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Maiwa’s Revenge

By: Haggard H.R.

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Maiwa’s Revenge, or The War of the Little Hand is a short novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard about the hunter Allan Quartermain. The story involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter, and avenge Maiwa, an African princess whose baby has been killed.

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5521064338

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9785521064335

Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses

From Phytohormones to Genome Reorganization: From Phytohormones to Genome Reorganization

By: H.R. Lerner

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Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses

From Phytohormones to Genome Reorganization: From Phytohormones to Genome Reorganization

By: H.R. Lerner

Emphasizing the unpredictable nature of plant behaviour under stress and in relation to complex interactions of biological pathways, this work covers the versatility of plants in adapting to environmental change. It analyzes environmentally triggered adaptions in developmental programmes of plants that lead to permanent, heritable DNA modifications.

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Routledge

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1351424106

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9781351424103

Allan and the Ice-Gods

By: Haggard H.R.

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Allan and the Ice-Gods

By: Haggard H.R.

This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself reliving as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric ice age as part of a clan of cavemen. The novel has been noted as a treatment of the topics of eugenics and evolution in literature and culture.

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5521064443

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9785521064441

The Viking Road to Byzantium

By: H.R. Ellis Davidson

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The Viking Road to Byzantium

By: H.R. Ellis Davidson

The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be found not only in Icelandic skaldic verse and runic inscriptions on memorial stones, but in such unexpected places as a Romanian chalk quarry near the Black Sea, among the carved stones of ancient Thrace and in Constantinople itself, the Miklagard of northern literature.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000921239

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9781000921236

Remote Assessment of Ocean Color for Interpretation of Satellite Visible Imagery

A Review

By: H. R. Gordon,A. Y. Morel

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Remote Assessment of Ocean Color for Interpretation of Satellite Visible Imagery

A Review

By: H. R. Gordon,A. Y. Morel

Since the pioneering work of Clarke et a1. (1970) it has been known that chlorophyll a (or. more generally. pigments) contained in phytoplankton in near-surface waters produced systematic variations in the color of the ocean which could be observed from aircraft. As a direct result of this work. NASA developed the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS). which was launched on Nimbus-G (now Nimbus-7) in October 1978. (A short description of the CZCS is provided in Appendix I. ) Shortly before launch. at the IUCRM Colloquium on Passive Radiometry of the Ocean (June 1978). a working group on water color measurements was formed to assess water color remote sensing at that time. A report (Morel and Gordon. 1980) was prepared which summarized the state-of-the-art of the algorithms for atmospheric correction. and phytoplankton pigment and seston retrieval. and which included recommendations concerning the design of next generation sensors. The water color session of the COSPAR/SCOR/IUCRM Symposium 'Oceanography from Space' held in Venice (May 1980. i. e •• in the post-launch period) provided the opportunity for a reassessment of the state-of-the-art after having gained some experience in the analysis of the initial CZCS imagery. Such an assessment is the purpose of this review paper. which will begin with an outline of the basic physics of water color remote sensing and the fundamentals of atmospheric corrections. The present state of the constituent retrieval and atmospheric correction algorithms will then be critically assessed.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468462806

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9781468462807

Cobra's hell

By: Noemie H.R

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Cobra's hell

By: Noemie H.R

If Jude had known that a biker gang was going to drastically change his life, she surely would never have let them into his bar that night ... Dragged by force in the macho and violent world of biker clubs, she will have to rely on her courage and her strength of character to survive.In the midst of this clan war, she might find in Liam, this bad dangerous but protective boy, an unexpected and devilishly attractive ally ... Will Jude manage to escape those who pursue her? Will she end up knowing what Liam is really looking for?

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Babelcube Inc.

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107159611X

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9781071596111

Sensors for Mobile Robots

By: H.R. Everett

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Sensors for Mobile Robots

By: H.R. Everett

The author compiles everything a student or experienced developmental engineer needs to know about the supporting technologies associated with the rapidly evolving field of robotics.From the table of contents: Design Considerations * Dead Reckoning * Odometry Sensors * Doppler and Inertial Navigation * Typical Mobility Configurations * Tactile and

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CRC Press

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1439863482

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9781439863480

The Lady of Blossholme

By: Haggard H.R.

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The Lady of Blossholme

By: Haggard H.R.

