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A Puzzle for Fools

By: Patrick Quentin

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This first act of a mystery series by an Edgar Award winner, Broadway producer/amateur sleuth Peter Duluth delivers “your money’s worth of theatrics” (Kirkus Reviews). Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: “Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.” Peter Duluth was once an up-and-comer on the Great White Way. But after his wife died, he dove into a bottle and stayed there. It’s only when he’s about to hit rock bottom that he decides to dry out, admitting himself into rehab to save his life. Unfortunately, Peter’s new home turns out to be even more dangerous than the outside world when a staff member is murdered, and a patient soon checks out in a similar manner. Peter thinks he may have an idea of what’s going on, but isn’t sure what he’s hearing and seeing is real, or if the DTs are still playing with his head. When a beautiful fellow patient falls under suspicion, Peter realizes that the deadly mystery is offering him not only a new life, but also a new love. All he has to do now is find a crazed killer in a place where crazy is the norm . . .

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Open Road Media

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1504051491

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The Metallurgic Age

The Victorian Flowering of Invention and Industrial Science

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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The Metallurgic Age

The Victorian Flowering of Invention and Industrial Science

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion of civilization. Never was this connection more apparent than during the Metallurgic Age, which coincided with England's Victorian era and the Gilded Age in America. This era, covering essentially the 19th century, saw unprecedented advances as a passion for technology and learning fueled a period of discovery and of practical application of the sciences. This work explores in depth the connection between Victorian creativity and the advance of engineering. It examines this age of accelerated invention and the evolution of new fields such as metallurgy, automotive engineering, aerodynamics and industrial arts. Numerous unsung inventors--many of whom lost one or more of the frequent patent battles that peppered the era--are remembered here along with the concept of the meta-invention. The result is a revealing look at how metallurgy permeated all areas of Victorian life and affected changes from the kitchen to the battlefield.

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McFarland

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1476611130

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9781476611136

Investing in Early Childhood Development

Review of the World Bank's Recent Experience

By: Rebecca K. Sayre,Amanda E. Devercelli,Michelle J. Neuman,Quentin Wodon

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Investing in Early Childhood Development

Review of the World Bank's Recent Experience

By: Rebecca K. Sayre,Amanda E. Devercelli,Michelle J. Neuman,Quentin Wodon

This study provides an overview of Bank investments in Early Childhood Development (ECD) from 2000-2013 within the Education, Health, Nutrition and Population, and Social Protection and Labor practices.

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World Bank Publications

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1464804044

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America Through Baseball

By: David Quentin Voigt

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America Through Baseball

By: David Quentin Voigt

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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0882292722

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9780882292724

HOPE

By: Quentin Jackson

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HOPE

By: Quentin Jackson

This book is a beacon for those who seek to intertwine their spiritual path with everyday actions of compassion and love. Whether you're an athlete pushing your physical and mental limits, a student exploring life's vast possibilities, or anyone yearning for a deeper sense of meaning, "HOPE" invites you to discover the sacredness in helping others.

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Mind Power Investment Group

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9798895468081

Victorian Artists

By: Quentin Bell

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Victorian Artists

By: Quentin Bell

First published in 1967, Victorian Artists documents the painting of the Victorian period, that is, the period between the death of Constable and William IV in 1837, the first Post-Impressionist painting in 1910 and the end of an epoch in British painting. Professor Bell has given special attention to some of the pre-Raphaelite artists, and to Sickert and the Camden Town group. These most illuminating and diverting essays, which originated as Slade lectures at Oxford, combined with a large collection of illustrations, make this a unique discussion of a period whose aesthetic influence is still widely evident. This book will be of interest to students of art and history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000886956

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9781000886955

Charles Crichton

By: Quentin Falk

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Charles Crichton

By: Quentin Falk

Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old. But the most significant part of his career was spent at Ealing Studios in the 1940s and 1950s, working on such beloved comedies as Hue and Cry, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt. Nonetheless, as this pioneering study of Crichton’s work reveals, his filmmaking skills extended way beyond comedy to wartime dramas and film noir, and his adaptability served him well when he made the transition into primetime television, working on popular shows such as The Avengers, Space: 1999 and The Adventures of Black Beauty. Featuring first-hand testimony from colleagues ranging from Dame Judi Dench and Petula Clark to John Cleese and Sir Michael Palin, this riveting account of Crichton’s fascinating life in film will appeal to film scholars and general readers alike.

