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    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see the tide as a twice-daily rise and fall of sea level that moves the edge of the sea up and down a beach or cliff-face. In some places, the tide is small but at others it can rise in a few hours by the ... Read more

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  • The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture

    150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume surveys 150 law books of fundamental importance in the history of Western legal literature and culture. The entries are organized in three sections: the first dealing with the transitional period of fifteenth-century editions of medieval authorities, the second spanning the early modern period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and the third focusing on the nineteenth and ... Read more

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    1 GBP of each sale goes to the The Noah's Ark Foundation, for saving wild animals from extinction, as in 'You are Noah' Tie-In to series Noah's Ark on Sky TV.Dennis to Alice is exceptional in that it is actually a movie in a book.Captured is a chance moment of mayhem. Flooding from two strong storms created a dam across an otherwise peaceful river, just before a pandemic swept across the world to ... Read more

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