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Webster's English-Pinyin-Chinese Dictionary, Level One for Beginners Using Traditional Characters

Easy-To-Read Edition for Everyday Practical Use

By: Charles Tandy,Wen-Ruey Lee,Chris Chen

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Webster's English-Pinyin-Chinese Dictionary, Level One for Beginners Using Traditional Characters

Easy-To-Read Edition for Everyday Practical Use

By: Charles Tandy,Wen-Ruey Lee,Chris Chen

Provides Chinese words and phrases that are useful in everyday life.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581127170

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American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition

By: Charles Carey Jr.

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American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition

By: Charles Carey Jr.

Praise for the previous edition: "This fun-to-read source will add spice for economics and business classes..."—American Reference Books Annual "...worthy of inclusion in reference collections of public, academic, and high-school libraries. Its content is wide-ranging and its entries provide interesting reading."—Booklist "A concise introduction to American inventors and entrepreneurs, recommended for academic and public libraries."—Choice American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition profiles more than 300 important Americans from colonial times to the present. Featuring such inventors and entrepreneurs as Thomas Edison and Madame C. J. Walker, this revised resource provides in-depth information on robber barons and their counterparts as well as visionaries such as Bill Gates. Coverage includes: Jeffrey Bezos Michael Bloomberg Sergey Brin and Larry Page Michael Dell Steve Jobs Estée Lauder T. Boone Pickens Russell Simmons Oprah Winfrey Mark Zuckerberg.

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578

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Infobase Holdings, Inc

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1438182147

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9781438182148

Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine

A Bibliography / Volume 1

By: Charles G. Roland

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Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine

A Bibliography / Volume 1

By: Charles G. Roland

This work is a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history.

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440

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554587751

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9781554587759

The Lucifer Code

By: Charles Brokaw

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The Lucifer Code

By: Charles Brokaw

AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT HAS REMAINED CONCEALED FOR CENTURIES -- WITHIN ITS PAGES LIES THE KEY TO THE MOST UNHOLY SECRET KNOWN TO MANKIND. A sacred brotherhood has sworn, generation after generation, to protect this terrifying truth from those who would use it to unleash doomsday upon mankind. When the unthinkable happens, and the holy scroll is uncovered, the race is on to reveal the true meaning of the cryptic language. Only one man, Dr. Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of ancient languages, who we first met in the bestselling novel The Atlantis Code, can safely decipher this most deadly scripture. Lourds soon becomes the bait in the most lethal manhunt -- knowing he must confront the true face of evil if the world is to be saved... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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369

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Macmillan

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1429960388

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9781429960380

The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations

The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker

By: Charles Harrington Elster

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The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations

The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker

By: Charles Harrington Elster

The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words. From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you. The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including: al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grace curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot) and many, many more. Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There's a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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061842315X

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9780618423156

"Hatching Ruin," Or, Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy

By: Charles H. Gold

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"Hatching Ruin," Or, Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy

By: Charles H. Gold

In "Hatching Ruin," Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel L. Clemens's business relationships with Charles L. Webster and James W. Paige during the 1880s. Gold analyzes how these relationships affected Clemens as a person and an artist, most notably in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The 1880s were a time when Samuel Clemens was more businessman than author. Clemens wanted to be rich. From an early age, he had dreamed of wealth. Suspicious of his previous publisher, Clemens started a publishing company and placed Charles L. Webster, who was married to his niece, at the head of it. He also invested large sums of money with James Paige, who was developing a typesetting machine. These were to be Clemens's instruments of success--his way to bring technology to the world and become so rich that he would never need to earn money again. Unfortunately for him, Paige was a perfectionist and a compulsive tinkerer who never stopped working on the typesetting machine. When, after early success, the publishing company began to fail, Clemens was unable to continue his investments in the typesetter. He blamed both Webster and Paige for his failure to "get rich quick" and for his eventual bankruptcy in 1894. Gold argues that these financial changes in his life helped to shape Connecticut Yankee, an important novel and cultural statement. At the beginning of the 1880s, while life was still good, Clemens wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in part a nostalgic look at youth and innocence in preindustrial America. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, written after the author's financial failures, is a savage condemnation of the Gilded Age, especially technology's role in it. Gold's "Hatching Ruin" tells for the first time the full story of Clemens's experiences as an investor, employer, and entrepreneur during the Gilded Age. Gold uses previously unpublished material from family correspondence and Clemens's autobiographical dictations to present a far more complex picture of the man most people know only as Mark Twain. He also offers a fuller depiction of Charles Webster and his relationship with Clemens than was previously available, while answering many questions that have hung over that relationship. This book will have a wide appeal to both Twain students and scholars, as well as anyone interested in social history.

