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  • Icelanders in the Viking Age

    The People of the Sagas

    by William R. Short ...
    The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Public Enterprise in Mixed Economies: Some Macroeconomic Aspects

    by Clive Mr. Gray, R. Short, Robert Mr. Floyd ...
    This volume, written by Robert H. Floyd, Clive S. Gray, and R.P. Short, contains three papers dealing with various aspects of the public enterprise sector and the impact that these may have on macroeconomic analysis. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Housing in Britain

    The Post-War Experience

    by John R. Short ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1982 at a time when housing policy featured prominently in the press and in political debate, Housing in Britain was written to provide an authoritative review of housing in Britain.The book is a comprehensive introduction to the major policy shifts from 1945 to the year of publication. It explores the many aspects of ‘housing’ as a matter of state policy; as a commodity with a ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action

    The Production and Negotiation of the Built Environment

    by John R. Short, Stephen Fleming, Stephen J. G. Witt ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action was written as an examination of the conflicts and tensions resulting from private sector housing growth in Central Berkshire, part of Britain’s ‘Silicon Valley’ along the M4 motorway.The book provides a detailed consideration of the various ‘actors’ and their interactions and explores the fight from Community groups and parish ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Understanding The Bible For The Common Man

    Book of Hebrews

    by Mark R. Short ...
    Have you not wished when you read a verse or a group of verses on the same topic in the Bible that you could get an immediate explanation of the verse or verses so you could better understand what they really mean? That’s what Understanding the Bible for the Common Man: Book of Hebrews does.This book takes the best explanations of renown commentators and pastors and translate them into words you ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Urban Geography

    by John R. Short ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies
    This book, first published in 1984, is an attempt to make students aware of the variety in the urban condition and to introduce them to some of the relationships operating between space and society. From the broad aim of seeking to show the relationship between urbanism and society flows a number of sub-themes, including the importance of cross-cultural comparisons and contrasts, re-distributional ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Saga Land

    by Kari Gislason, Richard Fidler ...
    'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah KentA new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history.This is Iceland as you've never read it before ...Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vikings in North America

    by Graeme Davis ...
    It was the Vikings, not Christopher Columbus, who made the first European discovery of America. It was the Vikings, not the Pilgrim Fathers, who were the first Europeans settlers in America, and it was probably the Vikings who first used the name America.Around a thousand years ago the Vikings crossed the North Atlantic and established their settlements on the American continent. Yet today both ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Far Traveler

    Voyages of a Viking Woman

    by Nancy Marie Brown ...
    The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How Iceland Changed the World

    The Big History of a Small Island

    by Egill Bjarnason ...
    **"[A] joyously peculiar book." -- *The New York Times‘Bjarnason’s intriguing book might be about a cold place, but it’s tailor-made to be read on the beach.’ –New Statesman*The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries.**The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Vikings

    by Else Roesdahl ...
    Translated by Kirsten Williams, Susan Margeson ...
    Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today'Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Age of the Vikings

    by Anders Winroth ...
    A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacyThe Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD