Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West: Cape Horna buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South Americais a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to Joseph Conra[...]

The definitive guide to X-parameters, written by the original inventors and developers.

Building on the foundations of its predecessor volume, Matrix Analysis, this book treats in detail several topics in matrix theory not included in the previous volume, but with important applications and of special mathematical interest. As with the previous volume, the authors assume a background k[...]

In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole. Coastal Africans, he argues, simply adopted Islam as the spiritual vehicle best suited to their expanding i[...]

This short book provides a succinct account of changes in children’s work and welfare in Britain between 1780 and 1890. It examines both the scale and the nature of child employment and the changing attitude of society towards it at a time when Britain was becoming the ‘workshop of the wor[...]

The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challeng[...]

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(Instrumental Play-Along). Features 11 classics from Duke Ellington's stellar career: Caravan * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good * I'm Beginning to See the Light * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * [...]

(Brass Ensemble). Ideal hymn accompaniments for festive congregational singing, and for performances by brass alone. Flexible instrumentation, with optional keyboard accompaniment, makes the arrangements adaptable to many situations. There are two versions of each hymn: the standard version found in[...]

"Birds of the Horn of Africa" is the first field guide to the more than 1,000 species of resident, migrant, and vagrant birds found in northeast Africa. Covering Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and the Socotra archipelago, this comprehensive, easy-to-use guide features more than 2,600 illustra[...]