Rees: 503 books

For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding...

Anyone driving from Calais to the South of France will benefit from the walks and lovely places to visit in this book. Couples, families, campervan drivers and dog-owners will find all the information they need to find places through France for a healthy leg-stretch, picnic spots and tourist attractions...

Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees's multifaceted study brings...

Die Engel scheinen tatsächlich unsterblich zu sein. Auf Engel treffen wir schon im biblischen Buch Genesis – und noch in Wim Wenders' ›Himmel über Berlin‹. Engel begegnen uns als Metaphern, aber bis heute auch als geglaubte und subjektiv erlebte Wirklichkeit. Immer wieder berichten Menschen...

Flocks of waterfowl exploding into steely skies above frozen marshland, salamanders creeping across the forest floor to vernal pools, chorusing frogs peeping their ecstasy while warblers crowd budding trees, turtles sunning on floating logs, the ecological engineering of beavers—these are but a...

Many of us are now using the Pet Passport scheme to take our pets with us across the Channel for day trips or holidays in France. This handy guide shows you where to find really good walk places for drivers, families and the dog within easy driving distance of Calais, and to discover some of the extraordinary, and dog-friendly, visitor attractions of this often overlooked part of France.

La plupart des francs-maçons connaissent bien les tableaux de loge ; ces représentations peintes, gravées voire tissées, sur support rigide ou toiles, apparues dès les premiers temps de la francmaçonnerie et qui sont utilisées en loge pour illustrer des symboles maçonniques et des allégories...

"The Moon Rock" (1922) is Australian mystery writer Arthur J. Rees' locked-room conundrum. In fact, the room -- the murder scene -- not only is locked from the inside, but also two hundred feet up the cold wall of Flint House. And the house looms on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall. Slip,...

The truth of the conspiracy between the UK and Canadian governments and a Welsh mafia family from Cardiff following a suspicious fire at the mafia family home. Released archives now give conclusive details of the murders in the mafia family home in the Port Hope Simpson settlement in Newfoundland,...

Florence Foster Jenkins was the most famous, though untalented, soprano in twentieth century America. Her extraordinary story is now a film directed by Stephen Frears starring Meryl Streep as the indomitable Florence Foster Jenkins and Hugh Grant as her husband/manager, St. Clair Bayfield. In this...

Fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, and yet he commanded enormous support and was able to exert a powerful influence over those who encountered him. How did Hitler become such an attractive...

From James Rees, Executive Director of Mount Vernon, comes anenlightening guide to the leadership wisdom of America's first great leader. George Washington was more than just an inspiring battlefield commander; he was critical to the founding and success of the United States ofAmerica. His leadership,...

A Sassy Poetry Chapbook for Sassy Women. More than a few shades of Grey - Fifty Shades of Love shares the full spectrum of the colour of love. A delightful collection of poetry that is a tantalising cocktail of humour, romance and passion. Love comes in many forms – lust, romance, passion, Fifty...

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. THE CHRISTMAS TARGET Mission: Rescue by Shirlee McCoy When former navy nurse Stella Silverstone returns to her hometown to care for her grandmother, someone wants her out of the...