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The Blue Men

A Hotel St Kilda Story

By: Michael Knaggs

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The Blue Men

A Hotel St Kilda Story

By: Michael Knaggs

Tom Brown, disgraced former Home Secretary, is missing presumed dead. The police had been seeking him in connection with the deaths of several people, and his disappearance affectively closes the case.

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1800468687

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Too Much Sea for Their Decks

Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North Shore and Isle Royale

By: Michael Schumacher

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Too Much Sea for Their Decks

Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North Shore and Isle Royale

By: Michael Schumacher

Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, whalebacks, and bulk carriers—some well-known, some unknown or forgotten—all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior. Included are compelling accounts of vessels destined for infamy, such as that of the Stranger, a slender wooden schooner swallowed by the lake in 1875, the sailors’ bodies never recovered nor the wreckage ever found; an account of the whaleback Wilson, rammed by a large commercial freighter in broad daylight and in calm seas, sinking before many on board could escape; and the mysterious loss of the Kamloops, a package freighter that went down in a storm and whose sailors were found on the Isle Royale the following spring, having escaped the wreck only to die of exposure on the island. Then there is the ill-fated Steinbrenner, plagued by bad luck from the time of her construction, when she was nearly destroyed by fire, to her eventual (and tragic) sinking in 1953. These tales and more represent loss of life and property—and are haunting stories of brave and heroic crews. Arranged chronologically and presented in three sections covering Minnesota's North Shore, Isle Royale, and the three biggest storms in Minnesota’s Great Lakes history (the 1905 Mataafa storm, the 1913 hurricane on the lakes, and the 1940 Armistice Day storm), each shipwreck documented within these pages provides a piece to the history of shipping on Lake Superior.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452970084

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9781452970080

Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922-86

By: Michael Oakeshott,Luke O'Sullivan

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Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922-86

By: Michael Oakeshott,Luke O'Sullivan

From the 1920s to the 1980s Oakeshott filled dozens of notebooks with his private reflections, both personal and intellectual. Their contents range from aphorisms to miniature essays, forming a unique record of his intellectual trajectory over his entire career. This volume makes them accessible in print for the first time, drawing together a host of his previously inaccessible observations on politics, philosophy, art, education, and much else besides. Religion in particular emerges as an ongoing concern for him in a way that is not visible from his published works. The notebooks also provide a unique source of insight into Oakeshott's musings on life, thanks to the hitherto unsuspected existence of the series of 'Belle Dame' notebooks that were written in the late 1920s and early 1930s but which only came to light two decades after his death. At the same period in which he was developing the concepts that would form Experience and its Modes, Oakeshott's personal life lead him to reflect extensively on love and death, themes that highlight his enduring romantic affinities. Accompanied by an original editorial introduction, the volume allows readers to see for themselves exactly which works Oakeshott used in compiling each of his notebooks, providing a much clearer record of his intellectual influences than has previously been available. It will be an essential addition to the library of his works for all those interested in his ideas.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845407571

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9781845407575

The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester

By: Michael G. Brennan,Noel J. Kinnamon

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The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester

By: Michael G. Brennan,Noel J. Kinnamon

The letters of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester, dating predominantly from about 1636 until 1643, cover a wide range of issues and vividly illustrate her centrality to her illustrious family's personal and public affairs. These c.100 letters are here for the first time fully transcribed and edited. The edition includes a biographical and historical introduction, setting the context of the Sidneys' family and political activities at the time of Dorothy's marriage to Robert in 1615 and then tracing the major events and involvements of her life until her death in 1659. A key to the cipher used in the letters to disguise identities of individuals is also supplied. Following the introduction is the complete text of each of Dorothy Percy Sidney's letters to her husband, Robert, second Earl of Leicester, and to and from William Hawkins, the Sidney family solicitor, along with several others, including letters from Dorothy to Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Holland. Her husband's account of her last moments in 1659, and testamentary directions relating to her will, are also included. The letters are arranged in chronological order and supported by a series of footnotes that elucidate their historical context and briefly to identify key individuals, places, political issues and personal concerns. These notes are further supported by selective quotations from Dorothy's incoming correspondence and other related letters and documents. A glossary supplies more detailed information on 'Persons and Places.' Dorothy Percy Sidney's letters eloquently convey how, even with her undoubted personal potency and shrewd intelligence, the multifaceted roles expected of an able and determined aristocratic early modern Englishwoman-especially when her husband was occupied abroad on official business-were intensely demanding and testing.

