"The Great Warbow" is a vivid and exciting exploration of the bow and arrow as weapons of war. From before the "Domesday Book", through Anglo-Saxon England, medieval Wales and Ireland, the crusades, Bannockburn and the "Wars of the Roses", until the time of the Tudors, this book takes us on a wide-r[...]
First published in 1976, Robert Hardy's "Longbow", which has achieved an enviable reputation as a classic book on the subject, tells the story of this weapon throughout British history with drama, vigour and enthusiasm. As well as describing the longbow's colourful past in battles such as Crecy, Poi[...]
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympath[...]
This textbook uniquely brings together the fundamentals of thermal physics, including both the macroscopic aspects of the subject . thermodynamics . and the microscopic origins of thermal behaviour . statistical mechanics. The fundamentals of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are developed as[...]
Bringing together two key topics in undergraduate physics into one textbook, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics presents the fundamentals of thermal physics with selected real-world applications.[...]
This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas'--and America's--greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. "A Deeper Blue "trace[...]