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182

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University of Missouri Press

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0826263364

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9780826263360

Directing Shakespeare in America

Historical Perspectives

By: Charles Ney

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Directing Shakespeare in America

Historical Perspectives

By: Charles Ney

This unique and comprehensive study reviews the practice of leading American directors of Shakespeare from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Charles Ney examines rehearsal and production records, as well as evidence from diaries, letters, autobiographies, reviews and photographs to consider each director's point of view when approaching Shakespeare and the differing directorial tools and techniques employed in significant productions in their careers. Directors covered include Augustin Daly, David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Orson Welles, Margaret Webster, B. Iden Payne, Angus Bowmer, Craig Noel, Jack O'Brien, Tyronne Guthrie, John Houseman, Allen Fletcher, Michael Kahn, Gerald Freedman, Joseph Papp, Stuart Vaughan, A. J. Antoon, JoAnne Akalaitis, Paul Barry, Tina Packer, Barbara Gaines, William Ball, Liviu Ciulei, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Ellis Rabb and Julie Taymor. Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives offers readers an understanding of the context from which contemporary practitioners operate, the aesthetic philosophies to which they subscribe and a description of their rehearsal methods.

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259

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474289711

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9781474289719

Cigar Box Lithographs

The Inside Stories Uncovered

By: Charles J. Humber

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Cigar Box Lithographs

The Inside Stories Uncovered

By: Charles J. Humber

CIGAR BOX LITHOGRAPHS: The Inside Stories Uncovered is a thought-provoking production exposing its readership to more than 160 vintage cigar boxes manufactured during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most convey stunning litho- graphs that portray prominent historical figures. Such cigar boxes during the 19th century attracted a massive smoking cliental numbering in the millions.... While puffers more than one hundred years ago likely recognized the prominent personalities peering at them from the inside labels of these wooden cigar boxes, those same headlined names, today, are now essentially erased from memory. Lew Wallace (1827- 1905), portrayed in this stunning portrait label, is virtually a forgotten name today. World-famous during his day, he was not only a Major General during the Civil War but became more famous when he wrote what some consider to be the best-selling novel of the 19th century. His Ben Hur (see page 34), a novel that was turned into a Hollywood blockbuster winning a record eleven Oscars in 1959, was certainly the most read and the best-known book title during the 20th century, that is, until it was superseded by Gone with the Wind in the 1930s. By examining the cartouche to the left of this stunning label portrait, one detects Wallace’s role as a General during the Civil War, especially at the Battle of Shiloh. The cartouche to the right of his portrait details his writing studio in Crawfordsville, Indiana. This is where his most famous novel was written. Cigar boxes from the past often became an educational platform inadvertently recording and preserving history. To this day, this nearly 120-year old collectible cigar container whispers its provocative past, that is, providing one takes time out to lift its lid and peer at the lithographic image waiting to be re-discovered or uncovered.... Peer long enough and the box just might whisper its past to you.

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FriesenPress

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1525540629

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9781525540622

James K. Polk, Volume II

Continent

By: Charles Grier Sellers

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James K. Polk, Volume II

Continent

By: Charles Grier Sellers

This definitive biography of James K. Polk, the second of three projected volumes, covers the most important years of Polk's political career-from a twice-defeated gubernatorial candidate in Tennessee to dark-horse candidate for the presidency and one of the most successful first eighteen months of any American president. The months of Polk’s administration covered here contain the bulk of his expansionist program-the annexation of Texas, the settlement of the Oregon boundary with Great Britain, and the war with Mexico that led to the acquisition of California and New Mexico. This period also covers the first session of the 29th Congress, which produced under Polk’s guidance the most important domestic legislation of any Congress of the century. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400879795

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9781400879793

The Black Widower

The Life and Crimes of a Sociopathic Killer

By: Charles Lavery

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The Black Widower

The Life and Crimes of a Sociopathic Killer

By: Charles Lavery

He drugged his first wife and staged a fireball car crash, collecting a £200,000 insurance payout. He cheated his second wife of her life savings and attempted to kill her in a copycat crash. He faked cancer to dupe his third victim into a bigamous marriage, plotting her murder to steal her inheritance. He is Malcolm Webster: The Black Widower. After seventeen years of deception and brutality, Webster was finally jailed for thirty years in July 2011 at the climax of one of the longest trials in Scottish legal history. In this chilling book, award-winning journalist Charles Lavery documents the Black Widower’s life and crimes, giving a compelling insight into the mind of a man who killed for money and attempted to cover his tracks with drugs and fire.

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Random House

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1780573650

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9781780573656

Book's by Charles Webster

Webster's English-Pinyin-Chinese Dictionary, Level One for Beginners Using Traditional Characters

Webster's English-Pinyin-Chinese Dictionary, Level One for Beginners Using Traditional Characters

American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition

American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition

Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine

Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine

The Lucifer Code

The Lucifer Code

The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations

The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations

"Hatching Ruin," Or, Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy

"Hatching Ruin," Or, Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy

Directing Shakespeare in America

Directing Shakespeare in America

Cigar Box Lithographs

Cigar Box Lithographs

James K. Polk, Volume II

James K. Polk, Volume II

The Black Widower

The Black Widower

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