This is a tale of adventure and derring-do set in the time of King Henry VIII and the pilgrimage of grace. This was the period when King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, and when many Englishmen in the north, and many clergymen, were rebelling against Henry, in the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace. To raise needed funds for this rebellion against the king, the Spanish abbot Clement Maldon murders Cicely Foterell’s father and tries to claim all the family’s lands and jewels.

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5521066217

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9785521066216

Rendezvous with Death

The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

By: H. R. Underwood

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Rendezvous with Death

The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

By: H. R. Underwood

“After extensive research, the author presents some of the frequently conflicting findings of investigators and government committees over the decades along with many of the minute details associated with the case. In all, Underwood has constructed a highly readable and fact-filled compendium that should prove very useful to students of the tragedy.” —The US Review of Books Rendezvous with Death: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy presents the facts surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and a detailed explanation of the shooting as it occurred according to the factual evidence. A considerable amount of false trails and leads exist in the evidence, turning the case into a quagmire of contradictory and unreliable assertions. The major task undertaken was to sort out, as much as possible, fact from fiction, and determine truth from rumor and speculation. Numerous sources and materials were researched to provide the reader with a thorough and well-documented review of the facts presented in the JFK assassination literature. Still, the conclusions presented are my own and are not intended to be presumptuous in claiming a definitive or conclusive solution to the case. Therefore, the purpose of this book is not to convince the reader that I have finally found the answers for most of the puzzling and perplexing questions surrounding this highly controversial case. Rather, my intention was twofold: (1) to provide the reader with a comprehensive study that presented as many facts as possible regarding the JFK assassination gleaned from a wide variety of sources, and (2) devise a plausible explanation of the assassination based upon that factual information. My conclusions are based primarily on a close examination of the Zapruder film with documentation provided by numerous sources. Although the Zapruder film shows evidence of splicing, it still remains as one of the most significant pieces of JFK assassination evidence. It is hoped that this study will move us closer to the truth.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466953500

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9781466953505

Microbial Cell Walls and Membranes

By: H. R. Perkins

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Microbial Cell Walls and Membranes

By: H. R. Perkins

In 1968 when Cell Walls and Membranes was published it was still reasonable to attempt to write a book covering the whole subject. Accordingly this edition of the book had something to say about walls from micro-organisms and plants as well as about membranes from bacteria and animal cells. A decade later this is manifestly impossible. Knowledge about almost all the subjects has grown explosively, par ticularly about membranes and the biosynthesis of macromolecules. Moreover aspects of the subject that were still in a relatively primitive state ten years ago have grown into highly sophisticated subjects worthy of extended treatment. The result is that the present book has had to be confined to structures and functions relating to only one division of the biological kingdom, namely micro-organisms. Even then severe limitations have had to be made to keep the task within the time available to the authors and their expertise. A few of the titles of chapters such as those on the isolation of walls and membranes, the structure of the components of bacterial and micro-fungal walls and their biosynthesis remain from the earlier book. These chapters have been almost completely rewritten and a number of quite new chapters added on topics such as the action of the antibiotics that inhibit bacterial wall syn thesis, on the function of bacterial membranes, and the bacterial autolysins.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401160147

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9789401160148

The Stiles Family in America

By: H.R. Stiles

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The Stiles Family in America

By: H.R. Stiles

Descendants of John Stiles, of Windsor, Conn., and of Mr. Francis Stiles, of Windsor and Stratford, Conn., 1635-1894; also the Connecticut New Jersey families, 1720-1894; and the southern (or Bermuda-Georgia) family, 1635-1894. With contributions to the genealogies of some New York and Pennsylvania families.

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5878130270

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Novels I

By: Haggard H.R.

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Novels I

By: Haggard H.R.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains four of his most famous novels about the life and adventures of Allan Quatermain. Maiwa's Revenge involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter. The Allan’s Wife tells a story of Quartermain's time in South Africa presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father's death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella. In Marie Allan is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot.

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5521077200

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9785521077205

No Traveller Returns

By: H. R. Coursen

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No Traveller Returns

By: H. R. Coursen

Identical twins, Bruce and Brendon Laird, take different paths after Bruce ruins his knee playing football and Brendon goes off to the middle east in the Army. Bruce becomes a famous scholar, discovering the Ur-Hamlet, legendary immediate source of Shakespeares play. He is also given a look at a cache of letters from the legendary L.S. Marker. However, he comes to grief at small Oliver Otis College, for what that institution considers moral turpitude. He alienates the woman who had received the Marker letters and loses a magnificent opportunity. He also loses Bettina Arujo and Robbie Spector along the way, and falls in love with Brendons girlfriend, Annie. Brendon, meanwhile, becomes the banker for a powerful New Jersey mob. At the end, Bruce must substitute for Brendon at a mob gathering that everyone knows will turn deadly. Finally, what happens to Annie Devereux, the woman each twin loves?

