Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library, Oxford William Davies

Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library, Oxford William DaviesThe essays in this lavishly illustrated volume shed light on Ethiopia and Eritrea's fascinating past by looking at some of the most remarkable Ethiopic manuscripts kept at the Bodleian Library. Manuscripts, often beautifully illustrated, have for centuries in this region been the principal means of recording historical information.

It is clearly a cumulative critical reassessment of the implications of research going back to the sixties

An account of the remarkable decade of Chinese archaeology from 1972 to 1981

The sources are presented in a form designed to be accessible to undergraduates

A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology

from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world

and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit

notably in Dad’s Army

this collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure

The final chapter looks at some of the underlying issues that relate to content: privacy

and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth

Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness engages with fundamental questions about the legitimacy of the atypical body for membership

complementing the interviews Powrie made with him and his collaborators