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by Michael O'Flanagan (Author)Irish Phonetics is a book written by Michael O'Flanagan and published in 1904. The book is a comprehensive guide to the phonetics of the Irish language, covering topics such as pronunciation, intonation, and accentuation. It provides detailed descriptions of the sounds of Irish, including vowels, consonants, and diphthongs, as well as information on how these sounds are produced and how they are used in speech. The book also includes exercises and examples to hel...

The Eighth Ohio At Gettysburg: Address By General Franklin Sawyer (1889) - Paperback

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by Franklin Sawyer (Author)The Eighth Ohio at Gettysburg is a historical account of the role played by the Eighth Ohio Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The book, written by General Franklin Sawyer, who served as the regiment's commander during the battle, was first published in 1889.The book provides a detailed account of the regiment's movements and actions during the three-day battle, which took place from July 1 to July 3, 1863. It covers the reg...

Early Expeditions To The Region Of Bering Sea And Strait (1891) - Paperback

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by Vitus Ivanovich Bering (Author), William Healey Dall (Translator)""Early Expeditions To The Region Of Bering Sea And Strait"" is a historical account written by Vitus Ivanovich Bering, a Russian explorer who, along with his crew, embarked on several expeditions to the Bering Sea and Strait in the 18th century. The book provides a detailed description of the geography, climate, and wildlife of the region, as well as the challenges faced by the explorers during their journeys. Bering also do...

Escape from Paris: A True Story of Love and Resistance in Wartime France - Paperback

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by Stephen Harding (Author)This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo.Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943, Bastille Day. They were rescued by brave French civilians and taken to ...

Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles - Paperback

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by Margaret Leslie Davis (Author)The rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.'s disastrous dam collapse: "A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal" (Los Angeles Daily News). Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longe...

Angelo's Bayonet Exercise (1853) - Paperback

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by Henry Charles Angelo (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11 x ...

Bayonet Fencing And Sword Practice (1882) - Paperback

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by Alfred Hutton (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8.5 IN ...

English Liturgical Color: Observations On Notes On The History Of The Liturgical Colors By J. Wickham Legg (1882) - Paperback

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by Herbert George Morse (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x ...

The Science Of Swimming: As Taught And Practiced In Civilized And Savage Nations (1849) - Paperback

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by An Experienced Swimmer (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x...

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by Amelia McNutt (Author)America's First Soldiers unfolds with the critical events and people that lead Massachusetts to initiate the American Revolutionary War. These first soldiers were the catalyst for the skirmish at Lexington Green, the battle of the Old North Bridge, and the life and death struggle along a 16-mile road, passing through six Massachusetts towns in a violent, running battle of fire and maneuver.Dig in on the deadly struggle for a Boston hilltop, Breed's Hill, known as Bunk...

The Founding Of Jamestown: Percy's Discourse Of Virginia, Wingfield's Discourse Of Virginia, 1607, 1619 (1907) - Paperback

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by George Percy (Author), Wingfield (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: ...

A Catalogue Of Utah Minerals And Localities: With Descriptive List, And Notes For Collectors (1902) - Paperback

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by Maynard Bixby (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.07 x 11 x 8.5 IN ...

A Brief History Of The Town Of Stoneham, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement To The Year 1813 (1870) - Paperback

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by Silas Dean (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publ...

France As A Republic: Special Address Before The Bar Association Of Illinois (1898) - Paperback

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by Adlai Ewing Stevenson (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x...

A Little Journey To The Home Of Elder Pardon Tillinghast (1908) - Paperback

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by John Avery Tillinghast (Author), Frederick Wheaton Tillinghast (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Nu...

Lost Sheep: Aspen's Counterculture in the 1970s--A Memoir - Paperback

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by Kurt Brown (Author)Lost Sheep recounts the author's journey from the "real" world of 1970s America to the rollicking, freedom-loving, outlaw world of Aspen. Blending personal narrative, local history, dramatic interlude, and cultural analysis, the story begins as a literal journey but quickly evolves into the memoir of an entire town-a time and place many consider to be Aspen's "Golden Age," when artists, eccentrics, and outlaws took over the city and transformed it into an alpine bohemia....

