assessment exercises for the compulsory study units aim to help teachers monitor progress through NC levels.

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Heinemann

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0435309498

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9780435309497

A History of Norfolk in 100 Places

By: David Robertson,Peter Wade-Martins,Susanna Wade Martins

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A History of Norfolk in 100 Places

By: David Robertson,Peter Wade-Martins,Susanna Wade Martins

Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to tell the county's rich history. Starting with real footprints of people who lived here nearly 1 million years ago, A History of Norfolk in 100 Places will take you on a chronological journey through prehistoric monuments, Roman forts, medieval churches and Nelson's Monument, right up to twentieth-century defensive sites. With detailed entries illustrated by aerial photographs and ground-level shots, here you will find a reliable guide to historic places that are either open to the public, or are visible from public roads or footpaths for you to explore.

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The History Press

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0750998245

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9780750998246

Battlefield Yorkshire

From the Romans to the English Civil Wars

By: David Cooke

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Battlefield Yorkshire

From the Romans to the English Civil Wars

By: David Cooke

Yorkshire's past is replete with bloody battles and sieges. From the earliest times armies have marched across the Yorkshire countryside and have fought for control of the land, the towns and the cities. Roman, Viking, Norman and the Scottish invaders have all contributed ruthless episodes to the story. Christian fought pagan, Englishman fought foreign invader, and loyalist fought rebel, in some of the most destructive battles of British history. And bitter internal conflicts, which set neighbour against neighbour, created an equally violent heritage as rival lords and landowners contended for power and influence in the north. David Cooke gives a vivid description of the outbreaks of warfare that have punctuated the county's history. Using graphic contemporary accounts and numerous illustrations and maps, he creates a vivid narrative of a county that was a battleground until modern times.

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Pen and Sword

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1844154246

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9781844154241

Journey to Avalon

The Final Discovery of King Arthur

By: Chris Barber,David Pykitt

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Journey to Avalon

The Final Discovery of King Arthur

By: Chris Barber,David Pykitt

This book reveals the true identity of Arthur, and locates his courts and long-forgotten battle sites such as Badon and Camlan. It also uncovers the secret of the mysterious Isle of Avalon and Arthur's resting place in a Breton church. The authors present a convincing and conclusive answer to the puzzle of King Arthur. Glossary of terms in Welsh and English. Bibliography. Index. 78 illustrations.

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Weiser Books

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157863024X

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9781578630240

The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

The Complete Cultural Handbook

By: David M. Gitlitz,Linda Kay Davidson

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The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

The Complete Cultural Handbook

By: David M. Gitlitz,Linda Kay Davidson

An invaluable guide to the richness of this thousand kilometer long stretch of cultural treasures

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Macmillan

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0312254164

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9780312254162

Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

By: David Frick

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Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

By: David Frick

In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly commented on the relatively peaceful coexistence of this bewildering array of peoples, languages, and faiths. In Kith, Kin, and Neighbors, David Frick shows how Wilno's inhabitants navigated and negotiated these differences in their public and private lives. This remarkable book opens with a walk through the streets of Wilno, offering a look over the royal quartermaster's shoulder as he made his survey of the city's intramural houses in preparation for King Wladyslaw IV's visit in 1636. These surveys (Lustrations) provide concise descriptions of each house within the city walls that, in concert with court and church records, enable Frick to accurately discern Wilno's neighborhoods and human networks, ascertain the extent to which such networks were bounded confessionally and culturally, determine when citizens crossed these boundaries, and conclude which kinds of cross-confessional constellations were more likely than others. These maps provide the backdrops against which the dramas of Wilno lives played out: birth, baptism, education, marriage, separation or divorce, guild membership, poor relief, and death and funeral practices. Perhaps the most complete reconstruction ever written of life in an early modern European city, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors sets a new standard for urban history and for work on the religious and communal life of Eastern Europe.

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Cornell University Press

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0801467535

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9780801467530

Tudor Sea Power

The Foundation of Greatness

By: David Childs

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Tudor Sea Power

The Foundation of Greatness

By: David Childs

In the sixteenth century England turned from being an insignifcant part of an offshore island into a nation respected and feared in Europe. This was not achieved through empire building, conquest, large armies, treaties, marriage alliances, trade or any of the other traditional means of exercising power. Indeed England was successful in few of these. Instead she based her power and eventual supremacy on the creation of a standing professional navy which firstly would control her coasts and those of her rivals, and then threaten their trade around the world. This emergence of a sea-power brought with it revolutionary ship designs and new weapon-fits, all with the object of making English warships feared on the seas in which they sailed. Along with this came the absorption of new navigational skills and a breed of sailor who fought for his living. Indeed, the English were able to harness the avarice of the merchant and the ferocity of the pirate to the needs of the state to create seamen who feared God and little else. Men schooled as corsairs rose to command the state's navy and their background and self-belief defeated all who came against them. This is their story; the story of how seizing command of the sea with violent intent led to the birth of the greatest seaborne empire the world has ever seen.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848320310

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9781848320314

Introduction to Japanese Architecture

By: Michiko Kimura Young,David Young

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Introduction to Japanese Architecture

By: Michiko Kimura Young,David Young

Introduction to Japanese Architecture provides an overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. It begins with a discussion of prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of contemporary trends in areas as diverse as country inns, underground malls, and love hotels. The intervening 12,000 years are analyzed in reference to major changes in architecture caused by Buddhist and indigenous influences, feudalism, and finally the influence of Western culture in the 19th century. The architecture book provides insights into the dynamic nature of this contrast and how it reflects the underlying diversity of Japanese culture. The comprehensive, accessible text is complemented by over 340 color photographs, diagrams, and specially commissioned watercolors.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462908098

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9781462908097

The Hidden Places of Ireland

By: David Gerrard,Travel Publishing Ltd

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The Hidden Places of Ireland

By: David Gerrard,Travel Publishing Ltd

Often called the Emerald Isle, Ireland is rich in greenery, but there is an abundance of every variety of landscape. This guide focuses on the well-known as well as the more secluded venues for food, accommodation and places of interest in the country.

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Travel Publishing Ltd

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190443410X

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9781904434108

The Waterman's Song

Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

By: David S. Cecelski

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The Waterman's Song

Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

By: David S. Cecelski

Cecelski, "chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807849723

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9780807849729

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