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Mystic Sails, Texas Trails

Captain Grimes, Shanghai Pierce, Range Wars, and Raising Texas

By: Robert Davant,Mickey Herskowitz

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Mystic Sails, Texas Trails

Captain Grimes, Shanghai Pierce, Range Wars, and Raising Texas

By: Robert Davant,Mickey Herskowitz

This four-generation saga, written with Mickey Herskowitz, begins with Richard Grimes, who became a sea captain at the astonishing age of 21, and made the first of his fortunes carrying passengers from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, to the West Indies. In 1821, he heard of the land grants being developed in the territory west of New Orleans and the port of Matagorda. It was the final year of Spanish rule, and the Captain began to sail and trade in the waters of what was now known as Mexican Texas, in the heart of the colony granted to Moses Austin. By 1836, he was sailing 2,400 miles to bring settlers, troops, gunpowder, whiskey and provisions to aid Texas in its struggle to free itself from Mexico. After the war, as the new republic was coming to life, the Captain pursued maritime trading along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. When his son William Bradford Grimes joined him after years of schooling in the north, he made he gradual transition from life at sea to land and cattle baron. After the Civil War, Bradford established the legendary WBG ranch and led the first trail drives from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Bradford eventually passed on the WBG Ranch to his children to move to Kansas City, where he became hugely successful in banking and the mercantile business.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1680031147

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9781680031140

History of the Princess de Condé

Vol. 1

By: Robert Brown Borthwick

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History of the Princess de Condé

Vol. 1

By: Robert Brown Borthwick

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

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3368159259

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9783368159252

The Recorder

By: David Lasocki,Robert Ehrlich,Nikolaj Tarasov,Michala Petri

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The Recorder

By: David Lasocki,Robert Ehrlich,Nikolaj Tarasov,Michala Petri

The fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the present The recorder is perhaps best known today for its educational role. Although it is frequently regarded as a stepping-stone on the path toward higher musical pursuits, this role is just one recent facet of the recorder's fascinating history--which spans professional and amateur music-making since the Middle Ages. In this new addition to the Yale Musical Instrument Series, David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich trace the evolution of the recorder. Emerging from a variety of flutes played by fourteenth-century soldiers, shepherds, and watchmen, the recorder swiftly became an artistic instrument for courtly and city minstrels. Featured in music by the greatest Baroque composers, including Bach and Handel, in the twentieth century it played a vital role in the Early Music Revival and achieved international popularity and notoriety in mass education. Overall, Lasocki and Ehrlich make a case for the recorder being surprisingly present, and significant, throughout Western music history.

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Yale University Press

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0300118708

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9780300118704

History of the Princes De Conde

Vol. I

By: Robert Borthwick

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History of the Princes De Conde

Vol. I

By: Robert Borthwick

Reprint of the original.

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3368149490

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9783368149499

AMEX

A History of the American Stock Exchange

By: Robert Sobel

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AMEX

A History of the American Stock Exchange

By: Robert Sobel

History of the American Stock Exchange, the nation's second largest organized securities complex, from its inception in 1921 to 1971.

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428

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Beard Books

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1893122484

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9781893122482

Madeleine's Ghost

A Novel

By: Robert Girardi

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Madeleine's Ghost

A Novel

By: Robert Girardi

Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for evidence of miracles. Trapped in a neighborhood of cheap rents and failed promise, in a rent-controlled apartment suddenly, inexplicably seized by a beautiful and angry ghost, Ned's only refuge is the F train to Manhattan's East Village bars, where he and his friends drown their sorrows in drink.... But Ned is about to heed another call, the siren song of New Orleans, where the history of countless lost souls seems to rise from the steaming streets—and where, ten years before, he ended a brief, passionate affair with a woman whose memory has haunted him ever since. Here, in a city of spirits, Ned will embrace a dead saint and a living sinner...as a beautiful ghost offers him her desire. And his destiny.... Set amid the sleepless energy and seething passion of New York and New Orleans, Madeleine's Ghost is a spellbinding novel of lost love, history, and desire—a work of startling originality that is at once exquisitely written and compulsively readable.

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369

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Dell

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0440333997

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9780440333999

Barcelona

By: Robert Hughes

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Barcelona

By: Robert Hughes

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common sense.

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Vintage

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0679743839

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9780679743835

A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines

By: Robert Kennedy

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A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines

By: Robert Kennedy

... it is hoped that this book will 'Kick-start' interest in the Philippine's birds, both at home and abroad, before it is too late' Birding World

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544

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Oxford University Press

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0198546688

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9780198546689

Revolution in Print

The Press in France, 1775-1800

By: Robert Darnton,Daniel Roche,New York Public Library

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Revolution in Print

The Press in France, 1775-1800

By: Robert Darnton,Daniel Roche,New York Public Library

Explains the role of printing in the French Revolution and the establishment of the revolutionary government

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388

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Univ of California Press

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0520064313

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9780520064317

A Crisis in Swiss pluralism

The Romansh and their relations with the German- and Italian-Swiss in the perspective of a millenium

By: Robert Henry Billigmeier

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A Crisis in Swiss pluralism

The Romansh and their relations with the German- and Italian-Swiss in the perspective of a millenium

By: Robert Henry Billigmeier

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

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468

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311080669X

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9783110806694

REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents

History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More

By: Jefferson Davis,Heros von Borcke,Robert E. Lee,Frank H. Alfriend,John Esten Cooke

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REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents

History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More

By: Jefferson Davis,Heros von Borcke,Robert E. Lee,Frank H. Alfriend,John Esten Cooke

