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Truth, Knowledge, Or Just Plain Bull

How To Tell The Difference : A Handbook of Practical Logic and Clear Thinking

By: Bernard M. Patten

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Truth, Knowledge, Or Just Plain Bull

How To Tell The Difference : A Handbook of Practical Logic and Clear Thinking

By: Bernard M. Patten

Want to sort out the claims of experts, pseudo-experts, scam artists, and liars alike? Want to protect yourself from the dangers of the ubiquitous nonsense and outright frauds that assault you from every side? Want to become acquainted with the pleasurable activity of discovering truth while enhancing your sophistication as a thinker?In this erudite yet entertaining handbook on critical thinking, Dr. Bernard M. Patten uses neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry to teach you to do all this and more. He shows you that clear thinking is not just fun but also keeps you out of trouble, makes you more efficient, helps you develop and maintain prosperity, and generally gives you an edge in both your personal and business life.A Board Certified neurologist and a lecturer in formal, informal, and symbolic logic at Rice University, Dr. Patten has the scientific background as well as the philosophical training to give readers the most reliable and current information on how the brain thinks, learns, and remembers. By means of multiple (and sometimes startling) contemporary examples and insights, the author exercises your mind as an exercise machine might exercise your muscles. Each exercise is specifically formulated with the neuropsychology of learning in mind (repetition, tied association, visual images, distribution of tasks in time, modularity, etc.), so the reader acquires valuable knowledge quickly and painlessly.Emphasizing practical usefulness in real-life situations and evidence-based analysis, Dr. Patten examines: -investment frauds and other scams-groupthink-the psychology of belief-content analysis-hidden meanings-negotiation strategiesHe also gives careful attention to the rules of clear thinking, discusses the reality principle, explains inductive and deductive logic, exposes traditional fallacies, and elucidates truth tables, syllogisms, and symbolic logic.Fast, fact-filled, and fun, this superb self-help guide to better thinking teaches you to take control of your own destiny by accurately determining the truth value of statements and behaviors in many contexts

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Prometheus Books

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1615922180

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The Complete Book of Soups and Stews

By: Bernard Clayton, Jr.,Bernard Clayton

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The Complete Book of Soups and Stews

By: Bernard Clayton, Jr.,Bernard Clayton

Bernard Clayton, Jr.'s, first book, "The Complete Book of Breads," won the coveted Tastemaker cookbook award and was praised by Craig Claiborne as perhaps the best book on the subject in the English language. Of Clayton's "The Complete Book of Pastry," which also received a Tastemaker award, Claiborne said: "One of the most important cookbooks of this year if not this decade." Now this highly respected author turns his attention to soups and stews. From his travels around the world, Clayton has put together an eclectic collection of 250 soup recipes and 50 stew recipes, adding to the clear instructions personal anecdotes and historical background throughout. He covers a wide range of soups, from Asparagus-and-Crab to Peach-Buttermilk. American classics such as New England Chowder, Burgoo and U.S. Senate Bean Soup share the spotlight with such international gems as Japanese "Shabu-Shabu," Nigerian Peanut Soup and Scottish Cock-a-Leekie Soup. After a thorough discussion of the many kinds of stocks, from Brown Stock to Vegetable Stock, Mr. Clayton includes, for those of us who are lazy, the pros and cons of homemade versus storebought stock, along with tricks and tips to improve the later. With recipes that are well written and easy to follow, Clayton shows that soup-making is neither time-consuming nor difficult, and in any case is well worth the effort.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671438646

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Inflation, Unemployment and Capital Malformations

By: Bernard Schmitt

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Inflation, Unemployment and Capital Malformations

By: Bernard Schmitt

The volume deals with the main problems faced by capitalist economies, inflation and unemployment, in a new and original way, and provides the theoretical foundations for quantum macroeconomic analysis. Its aim is to allow English-speaking economists and interested readers to have a direct access to the analysis provided by Schmitt in his 1984 book Inflation, chômage et malformations du capital. Orthodox economics has failed to provide a consistent insight of the pathologies hindering our economies, and both the academic and the economic worlds are much in need for an alternative approach capable to explain the origins of these pathologies and how they can eventually be disposed of. Schmitt’s volume provides a revolutionary explanation of the cause of today’s economic disorder as well as an innovative solution allowing for the passage from disorder to order. Neoclassical and Keynesian theories of any type are essentially based on equilibrium analysis and this is why none of them has ever been able to provide a consistent macroeconomic analysis based on macroeconomic foundations. This is what Schmitt’s book aims for: developing a new analysis built on identities rather than conditions of equilibrium, capable to explain the objective origins of inflation and unemployment. In this volume, Schmitt introduces a new, revolutionary analysis centred on the concept of quantum time. The topics analysed by Schmitt cover the entire field of national macroeconomics, from production to capital accumulation, the leading role in this ground-breaking investigation being played by what he calls the theory of emissions. The ensuing macroeconomic theory is built on a set of laws derived from the monetary nature of our economic systems and defines the logical framework of inquiry into modern macroeconomics.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429767072