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Routledge

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1351892339

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9781351892339

Warriors of the Word

The World of the Scottish Highlanders

By: Michael Newton

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Warriors of the Word

The World of the Scottish Highlanders

By: Michael Newton

An enlightening illustrated overview of Gaelic culture and history in Scotland. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: Bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell. Warriors of the Word offers a broad overview of Scottish Highland culture and history, bringing together rare and previously untranslated primary texts from scattered and obscure sources. Poetry, songs, tales, and proverbs, supplemented by the accounts of insiders and travelers, illuminate traditional ways of life, exploring such topics as folklore, music, dance, literature, social organization, supernatural beliefs, human ecology, ethnic identity, and the role of language. This range of materials allows Scottish Gaeldom to be described on its own terms and to demonstrate its vitality and wealth of renewable cultural resources—making this an essential compendium for scholars, students, and all enthusiasts of Scottish culture.

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Birlinn

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0857907670

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9780857907677

Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Collection

By: Michael Oakeshott

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Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Collection

By: Michael Oakeshott

A collection of 6 volumes of Oakeshott's work: Notebooks, 1922-86, Early Political Writings 1925-30, The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence, Vocabulary of a Modern European State, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, and What is History?

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1845407814

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9781845407810

Irrigation practices in Ethiopia: Characteristics of selected irrigation schemes

By: Girma, Michael M.Awulachew, Seleshi B.

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Irrigation practices in Ethiopia: Characteristics of selected irrigation schemes

By: Girma, Michael M.Awulachew, Seleshi B.

Sugarcane / Dams / Reservoirs / Canals / Environmental effects / River basins / Irrigation management / Irrigation programs / Irrigation practices

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Developing and Managing Community Water Supplies

By: Jan Davis,Gerry Garvey,Michael Wood

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Developing and Managing Community Water Supplies

By: Jan Davis,Gerry Garvey,Michael Wood

This book discusses the issues and stages in the development of water supplies, from the initiation of a programme through to the community management of a supply system. The importance of involving all the members of a community in decisions about water provision is emphasised, as is the need to incorporate hygiene education.

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Oxfam

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0855981938

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Malinowski's Kiriwina

Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918

By: Michael W. Young,Bronislaw Malinowski

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Malinowski's Kiriwina

Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918

By: Michael W. Young,Bronislaw Malinowski

Malinowski's Kiriwina presents nearly two hundred of Malinowski's previously unpublished photographs of the Islanders among whom he lived between 1915 and 1918. The images are more than embellishments of his ethnography; they are a recreation in striking detail of a distant world.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226876500

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Heaven's Door

Hotel St Kilda, Book Two

By: Michael Knaggs

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Heaven's Door

Hotel St Kilda, Book Two

By: Michael Knaggs

The events of these past few months can be likened to the destabilising of a mountain top, creating a political and social avalanche of awesome, overwhelming power. As it cascades, unstoppable, in its devastating surge, it now seems certain that everything in its path will be either swept along with it or buried irretrievably beneath. The public demand for radical change in law and order in the wake of a catalytic event on a tough East London estate featured in Catalyst, the first book in the 'Hotel St Kilda' Trilogy. Now with the second installment, Heaven’s Door, we rejoin the story as the new government, who swept to power off the back of the public’s appetite for reform, start to assert their control. The new measures for addressing street crime include lifetime banishment for worst offenders, a popular development which receives widespread support, and which Tom Brown, the Home Secretary, decides to extend to cover other serious crimes. Although he meets strong opposition to this change, he steadfastly pushes it through. Then, at the zenith of his political achievement, and just when he seems reconciled with his family, his decision backfires. His private and political lives collide dramatically and Tom is faced with a devastating choice which, either way, will lead to personal tragedy.. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Jo Cottrell and a former colleague, David Gerrard, begin looking into the circumstances that led to this situation and uncover unexpected liaisons which raise a number of questions…

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1784620491

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Gypsy Jazz

In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing

By: Michael Dregni

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Gypsy Jazz

In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing

By: Michael Dregni

Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django. A vagabond music, Gypsy Jazz is played today in French Gypsy bars, Romany encampments, on religious pilgrimages--and increasingly on the world's greatest concert stages. Yet its story has never been told, in part because much of its history is undocumented, either in written form or often even in recorded music. Beginning with Django Reinhardt, whose dazzling Gypsy Jazz became the toast of 1930s Paris in the heady days of Josephine Baker, Picasso, and Hemingway, Dregni follows the music as it courses through caravans on the edge of Paris, where today's young French Gypsies learn Gypsy Jazz as a rite of passage, along the Gypsy pilgrimage route to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer where the Romany play around their campfires, and finally to the new era of international Gypsy stars such as Bireli Lagrene, Boulou Ferre, Dorado Schmitt, and Django's own grandchildren, David Reinhardt and Dallas Baumgartner. Interspersed with Dregni's vivid narrative are the words of the musicians themselves, many of whom have never been interviewed for the American press before, as they describe what the music means to them. Gypsy Jazz also includes a chapter devoted entirely to American Gypsy musicians who remain largely unknown outside their hidden community. Blending travelogue, detective story, and personal narrative, Gypsy Jazz is music history at its best, capturing the history and culture of this elusive music--and the soul that makes it swing.

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Oxford University Press

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0198042620

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Historic Shipwrecks and Rescues on Lake Michigan

By: Michael Passwater

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Historic Shipwrecks and Rescues on Lake Michigan

By: Michael Passwater

Facing the fury and danger of Lake Michigan Ever since French explorers first cast their eyes on Lake Michigan, this huge inland sea has been the scene of thousands of shipwreck rescues and tragedies. As mishaps and disasters proliferated, a dedicated service of lifesavers arose. Braving perilous conditions, these servicemen pulled those aboard the merchant schooner Havanna from certain death. The intrepid St Joseph Lifesavers saved the crew and passengers of the City of Duluth. Sadly, not all rescues ended in heroism, as was the case with the doomed Arab that went down along with two other ships. Author Michael Passwater captures the stories of shipwrecks and the brave men and women that risked their lives against an angry Lake Michigan.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439676402

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Far from Land

The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds

By: Michael Brooke

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Far from Land

The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds

By: Michael Brooke

Seabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and nest on remote islands that humans rarely visit. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated and miniaturized devices that can track their every movement and behavior, it is now possible to observe the mysterious lives of these remarkable creatures as never before. This book takes you on a breathtaking journey around the globe to provide an extraordinary up-close look at the activities of seabirds. Featuring stunning illustrations by renowned artist Bruce Pearson, Far from Land reveals that seabirds are not the aimless wind-tossed wanderers they may appear to be, and explains the observational innovations that are driving this exciting area of research.

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Princeton University Press

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0691210322

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Django

The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend

By: Michael Dregni

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Django

The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend

By: Michael Dregni

Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome, charismatic, childlike, and unpredictable, Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium, he was almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw. But with this maimed left hand flying over the frets and his right hand plucking at dizzying speed, Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician, commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship. He examines his long musical partnership with violinist Stéphane Grappelli--the one suave and smooth, the other sharper and more dissonant--and he traces the evolution of their novel string jazz ensemble, Quintette du Hot Club de France. Indeed, the author spotlights Django's amazing musical diversity, describing his swing-styled Nouveau Quintette, his big band Django's Music, and his later bebop ensemble, as well as his many compositions, including symphonic pieces influenced by Ravel and Debussy and his unfinished organ mass inspired by Bach. And along the way, the author offers vivid snapshots of the jazz scene in Paris--colorful portraits of Josephine Baker, Bricktop, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and countless others--and of Django's vagabond wanderings around France, Europe, and the United States, where he toured with Duke Ellington. Capturing the extraordinary life and times of one of the great musicians of the twentieth century, Django is a must-read portrait of a true original.

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Oxford University Press

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0199883289

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Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces

An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits

By: Michael J. Lostumbo,Michael J. McNerney,Eric Peltz,Derek Eaton,David R. Frelinger

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Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces

An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits

By: Michael J. Lostumbo,Michael J. McNerney,Eric Peltz,Derek Eaton,David R. Frelinger

This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing how this presence contributes to assurance, deterrence, responsiveness, and security cooperation goals.

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Rand Corporation

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0833079158

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Fodor's Scotland

By: Michael Gonzalez,Shona Main

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Fodor's Scotland

By: Michael Gonzalez,Shona Main

Includes information on hotels, inns, and castles, restaurants, drives and walks, exploring abbeys and castles, fishing and golf, and provides essays on Scotland's history, literature, and clans

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Fodors Travel Publications

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1400004322

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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments

By: J. John Lowe,Michael J.C Walker

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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments

By: J. John Lowe,Michael J.C Walker

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigraphy are also discussed. The volume concludes with a new chapter which considers some of the key questions about the nature, causes and consequences of global climatic and environmental change over a range of temporal scales. This synthesis builds on the methods and approaches described earlier in the book to show how a number of exciting ideas that have emerged over the last two decades are providing new insights into the operation of the global earth-ocean-atmosphere system, and are now central to many areas of contemporary Quaternary research. This comprehensive and dynamic textbook is richly illustrated throughout with full-colour figures and photographs. The book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Geography, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Archaeology and Anthropology

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Routledge

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1317753704

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Bird Lady

A lifelong love affair with birds

By: Elizabeth Le Geyt,Michael Le Geyt

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Bird Lady

A lifelong love affair with birds

By: Elizabeth Le Geyt,Michael Le Geyt

Elizabeth Le Geyt recounts her birding experiences and completed these memoirs during her 100th year anniversary.

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FriesenPress

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1460242602

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Feasting, Fowling and Feathers

A History of the Exploitation of Wild Birds

By: Michael Shrubb

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Feasting, Fowling and Feathers

A History of the Exploitation of Wild Birds

By: Michael Shrubb

A highly readable review of some 700 years of avian exploitation. The way wild birds have been exploited over the centuries forms the focus of this remarkable new book by Michael Shrubb. It looks at the use of birds as food, for feathers and skins, for eggs, as cage birds, as specimens and for hunting, focusing on Britain, northern Europe and the North Atlantic. Never before has a book brought the huge amount of information on these topics in the academic literature together under one cover. Introductory chapters on what was taken, when, why and its impact are followed by a number of sections looking in detail at important bird groups. Along with discussions of broader themes of exploitation, the book is packed with amazing facts. For example, we learn: - why Grey Herons were so important in medieval falconry - why the Black Death was good news for bustards - why Napoleon is to blame for the scarcity of Quail in Britain today - when tame plover stew was all the rage The book concludes with discussions of the cage bird and plumage trades, both now consigned to the annals of history, in Britain at any rate. As well as summarising and condensing the material into a readable and entertaining account, Shrubb goes back to the original sources. This has allowed him to shed new and surprising light on the biogeography of a number of British birds.

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A&C Black

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1408160064

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Management Accounting Research (RLE Accounting)

A Review and Annotated Bibliography

By: Charles F. Klemstine,Michael W. Maher

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Management Accounting Research (RLE Accounting)

A Review and Annotated Bibliography

By: Charles F. Klemstine,Michael W. Maher

This bibliography presents a review of trends in management accounting research and a classified annotated listing of over 600 works in the area. It is intended to help the accounting researcher or student who wishes to review the development of the literature in management accounting over many years. The book traces this development from 1926 to 1982 through the primary academic journals. This review has focussed on accounting literature and includes only those works from outside the accounting literature that were seminal in defining and introducing a research area, and were frequently referenced in the accounting literature.

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Routledge

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1134714513

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Natural History of the Islands of California

By: Allan A. Schoenherr,C. Robert Feldmeth,Michael J. Emerson

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Natural History of the Islands of California

By: Allan A. Schoenherr,C. Robert Feldmeth,Michael J. Emerson

A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.

