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  • Case-based Geriatrics: A Global Approach

    by Victor A. Hirth, Darryl Wieland, Maureen Dever-Bumba ...
    A full-color case-based guide to the principles and clinical aspects of geriatric careCase-Based Geriatrics utilizes a case-and-evidence-based approach to help you understand the key principles and clinical points of geriatric medicine and healthcare. Written to reflect the field’s growing trend toward interdisciplinary collaboration, the book is of value not only to physicians, but to the entire ... Read more

    $109.89 CAD

  • China and the Roman Orient

    Researches into their Ancient and Medieval Relations as Represented in Early Chinese Records

    by Friedrich Hirth ...
    Similar in size and in duration, the Chinese and the Roman empires ruled half the world's population at the time of their co-existence. But what did they know about each other? In China and the Roman Orient Friedrich Hirth uses linguistic, geographical and historical analysis of ancient Chinese records to reconstruct the ancient trade routes used by the Chinese and to show what knowledge they had ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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    A History of Daggers, Sabers, and Scimitars from Ancient Times to the Modern Day

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    “The history of the sword,” the author writes in his introduction, “is the history of humanity.” For centuries, the sword has been a symbol of power, strength, liberty, and courage. In the Middle Ages, the image of a sword was used to signify the word of God. Nearly every culture in history has forged blades from stone or steel to fight in times of battle and protect in times of peace.In this ... Read more

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  • Travels of Marco Polo

    by Marco Polo ...
    Translated by Henri Cordier ...
    The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition, including the unabridged third edition (1903) of Henry Yule's annotated translation, as revised by Henri Cordier; together with Cordier's later volume of notes and addenda (1920). Both volumes in a single file. According to Wikipedia: "Books of the Marvels of the World (French: Livres des merveilles du monde) or Description of the World (Divisament dou monde), ... Read more

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  • The Travels of Marco Polo (Complete)

    by Marco Polo da Pisa Rusticiano ...
    “Of all that I have named, Ptolemy, as the latest, possessed the greatest extent of knowledge. Thus, towards the North, his knowledge carries him beyond the Caspian, and he is aware of its being shut in all round like a lake,—a fact which was unknown in the days of Strabo and Pliny, though the Romans were already lords of the world. But though his knowledge extends so far, a tract of 15 degrees ... Read more

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  • The Travels Volume One

    by Marco Polo ...
    Series Book 1 - The Travels of Marco Polo
    Volume One of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer's famous travelogue, recounting his historic journeys through Asia and his encounters with Kublai Khan.In 1271, Marco Polo embarked from Venice on a voyage to China. Together with his father and uncle, he came upon the court of the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan. After twenty years in the service of the Great Khan, the Polos returned home—only ... Read more

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  • The Travels of an Alchemist - The Journey of the Taoist Ch'ang-Ch'un from China to the Hindukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan

    by Li Chih-Ch'ang ...
    Originally published in 1935, this a translation of the original Chinese text. The book follows Ch'ang-Ch'un through the crowded Chinese plains, through Mongolia, Samarkand and Afghanistan. It is a fascianting travelogue and an intriguing insight in to medieval Taoism. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly ... Read more

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  • The Scythian Empire

    Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China

    by Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient worldIn the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy and the Classical age across the ancient world—in the West, the Near East, India, and China. Mobile horse ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • A History of Ethiopia: Volume II (Routledge Revivals)

    Nubia and Abyssinia

    by E. A. Wallis Budge ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This is the second volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s narrative account of Ethiopian history, and continues the chronicle of the Kings of Abyssinia where the first volume ended: the death of Lebna Dengel in 1540.The list of kings ends with the Regent Rās Tafari, who still reigned at the time of first publication in 1928. Thereafter, the author devotes considerable attention to an overview of the ... Read more

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  • Hobson-Jobson

    The Definitive Glossary of British India

    by Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the words and phrases that entered English from Arabic, Persian, Indian, and Chinese sources - and vice versa. Described by Salman Rushdie as 'the ... Read more

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  • The Travels of Marco Polo II

    by Rustichello of Pisa ...
    Book of the Marvels of the World or Description of the World , in Italian Il Milione (The Million) or Oriente Poliano and in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1276 and 1291, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan. The book was ... Read more

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  • The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires

    Adaptation and Expansion

    Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee, Elizabeth Pendleton ...
    Series Book 5 - British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
    Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sassanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture. Despite a change of ruling dynasty, the two empires were closely connected and cannot be regarded as totally separate ... Read more

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