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9780429767074

The Roaring Twenties - When the Roar Wasn't Loud Enough

By: Bernard C. Beaudreau

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The Roaring Twenties - When the Roar Wasn't Loud Enough

By: Bernard C. Beaudreau

The decade of the 1920s is colloquially known as the Roaring Twenties, when modernity came to the U.S. and the World, ushering in a decade of unbounded growth and new-found optimism. GDP growth was particularly strong, as was employment and investment. However, as counterintuitive as it may sound or appear, the 1920s were also years of stagnation, stagnation that owed to the fact that the new, greater potential was not being fully exploited. In other words, while things were great, they still fell short of the potential that had been created, resulting in a form of "growth stagnation." That is, stagnation in the midst of what was exceptional growth. Bernard C. Beaudreau is Professor of Economics at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada.

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Lulu.com

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0359652042

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The Power Prophets, Electric Unit Drive and Utility-Generated Power as Seen Through the Eyes of Early 20th Century Writers

By: Bernard C. Beaudreau

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The Power Prophets, Electric Unit Drive and Utility-Generated Power as Seen Through the Eyes of Early 20th Century Writers

By: Bernard C. Beaudreau

The Oxford Dictionary defines a prophet as..a person who advocates or speaks in a visionary way about a new cause or theory, a definition which describes to a tee, the set of early 20th century authors whose writings on power are presented here. In short, the early 20th century witnessed a power surge, the likes of which the world had never experienced. As power and/or energy is the basis of material civilization, it stands to reason that this surge would surely go on to revolutionize life in general.

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0359858627

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A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume II

System Dynamics Modeling and Dynamic Scenario Planning

By: Bernard Amadei

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A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume II

System Dynamics Modeling and Dynamic Scenario Planning

By: Bernard Amadei

This two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Over the next 50 years, rapid population, urbanization, and economic growth worldwide will create unprecedented demands for water, energy, land, and food (WELF) resources. The discussion on how to meet human needs for WELF resources and how to guarantee their respective securities has changed over time from looking at all four sectors in isolation to understanding their interdependency through the so-called WELF nexus. The approach presented in this book responds to the overall agreement in the WELF nexus literature that the management and allocation of WELF resources at the community level need to be examined in a more systemic, multidisciplinary, participatory, and practical manner while seeking to increase synergies and reduce trade-offs. This book was written to explore the value proposition of that approach. This two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Volume 1 focuses on defining the landscape in which the nexus operates and outlines the proposed methodology. Volume 2 explores the quantitative and qualitative modeling of the nexus and landscape using system modeling tools including system dynamics. It presents a road map for the formulation, simulation, selection, and ranking of possible intervention plans. The proposed methodology is designed to serve as a guide for different groups involved in the science and policy decision aspects of the WELF nexus within the context of community development. The methodology focuses mostly on WELF-related issues in small-scale and low-income communities where securing resources is critical to their short- and long-term livelihood and development.

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Momentum Press

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1947083554

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Money—How to Save It, Spend It, and Make It

A Practical Guide for the Non-Expert

By: Bernard D. Coleman

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Money—How to Save It, Spend It, and Make It

A Practical Guide for the Non-Expert

By: Bernard D. Coleman

Money—How to Save It, Spend It, and Make It provides practical guidance about money in terms of investment, income, and profit. This book focuses on the three main topics, namely, on buying profitably, on saving money on taxation, and on making money by investment. Organized into three parts encompassing 36 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the method of getting the best value of money by understanding how to keep taxation at a minimum legitimately and how to invest at the best advantage. This text then discusses the concept of annuity mortgage, which is a mortgage loan on a property to be bought. Other chapters consider the various components of income tax. This book discusses as well the important distinction between income from working and investment income for tax purposes. The final chapter deals with investments in trust units, trust shares, or other equities. This book is a valuable resource for readers who are interested in saving and making money.

