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  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    by David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Read more

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  • Livestock Protection Dogs, 2nd Edition

    Small farms and large ranches are turning to dogs as a humane and ecologically sound way to protect their investments. This newly revised edition will make it easy to select a breed, care for, and train a livestock protection dog. Training methods have been refined and expanded, and there's even a chapter on guarding unusual stock, plus a discussion of theory, history and selection; livestock ... Read more

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  • Salem's Gate

    A Journey from Death to Life

    Salem's Gate, a new book release by author Donald David Sims, follows his previous publication Poems to Peruse in 2012.Salem's Gate combines action and medieval adventure in an interesting poetic tale-an odyssey.Two eleventh century kings, rivals Krislos and Akaan, provide the stage for war. War's issues intertwine and spin off their characteristic conflicts, betrayals, love, and rancor, with ... Read more

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  • The Roman Iron Industry in Britain

    by David Sim ...
    The invasion of AD 43 began the Romans' settlement of Britain. The Romans brought with them a level of expertise that raised iron production in Britain from small localised sites to an enormous industry. Rome thrived on war and iron was vital to the Roman military establishment as well as to the civil population.In this pioneering work, David Sim combines current ideas of iron-making in Roman ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Imperial Armour

    The production of early imperial military armour

    The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour. Roman Imperial ... Read more

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  • Egypt's Housing Crisis

    The Shaping of Urban Space

    by Yahia Shawkat ...
    A provocative analysis of the roots of Egypt’s housing crisis and the ways in which it can be tackledAlong with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow down the economy, and popularize or embarrass a ruler. Housing is political. Almost every Egyptian ruler over the last eighty years has directly ... Read more

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  • Egypt’s Desert Dreams

    Development or Disaster? (New Edition)

    by David Sims ...
    A rigorous and comprehensive examination of Egypt’s desert development over the past half-century, updated for a new paperback editionEgypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country’s problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to ... Read more

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  • Soft City

    Building Density for Everyday Life

    by David Sim ...
    Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in ... Read more

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  • Development Delusions and Contradictions

    An Anatomy of the Foreign Aid Industry

    by David Sims ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyses the shortcomings of the Western development aid programme. Through exploring the evolution of aid over more than seven decades, development is examined as an industry with a variety of motives and actors. The driving forces and dynamics in the relationship between aid and economic development are highlighted in relation to faulty development structures and misaligned aims. With ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • A Union Forever

    The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age

    by David Sim ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question—the governance of the island of Ireland—demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning global influence of the United States to achieve Irish independence. Simultaneously, he tracks ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Sermons to Live By

    by David Sims ...
    There is no available information at this time. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy?In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival.There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice Ages, for the best part of a million years. The last ... Read more

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