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Quantum Computing

A Gentle Introduction

By: Eleanor G. Rieffel,Wolfgang H. Polak

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Quantum Computing

A Gentle Introduction

By: Eleanor G. Rieffel,Wolfgang H. Polak

A thorough exposition of quantum computing and the underlying concepts of quantum physics, with explanations of the relevant mathematics and numerous examples. The combination of two of the twentieth century's most influential and revolutionary scientific theories, information theory and quantum mechanics, gave rise to a radically new view of computing and information. Quantum information processing explores the implications of using quantum mechanics instead of classical mechanics to model information and its processing. Quantum computing is not about changing the physical substrate on which computation is done from classical to quantum but about changing the notion of computation itself, at the most basic level. The fundamental unit of computation is no longer the bit but the quantum bit or qubit. This comprehensive introduction to the field offers a thorough exposition of quantum computing and the underlying concepts of quantum physics, explaining all the relevant mathematics and offering numerous examples. With its careful development of concepts and thorough explanations, the book makes quantum computing accessible to students and professionals in mathematics, computer science, and engineering. A reader with no prior knowledge of quantum physics (but with sufficient knowledge of linear algebra) will be able to gain a fluent understanding by working through the book.

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MIT Press

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0262526670

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9780262526678

Harlequin Heartwarming October 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Cheryl Harper,Leigh Riker,Eleanor Jones,Sophia Sasson

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Harlequin Heartwarming October 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Cheryl Harper,Leigh Riker,Eleanor Jones,Sophia Sasson

Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: KEEPING COLE’S PROMISE Lucky Numbers by Cheryl Harper Eleven years ago, Cole Ferguson made the biggest mistake of his life, but now he can finally get back on track. The first step? Get a job at the local animal shelter. The second? Stay away from Rebecca Lincoln, who’s beautiful, kind and looking for another charity project. THE RELUCTANT RANCHER Kansas Cowboys by Leigh Riker Logan Hunter isn’t a rancher, but when his grandfather is hurt, he has to step in to temporarily manage the Circle H—after he hires a caregiver. Too bad Blossom Kennedy can’t assume that role. On the run from her abusive ex, Blossom has to take care of herself…and her unborn baby. SHADOW ON THE FELLS Creatures Great and Small by Eleanor Jones In the wild beauty of the Lake District, Chrissie Marsh cares for her flock and trains sheepdogs, as her family has done for generations. Which is why she can’t stand her new neighbor. With his unruly labradoodle and his plans to build tourist cottages, he’s a threat to the land she loves and the traditions that sustain it. THE SENATOR’S DAUGHTER State of the Union by Sophia Sasson A shocking family secret lands Professor Kat Driscoll in the middle of a senator’s race for reelection. Hitting the campaign trail is nothing like lecturing about it, and the campaign manager’s mixed signals aren’t helping. Does Alex want to protect Kat, or use her to sway voters? And when he looks at her that way…is it yet another political tactic, or something else entirely?

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1488024812

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9781488024818

Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs

100 years of the best Journalism by women

By: Eleanor Mills

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Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs

100 years of the best Journalism by women

By: Eleanor Mills

Many female journalists came to the fore during the first and second world wars, and their perspective was very different to that of their male peers, who were reporting from the field. Specifically, they often wrote about war from the perspective of those left at home, struggling to keep the household afloat. And with 'How it feels to be forcibly fed' (1914) by Djuna Barnes, one of the world's very first experiential, or 'gonzo' journalists, came a new age of reporting. Since then, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it. Many of the pieces here feel almost unsettlingly relevant today -- the conclusions Emma 'Red' Goldman drew in her 1916 'The social aspects of birth control', Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at 40, Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance after America's race riots in 1943. Many have pushed other limits: Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth brought feminism to a new generation; Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones caused a media revolution; Ruth Picardie's unflinchingly honest column about living with cancer in 1997 brought a wave of British candour and a host of imitators; and when two iconic women come face to face, we have at one end Dorothy Parker on Isadora Duncan (1928) and at the other Julie Burchill on Margaret Thatcher (2004). This collection of superlative writing, selected by the Sunday Times's most senior female editor, brings together the most influential, incisive, controversial, affecting and entertaining pieces of journalism by the best women in the business. Covering: War; Crime; Politics & Society; Sex & Romance; Body Image & Health; Family, Friendship & Birth; Emancipation & Having it All; Hearth & Home; Icons & Interviews. Including: Lynn Barber, Djuna Barnes, Julie Burchill, Angela Carter, Marie Colvin, Jilly Cooper, Joan Didion, Margaret Drabble, Helen Fielding, Zelda Fitzgerald, Kathryn Flett, Martha Gellhorn, Nicci Gerrard, Emma Goldman, Germaine Greer, Nicola Horlick, Erica Jong, Jamaica Kincaid, India Knight, Christina Lamb, Daphne du Maurier, Nancy Mitford, Suzanne Moore, Camille Paglia, Sylvia Pankhurst, Dorothy Parker, Allison Pearson, Ruth Picardie, Erin Pizzey, Eleanor Roosevelt, Zadie Smith, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Martha Stewart, Mary Stott, Jill Tweedie, Rebecca West, Zoe Williams, Jeanette Winterson, Naomi Wolf.