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Manchester University Press

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152614994X

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9781526149947

This Realm of New Zealand

The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown

By: Janet McLean,Alison Quentin-Baxter

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This Realm of New Zealand

The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown

By: Janet McLean,Alison Quentin-Baxter

New Zealand is a democratic constitutional monarchy, one of Queen Elizabeth II's sixteen realms. This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Queen, the Governor-General and the Crown interact with our democratically-elected leaders under New Zealand's unwritten constitution.The authors explain how these islands in the South Pacific were first brought within Queen Victoria's dominions, the arrangements then made for their future government, and how those arrangements developed over time with the pressure for democracy and responsible government to become New Zealand's current constitution. They discuss the responsibilities of, and interactions between, the key office-holders: the Sovereign herself; her representative, the Governor-General; the impersonal and perpetual Crown, and the Prime Minister, other Ministers and Members of Parliament. All of them affect in some way the government which runs the country day to day. In an afterword, the authors examine some of the key issues to be considered should New Zealand become a republic.The parliamentary democracy that we take for granted can conceal New Zealand's ultimate constitutional underpinnings in the monarchy. But, as the authors make clear, the monarchy's continuing role in New Zealand's constitution is significant. And understanding the roles of the Queen, the Governor-General and the Crown will be critical as we look forward to debates about the possibility of a republic in New Zealand.

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Auckland University Press

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1775589633

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Charleston

A Bloomsbury House & Garden

By: Quentin Bell,Virginia Nicholson

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Charleston

A Bloomsbury House & Garden

By: Quentin Bell,Virginia Nicholson

Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virghinia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney's atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell's family album convey the flavour of the household in its heyday.

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White Lion Publishing

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0711239312

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In the Heart of the Desert

The Story of an Exploration Geologist and the Search for Oil in the Middle East

By: Michael Quentin Morton

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In the Heart of the Desert

The Story of an Exploration Geologist and the Search for Oil in the Middle East

By: Michael Quentin Morton

In the heart of the desert is the biography of exploration geologist Mike Morton, written by his son who grew up with his father's stories and first came to experience the desert on their field trips together. Making use of Mike's journals and letters and writings of his contemporaries, the author describes his father's jouneys and what it was like for westerners to live in the Middle East in the post-World War II years. The book is also a history of oil exploration in the Middle East, relying onthe author's extensive research into company archives and eye-witness accounts of activities in the field. -- Provided by publisher.

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Green Mountain Press

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095522120X

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9780955221200

Biology of Fishes

By: Quentin Bone,Richard Moore

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Biology of Fishes

By: Quentin Bone,Richard Moore

The VitalBook e-book version of Biology of Fishes is only available only in the US and Canada at the present time. To purchase or rent please visit http://store.vitalsource.com/show/978-1-1341-8631-0. The Third Edition of Biology of Fishes is chiefly about fish as remarkably efficient machines for coping with the many problems that life in wat

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1134186304

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Arbitration and Renegotiation of International Investment Agreements:A Study with Particular Reference to Means of Conflict Avoidance Under Natural Resources Investment Agreements

By: Wolfgang Peter,Jean-Quentin de Kuyper,Bénédict de Candolle

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Arbitration and Renegotiation of International Investment Agreements:A Study with Particular Reference to Means of Conflict Avoidance Under Natural Resources Investment Agreements

By: Wolfgang Peter,Jean-Quentin de Kuyper,Bénédict de Candolle

This book is a second, revised edition of the original 1986 publication. Since then, the issue of contract change has increasingly challenged the business community and legal practitioners. The world-wide recession may well have accelerated the need to secure contractual relationships by reasonable flexibility. Successful foreign investment, a relentless challenge, is subject to many unpredictable errors. Of all these variables, however, successful investment is most dependent on the investor-host country relationship, which is the object of the present study. In particular, the pressure by host countries for contract change and its counterpart: the investor's defence of contract stability. The book is essentially a reference handbook for legal practitioners. It analyzes a variety of increasingly important questions concerning international investment agreements that come under pressure for change by one of the contracting parties: either a transnational corporation or a host country government. The seven case studies and the analytical chapters which follow are based on the author's research and the assistance of corporate and government officials, experts from the United Nations and other organizations, and members of academic research institutes.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041100377