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1456730819

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Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II

By: H. R. Everett

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Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II

By: H. R. Everett

The first comprehensive technical history of air, land, sea, and underwater unmanned systems, by a distinguished U.S. Navy roboticist. Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, offering the first comprehensive historical and technical accounting of unmanned air, land, sea, and underwater systems. Focusing on examples introduced during the two world wars, H. R. Everett meticulously traces their development from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. A pioneering Navy roboticist, Everett not only describes these systems in detail but also reverse-engineers the designs in order to explain how they operated in real-world conditions of the time. More than 500 illustrations—photographs, drawings, and plans, many of them never before published—accompany the text. Everett covers the evolution of early wire-guided submersibles, tracing the development of power, propulsion, communication, and control; radio-controlled surface craft, deployed by both Germany and Great Britain in World War I; radio-controlled submersibles; radio-controlled aircraft, including the TDR-1 assault drone project in World War II—which laid the groundwork for subsequent highly classified drone programs; and remote-controlled ground vehicles, including the Wehrmacht's Goliath and Borgward demolition carriers.

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MIT Press

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0262331764

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9780262331760

Psychology and Politics

By: William H. R. Rivers

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Psychology and Politics

By: William H. R. Rivers

Reprint of: Psychology and politics: and other essays / by W. H. R. Rivers, originially published in 1923 by K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412818192

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Is There A Supervisor In The Field?

By: H. R. ''Randy'' Williamson

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Is There A Supervisor In The Field?

By: H. R. ''Randy'' Williamson

During his 20 years on the San Diego, CA / Tijuana, Mexico border, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Randy Williamson participated in almost every activity the Border Patrol has. He was a backcountry Signcutter, a Horse Patrol Supervisor, and an Observer in the first Helicopter Aircrew to be operational in the Border Patrol. He Supervised the Chula Vista Sector All Terrain Vehicle Unit for three years, was a Transportation Check Supervisor and Supervised the Sector Prosecutions Unit for a tour. There wasn’t a whole lot he didn’t do.

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1456897225

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9781456897222

The Lady of Blossholme & Dr. Therne

By: Haggard H.R.

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The Lady of Blossholme & Dr. Therne

By: Haggard H.R.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The Lady of Blossholme is a tale of adventure set in the time of King Henry VIII. This was the period when King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, and when many Englishmen in the north, and many clergymen, were rebelling against Henry, in the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace. To raise needed funds for this rebellion against the king, the Spanish abbot Clement Maldon murders Cicely Foterell’s father and tries to claim all the family’s lands and jewels. And Dr. Therne is a confessional story from a mad scientist obsessed with one of the great issues of his day – vaccination against epidemic diseases like smallpox. His personal fears meet the tragic legacy of other doctors' careless ignorance and spawn a malignant crusade against vaccination.

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5521077480

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9785521077489

Manual of Blood Platelets: Morphology, Physiology and Pharmacology

By: Gundu HR Rao

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Manual of Blood Platelets: Morphology, Physiology and Pharmacology

By: Gundu HR Rao

Platelets are tiny blood cells that help the body form clots to stop bleeding. Antiplatelet medications, such as aspirin and clopidogrel, are commonly used to thin the blood which limits clotting and reduces the risk of heart attack. This book is a comprehensive guide to blood platelets for haematologists. Beginning with discussion on platelet structure, morphology, function and physiology, the next chapters cover the role of calcium in platelet activation and calcium modulation by cyclic nucleotides. The following sections explain the pharmacology of antiplatelet drugs, antiplatelet therapies, aspirin resistance, and the association of diabetes mellitus with major platelet dysfunction. The book concludes with chapters on acute coronary problems, interaction between endothelial cells and platelets, and blood biocompatibility studies. Authored by a Minneapolis-based expert in the field, the text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, diagrams and tables. Key points Comprehensive guide to blood platelets for haematologists Extensive coverage of antiplatelet drugs and resistance Recognised author from University of Minnesota Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers

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9352702026

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9789352702022

The Mahatma and the Hare

By: Haggard H.R.

