Until now, we have known very little of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, despite extensive research on the modern Middle East. With this collection of essays, the life stories of peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites can finally be heard--no more will our view of the Middle East be seen only over the shoulders of the elite.These twenty-four biographies are drawn ...

Manufacturer: University of California Press

From ancient standards and ancestral shields to modern coats of arms and the flags of emerging nations - learn the fascinating language and visual vocabulary of arms, banners and ensigns that knots together the diverse strands of our history and brings alive today the colours and textures of a rich cultural heritage shared and revered by all the nations of the world.

Manufacturer: Lorenz Books
Written By: Stephen Slater

Genealogist Laura Best follows up her well-received Genealogy for the First Time® with a colorful volume dedicated to techniques for preserving precious ancestral memories through scrapbooking. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and ...

Manufacturer: Sterling/Chapelle
Written By: Laura Best

Filled with practical advice that will help anyone obtain the information they seek through Italian records, Italian Genealogical Records is a comprehensive guide to the complexities and nuances of what could otherwise be a daunting task. In this book, the author discusses the history and development of Italian record keeping, providing reproductions of typical records and a complete translation ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry Publishing
Written By: Trafford R Cole

This volume offers an exciting examination of the nation's urban development, reflecting historians' awareness of the city's pivotal role in the unfolding of American history.

Manufacturer: D.C. Heath

When someone says, at a holiday dinner table, "Oh, those Lawrence cousins lose control all the time," or "the Davises always had more talent than luck," you can be sure there’s a lesson being passed along, from one generation to another. Who tells stories to whom and about what is never a random matter. Our family stories have a secret power: they play a unique role in shaping our ...

Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
Written By: Elizabeth Stone

The Elements of Japanese Design is a library of traditional Japanese design motifs in the form of more than 2,700 family crests ( mon) compiled and drawn by a Kyoto publisher and bookseller early in the twentieth century, and selected and interpreted by John Dower, a leading American scholar of Japan. First used for identification on the battlefield beginning in the twelfth century, ...

Manufacturer: Weatherhill
Written By: John Dower

Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Written By: Desmond Seward

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1909 edition published in London.

Manufacturer: T C & E C Jack
Written By: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

On October 31, 1998, the Associated Press broke the news of the DNA findings linking Thomas Jefferson to Sally Hemings through the Eston Hemings line. On November 10, on national TV, Oprah united members of the Jefferson family and the descendants of the Eston, Madison, and Woodson lines of the Hemings family--and history was made. On this show, Lucian Truscott IV, a Jefferson descendant, ...

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
Written By: Shannon Lanier, Jane Feldman