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9789041100375

The Cockleshell Canoes

British Military Canoes of World War Two

By: Quentin Rees

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The Cockleshell Canoes

British Military Canoes of World War Two

By: Quentin Rees

The gripping story of the development of the Cockleshell Canoes.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445610442

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9781445610443

Patronising Bastards

How the Elites Betrayed Britain

By: Quentin Letts

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Patronising Bastards

How the Elites Betrayed Britain

By: Quentin Letts

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-touch, illiberal elite fills its boots. 'HILARIOUS' Daily Mail 'With its vicious takedowns, Quentin Letts' laugh-out-loud Patronising Bastards will have the lefty-elite running scared' The Sun Not since Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake' have the peasants been so revolting. Western capitalism's elites are bemused: Brexit, Trump, and maybe more eruptions to follow. But their rulers were so good to them! Hillary Clinton called the ingrates 'a basket of deplorables', Bob Geldof flicked them a V sign, Tony Blair thought voters too thick to understand the question. Wigged judges stared down their legalistic noses at a surging, pongy populous. These people who know best, these snooterati with their faux-liberal ways, are the 'Patronising Bastards'. Their downfall is largely of their own making - their Sybaritic excesses, an obsession with political correctness, the prolonged rape of reason and rite. You'll find these self-indulgent show-ponys not just in politics and the cloistered old institutions but also in high fashion, football, among the clean-eating foodies and at the Baftas and Oscars, where celebritydom hires PR smoothies to massage reputations and mislead, distort, twist. Political columnist and bestselling author Quentin Letts identifies these condescending creeps and their networks, their methods and their dubious morals. Letts kebabs them like mutton. It's baaaahd. It's juicy. Richard Branson, Emma Thompson, Shami Chakrabarti, Jean-Claude Juncker and any head waiter who calls you 'young man' - this one's for you!

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Constable

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147212734X

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9781472127341

Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking, a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years.

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McFarland

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0786485485

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9780786485482

The Schools of Design

By: Quentin Bell

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The Schools of Design

By: Quentin Bell

First published in 1963, The Schools of Design is a history of English Art Education. The story of the genesis of English art schools is one of the fierce conflicts in which private feuds mingle with questions of principle. It is a story of administrative chaos and open scandal in which some long-forgotten figures are involved; others – such as Haydon, Gladstone, Alfred Stevens, Dyce, Stafford Northcote, Etty and Henry Role – appear in a new role. In itself this forms an entertaining study full of incident and drama. Many of the problems that presented themselves in the 1840s are still with us today and no one who is interested in the place of art in our society can afford to neglect the lessons of the Schools of Design. This book will be of interest to students of art and history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000885887

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9781000885880

Dress Rehearsal - The Story Of Dieppe

By: Quentin Reynolds

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Dress Rehearsal - The Story Of Dieppe

By: Quentin Reynolds

Quentin Reynolds gets himself attached to the Dieppe raid (August 19, 1942) and tells us the story. The events of the book span only a few days, but Reynolds takes us on diversions ranging from a long excerpt of one of his Colliers pieces telling us why it's too early to open a second front to the miracle of plastic surgery.

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Read Books Ltd

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147338835X

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9781473388352

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance

By: Quentin Skinner

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The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance

By: Quentin Skinner

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account of all the principal texts of the period, discussing in turn the chief political writings of Dante, Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more, Luther and Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he also examines a very large number of lesser writers in order to explain the general social and intellectual context in which these leading theorists worked. He thus presents the history not as a procession of 'classic texts' but are more readily intelligible. He traces by this means the gradual emergence of the vocabulary of modern political thought, and in particular the crucial concept of the State.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107392772

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9781107392779

Benevolent Barons

American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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Benevolent Barons

American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community and poured millions into schools, job training and adult education. Often criticized as welfare capitalism, this system was unique in the world. Lesser known capitalists like Peter Cooper and George Westinghouse led the movement in the mid- to late 1800s. Westinghouse, in particular, focused on good wages and benefits. Robber barons like George Pullman and Andrew Carnegie would later succeed in corrupting the higher benefits of worker-centered capitalism. This is the story of those accomplished Americans who sought to balance the accumulation of wealth with communal responsibility.