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Elsevier

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1483136396

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9781483136394

Food and Beverage Management

By: Bernard Davis,Andrew Lockwood,Ioannis S. Pantelidis,Peter Alcott

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Food and Beverage Management

By: Bernard Davis,Andrew Lockwood,Ioannis S. Pantelidis,Peter Alcott

This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets, from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry. It explores the broad range of subject areas that encompass the food and beverage market and its main sectors – fast food and casual dining, hotels and quality restaurants and event, industrial and welfare catering. It also looks at some of the important trends affecting the food and beverage industry, covering consumers, the environment and ethical concerns as well as developments in technology. New to this edition: New chapter: Classifying food and drink service operations. New international case studies throughout covering the latest industry developments within a wide range of businesses. Enhanced coverage of financial aspects, including forecasting and menu pricing with respective examples of costings. New coverage of contemporary trends, including events management, use of technology, use of social media in marketing, customer management and environmental concerns, such as sourcing, sustainability and waste management. Updated companion website, including new case studies, PowerPoint slides, multiple choice questions, revision notes, true or false questions, short answer questions and new video and web links per chapter. It is illustrated in full colour and contains in-chapter activities as well as end-of-chapter summaries and revision questions to test the readers' knowledge as they progress. Written by a team of authors with many years of industry practice and teaching experience, this book is the ideal guide to the subject for hospitality students and industry practitioners alike.

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Routledge

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1317193873

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Monetary and Exchange System Reforms in China

An Experiment in Gradualism

By: Mr.Bernard Laurens,Mr.Hassanali Mehran,Mr.Marc Quintyn,Mr.Tom Nordman

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Monetary and Exchange System Reforms in China

An Experiment in Gradualism

By: Mr.Bernard Laurens,Mr.Hassanali Mehran,Mr.Marc Quintyn,Mr.Tom Nordman

In 1978, China embarked on a gradual but far-reaching reform of its economic system. This paper focuses on the achievements so far in reforming the financial sector, the legal framework for financial transactions, the payments system, and the monetary policy and foreign exchange system. It also analyzes the tasks ahead to achieve the goals set in these areas for the year 2000.

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International Monetary Fund

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1557755620

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The Economics of Continuous-Time Finance

By: Bernard Dumas,Elisa Luciano

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The Economics of Continuous-Time Finance

By: Bernard Dumas,Elisa Luciano

An introduction to economic applications of the theory of continuous-time finance that strikes a balance between mathematical rigor and economic interpretation of financial market regularities. This book introduces the economic applications of the theory of continuous-time finance, with the goal of enabling the construction of realistic models, particularly those involving incomplete markets. Indeed, most recent applications of continuous-time finance aim to capture the imperfections and dysfunctions of financial markets—characteristics that became especially apparent during the market turmoil that started in 2008. The book begins by using discrete time to illustrate the basic mechanisms and introduce such notions as completeness, redundant pricing, and no arbitrage. It develops the continuous-time analog of those mechanisms and introduces the powerful tools of stochastic calculus. Going beyond other textbooks, the book then focuses on the study of markets in which some form of incompleteness, volatility, heterogeneity, friction, or behavioral subtlety arises. After presenting solutions methods for control problems and related partial differential equations, the text examines portfolio optimization and equilibrium in incomplete markets, interest rate and fixed-income modeling, and stochastic volatility. Finally, it presents models where investors form different beliefs or suffer frictions, form habits, or have recursive utilities, studying the effects not only on optimal portfolio choices but also on equilibrium, or the price of primitive securities. The book strikes a balance between mathematical rigor and the need for economic interpretation of financial market regularities, although with an emphasis on the latter.

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MIT Press

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0262341433

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9780262341431

The African Foreign Policy of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

A Documentary Analysis

By: Hanes Walton,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Bernard Rosser

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The African Foreign Policy of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

A Documentary Analysis

By: Hanes Walton,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Bernard Rosser

The African Foreign Policy of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger outlines in clear, comprehensive terms the details of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's foreign policy toward Africa and how that policy related to other aspects of his global viewpoint. For the first time, editors Hanes Walton, Jr., Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Bernard Rosser bring together a diverse collection of public documents, speeches, and congressional presentations for critical analysis and in-depth discussion. This book presents an intellectual evaluation of governmental sources to determine the kinds of foreign policy proposals and programs that Kissinger developed for the various crises and problems which were under way in Africa. The essays demonstrate how Kissinger used his brand of shuttle diplomacy to set up delicate negotiations to ease the new international tensions and the power-rivalry. The African Foreign Policy of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger offers important insight that will stimulate debate and be a lively read for those interested in international politics and political science.

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Lexington Books

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0739117874

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9780739117873

Great Depression, The: Its Origins In Acceleration And Electric Unit Drive

By: Bernard C Beaudreau

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Great Depression, The: Its Origins In Acceleration And Electric Unit Drive

By: Bernard C Beaudreau

This book is part of a new generation of work on the events of the 1920s and 1930s, one that provides a gestalt view of this period. As such, the many events that have until now been viewed as unrelated, are viewed as parts of a greater whole, namely the introduction of a new power drive technology in the form of electric unit drive and its effects. The Roaring Twenties, the spectacular growth of the 1920s, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the Stock Market Boom and Crash, the decline in investment expenditure, the ensuing depression and the National Industrial Recovery Act are all shown to be related.