This meticulously edited collection offers you the true accounts about the Confederate States of America, including documents that were most influential for the creation of the states and the life stories of its principal leaders and officers. "The History of the Confederate States of America" and "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" represent the best source for understanding the background, the creation, fight and the ultimate defeat, written by the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis. The collection also includes memoirs and biographies of the Confederate Leaders: Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee & Heros von Borcke. Finally, this collection is enriched with the most pivotal documents of the Confederate States. Contents: History of the Confederate States of America The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Memoirs & Biographies: Jefferson Davis by Frank H. Alfriend Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke Memoirs of Heros von Borcke Official Documents of the Confederate States: Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America Constitution of the Confederate States of America The Address of the People of South Carolina assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States South Carolina Ordinance of Secession Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union Mississippi Ordinance of Secession Florida Ordinance of Secession Alabama Ordinance of Secession Georgia Ordinance of Secession Louisiana Ordinance of Secession Texas Ordinance of Secession Arizona Territory Ordinance of Secession Virginia Ordinance of Secession Arkansas Ordinance of Secession North Carolina Ordinance of Secession Tennessee Ordinance of Secession Missouri Ordinance of Secession Kentucky Ordinance of Secession Dix-Hill Cartel Robert E. Lee's Letter Announcing Surrender ...

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e-artnow

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8026879848

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9788026879848

Jazz Age Barcelona

By: Robert A. Davidson

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Jazz Age Barcelona

By: Robert A. Davidson

One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the cosmopolitan Jazz Age, delving into the cultural forces that flourished in Europe between the late 1910s and early 1930s. Studying literary journalism, photography, and the city of Barcelona itself, Robert Davidson argues that the explosion of jazz culture and the avant-garde was predominantly fostered by journalists and their positive reception of innovative new art forms and radical politics. Using periodicals and recently rediscovered archival material, Davidson considers the relationship between the political pressures of a brutal class war, the grasp of a repressive dictatorship, and the engagement of the city's young intellectuals with Barcelona's culture and environment. Also analysing the 1929 International Exhibition and the down-and-out Raval District - which housed many of the Age's clubs and bars - Jazz Age Barcelona is an insightful portrait of one of the twentieth century's most culturally rich times and places.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442697059

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9781442697058

The Feast of Saint Abraham

Medieval Millenarians and the Jews

By: Robert E. Lerner

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The Feast of Saint Abraham

Medieval Millenarians and the Jews

By: Robert E. Lerner

The Feast of Saint Abraham is characterized by originality, profound scholarship (especially with regard to new manuscript sources), and by clarity and felicity of style. . . . A fine book."—Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago

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398

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812235673

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9780812235678

Fractures of the Acetabulum

By: Emile Letournel,Robert Judet

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Fractures of the Acetabulum

By: Emile Letournel,Robert Judet

At the request of our publishers, I accepted the task of preparing this second edition. I felt this was necessary for several reasons: new imaging technologies such as CT scanning and 3-D reconstructions are now used routinely, the in dications for employing improved approaches are clearer, and reconstructions are facilitated by new internal fixation devices. Above all, I thought it was time to report the long-term results of the 940 acetabular fractures, 90070 of which were treated surgically - a unique series. In spite of the experience acquired from the three previous reviews of cases (1966, 1971, and 1978), I failed to foresee the amount of time this revision would need. In fact, it took more than 3 years to follow up the larger number of cases, and 159 patients (out of 800, i. e. 22. 7%) were not included as they had moved since their last review and simply could not be located. At a time when it is in fashion to evaluate the cost of health care, it is strange to see how public administrators, so keen on evaluating the immediate cost of our opera tions, do not care about the quality of their long-term results, which appears to us, however, to be the best basis for the choice of the initial treatment.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364275435X

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9783642754357

Rethinking Islam

Common Questions, Uncommon Answers

By: Mohammed Arkoun,Robert D. Lee

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Rethinking Islam

Common Questions, Uncommon Answers

By: Mohammed Arkoun,Robert D. Lee

A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and Shi'a, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. A product of Islamic

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Routledge

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1000309959

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9781000309959

Ghana Country Assistance Review

A Study in Development Effectiveness

By: Robert Pritchard Armstrong

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Ghana Country Assistance Review

A Study in Development Effectiveness

By: Robert Pritchard Armstrong

Assesses the progress of private sector development in low-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, from 1987 to the present. The book identifies causes of uneven performance and outlines the main elements of a strategy--led by the private sector-- for accelerated and shared growth to reduce poverty. Also available in French: (ISBN 0-8213-3550-2) Stock No. 13550.

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World Bank Publications

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0821334654

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9780821334652

A Dictionary of the Norman Or Old French Language

Collected from Such Acts of Parliament, Parliament Rolls, Journals, Acts of State, Records, Law Books, ... the Names of Dignities and Offices, of Persons and Places; and to Render the Reading of Those Records, More Easy ... True Sense and Meaning of Many Words ... to which are Added the Laws of William the Conqueror, with Notes and References

By: Robert Kelham

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A Dictionary of the Norman Or Old French Language

By: Robert Kelham

Facsimile of the first edition. This pioneering work was not superseded until the twentieth century, and it helped to initiate serious inquiry into early English law texts. Joseph Story used it when he studied the Year Books. In 1843 it was reprinted and appended to Bouvier's Law Dictionary. The second part containing the laws of William the Conqueror is printed in three columns containing the text in Norman, Latin translations by a Dr. Wilkins and English translations by Kelham. "Though far from complete, it is the best work of the kind": Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 435.

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1584777192

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9781584777199

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