Birds of North America

Burton, Philip

HarperCollins Canada / Not Applicable

This book is the first overall study of the texts and language of the Old Latin Gospels, the versions of the four Gospels that predate the Vulgate of Jerome. Author Philip Burton seeks to cast new light on their origins, translation techniques, and value as a source for vulgar Latin.

The Old Latin Gospels: A Study of their Texts and Language (Oxford Early Christian Studies)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Clarendon Press

Language in the Confessions of Augustine

Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. One of Augustine's key concerns is the story of his own encounters with language: from his acquisition of language as a child, through his career as schoolboy orator then star student at Carthage, to professor of rhetoric at Carthage and Rome. Having worked his way up to the eminence of Court Orator to the Roman Emperor at Milan, Augustine rediscovered the catholic Christianity of his childhood - and decided that this was incompatible with his rhetorical profession. Over the next ten years, he gradually reinvents himself as a different sort of language professional: a Christian intellectual, commentating on Scripture and preaching to his flock.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Oxford University Press

Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. One of Augustine's key concerns is the story of his own encounters with language: from his acquisition of language as a child, through his career as schoolboy orator then star student at Carthage, to professor of rhetoric at Carthage and Rome. Having worked his way up to the eminence of Court Orator to the Roman Emperor at Milan, Augustine rediscovered the catholic Christianity of his childhood - and decided that this was incompatible with his rhetorical profession. Over the next ten years, he gradually reinvents himself as a different sort of language professional: a Christian intellectual, commentating on Scripture and preaching to his flock.

A detailed study of an absorbing group with over 300 paintings in colour; 100 drawings and maps. Waders are surely one of the most attractive and fascinating groups of the world's birds. The majority of the species comprise two large cosmopolitan families: Chara-driidae (plovers) and Scolopacidae (sandpipers, snipes etc.) This book deals with 87 out of the world's 214 species, and covers an area west of the Urals, south to the Caspian and round the western border of Iran down to Kuwait, then westwards to include the eastern Mediterranean and northern coast of Africa, south to the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. This is an unusual field guide in that it concentrates on a single bird group in a single area. The standard bird guides cannot stop to give special treatment to a group which, though difficult, comprises less than 15% of our avifauna. The magist¬erial world survey of Shore Birds by Marchant, Prater and Hayman, on the other hand - an exemplary reference book which we cannot recommend too highly to every birdwatcher - is necessarily concerned largely with other species never seen in Europe. And the relevant volume of the comprehensive Birds of the Western Pale-arctic (with some wader paintings also by Philip Burton), is not a book for use out-of-doors.We therefore offer this guide to the birdwatcher in the hope that it may solve some problems in the field and at the same time perhaps stimulate further research. It describes and illustrates all breeding waders in Britain, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, all regular visitors, and the odd rarity. Short accounts of the birds' life-histories have also been included. There has been a new impetus in wader field studies during the last decade, but there is still a great deal to discover even about the more common species and the enormous journeys they undertake annually between breeding grounds in arctic tundra or mountain-fells and overwintering areas on estuaries, shingly shores and mud-flats.

A field guide to the waders of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East

Science & Math

Colston, Peter R.

Biological Sciences

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

You, my brother;: A novel based on the lives of Edmund & William Shakespeare

Random House]

Describes the behavior and characteristics of thirty endangered species of eagles, indicates their range, and suggests the reasons for their decline

Vanishing Eagles

Nature & Ecology

Book Sales

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Saint Augustine, Bishop And Doctor: A Historical Study

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

A unique book from a man who had perhaps more insight into Richard Burton aside from his wives—Philip Burton. The man who gave the great Welsh actor his name recounts their friendship that lasted right up to the end.

Richard & Philip: The Burtons

Humor & Entertainment

Peter Owen Publishers

When a Welsh shepherd and the daughter of a Norman lord fall in love, they find that there is nowhere for them to go except a seemingly magic island.

The green isle

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Birds of North America

The Old Latin Gospels: A Study of their Texts and Language (Oxford Early Christian Studies)

Language in the Confessions of Augustine

Language in the Confessions of Augustine

A field guide to the waders of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East

You, my brother;: A novel based on the lives of Edmund & William Shakespeare

Vanishing Eagles

Saint Augustine, Bishop And Doctor: A Historical Study

Richard & Philip: The Burtons

The green isle