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World Scientific

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9811264295

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Mag Men

Fifty Years of Making Magazines

By: Walter Bernard,Milton Glaser

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Fifty Years of Making Magazines

By: Walter Bernard,Milton Glaser

For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders’ perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century. The authors look back on and analyze some of their most important and compelling projects, from the creation of New York magazine to redesigns of such publications as Time, Fortune, Paris Match, and The Nation, explaining how their designs complemented a story and shaped the visual identity of a magazine. Richly illustrated with the covers and interiors that defined their careers, Mag Men is bursting with vivid examples of Bernard and Glaser’s work, designed to encapsulate their distinctive approach to visual storytelling and capture the major events and trends of the past half century. Highlighting the importance of collaboration in magazine journalism, Bernard and Glaser detail their relationships with a variety of writers, editors, and artists, including Nora Ephron, Tom Wolfe, Gail Sheehy, David Levine, Seymour Chwast, Katherine Graham, Clay Felker, and Katrina vanden Heuvel. The book features a foreword by Gloria Steinem, who reflects on her work in magazines and her collaborations with Bernard and Glaser. At a time when uncertainty continues to cloud the future of print journalism, Mag Men offers not only a personal history from two of its most innovative figures but also a reminder and celebration of the visual impact and sense of style that only magazines can offer.

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Columbia University Press

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0231549539

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9780231549530

Level 2 OCR Certificate in Business Administration

By: Diane Canwell,Bernard Kane

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Level 2 OCR Certificate in Business Administration

By: Diane Canwell,Bernard Kane

Written specifically for OCR's Certificate in Administration Level 2, the student book is a comprehensive and complete resource covering all the core units required for the qualification. An ideal companion for students who have taken the Level 1 certificate or who already have a basic understanding of administration.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748785310

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9780748785315

The American Gardener's Calendar : Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States

By: Bernard M'Mahon

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The American Gardener's Calendar : Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States

By: Bernard M'Mahon

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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3368754742

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Died Twice!

Yet Still Very Much Alive and Kicking.....

By: Bernard D. Shapiro

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Died Twice!

Yet Still Very Much Alive and Kicking.....

By: Bernard D. Shapiro

Bernard has assembled this collection of life experiences strictly from memory as all of the incidences have obviously been indelibly marked in his brain. He attempts to take you on an abridged disjointed journey featuring highlights of his life as he remembers them, beginning with his untraditional Bar Mitzvah and his numerous adventures in the following sixty four years. Some of the stories are tragic, some serious, and some humorous, but all contributed to making him the person he is today – a sometimes articulate seventy seven year old young puppy, widower, father and grandfather, who has soldiered on through a myriad of arduous circumstances, some of which resulted in laughter, and some sadly in tears, but his tail is still wagging. Trying not to take himself or life seriously, he continues to seek laughter. He recognizes that for many of the stories “you had to be there”. He was!!!..........And now he attempts to “take you there” too.

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1669870588

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Truth, Knowledge, Or Just Plain Bull

Truth, Knowledge, Or Just Plain Bull

The Complete Book of Soups and Stews

The Complete Book of Soups and Stews

Inflation, Unemployment and Capital Malformations

Inflation, Unemployment and Capital Malformations

The Roaring Twenties - When the Roar Wasn't Loud Enough

The Roaring Twenties - When the Roar Wasn't Loud Enough

The Power Prophets, Electric Unit Drive and Utility-Generated Power as Seen Through the Eyes of Early 20th Century Writers

The Power Prophets, Electric Unit Drive and Utility-Generated Power as Seen Through the Eyes of Early 20th Century Writers

A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume II

A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume II

Money—How to Save It, Spend It, and Make It

Money—How to Save It, Spend It, and Make It

Food and Beverage Management

Food and Beverage Management

Monetary and Exchange System Reforms in China

Monetary and Exchange System Reforms in China

The Economics of Continuous-Time Finance

The Economics of Continuous-Time Finance

The African Foreign Policy of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

The African Foreign Policy of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

Great Depression, The: Its Origins In Acceleration And Electric Unit Drive

Great Depression, The: Its Origins In Acceleration And Electric Unit Drive

Mag Men

Mag Men

Level 2 OCR Certificate in Business Administration

Level 2 OCR Certificate in Business Administration

The American Gardener's Calendar : Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States

The American Gardener's Calendar : Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States

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