Contemporary Canadian Picture Books

This enriched reference guide offers a unique overview of more than 200 picture books published by Canadian publishing houses between 2017–2019. The authors cover key themes in contemporary Canadian titles that match broad curriculum trends in education. Response activities are included in the text, for example frameworks for critical literacy discussions, along with annotated bibliographies …

The Jewel of Annual Astrology = A Parallel Sanskrit-English Critical Edition …

Authored in 1649 CE by Mughal court astrologer Balabhadra Daivajña, The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology. Martin Gansten’s scholarly edition and translation is the first ever of a Tājika text.

The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews

In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it.

Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Othe…

From as early as the 1600s, Dutch scholars and scholarship have displayed a keen interest in the studies of the Islamic world. Over the centuries, they have collected a wealth of source texts in various languages, Turkish texts being prominent among them. The present catalogue is the fourth and final volume in a series that covers the Turkish manuscripts preserved in public libraries and museu…

Contemporary Canadian Picture Books

This enriched reference guide offers a unique overview of more than 200 picture books published by Canadian publishing houses between 2017–2019. The authors cover key themes in contemporary Canadian titles that match broad curriculum trends in education. Response activities are included in the text, for example frameworks for critical literacy discussions, along with annotated bibliographies …

A beautiful collection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, minia…

Goethe, Joh. Wolfg. v. Dichter, geb. Frankfurt a. M. 1749, gest. Weimar 1832. L. s. Jena 22. Febr. 1797. 1 S. 8. Frs. 100.— Eigenhandige Unterschrift: „Goethe" auf einem Brief e, in dem er die Absendung eines „kleinen Aufsatzes iiber die Grundlage zu einer architektonischen Bibliothek" anzeigt. 34 Grillparzer, Franz, osterr. Dramatiker, geb. in Wien 1791, gest. das. 1872. Doc. a. s.…

The Purple Land

LibriVox recording of The Purple Land by William Henry Hudson. Read in English by Larry Wilson; MaryAnn; DJRickyV; Alexander Brett; jftocanada; Kalynda; Jairus Amar; Chancho Jomp In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adve…

The historical souvenir and literary cabinet

The present volume lays claim to notice for these two reasons ; — first, its contents, — secondly, its plates. Its contents have been so formed as to suit it in a pre-eminent degree as a present for youth. Its sketches are those of places and events which have peculiar interest— whether the gorgeous scene, with forest and mountain and river, or the mighty castle, or the tented battle-f…

Handy guide-book to Chester and its vicinity; with brief notices of its civil…

ALTHOUGH there is no historic record of the fact, yet there is every reason to believe that long before the Roman invasion the site of Chester was occupied as a stronghold by the original inhabitants. The site of Chester in early times was one well suited for the growth of a great and strong city. Its strength as well as its fitness for commerce, mainly lay in the river itself, which washed the…

The moss rose

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vi, 264 p., [4] leaves of plates

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1941057