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"Library Lin's Curated Collection of Superlative Nonfiction is a librarian's A-list of nonfiction books organized by subject area--just like a library. Linda Maxie (Library Lin) combed through 65 best books lists going back a century. She reviewed tens of thousands of books, sorted them according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system, and selected an entire library's worth for you to browse without leaving home. Here you'll find: Summaries of...
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Ian Young's bibliography has served as a basic guide to English-language works of fiction, drama, poetry and autobiography concerned with male homosexuality or having male homosexual characters. Entries include titles published through 1980. Works of primary importance (those in which homosexuality is a major aspect or which are otherwise of particular relevance) are marked with an asterisk for the convenience of researchers and collectors. Works...
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Wine Fiction: A Bibliography will lead you to mystery, romance, novels, poetry, plays, stories, humor, horror, juvenile, anthology and other books with a wine, winery, or vineyard theme. These may be new, old, out-of-print, or hard to find works. Many are now available in a new format. Use this guide as a starting point to find a book you did not know about. Find your next new favorite book here.
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Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism and the global economy. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Thomas Piketty's bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, here are the great reads, seminal ideas and famous texts, clarified and illuminated...
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This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of...
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Librarian and scholar Matt Lubbers-Moore collects and examines every mystery novel to include a gay or queer male in the English language starting with the 1909 Arthur Conan Doyle short story "The Man with the Watches," which is included in its entirety. Authors, titles, dates published, publishers, book series, short blurbs, and a description of how involved the gay or queer male character is with the mystery are all included for a full bibliographic...
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Learn fear and love for God so that you find peace and be blessed find hope in difficult times.
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El 1997 Jesús Martínez Guerricabeitia fue distinguido con la Medalla de la Universitat de València, en reconocimiento de su patrocinio de la bienal de pintura que trae su nombre, creada para enriquecer el patrimonio universitario con una colecció contemporánea de jóvenes artistas. Fruto de la colaboración entre la Universitat de València y la Generalitat Valenciana aparece este volumen que destaca los méritos que hicieron a Martínez Guerricabeitia...
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The present supplement includes titles overlooked in the Bibliography Second Edition, plus works written before the 1981 cut-off date but published later, including works published for the first time in book form such as the original text of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, posthumous works (the diaries of Christopher Isherwood and Joe Orton), unexpurgated editions (James Jones' From Here to Eternity), and newly translated classics (e.g....
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Teresa Joyce was born on the 15th December 1958 the middle child of three. After losing her father at a very young age; this was to set the pattern for the rest of her life. Losing was something she would have to get used to. She still has some memory of her real father but in truth it's all a little hazy.Her mother through no fault of her own after that loss had no other alternative, other than to return to her parent's home with her children in...
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Hongrois d'origine, fils d'un violoniste éleveur de chevaux, Vic est l'enfant doué du jazz. Musicien, arrangeur, chef d'orchestre et compositeur, il a joué aux ctés de Miles Davis, d'Oscar Peterson, de Sammy Davis, de Michel Legrand. A accompagné Barbara, Eddie Constantine, Alys Robi, Véronique Sanson. La liste est longue. Figure célèbre du Festival de Jazz de Montréal, Vogel est une institution. Rebelle, rigoureux, flamboyant, il est le...
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Esta obra se propone trazar un recorrido cronológico y relacional entre los diferentes actores, prácticas, productos e instituciones bibliográficas que perfilan el libro a lo largo de su extensa historia. En primer lugar, se construye la genealogía de la escritura y del libro, y se presentan las "civilizaciones" del alfabeto. Luego, se establece la relación entre el cristianismo y los libros, que se traslada a la cultura bibliográfica en la...
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"This research guide describes Ohio sources for family history and genealogical research. It also includes extensive footnotes and bibliographies, addresses of repositories that house Ohio historical and genealogical records and oral histories, and addresses of chapters of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Valuable Ohio maps conclude this work ... This new edition describes many Ohio sources on the Internet and compact discs, as well as additional genealogical...
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The American West is a land that has inspired novelists since the early 1800s. Western fiction covers a vast geographic, cultural, and thematic landscape and includes the real cowboy narrative of Will James, the formula Westerns of Max Brand and Frank Gruber, the romantic novels of Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, the Navajo mysteries of Tony Hillerman, the ethnic novels of Louise Erdrich, the contemporary novels of Edward Abbey, and the genuine literature...
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Research tool useful for studying a small backyard garden or a city's park system or a large cultural landscape in Canada up to 1950. Sources include books, articles, and websites and focus on such major subjects as reference works, travel literature, ornamental gardening, exhibitions, floras, and prominent nursery men and women, botanists, landscape architects, general horticulture, nurseries, botanical gardens, parks, railway gardening, associations,...