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Constable

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1780337078

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9781780337074

The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman

Women & Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War

By: Eleanor O'Gorman

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The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman

Women & Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War

By: Eleanor O'Gorman

Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientationswhich over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistance. This is examined through the prism of life in the Protected Villages in Chiweshe experienced in everyday social relations, revolutionary roles, and food security. It traces how women forged strategies of survival and resistance in the middle of guerrilla warfare pitted between the forces of the state and the revolutionary resistance movements. The book can be read as a unique and richly detailed account of the lives of women during the Zimbabwe civil war and liberation struggle; as a wider argument about how researchers can approach and incorporate lived experience into accounts of larger dynamics (war/revolution); and as a substantial and important contribution to feminist historiography and writings on women and war. Eleanor O' Gorman is Senior Associate at the Gender Studies Centre and a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge; an independent consultant who has advised the UN, the UK Government (DFID and FCO), the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1847010407

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9781847010407

The Man in Room 423

By: Catherine Curzon,Eleanor Harkstead

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The Man in Room 423

By: Catherine Curzon,Eleanor Harkstead

FROM RNA SHORTLISTED AUTHORS CATHERINE CURZON AND ELEANOR HARKSTEAD In a heady cocktail of passion and poison, who can you really trust? When Lizzie Aspinall and her sister meet for cocktails in a high-rise bar, the last thing she's expecting is to spend the night in the arms of the nameless man in room 423. As a one-night stand with a stranger turns into a steamy affair with a dedicated detective, Lizzie finds herself in the sights of a stalker. Ben Finneran has spent ten years pursuing a ruthless serial killer who poisons victims at random before disappearing into the shadows. He wants to believe that the attraction he and Lizzie share is just physical, but when they find themselves falling for each other, is Ben unwittingly leading a murderer straight to her door? Pursued by the past and threatened by the present, who can Lizzie and Ben really trust?

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Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)

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1839433876

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9781839433870

AQA A-level Psychology Book 1

By: Jean-Marc Lawton,Eleanor Willard

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AQA A-level Psychology Book 1

By: Jean-Marc Lawton,Eleanor Willard

Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Psychology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 AQA Approved Equip your students with the knowledge and the skills that they need for the new AQA Psychology AS and A-level; guidance on assessment objectives, activities and clear, comprehensive coverage consolidates understanding and develops key skills to ensure progression - Thoroughly engage your students with Psychology at AS and A-level through extensive real-life contemporary research - Ensure your students learn and understand content for all the key topics with popular clear, accessible style from Jean-Marc Lawton and Eleanor Willard - Help your students understand the assessment objectives and develop their examination skills with assessment guidance and checks throughout and practice questions - Ensure progression and encourage independent thinking with extension suggestions and activities - Supports co-teaching of AS and year one A-level for the new AQA specification

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Hodder Education

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1471834891

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9781471834899

Creating Canada 1850-1890 Gr. 8

By: Solski, Ruth, Summers, Eleanor

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Creating Canada 1850-1890 Gr. 8

By: Solski, Ruth, Summers, Eleanor

Activities will help students assess the impact of some key social, economic, and political factors, including social, economic, and/or political inequality, on various Canadians between 1850 and 1890 as well as on the creation and expansion of the Dominion of Canada. Using the historical inquiry process students will investigate perspectives of different groups on some significant events, developments, and/or Canadians issues that affected Canada and/or Canadians between 1850 and 1890. Understanding Historical Context students will describe various significant events, developments, and people in Canada between 1850 and 1890, and explain their impact. Developed to make history curriculum accessible to students at multiple skill levels and with various learning styles. The content covers key topics required for eighth grade history and supports the updated 2013 Ontario Curriculum: History Grade 8. Topics are presented in a clear, concise manner, which makes the information accessible to struggling learners. There are two levels of questions for each topic. Illustrations, maps, and diagrams visually enhance each topic and provide support for visual learners. The reading passages focus on the significant people and historic events that were important to Canadian history between 1850 and 1890, giving students a good overall understanding of this time period. 48 Master the Facts game cards review content learned. 106 pgs.