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McFarland

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1476620296

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9781476620299

Cockleshell Heroes

The Definitive History 75th Anniversary

By: Quentin Rees

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Cockleshell Heroes

The Definitive History 75th Anniversary

By: Quentin Rees

The definitive book on the Cockleshell Heroes, and one of the most famous Marine raids of World War Two.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445610310

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9781445610313

George Westinghouse

Gentle Genius

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

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George Westinghouse

Gentle Genius

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

This is a biography of Westinghouse, genius inventor from railroad and gas distribution equipment to the corporate model of invention and research. He surpassed Edison in electricity pioneering and in managing workers too; but they both lost their companies in the panic of 1907. The bank always wins.

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Algora Publishing

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0875865089

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9780875865089

Andrea Cesalpino's ›De Plantis Libri XVI‹ (1583) and the Transformation of Medical Botany in the 16th Century

Edition, Translation, and Commentary on Book I

By: Quentin Hiernaux,Corentin Tresnie

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Andrea Cesalpino's ›De Plantis Libri XVI‹ (1583) and the Transformation of Medical Botany in the 16th Century

Edition, Translation, and Commentary on Book I

By: Quentin Hiernaux,Corentin Tresnie

In 1583 the Italian botanist and physician Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603) published De Plantis Libri XVI, made of 16 books (libri), considered to be the first treatise where botany is treated independently from medicine. In so doing, he broke with a long tradition inherited in Western science from Antiquity and perpetuated during the Middle Age through the early Renaissance. De Plantis lays the foundations of scientific systematics through a new focus on plant morphology and natural similarities and became a milestone in the history of Western botany. It is a precious testimony to the evolution of botanical and physiological knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and illustrates the role of Aristotelian philosophy in 16th-century knowledge. The volume includes an introductory essay about Cesalpino's philosophy and botany, a critical edition of the Latin text, a translation, a commentary, and indexes. It should interest scholars in Renaissance studies, historians, and philosophers of science and medicine, as well as botanists and plant scientists curious about the history of plant sciences.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111001105

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9783111001104

Television's Strangest Moments

Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of TV

By: Quentin Falk,Ben Falk

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Television's Strangest Moments

Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of TV

By: Quentin Falk,Ben Falk

Ever since John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrated this now all-pervasive medium in his small Soho laboratory, the history of television has been littered with remarkable but true tales of the unexpected. Ranging from bizarre stories of actors’ shenanigans to strange but true executive and marketing decisions, and covering over one hundred shows, series and episodes from both behind and in front of the camera in British and American television studios, 'Television's Strangest Moments' is the ultimate tome of TV trivia. Why did the quintessential English sleuth The Saint drive a Swedish car? What happened when Michael Aspel met Nora Batty on the set of the 1960s drama-documentary 'The War Game'? Why is the Halloween chiller 'Ghostwatch' still unofficially banned by the BBC? From live TV suicide to Ricky Martin's disastrous candid camera-style episode involving a young female fan and several cans of dog food, 'Television's Strangest Moments' will keep you hooked when there's nothing worth watching on the box.

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Portico

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1849941831

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9781849941839

Basin Futures

Water Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin

By: Daniel Connell,R. Quentin Grafton

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Basin Futures

Water Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin

By: Daniel Connell,R. Quentin Grafton

This unique book brings together 27 chapters from some of the world's leading practitioners and experts on environmental water, communities, law, economics and governance. Its goal is to understand the many dimensions of water in the Murray-Darling Basin and provide guidance about how to implement a water management plan that addresses the needs of communities, the economy and the environment. The comprehensiveness of topics covered, the expertise of its authors, and the absolute need to take a multidisciplinary approach to resolving the "wicked problem" of governing our scarce water resource makes this volume a must read for all who care about Australian communities and the environment.

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ANU E Press

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1921862254

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9781921862250

William McKinley, Apostle of Protectionism

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

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William McKinley, Apostle of Protectionism

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

This biography, focused on McKinley''s unusual view of protectionism, a labor-business alliance, and American exceptionalism, offers striking parallels to today as the US struggles to define its international role and to determine the best blend of free trade, protectionism, and immigration. William McKinley was the first US president to address globalization; his legacy in protectionism and immigrant labor offer lessons for the current era. He orchestrated an alliance between big business and the American worker that ushered in one of the greatest periods of growth ever known in the US economy. Yet McKinley has been in the shadow of his successor Theodore Roosevelt for over a hundred years. As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, McKinley had forged a tariff bill in 1888 that united a nation that was still divided between North and South, East and West. His continued efforts to support free trade, protected by managed markets in the tradition of Henry Clay, and worker benefits like those provide by George Westinghouse, led to a great economic compromise. Further, with revolutionary, visionary rhetoric laden with America''s economic manifest destiny he appealed to everyone from the steelworkers of Pittsburgh to the New York bankers. He articulated a uniting philosophy: Free trade in the United States is founded upon a community of equalities and reciprocities...[F]ree foreign trade admits the foreigner to equal privileges with our citizens. It invites the product of foreign cheap labor to this market in competition with the domestic, representing better paid labor [albeit with tariffs to protect that domestic product]. McKinley''s vision built the industrial base of the nation. By the end of his presidency the American steel, glass, rubber, oil, machinery and electrical appliance industries dominated the world. He was one of America''s most popular presidents. As his funeral train crossed the nation in 1901, factory workers and captains of industry alike stood along the rails to mourn him. Never since has such a political alliance between labor and management been forged. He was the last president to build a voting alliance between laborers, immigrant workers, and capitalists. That alliance was marred by famous labor strikes and the building of great trusts, yet he still managed to sweep the labor votes in the great industrial centers due to his belief in reciprocity and protectionism. McKinley''s role as a dinner pail Republican offers insights into how America can approach today''s globalization with the best interests of the home team in mind.

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087586578X

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Quentin Tarantino

Interviews, Revised and Updated

By: Quentin Tarantino

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Quentin Tarantino

Interviews, Revised and Updated

By: Quentin Tarantino

A fascinating collection of interviews with the colorful and provocative director of Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, and many other films

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617038741

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The Ohio Presidents

Eight Men and a Binding Political Philosophy in the White House, 1841-1923

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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The Ohio Presidents

Eight Men and a Binding Political Philosophy in the White House, 1841-1923

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Taft and Warren Harding. Collectively their social policies and beliefs formed a unified philosophy and legacy. Ohio republicanism--an alliance of Christianity, populism, nationalism, industrialism and conservative economics--dominated politics across America from 1860 to 1930. Initially several factions in search of a party, it morphed from the anti-slavery Whig Party of Abraham Lincoln and swallowed up a group of single-issue parties, including the Abolition and Free Soil parties, under a national banner. The ghost of Ohio republicanism can still be seen today.

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1476633347

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9781476633343

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa

By: Quentin van Doosselaere

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Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa

By: Quentin van Doosselaere

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa is an empirical study of medieval long-distance trade agreements and the surrounding social dynamics that transformed the feudal organization of men-of-arms into the world of Renaissance merchants. Drawing on 20,000 notarial records, the book traces the commercial partnerships of thousands of people in Genoa from 1150 to 1435 and reports social activity on a scale that is unprecedented for such an early period of history. In combining a detailed historical reading with network modeling to analyze the change in the long-distance trade relationships, Quentin van Doosselaere challenges the prevailing western-centric view of development. He demonstrates that the history of the three main medieval economic frameworks that brought about European capitalism - equity, credit, and insurance - was not driven by strategic merchants' economic optimizations but rather by a change in partners' selections that reflected the dynamic of the social structure as a whole.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139479210

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50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

By: Quentin Letts

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50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

By: Quentin Letts

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Which fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty. Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and stabs them where they deserve it, from TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, the dumbed-down buffoon who put the 'h' in Aspidistra, to the perpetrators of the 'Credit Crunch'. Margaret Thatcher ruptured our national unity. The creators of EastEnders trashed our brand over high tea. Thus, he argues, are the people who made our country the ugly, scheming, cheating, beer-ridden bum of the Western world. Here are the fools and knaves and vulgarians who ripped down our British glories and imposed the tawdry and the trite. In a half century we have gone from end-of-Empire to descent-into-Hell.

