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    Spring Harvest, A

    Edited by J.R.R. Tolkien

    by Geoffrey Bache Smith, Charles Burnett ...
    Narrated by Peter McGiffen ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    The poems of this book were written at very various times, one (“Wind over the Sea”) I believe even as early as 1910, but the order in which they are here given is not chronological beyond the fact that the third part contains only poems written after the outbreak of the war. Of these some were written in England (at Oxford in particular), some in Wales and very many during a year in France from ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improving Passions

    Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

    by Charles Burnetts ...

    $31.99 CAD

  • La connaissance de l'Islam dans l'Occident médiéval

    by Charles Burnett, Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny’s selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from the early Middle Ages until the mid-13th century; some related works will be included in a further selection. In the 12th century, as she shows, a serious effort was for the first time made to learn ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Scientific Weather Forecasting In The Middle Ages

    The Writings of Al-Kindi

    by Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett ...
    First Published in 1999. Man has always tried to find effective ways to predict the weather. Simple predictions from meteorological phenomena or from the constellations rising in the sky can be found attributed to Aristotle, and in Varro, Pliny, Ptolemy, and the parapêgmata of Classical times. However, the particular cultural situation of Baghdad in the mid-ninth century encouraged the production ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Numerals and Arithmetic in the Middle Ages

    by Charles Burnett ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume, the third by Charles Burnett in the Variorum series, brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages, and their use in mathematical and other contexts. Some pieces study the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals into Western Europe, documenting, in more detail than anywhere else, the different forms in which they are found, before they acquired the ... Read more

    $329.99 CAD

  • From Masha' Allah to Kepler

    Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology

    Edited by Charles Burnett, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum ...
    Astrology has recently become a subject of interest to scholars of the highest calibre. However, the tendency has been to look at the social context of astrology, the attacks on astrologers and their craft, and on astrological iconography and symbolism; i.e., largely looking on astrology from the outside. The intention of this book is to do is to look at the subject from the inside: the ideas and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages

    The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context

    by Charles Burnett ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations from Arabic at the end of the 10th century, progressing through 11th-century translations made in ... Read more

    $329.99 CAD

  • Falconry in the Mediterranean Context During the Pre-Modern Era

    Edited by Charles Burnett, Baudouin Van Den Abeele ...
    Series series Varia
    Falconry has been the pursuit of kings, emperors, emirs, khans, merchants and travellers for over 2000 years. It has provided subjects for literature and art, and been discussed in works of zoology, medicine, and law. The papers in this volume originated in a conference held at New York University at Abu Dhabi, and discuss issues on medieval falconry around the Mediterranean. This includes ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Popular Classic Children's Stories - Dramatized

    Featuring Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Secret Garden, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    by Lewis Carroll, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Perrault, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre, Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre, various authors, Diane Vanden Hoven ...
    Narrated by Georgia Lee Schultz, Barbara Rosenblat0, Michael Crouch1, John Jarvis2, a full cast3 ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    This engaging collection of seven classic children’s stories presented by Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre includes Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Secret Garden, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Each story is performed by a full cast of award-winning voice actors enhanced by sound effects and music. Timeless classics that are sure ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages

    Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds

    by Charles Burnett ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages. The principal authorities are Hermes and Aristotle, and the search for the ’secret knowledge’ of these ancient sages is shown to have been a ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Sébastien Moureau, Professor Emeritus Charles Burnett ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages covers the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures. Arabic theories and terminology for the science of matter were introduced into the West and became known as 'alchemy'. Based in experiment and innovation – and bound up in networks of mining, manufacturing, trade and commerce – alchemical practice largely focused on the ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Ultimate Classic Collection for Children

    by various authors, L. Frank Baum, Charles Dickens, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, George Zarr, L. M. Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Perrault ...
    Narrated by a full cast, Megan Follows, Barbara Rosenblat, Georgia Lee Schultz ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 26 min

    This delightful collection of thirteen children’s classic stories features Alice in Wonderland*, The Bell, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella*, Emily of New Moon, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Scourge of the Desert**, The Secret Garden, Sleeping Beauty*, Snow White*, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.*Awarded Gold (full-cast dramatization... ... Read more

    $41.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus