Cornish Mines

Cornish MinesThis is the seventh volume in a series of The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845 1913 and completes coverage of the South West of England. Cornwall was the greatest mining district in the country during this period, and this book shows the industry at its peak and through the first years of irreversible decline.

Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body

After failing both as a farmer and as a prospector—they live in country known for its rich veins of copper—her father gives up their rights to the land to Hugh Ritson

it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic

Should we offer genetic tests to people for untreatablediseases

Eddie Lang

The dialogic structure of the text permits the reader to become the next student in a chain going back to the deity by means of Moses

alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a renaissance

This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period

The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages

This book sets out to summarize key aspects of semiconductor laser device physics and principles of laser operation

like its predecessor The Schubert Song Companion

in which he offers insights into his own work as well as the creative process in general