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Constable

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184901163X

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9781849011631

Bloomsbury Recalled

By: Quentin Bell

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Bloomsbury Recalled

By: Quentin Bell

In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people among whom he came of age. Here are Bell's candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell - Virginia Woolf's sister - Vanessa's lover, Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells' country place in Sussex. The stories of this enchanting extended family, the private lives of these public figures, have all the magic and intrigue of the best novels of the day. Bloomsbury Recalled, in the expansive storytelling tradition of the early modernists, re-creates the captivating theater of events that was Bloomsbury.

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Columbia University Press

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0231105657

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9780231105651

The Brother

By: Quentin Baker

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The Brother

By: Quentin Baker

It is Spring, 1949. Widow Lelia Romberg agrees to marry Eduarde Fournier, a farmer in Montana's Frenchtown valley. She does not know that Eduarde's brother lives upstairs in the Fournier's farmhouse as a recluse. Although this is worrisome to her, Lelia and her husband (who speaks mostly French) begin to explore life together. That summer they decide to travel by car to Seattle, Washington

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Q Trips

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0615276695

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Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction

By: Quentin Skinner

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Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction

By: Quentin Skinner

Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner focuses on three major works, The Prince, the Discourses, and The History of Florence, and distils from them an introduction to Machiavelli's doctrines of exemplary clarity. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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OUP Oxford

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019154034X

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9780191540349

Cold Malice

A dark and chilling Icelandic noir thriller

By: Quentin Bates

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Cold Malice

A dark and chilling Icelandic noir thriller

By: Quentin Bates

Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times 'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. Bolton Reykjavík detective Gunnhildur Gísladóttir tries not to believe in ghosts. But when Helgi, one of her team is certain he's seen a man who had been declared dead more than fifteen years ago, she reluctantly gives him some unofficial leeway to look into it. Has the not-so-dead man returned from the grave to settle old scores, or has he just decided to take a last look around his old haunts? Either way, there are people who have nursed grudges for years, hoping for a reckoning one day. Even the rumour of his being alive and kicking is enough to spark a storm of fury and revenge, with Gunnhildur and Helgi caught up in the middle of it. The seventh dark and atmospheric thriller in Quentin Bates's Icelandic crime series. A tense page-turner perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man. Praise for Quentin Bates: 'A great read - leaves you craving the next installment' Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 'A perfect book to curl up with in front of the fire' The Bookbag 'Well written and absorbing' Woman's Way 'Captures the chilly spirit of Nordic crime fiction . . . Fans of Arnaldur Indridason's Reykjavík mysteries will want to add Bates to their reading lists' Booklist '[A] crackling fiction debut ... palpable authenticity' Publishers Weekly 'A superb new series' Eurocrime

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Constable

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1472131827

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9781472131829

Child Mental Health in Primary Care

By: Quentin Spender

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Child Mental Health in Primary Care

By: Quentin Spender

This text helps general practitioners, health visitors and other professionals working in primary care to assess, manage and refer children and adolescents with mental health problems. It supports service provision in the new primary care environment.

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Radcliffe Publishing

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1857752627

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9781857752625

Understanding Evangelical Media

The Changing Face of Christian Communication

By: Quentin J Sch Robert Herbert Woods Jr,Robert Herbert Woods,Schultze Quentin J.

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Understanding Evangelical Media

The Changing Face of Christian Communication

By: Quentin J Sch Robert Herbert Woods Jr,Robert Herbert Woods,Schultze Quentin J.

As long as there has been a church, there has been Christian communication - people of the book bearing the good news from one place to another, persuading, teaching and even delighting an ever-broadening audience with the message of the gospel. Amid ongoing advances in technology and an ever-more-multicultural context, however, the time...

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1458755312

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9781458755315

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