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A dictionary of British surnames
$19.54
A dictionary of British surnames Author: Reaney, Percy H Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0710081065 ISBN-13: 9780710081063..
A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford Paperback...
$10.78
This comprehensive survey looks at the origins and development of 16,000 English surnames. David Hey's appendix explains how to trace the origins of a name, and discover its current distribution, using sources of information available in the UK. Author: Reaney, Percy H Publisher: Oxford University P..
Experimental Organic Chemistry: Standard and Micro...
$24.33
This established text continues to provide a rigorous account of the principles and practice of experimental organic chemistry, taking students from their first day in the laboratory right through to research work. New to this edition, a microscale approach has been integrated into the entire text, ..
Lalique: A Collectors Guide
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Presents the creations of the most successful glassmaker of the 20th century, with details on the origin, value and techniques used in many of Lalique's finest bottles, ashtrays and clocks Author: Percy, Christopher V. Publisher: Crescent Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0517690950 ISBN..
Lancelot: A Novel
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Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the degene..
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter'...
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Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth an..
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
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Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think about ..
Romans and Aliens
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Very Good in Very Good jacket.[x], 310pp. Author: Balsdon, John Percy Vyvian Dacre Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Binding: hardcover Language: english ISBN-10: 0807813834 ISBN-13: 9780807813836..
Science and Government (The Godkin Lectures on the...
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Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antagonists are Sir Henry Tizard, a chemist from Imperial College, and Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), a physicist from the University of Oxford. The scientist-turned-novelist Cha..
The Cave Painters
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Two Australian aborigine children go on a journey with their parents to visit their mother's people, the Yalanji, who live in caves containing paintings that relate the history of their ancestors Author: Trezise, Percy Publisher: Angus & Robertson Binding: paperback Language: english ISBN-10: 020717..
The Glass of Lalique: A Collector's Guide
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Traces Rene Lalique's creative devel-opment throughout his long career, describes his production techniques, and catalogs hundreds of designs Author: Percy, Christopher Vane Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0684156032 ISBN-13: 9780684156033..
The Last Gentleman
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Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman h..
The Last Gentleman (Modern Library)
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"The Last Gentleman is lovely and brilliant...a highly whimsical kind of picaresque tale that puts one in mind of both Faulkner and Camus," wrote Joyce Carol Oates when Walker Percy's novel was first published in 1966.Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner..
The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors..
The Measurement of Meaning
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In this pioneering study, the authorsdeal with the nature and theory of meaning and present a new, objectivemethod for its measurement which they call the semantic differential.This instrument is not a specific test, but rather a general technique ofmeasurement that can be adapted to a wide variety ..
The Scientific Basis of Astrology: Tuning to the M...
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Offering evidence for the validity of astrology in everyday life, an astronomer presents a new theory on the relationship between science and astrology, and arguing for a connection between the cosmos and the mysteries of human personality Author: Seymour, Percy Publisher: St Martins Pr Binding: Har..
Random House Books for Young Readers
THE SQUIRREL'S TALE (Graham Percy's Animal Tails)
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THE SQUIRREL'S TALE (Graham Percy's Animal Tails) Author: Percy, Graham Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Binding: board_book Language: English ISBN-10: 0679862226 ISBN-13: 9780679862222..
The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My ...
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At the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915-1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertaking-to “write the Indian version of our o..
Travelers and Travel Liars, 1660-1800
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This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of tho..