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London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1989 This book club edition published by arrangement with Alan Sutton Publishing Limited. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Corners and edges of dj slightly bumped and rubbed. Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Illustrated throughout - 350 engravings, paintings, drawings and photographs - b/w and some colour plates. With Index. "This is the first major work on the period to challenge the established views of the Reformation, and to look at it from a broader, international viewpoint. A collection of studies, written by eminent international historians and theologians and edited by the French academic Pierre Chaunu, presents a fascinating panorama of the world of the Reformation: pre-Reformation Europe; politics and crisis in the Holy Roman Empire; Luther, Calvin and the Protestant Reformers; diffusion, failure, Catholic Counter-Reformation and the survival of the Reforming convictions; England's 'via… Read More

Canada: HarperCollins, 2002 Original dustjacket. Age and shelf wear to d/j - edges worn, corners bumped. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Tight copy. First Edition. Canadian Edition. "Like Jurassic Park, the novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing. The novel is narrated by the protagonist Jack Forman, who is an unemployed software programmer who used to work for a company called Media Tronics when he was fired for discovering an internal scandal."