In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages.

Het leven van Chinese emigranten in Canada in de eerste helft van deze eeuw.

Geschiedenis van een uitzonderlijk goed gedocumenteerde strafzaak, de veroordeling van een rijke moeder en dochter, die rond 1700 de Haagse gemoederen jarenlang bezighield.

Reviews the role of the public library in Great Britain and America in arranging festivals, exhibitions, lectures, and other activities not primarily concerned with books.

Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, the world's largest independent leaf tobacco dealer, is one of the major buying arms for tobacco manufacturers worldwide. Its business is selecting, purchasing, processing, and storing leaf tobacco. Maurice Duke and Daniel P. Jordan vividly describe the colorful life and times of one of the South's - and America'smost important businesses and provide insight into how luck, management practices, and personalities helped the company rise to international prominence. The story opens during the aftermath of the Civil War when Southerners realized once again the worldwide potential of their native crop. The authors follow the company from its incorporation in 1918 through one of the first hostile takeover attempts in American business to its evolution in 1993 into Universal Corporation, a worldwide conglomerate with a number of products including tobacco. This objective saga reveals much about American business and economic history.

Probes the historical, economic, and cultural context of the middle class, showing how immigration and settlement patterns contributed to its growth, and investigates the middle class preoccupation with success, youth, material wealth, and love

For years Europe had only one canonically recognized patron saint - Saint Benedict. In 1979 Pope John Paul II proclaimed the creators of the Slavonic alphabet, the Bulgarians Cyril and Methodius, to also be patron saints of Europe. This came as the greatest symbolic recognition of the Bulgarian people's contributions to the buildup of European civilization, contributions which are outlined in this text.

Een Duitse vrouw schetst de geschiedenis van haar joodse grootvader die in de jaren dertig van de twintigste eeuw een schoenenwinkel had in Ulm.