The doomsday book of animals

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Donald Edward Davis

"The first book-length environmental history of its kind, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment."--BOOK JACKET. "Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early years of this century."--BOOK JACKET. "This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians."--BOOK JACKET.

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Tim Hill

Packed with more than 360 photographs selected from the archives of the Daily Mail, this book tells the story, year by year, behind the 64 glorious years since the inception of the Formula One World Driver's Championship in 1950.

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Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) is perhaps the preeminent historian of classical and Renaissance art, architecture, and culture. Burckhardt completed significant " cultural history," which he only described in his famous Reflections on History and in a celebrated series of lectures delivered in Basel in 1872. Burckhardt dramatically renounced these speeches during his own lifetime, fearing a hostile reception by a world body of scholars and critics who remained wedded to a romanticized view of the ancient Greek world. It is only now, for the first time, that the core of these lectures is available in book form to the English-language reader. Rejecting the notion that a perfect democracy had in fact existed, Burckhardt portrayed ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based on ruthless competition for honor, which led, in turn, to a tyrannous state with minimal freedoms.

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Christian Jacq. Aus dem Franz. von Stefan Linster

Pazair es un joven juez en una provincia del sur del antiguo Egipto. Neferet es médico en Menfis, la gran ciudad del norte, adonde Pazair es llamado. Conforme a las predicciones de un viejo visionario, un monstruoso complot ha sido maquinado para derrocar a Ramsés el Grande. Nada podrá evitarlo, nada excepto un insignificante juez que se niega a firmar un documento administrativo que no entiende. Con la ayuda de su hermano de sangre, Suti, el juez Pazair busca la verdad. En el camino se encuentra con Neferet, bellísima doctora que ha logrado triunfar en su carrera a pesar de la oposición del jefe de los médicos de la corte. El juez se enamora de ella y llega a descubrir la traición de un importante general del ejército egipcio. Pero los implicados en el complot están decididos a acabar con Pazair. Éste es el motivo por el que el juez es detenido y por lo que hacen creer a Neferet que él ha muerto. La pirámide asesinada es la primera novela de la trilogía El juez de Egipto. Los títulos siguientes son La ley del desierto y La justicia del visir.