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On The Mark Press

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1771584793

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9781771584791

Psychology for the IB Diploma Second edition

By: Jean-Marc Lawton,Eleanor Willard

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Psychology for the IB Diploma Second edition

By: Jean-Marc Lawton,Eleanor Willard

Exam board: International Baccalaureate Level: IB Diploma Subject: Psychology First teaching: September 2017 First exams: Summer 2019 Everything you need to navigate the IB Diploma Psychology course; ensure full coverage of the syllabus with a comprehensive guide to all the concepts, theories and research into approaches to understanding behaviour, presented with a cross-cultural focus for global thinkers. · Develop critical analysis skills with critical thinking boxes to draw out methodological issues from studies, and the TOK feature to help you recognise debates and issues. · Apply new skills and knowledge to everyday life with examples and case studies. · Navigate your way seamlessly through the course with key studies and terms highlighted. · Assess your progress and learning with summaries at the end of each chapter.

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Hodder Education

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1510425209

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9781510425200

The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald

By: Eleanor Lanahan

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The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald

By: Eleanor Lanahan

For many years Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, the golden couple of the Jazz Age, moved from hotels to rented villas to apartments in Paris. Wherever they lived, Zelda brought along her paints. Few people know she painted at all, and fewer know she made paper dolls. But throughout her life, Zelda created dolls in private. By their nature, paper dolls are fragile and are destined for destruction at the hands of children. Zelda's dolls began as playthings for her daughter, Scottie, born in 1921. Fortunately, Zelda continued to make figures after Scottie outgrew them, first of their family and then of storybook characters - lavish, graceful, bold figures. These characters amount to a portable troupe, an itinerant paper caravan that travelled inside her luggage. Zelda chose subjects she relished: society figures of the French Court, or Red Riding Hood's predatory wolf, as vivacious as the girl. Be they cardinals, kings, or bears, the dolls are fashionably attired in ball gowns, armor, and capes. Readers will delight in this comprehensive collection of Zelda's paper dolls"--

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128

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Simon and Schuster

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1982187190

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9781982187194

The Glass Half Full

Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism

By: Eleanor le

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The Glass Half Full

Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism

By: Eleanor le

A self-help book for the Scottish psyche. Cultural Miserablism: the power of the negative story with no redemption and no escape, that wallows in its own bleakness. Scotland is a small and immensely creative country. The role of the arts and culture is one that many are rightly proud of. But do we portray Scotland in the light we should? There is a tendency in film, literature and other cultural output to portray the negative aspects of Scottish life. In The Glass Half Full, filmmaker Eleanor le and academic David Manderson explore the origins of this bleak take on Scottish life, its literary and cultural expressions, and how this phenomenon in film has risen to the level of a genre which audiences both domestic and international see as a recognisable story of contemporary Scotland. What does miserablism tell us about ourselves? When did we become cultural victims? Is it time we move away from an image of Scotland that constantly casts itself as the poor relation? From the Trainspotting to the Kailyard, The Glass Half Full confronts the negative Scotland we portray not only to the world but, most importantly, ourselves. Do [they] accurately reflect the reality of life in Scotland for the majority of the population or are they just 'stories' we like to tell ourselves about ourselves? ELEANOR LE Our greatest export is the diversity of our fiction, the myriad of alternatives between its contrasts and all its new heroes and heroines. It's time we knew it. DAVID MANDERSON

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Luath Press Ltd

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1910324167

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9781910324165

The Civil War and American Art

By: Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum

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The Civil War and American Art

By: Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum

Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.

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Yale University Press

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0300187335

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9780300187335

Against Coercion

Games Poets Play

By: Eleanor Cook

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Against Coercion

Games Poets Play

By: Eleanor Cook

This book looks at how poems work, showing how they speak to historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions. It also demonstrates how to read poetry—how to go beyond an elementary approach, to recover the sheer pleasure of good poems.

