This richly illustrated history of the crusades comprises specialist contributions by some familiar names in crusader studies. These are supported by easily digestible digressions which look at the personalities, their motivations, the battles and lots of other themes which provide useful background information to the scholarly narratives. Colour photographs of buildings and places, colour illustrations of people and works of art, reconstruction drawings and manuscript illuminations all lep to make this an invaluable introduction to five centuries of crusades and religious conflict. Contributors: Alfred J Andrea, John France, Helen Nicholson, Thomas F Madden, William L Urban, James M Powell, Jonathan Harris, Carole Hillebrand.

Crusades: The Illustrated History

Madden, Thomas F.

Religion & Spirituality

Duncan Baird Publishers,LTD

Ancient beliefs about life, death and the afterlife is a complex and vast topic of study and books such as this, written for the general reader, have to be highly selective of the material and examples they include. This said, in his global survey of attitudes towards death and the afterlife Tony Allan has chosen carefully with a broad temporal and geographical coverage of cultures from Egypt and the Near East to prehistoric Europe, and from the Americas to East Asia and the Pacific. Highlighting patterns of similarity and difference in the ways in which people thought about, dealt with in practical terms, commemorated and spiritually conceived of death, he highlights how death was frequently seen as a journey made from one world to another and was accompanied by goods from the previous world. The sophisticated belief system of the Egyptians, the mummies, sacrifices and tombs of South America, the megalithic tombs of prehistoric Europe, north European ship burials, the Death pits of Ur and China's imperial tombs are just some of the case studies included.

The Archaeology of the Afterlife: Deciphering the past from tombs, graves and mummies

History

ALLAN, Tony

Ancient Civilizations

Beautiful book of pictures of the stars and planets of our universe...each picture has an explanation.

What's Out There (Images From Here To The Edge Of The Universe)

Science & Math

Mary K. Baumann

Will Hopkins

Loralee Nolletti

Michael Soluri

Astronomy & Space Science

A beautiful 288 page book filled with color photos and text on how to eat properly to maintain health and fitness. It is broken down into two sections (with multiple chapters in each): Food is Medicine and Eat for Immunity.

Vitality Foods for Health & Fitness

Cousin, Pierre Jean and Hartvig, Kirsten

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