by Mary Hoyer (1982)
The book details the history of the Mary Hoyer doll company, and includes patterns for the 14 inch doll in knit, crochet and sewing. The most inventive are fromthe 40s and 50s. Mary Hoyer's sewing patterns were tested 3 times before she published them, so they always fit. One of the commerical patternmakers also published a few patterns for 14 inch Hoyer dolls.
Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson
A collection of essays presenting new analyses of data and evidence for population and settlement patterns, particularly urbanization, in the Mediterranean world from 100 BC to AD 350.
Justus F. Wittkop
„Ihrem Ideal der zwangsfreien Gesellschaft folgend, in der der Mensch in absoluter Freiheit seine Fähigkeiten entfalten kann, hat die anarchistische Bewegung stets die Bildung von Parteien oder anderen hierarchisch strukturierten Organisationen abgelehnt. Daher stellt der Autor auch die Lebensgeschichten der führenden Persönlichkeiten des Anarchismus und ihre politischen Ideen in den Mittelpunkt seiner Analyse. Von Godwin und Buonarotti, über Stirner, Proudhon, Herzen, Bakunin und Kropotkin bis zu Malatesta zeichnet er die Entwicklung der Bewegung des Anarchismus in den persönlichen und geistigen Bezügen dieser Personen, aber auch in der Abgrenzung zu kommunistischen Denkern und Parteiführern nach. In einem abschließenden Teil werden die terroristischen Aktionen einiger Anarchisten zu Ende des 19. und Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts in Europa und Nordamerika sowie das Experiment der Umsetzung anarchistischer Ideen während des spanischen Bürgerkriegs beleuchtet…“ (Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft) (Quelle: Karin Kramer Verlag)
Peter Whitfield
"Our understanding of nature - as a succession of forms assumed by eternal elements - emerged during the hundred years between 1840 and 1940, when theories of thermodynamics, atomic structure, and the equivalence of matter and energy all took shape. In Peter Whitfield's view, it represents probably the greatest single achievement of human thought.". "In the course of his stimulating and wide-ranging survey, Whitfield describes the long and complex process of discovery that lies behind that achievement, from the earliest times up to the mid-20th century. He shows how people with enquiring minds and a range of beliefs have tried to 'build bridges between nature and eternity', and he argues that the history of science, like that of art, is not a simple progression from lower to higher, but a sequence of responses to the world, conditioned by historical circumstances."--BOOK JACKET.
Lindsey Davis
From Wikipedia: " Set in Rome during AD 72, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and imperial agent. The title refers to the law which stated that no Roman citizen who had been sentenced to death might be arrested, even after the verdict, until he has been given time to depart, the idea being that for a Roman citizen to choose exile outside the boundaries of the Empire would have been a fate worse than death itself. Falco's closest friend, Petronius Longus, has finally caught one of the leading criminals in Rome, Balbinus Pius. But a quirk in Roman law allows a convicted felon, even a murderer, time to depart before the sentence is carried out. Balbinus' departure has left a vacuum in the underworld of Rome, and there is a crowd of criminals trying desperately to fill the void. Their first step is to engineer a robbery that reverberates throughout the city. Falco is again called upon by the Emperor Vespasian to supply answers, as quietly and quickly as possible. A couple of murders, a kidnapping or two, and more suspects than Falco cares to count takes him, and his patrician girlfriend Helena Justina, to places a family shouldn't have to go."