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Stanford University Press

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0804729379

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9780804729376

Leftovers

A History of Food Waste and Preservation

By: Eleanor Barnett

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Leftovers

A History of Food Waste and Preservation

By: Eleanor Barnett

A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingenious ways in which our ancestors sought to extend the life of food through preservation, the culinary reuse of leftovers and the recycling of food scraps. Embracing a broad historical lens, the book spans Tudor household management; the world-changing inventions in food preservation of the Industrial Revolution from the tin can to artificial refrigeration; the growth of public health initiatives and organised food waste collection in the Victorian era; state promotion of thrifty eating during the two World Wars; and the politics of food and packaging waste in the modern era of sustainability. Opening a window on the everyday experiences of ordinary people in the past, Leftovers reveals how factors such as religious belief, class identities and gender have historically shaped attitudes towards food waste. At a time when a third of the food we produce globally is wasted, Leftovers links its central historical focus to humanitarian and environmental issues of urgent contemporary interest - including climate change, globalisation, scientific advancement, poverty and inequality.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1803281553

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9781803281551

Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires

By: Stanley Presser,Jennifer M. Rothgeb,Mick P. Couper,Judith T. Lessler,Elizabeth Martin,Jean Martin,Eleanor Singer

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Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires

By: Stanley Presser,Jennifer M. Rothgeb,Mick P. Couper,Judith T. Lessler,Elizabeth Martin,Jean Martin,Eleanor Singer

The definitive resource for survey questionnaire testing and evaluation Over the past two decades, methods for the development, evaluation, and testing of survey questionnaires have undergone radical change. Research has now begun to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various testing and evaluation methods, as well as to estimate the methods’ reliability and validity. Expanding and adding to the research presented at the International Conference on Questionnaire Development, Evaluation and Testing Methods, this title presents the most up-to-date knowledge in this burgeoning field. The only book dedicated to the evaluation and testing of survey questionnaires, this practical reference work brings together the expertise of over fifty leading, international researchers from a broad range of fields. The volume is divided into seven sections: Cognitive interviews Mode of administration Supplements to conventional pretests Special populations Experiments Multi-method applications Statistical modeling Comprehensive and carefully edited, this groundbreaking text offers researchers a solid foundation in the latest developments in testing and evaluating survey questionnaires, as well as a thorough introduction to emerging techniques and technologies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471654736

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9780471654735

Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance

By: Eleanor Chan

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Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance

By: Eleanor Chan

The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Vernacular translations of Euclid’s Elements made these new and developing approaches available to a far broader readership than had previously been possible. Scholarship has explored the way that the language of mathematics leaked into the literary cultures of England and the Low Countries, but until now the role of visual metaphors of making and shaping in the establishment of mathematics as a practical tool has gone unexplored. Mathematics and the Craft of Thought sheds light on the remarkable culture shift surrounding the vernacular language translations of Euclid, and the geometrical imaginary that they sought to create. It shows how the visual language of early modern European geometry was constructed by borrowing and quoting from contemporary visual culture. The verbal and visual language of this form of mathematics, far from being simply immaterial, was designed to tantalize with material connotations. This book argues that, in a very real sense, practical geometry in this period was built out of craft metaphors.

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Routledge

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1000461807

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9781000461800

An Index of the Source Records of Maryland

Genealogical, Biographical, Historical

By: Eleanor Phillips Passano

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An Index of the Source Records of Maryland

Genealogical, Biographical, Historical

By: Eleanor Phillips Passano

The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806302712

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Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing

Harlequin Heartwarming October 2016 Box Set

Harlequin Heartwarming October 2016 Box Set

Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs

Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs

The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman

The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman

The Man in Room 423

The Man in Room 423

AQA A-level Psychology Book 1

AQA A-level Psychology Book 1

Creating Canada 1850-1890 Gr. 8

Creating Canada 1850-1890 Gr. 8

Psychology for the IB Diploma Second edition

Psychology for the IB Diploma Second edition

The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald

The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald

The Glass Half Full

The Glass Half Full

The Civil War and American Art

The Civil War and American Art

Against Coercion

Against Coercion

Leftovers

Leftovers

Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires

Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires

Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance

Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance

An Index of the Source Records of Maryland

An Index of the Source Records of Maryland

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