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In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the        capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by        horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved        dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was still so slow, painful,...

Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel    The Woman in White and his detective mystery     The Moonstone, both published in the 1860s. However, in a literary career spanning almost forty years he wrote many other works, and Lyn Pykett looks at Collins's long and varied career in relation to the changing...

Workbook Effective recovery strategies 2/eThe expanded new edition of this successful Workbook provides the reader with practical information and skills to help them understand and change a drug or alcohol problem....

Examines and explains the waves of urbanization across Europe from the fall of the Roman empire to the dawn of the 21st century, covering the whole of Europe, north and south, east and west, and looking at urban trends, the urban economy, social developments, cultural life, and governance....

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition of Romeo and Juliet includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes....

African Philosophy is a collection of previously unpublished essays that address epistemological and metaphysical concerns that have emerged from the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The primary focus of the book is on traditional African conceptions of mind, person, personal identity, truth, knowledge, understanding, objectivity, and reality. The...