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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IV

    The Fall of the Western Roman Empire

    by F.J. Haverfield, F. Beck, Ernest Barker, Maurice Dumoulin, E.W. Brooks, Alice Gardner, E.C. Butler, Paul Vinogradoff, H.F. Stewart, W.R. Lethaby, J.B. Bury-020edt ...
    This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric's invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before Alaric heard the voice that drew him steadily towards Rome. The frontier war along the limes was as old as the second century. The pressure of the population of the German forests upon the Roman world ... Read more

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  • Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Sinkholes and Karts

    Proceedings of the third multidisciplinary conference, St. Petersburg-Beach, Florida, 2-4 October 1989

    Edited by Barry F. Beck ...
    Proceedings of the Third Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, USA, October 1989. Treats groundwater quality and pollution, engineering geology, and planning, governmental and legal implications of Karst terrains. ... Read more

    $450.00 USD

  • The Engineering Geology and Hydrology of Karst Terrains

    Edited by Barry F. Beck, J. Gayle Herring, J. Brad Stephenson ...
    Engineers from around the world recount in this volume their successes and failures in attempting to deal with unique and quixotic landscapes. ... Read more

    $480.00 USD

  • Folktales of India

    Edited by Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami, Jawaharlal Handoo ...
    Series series Folktales of the World
    Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas, and remote villages in north and south India, and the distinctive boundary regions of Kashmir, Assam, and Manipur. The tales in this collection ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Hidden Paradigms

    Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

    by Brenda E.F. Beck ...
    Understanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the values exemplified by such stories’ central heroes and heroines.In Hidden Paradigms, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Identifying and Addressing Childhood Food Insecurity in Healthcare and Community Settings

    Edited by Hans B. Kersten, Andrew F. Beck, Melissa Klein ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This salient resource offers clinicians a comprehensive multi-tiered framework for identifying, addressing, and reducing food insecurity among children and their families. Reinforcing the importance of food insecurity as a key social determinant of health, this monograph reviews the epidemiology and presents in-depth guidelines for screening for food insecurity and hunger. Recommendations for ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Karst Geohazards

    Engineering and Environmental Problems in Karst Terrane

    Edited by Barry F. Beck ...
    Geologists and geographers study how to develop how and where karst develops and how sinkholes form, but engineers must use this information to develop karst terrane. Over the past ten years, these multidisciplinary conferences on the applied aspects of karst hydrogeology and engineering have been successful in bringing together engineers, geologists, other scientists and government regulators who ... Read more

    $375.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book III

    The Barbarian Invasions of the Western Roman Empire

    by Norman Baynes, Martin Bang, M. Manitius, Ludwig Schmidt, Christian Pfister, T. Peisker ...
    THE race which played the leading part in history after the break-up of the Roman Empire was the race known as the Teutons. Their early history is shrouded in obscurity, an obscurity which only begins to be lightened about the end of the second century of our era. Such information as we have we owe to Greeks and Romans; and what they give us is almost exclusively contemporary history, and the few ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book V

    Justinian and the Imperial Restoration in the West

    by Charles Diehl, H.J. Roby, J.B. Bury-020edt ...
    ON 9 July 518 the Emperor Anastasius died, leaving nephews only as his heirs. The succession was therefore quite undecided. An obscure intrigue brought the Commander-in-Chief of the Guard, the comes excubitorum Justin, to the throne. This adventurer had found his way to Constantinople from the mountains of his native Illyricum in search of fortune, and now became, at the age of almost seventy ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VIII

    The Arab-Byzantine Wars and the Early Middle Ages

    by T. Peisker, E.W. Brooks, Camile Jullian, F.E. Warren, W.J. Corbett ...
    The Arabs first invaded Asia Minor during the commotions of 641. In 642 a plan of Valentine for a combined attack on them was frustrated by his defeat; but Theodore and Procopius penetrated as far as Batnae, and an Armenian force occupied Amida and nearly reached Edessa before they were routed. In 643, Valentine having returned to Constantinople, the enemy again entered Asia Minor, and Arabissus ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIII

    Learning and Literature in the Early Middle Ages

    by Louis Halphen, Paul Vinogradoff, W.R. Lethaby, Montague James ...
    The alluring dream of Charles the Great has vanished; after his death no temporal prince was found capable of carrying on his work, and it fell to ruins. Nevertheless, the root idea which had inspired him still persisted: the idea of the unity of the Christian world, bound together and grouped round a single head, ready to give battle to the infidel, and to undertake the conversion of the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book I

    From the Rise of Constantine to the Death of Julian

    by H.M. Gwatkin, J.S. Reid, Norman Baynes ...
    THE first question that has to be considered in laying down the plan of a Medieval History is, Where to begin? Where shall we draw the line that separates it from Ancient History? Some would fix it at the death of Domitian, others at that of Marcus. Some would come down to Constantine, to the death of Theodosius, to the great barbarian invasion of 406, or to the end of the Western Empire in 476; ... Read more

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