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Univ of California Press

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0520239180

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9780520239180

A Higher World

Scotland 1707–1815

By: Michael Fry

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A Higher World

Scotland 1707–1815

By: Michael Fry

“Engaging and very readable . . . an essential read for those wanting to get under the skin of modern Scottish history” from the author of Glasgow (Scottish Field). Michael Fry here applies his uniquely wide-ranging procedures of Scottish historical analysis to the eighteenth century, which gave this small nation its one era of truly global significance. He adds: “Never again was it to be so exemplary: unless, perhaps, in the twenty-first century.” In his journey from the Union of 1707 to its centenary and beyond, Fry takes in vivid scenes from all over the country, ranges up and down the social scale from peeresses to prostitutes, from lairds to lunatics, and covers every major aspect of national life from agriculture to philosophy. Most other Scottish histories published in recent times concentrate on social and economic history, but Fry insists that any true understanding of the nation, in the past as in the present, needs to pay at least as much attention to politics and culture. The social history and the economic history show us how Scotland was integrated into Britain. The political history and the cultural history show us why the integration was never complete. In this book readers will see both sides surveyed. In that way they will come also to understand how the nation’s rebirth in our own day remained possible. “Has the usual Fry merits of being elegantly written and the product of an incisive and original mind.” —The Herald “Ambitious and well produced.” —The Scotsman

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Casemate Publishers

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0857908324

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9780857908322

The Road Taken

By: Michael Buerk

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The Road Taken

By: Michael Buerk

Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the Twentieth Century.' Those words opened Michael Buerk's first report on the Ethiopian famine for the 6 o'clock news on October 24th 1984. His reports sent shock waves round the world. The Live Aid concert, a direct consequence of Bob Geldof watching that broadcast, was watched by half the planet. Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories in our lifetime: the Flixborough chemical plant fire, the Birmingham pub bombing, Lockerbie. He was in Buenos Aires at the start of the Falklands War; he reported the death throes of apartheid in South Africa. He was the face of the BBC flagship evening news for many years and has fronted everything from the popular BBC1 series 999 to the erudite Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze. He has won every major award and is universally admired and respected for his intelligent and honest journalism. Here, he also reveals the private Michael Buerk, his bigamist father, his long and happy marriage to Christine and his delight at fatherhood.

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Random House

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1446409899

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9781446409893

From Hand to Mouth

The Origins of Language

By: Michael C. Corballis

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From Hand to Mouth

The Origins of Language

By: Michael C. Corballis

Writing with wit and eloquence, Corballis makes nimble reference to literature, mythology, natural history, sports, and contemporary politics as he explains in fascinating detail what is now known about the evolution of language. Line illustrations.

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Princeton University Press

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0691088039

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New Deal Modernism

American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State

By: Michael Szalay

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New Deal Modernism

American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State

By: Michael Szalay

DIVArgues that the writers of the 30s and 40s--Hemingway, Ayn Rand, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Wallace Stevens et al. -- identified and understood the formal problems of literary modernism through an idea of the social and an idiom of s/div

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Duke University Press

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0822325624

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9780822325628

Ethiopia

A View from Within

By: Michael B. Lentakis

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Ethiopia

A View from Within

By: Michael B. Lentakis

Providing a definitive explanation of modern history in Ethiopia, this book covers the last century up until 1994. It attempts to explain for the hundreds of thousands Ethiopians who emigrated to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe what happened in Ethiopia after the deposition of Emperor Haile Selassi. The changes that have taken place in Ethiopia over the past century are described, and a range of issues of historical importance as well as issues still important in Ethiopia today--the flora and fauna, the wildlife, and customs of Ethiopia now and in the past--are examined in great detail.

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1857565584

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An Ancient Strife (Caledonia Book #2)

By: Michael Phillips

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An Ancient Strife (Caledonia Book #2)

By: Michael Phillips

Young Parliament member Anthony Trentham continues his quest to learn about his Scottish heritage in order to decide his next political move. Through stories read and told to him, he discovers more about his ancestors and the history of Scotland. He also encounters a feisty Highland lass who stirs his heart. Will he find the courage to stand up for his beliefs?

