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  • Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Saxon honor, Jacobite uprising, and Highland adventure

    Heroes of the Scottish Highlands brings together three unabridged illustrated classics—Ivanhoe, Waverley, and Rob Roy—through which Walter Scott helped define the historical novel. Moving from medieval England to the Jacobite conflicts of eighteenth-century Scotland, these narratives combine romance, political conflict, antiquarian detail, and vividly staged adventure. Scott's prose balances ... Read more

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  • Mastering English: 34 Classic Books on Linguistics and Vocabulary

    The Sounds of Spoken English, Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, In the Path of the Alphabet, etc.

    Mastering English: 34 Classic Books on Linguistics and Vocabulary is a formidable anthology that encompasses the vast expanse of linguistic inquiry, etymology, and lexicography. Within this collection lies a multitude of styles ranging from scholarly treatises to foundational vocabulary studies, all coalescing to showcase the evolution of the English language across time and context. The diversity ... Read more

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  • Mary Stuart's Fortune and End: The Monastery & The Abbot (Tales from Benedictine Sources) - Illustrated (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Romance and Rebellion in Reformation Scotland

    Mary Stuart's Fortune and End: The Monastery & The Abbot brings together Walter Scott's twin historical romances of Reformation Scotland, tracing the turbulent religious, political, and dynastic forces surrounding Mary Queen of Scots. Framed through monastic memory, border legend, and antiquarian detail, these narratives combine Gothic atmosphere, chivalric adventure, and documentary-minded ... Read more

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  • A Journey Through the Yemen and Some General Remarks Upon that Country

    by Walter Harris ...
    The Yemen may be described as forming the south-west corner of Arabia. So little is known of the geography of the interior, and to such a slight extent do even the natives define the boundaries between their own land and the surrounding provinces, that any exact description of the country is impossible. The same may be said of nearly all oriental frontiers, except where, taking an example from ... Read more

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  • A journey through the Yemen and some general remarks upon that country

    by Walter Harris ...
    Walter B. Harris's A Journey Through the Yemen and Some General Remarks upon That Country is a vivid travel narrative that combines eyewitness description, political observation, and ethnographic commentary on a region little known to most English readers of its time. Written in the cultivated, reportorial prose characteristic of late Victorian and Edwardian travel literature, the book moves ... Read more

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  • Closing the Care Gap with Wearable Devices

    Innovating Healthcare with Wearable Patient Monitoring

    Series series Intelligent Health Series
    Patient-focused healthcare, driven by COVID-19 experiences, has become a hallmark for providing healthcare services to patients across all modalities of care and in the home. The ability to capture real-time patient data, no matter the location, via remote patient monitoring, and to transmit that data to providers and organizations approved by the consumer/patient, will become a critical ... Read more

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  • Unpacking My Library

    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series series ERIS gems
    “I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust.”Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Unpacking My Library he offers a ... Read more

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  • Morocco That Was

    by Walter Harris ...
    Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour. Harris was an intimate of at least ... Read more

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  • Latest Advancements in Underground Structures and Geological Engineering

    Proceedings of the 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2019 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures – The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book includes the best-selected papers on the latest advancements in underground structures and geological engineering.The ongoing population growth is resulting in rapid urbanization, new infrastructure development, and increasing demand for the Earth's natural resources (e.g., water, oil/gas, minerals). This, together with the current climate change and increasing impact of natural hazards, ... Read more

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  • Waverly (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novel

    Walter Scott's Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since is a foundational historical novel that dramatizes the Jacobite rising of 1745 through the uncertain loyalties of Edward Waverley, an English gentleman drawn into Highland culture and rebellion. Blending romance, political reflection, antiquarian detail, and ironic narration, the novel establishes a new literary mode: history rendered through ... Read more

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  • The Heart of Midlothian (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novel

    The Heart of Midlothian is one of Walter Scott's most morally searching Waverley novels, set amid the Porteous Riots of 1736 and the legal, religious, and social tensions of eighteenth-century Scotland. At its center stands Jeanie Deans, whose plain-spoken integrity and arduous journey to London to plead for her condemned sister give the novel its ethical force. Scott combines historical ... Read more

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  • The Fair Maid of Perth (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Romance Novel

    Set in late-fourteenth-century Scotland, The Fair Maid of Perth is one of Walter Scott's richly textured historical romances, combining civic drama, court intrigue, clan violence, and romantic idealism. Centred on Catherine Glover, the "fair maid," and Henry Smith, the formidable armourer who loves her, the novel evokes medieval Perth under Robert III, including the factional ambitions surrounding ... Read more

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