Windows on the African Past

Windows on the African Past
Title Windows on the African Past PDF eBook
Author Ahmed G. Fahmy
Publisher Africa Magna Verlag
Pages 244
Release 2011
Genre History
ISBN 3937248323

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Archaeobotany has significantly increased our knowledge of the relationships between humans and plants throughout the ages. As is amply illustrated in this volume, botanical remains preserved in archaeological contexts have great potential to inform us about past environments and the various methods used by ancient peoples to exploit and cultivate plants. This volume presents the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA) held at Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt, on 13-15 June 2009. Studies presented herein clearly illustrate that African archaeobotany is a dynamic field, with many advances in techniques and important case studies presented since the first meeting of IWAA held in 1994. Authors have employed classical and new archaeobotanical techniques, in addition to linguistics and ethnoarchaeology to increase our knowledge about the role of plants in ancient African societies. This book covers a wide range of African countries including Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, South Africa, and the Canary Islands. It is of interest to archaeobotanists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, agronomists, and plant ecologists.

Windows Into the Past

Windows Into the Past
Title Windows Into the Past PDF eBook
Author Judith Margaret Brown
Publisher
Pages 140
Release 2009
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Judith M. Brown analyzes the lives of South Asians in recent history with a focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Windows on the Past

Windows on the Past
Title Windows on the Past PDF eBook
Author Jane C. Nylander
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 2009-12
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780615298139

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The story of life in New England from before the American Revolution to the twentieth century. Windows on the Past will take you on a tour of four centuries of home building, with fascinating interiors and furnishings; family ties to a wide variety of homes; advances in cooking, heating, plumbing, and lighting; the evolution of dining rituals; and classic landscapes, flower and kitchen gardens, and working farms. The book has been updated with new, richly illustrated chapters on the changing roles of servants in running the New England household and on the Historic New England Stewardship Program, which protects more than seventy-five privately owned historic properties. Through these windows on the past, discover Historic New England. Lavishly illustrated with 275 color and historic black-and-white photographs.

Windows Into Old Testament History

Windows Into Old Testament History
Title Windows Into Old Testament History PDF eBook
Author V. Philips Long
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages 220
Release 2002
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780802839626

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A team of international authors builds a case for a positive appraisal of biblical Israel. Approaching the authenticity of Scripture from several angles--philosophical, archaeological, and literary--the contributors attack the issues involved in this controversial area.

Windows on Nature

Windows on Nature
Title Windows on Nature PDF eBook
Author Stephen Christopher Quinn
Publisher
Pages 190
Release 2006-04
Genre Art
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Profiles more than forty habitat dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History, describing each one's contents and creation and presenting full-color photos and archival images.

Breaking Windows

Breaking Windows
Title Breaking Windows PDF eBook
Author David Bank
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 314
Release 2001
Genre Computer software industry
ISBN 0743203151

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"Breaking Windows" is a gripping account of Bill Gates's plan to establish a monopoly and create a new kind of business organism. Bank shows how the company's executives faced a tough legal challenge, and how they are dealing with the limits of Microsoft's growth.

Showstopper!

Showstopper!
Title Showstopper! PDF eBook
Author G. Pascal Zachary
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 239
Release 2014-04-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1480494844

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This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine). Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.