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Baker Books

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1441229582

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9781441229588

Final Scrum

Rugby Internationals Killed in the Second World War

By: Nigel McCrery,Michael Rowe

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Final Scrum

Rugby Internationals Killed in the Second World War

By: Nigel McCrery,Michael Rowe

After the terrible losses of The Great War, twenty years later the Second World War resulted in the death of some of the finest sporting icons. This book honors the ninety International Rugby players who lost their lives. Fifteen were Scottish, fourteen English, eleven Welsh and eight Irish. Australia and New Zealand suffered with ten and two Internationals killed respectively and France eight. Germany topped the list with nineteen. In the same way that the Authors best-selling Into Touch remembered the 130 Internationals lost in the First World War, Final Scrum gives an individual biography of each of the ninety with their international and club playing record as well as their backgrounds, details of their military careers and circumstances of their death. We learn where they are buried or commemorated together with at least one photograph of each player.Rugby enthusiasts will find this book a fascinating and moving record of the sacrifice of the finest young men of their generation who fought in the second worldwide conflict of the 20th Century.

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Pen and Sword

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1473894522

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9781473894525

Classical FORTRAN

Programming for Engineering and Scientific Applications

By: Michael Kupferschmid

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Classical FORTRAN

Programming for Engineering and Scientific Applications

By: Michael Kupferschmid

Classical FORTRAN is a college text, self-study guide, and reference about computer programming for numerical calculations. The book features a conversational, classroom-proven style that is easy to read and contains numerous case studies and examples. The author provides practical advice on program design, documentation, and coding style and unusu

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CRC Press

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1482216892

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9781482216899

Dark History of the American Presidents

Power, Corruption, and Scandal at the Heart of the White House

By: Michael Kerrigan

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Dark History of the American Presidents

Power, Corruption, and Scandal at the Heart of the White House

By: Michael Kerrigan

Dark History of the American Presidents covers every dirty deed committed behind the White House fence, from financial profiteering and insider trading to illicit bugging of the opposition, including the terms of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

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Amber Books Ltd

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1908696281

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9781908696281

Glasgow with a Flourish

By: Michael Meighan

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Glasgow with a Flourish

By: Michael Meighan

A look in to the people who have contributed to Glasgow throughout history, in turn making it flourish.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445612615

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9781445612614

Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin

By: Michael Comerford

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Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin

By: Michael Comerford

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385310172

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9783385310179

Lost Souls

Hotel St Kilda

By: Michael Knaggs

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Lost Souls

Hotel St Kilda

By: Michael Knaggs

As Tom struggles in vain to come to terms with his personal loss, sinking ever deeper into a drunken world of lost nights and half-remembered days, concern grows in government circles over his outspoken condemnation of the New Justice Regime, his own brain-child and the prime vehicle for getting the party elected.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1785896644

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9781785896644

The Complete Patter

By: Michael Munro

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The Complete Patter

By: Michael Munro

Do you have a baldy clue as to who the bears and junglies are? Confused by the thought of some cheekywatter from your cargo? Fancy a day out at Fort Weetabix? Or would you rather settle down with some swedgers? After all, you don't want to be a stank dodger. Confused? You need this book. Michael Munro has won the eternal gratitude of Glaswegians for his efforts in popularising their city's dialect, universally known as the 'patter'. This book is the most extensive collection of this rich and expressive language ever made. Often hilarious, sometimes coarse (but never dull!), good knowledge of the patter is the key to understanding Glasgow and its inhabitants.

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Birlinn

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0857907212

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9780857907219

U-Boats Against Canada

German Submarines in Canadian Waters

By: Michael L. Hadley

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U-Boats Against Canada

German Submarines in Canadian Waters

By: Michael L. Hadley

The U-boats constituted a serious threat to North American security and a major challenge to coastal and convoy defence. Hadley reveals the military and political impact on Canada of in-shore submarine warfare and vibrantly documents the successful German strategy of deploying daring long-range solo sorties to pin down the enemy close to home.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773508015

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9780773508019

The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking

By: Michael Cysouw

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The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking

By: Michael Cysouw

This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Michael Cysouw develops a new framework for the typology of person marking based on the rejection of the notion of plurality for its analysis. When a mother says "Mummy is going to say goodnight now", Mummy is the person marker in a way that in English is confined to motherese but which is used more commonly in some other languages and may also be characteristic of much earlier forms. Dr Cysouw divides the person markers of 400 languages into paradigms. He considers how the structure of these person paradigms relates to their function. His investigation provides a clear account of how person markers work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, language-relatedness, and the interfaces between discourse, syntax, and semantics. The combination of a typological and a comparative approach results in the first outline of a cognitive map of the paradigmatic structure of person marking.

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OUP Oxford

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0191564990

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9780191564994

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