As English adventurer Francis Drake and his contemporaries opened up seaborne trade with Asia and the East, so dreams of untold wealth fuelled the appetites of European nations. A new form of co-opera
The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the great merchant companies. Granted sole trading rights to a huge part what is now Canada they were coerced in the mid nineteenth century to set up a colonial adm
'Islamic Development in Palestine' assesses the capabilities of an Islamic approach in aiding self-organisation by examining the case of the occupied Palestinian territories in conjunction with a comp
From Charles Darwin’s enlightening voyage to the Galapagos Islands to moat-encased prisons incarcerating the world’s deadliest prisoners, islands have been sites of immense scientific, political, and
The Company's Island provides the first extended account of the role of company colonies and the difficulties they faced in meeting the requirements of the Crown whilst simultaneously attempting to ru
The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military exp
This handy textbook covers all you need to know to get started using Powerpoint for presentations.Learning Made Simple books give you skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications
Examines the challenges faced by designers and builders of medieval castles, discussing how they were used, notable structures, and defending the castles from invaders.
For most of the applications, rubber must be reinforced with certain fillers such as carbon blacks, silica or clay. As compared with microfiller reinforced rubber, nanofiller reinforced rubber exhibi