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The Mahatma and the Hare

By: Haggard H.R.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma – a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view "The Great White Road" on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven – encounters the hare of the title after that animal's death.

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5521075992

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9785521075997

The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England, 1600-1750

By: H. R. French

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The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England, 1600-1750

By: H. R. French

Exploring the origins of 'middle-class' status in the English provinces during a formative period of social and economic change, this book provides the first comparative study of the nature of social identity in early modern provincial England. It questions definitions of a 'middling' group, united by shared patterns of consumption and display, and examines the bases for such identity in three detailed case studies of the 'middle sort' in East Anglia, Lancashire, and Dorset. Dr. French identifies how the 'middling' described their status, and examines this through their social position in parish life and government, and through their material possessions. Instead of a coherent, unified 'middle sort of people' this book reveals division between self-proclaimed parish rulers (the 'chief inhabitants') and a wider body of modestly prosperous householders, who nevertheless shared social perspectives bounded within their localities. By the eighteenth century, many of these 'chief inhabitants' were trying to break out of their parish pecking orders - not by associating with a wider 'middle class', but by modifying ideas of gentility to suit their circumstances (and pockets). French concludes as a result, that while the presence of a distinct 'middling' stratum is apparent, the social identity of the people remained fragmented - restricted by parochial society on the one hand, and overshadowed by the prospect of gentility on the other. He offers new interpretation and insights into the composition and scale of the society in early modern England.

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OUP Oxford

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0191537888

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A Dictionary of the Avant-gardes

By: Richard Kostelanetz,H. R. Brittain

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A Dictionary of the Avant-gardes

By: Richard Kostelanetz,H. R. Brittain

Introduces the concept of avant-garde art to readers as it has been practiced over the last century. Covering figures and genres in all styles of art, this is an ideal introduction to often misunderstood art forms.

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Psychology Press

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0415937647

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9780415937641

The Mahatma and the Hare & Barbara Who Came Back

By: Haggard H.R.

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The Mahatma and the Hare & Barbara Who Came Back

By: Haggard H.R.

The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma – a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view “The Great White Road” on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven – encounters the hare of the title after that animal’s death. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage of his remote and straggling parish upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant of a fisherman, which just as the rate was finished wailed once feebly and expired in his arms.

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552106625X

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9785521066254

The Art of Beauty

By: H. R. Haweis

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The Art of Beauty

By: H. R. Haweis

This book was originaly published in 1878. The Culture of beauty is everywhere a legitimate art. But the beauty and adornment of the human form, the culture of personal beauty, is of the first interest and importance. This book explores the art of beauty, including chapters on the pleasure of beauty, the importance of dress, and the moralities of dress.

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0429593910

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9780429593918

Nada the Lily

By: Haggard H.R.

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Nada the Lily

By: Haggard H.R.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka, is forced to flee when Chaka orders his death. In the adventures that ensue, Umslopogaas is carried away by a lion and then rescued by Galazi, king of an army of ghost-wolves.

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5521077359

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9785521077359

She and Allan

By: Haggard H.R.

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She and Allan

By: Haggard H.R.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines.

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5521077251

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9785521077250

Katharine Briggs

By: H.R. Ellis Davidson

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Katharine Briggs

By: H.R. Ellis Davidson

Katharine Briggs made an indelible mark on the world of folklore with her compilation of the Dictionary of British Folktales in the English Languages, while her subsequent Dictionary of Fairies confirmed her already distinguished place among British Folklorists. Briggs’s initial academic interest while at Oxford University was in seventeenth-century literature and the Civil War. Upon leaving Oxford she pursued amateur dramatics and worked for the Guide Movement, and during the Second World War she served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. It was here, perhaps, that her personality fully matured; among other activities she delighted her fellows with her remarkable gift for story-telling. After the war, her career as a folklorist began to blossom. As if to make up for lost time, she spent the last twenty years of her life writing and lecturing almost continually. As well as her books on folklore, she gained renown for her children’s books Kate Crackernuts and Hobberdy Dick. She was responsible for revitalising the Folklore Society and as its President, she laid the foundations of the Society as it is today. Hilda Davidson’s biography brings to life a remarkable woman whose combination of academic excellence and natural gift for narrative found her friends all over the world.

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9780718897482

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