Authors:Michael Bell, Peter Poellner, Michael Bell, Peter Poe
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: modernity, making, myth
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1998-01
List price: $70.50
ISBN-10: 9042005831
ISBN-13: 9789042005839

The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious eq

Author: R. C. Bell
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: civilizations, games, table, board
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1980-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0486238555
ISBN-13: 9780486238555

Encyclopedic work on 182 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch’i (go), Backgammon, Pachisi, many others. Over 300 illustrations.

Author: F. G. Bell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: rocks, soils, properties, engineering
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2000-01-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0632052058
ISBN-13: 9780632052059

Civil engineers, mining engineers and engineering geologists require a working knowledge of the engineering properties and behaviour of the different soil and rock types, and this is not provided in the standard texts on soil and on rock mechanics. This book provides extensive data on individual soil and rock types and deals in some depth with their composition, texture, degree of weathering and presence of fissures or discontinuities. It also considers the description and classification of soils and rocks.The Fourth Edition has been extensively revised and enlarged by fifty per cent, with fou

Author: Ann Bell
Publisher: Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd
Keywords: fungi, new, zealand, coprophilous, guide, illustrated, dung
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1983-06-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0864730012
ISBN-13: 9780864730015

Author: H. C. F. Bell
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: people, wilson, woodrow
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2005-05-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1419171704
ISBN-13: 9781419171703

Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Author: Ann Bell
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: wikis, podcasts, networking, virtual, words, blogs, tools, web, second, generation, interactive, exploring
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2009-02-11
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1441449868
ISBN-13: 9781441449863

Author: R.C. Bell
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, games, board, old
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2008-10-21
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0852635338
ISBN-13: 9780852635339

This book contains descriptions of sixty board games, drawn from an immense range of history - from 3000 BC through to the turn of the nineteenth century. Accounts of these games have been gleaned from archaeological reports, traveler’s tales, anthropological studies and foreign-language accounts of games, translated into English for the first time. Using the detailed text and fifty-nine diagrams it is possible for the reader to construct their own boards and pieces and enjoy hours of play. Perfect for toy and game collectors, this book can also bring something different to family occasi