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In Context: the Reade Festschrift is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, sometime Mesopotamia curator at the British Museum from 1975 to 2000. Its coverage is designed to reflect the breadth of the recipient's professional interests,
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Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de
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A guidebook to Turkey's long-distance Cultural Route, which follows the Ottoman gentleman adventurer Evliya Celibi on his way to Mecca in 1671; and runs for 600km from the Sea of Marmara via Bursa, Kutahya and Afyon to Usak and Simav. It features route description, map, historical background, and
On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author 'BRILLIANT' Cosmpolitan; 'ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY' L A
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Classic stories retold in exciting graphic novel format. Each title includes high-quality artwork, simple text, discussion questions, and writing
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'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.'While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian
Cook's Country is a wholly original guide to the uniquely scenic and historic coasts of North Yorkshire and Northumberland. The author's fascinating personal insights complement information on all aspects of this stretch of coastline, making this an essential addition to any sailing
Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. The Water-Method Man is a work of cosummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and
2018 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Illustrated. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Irving Bush was a former faculty member of Los Angeles College and a remarkable trumpet player of his day. In 1962 he wrote and published a book entitled Artistic