A Guide To Caerphilly Castle And The Neighborhood (1895) - Paperback

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by Thomas Glyde (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8.5 IN Pu...

The History Of The Tribe Of Levi Considered (1847) - Paperback

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by John Wright Printer (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8...

Incidents In The History Of The Theosophical Movement (1915) - Paperback

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by Joseph Hall Fussell (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11 x 8...

Mayflower Descendants And Their Marriages For Two Generations After The Landing: Including A Short History Of The Church Of The Pilgrim Founders Of Ne - Paperback

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by Bureau Military and Civic Achievement (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensi...

Some Account Of The State Of The Prisons In Spain And Portugal (1824) - Paperback

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by John Bowring (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8.5 IN P...

Citta Morta, The Dead City: A Tragedy (1902) - Paperback

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by Gabriele D'Annunzio (Author), Gaetano Ettore Raffaele Mantellini (Translator)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original wo...

The Basilica Of San Clemente In Rome (1900) - Paperback

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by William Robert Bernard Brownlow (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0...

Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art in the Black Hills Country - Paperback

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by Linea Sundstrom (Author)Ancient petroglyphs and paintings on rocky cliffs and cave walls preserve the symbols and ideas of American Indian cultures. From scenes of human-to-animal transformations found in petroglyphs dating back thousands of years to contact-era depictions of eagle trapping, rock art provides a look at the history of the Black Hills country over the last ten thousand years. Storied Stone links rock art of the Black Hills and Cave Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming to the ri...

Tom Quick Or The Era Of Frontier Settlement: Notes And Supplementary Facts Suggested By The Legend Of The Delaware (1888) - Paperback

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by William Bross (Author), Abraham Sylvester Gardiner (Editor)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Page...

Man's Search for Meaning: Young Adult Edition: Young Adult Edition - Paperback

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by Viktor E. Frankl (Author), John Boyne (Foreword by)A young adult edition of the best-selling classic about the Holocaust and finding meaning in suffering, with a photo insert, a glossary of terms, a chronology of Frankl's life, and supplementary letters and speeches Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is a classic work of Holocaust literature that has riveted generations of readers. Like Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl and Elie Wiesel's Night, Frankl's masterpiece is a timeless ...

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile - Paperback

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by Candice Millard (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST - GOODREADS "A lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by [Richard Burton and John Speke] to solve the geographic riddle of their era." --The New York Times Book ReviewFor millen...

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Report copyright infringementby Yoko Ono (Author), Larry Warsh (Editor)A powerful collection of quotations from iconic artist and activist Yoko Ono Ono-isms is a collection of provocative and powerful quotations from influential artist, musician, songwriter, and peace activist Yoko Ono, providing a richer understanding of this important cultural icon. Since emerging on the international art scene in the early 1960s, Ono has made profound contributions to visual and performance art, filmmaking...

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred Edersheim (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importa...

Once Upon a Nashville Night: The Story of Mr. Harvey's Nativity Scene

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Report copyright infringementby L. a. Wilson (Author)"Everyone who remembers Nashville's Nativity scene will enjoy hearing about the people who made it happen and learning about how it came to be. I couldn't put it down." -Fred Harvey III, grandson of Fred Harvey Sr."A thoughtfully crafted exploration of a fondly remembered moment in Nashville's history." -Bonnie Seymour, registrar and assistant curator of the Nashville ParthenonFrom 1953 through 1967, Nashville's Centennial Park hosted a Nat...

The Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation of St. John: Viewed in Their Mutual Relations, With an Exposition of the Principal Passages

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Report copyright infringementby Adolph Saphir (Author), Karl August Auberlen (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concu...

The Englishman's Greek New Testament; Giving the Greek Text of Stephens, 1550, With the Various Readings of the Editions of Elzevir, 1624, Griesbach,

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Estienne (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...