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Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1983 337 p. ; 22 cm. Translation of: Le Livre des questions. VG+ (softcover). Soft Cover. ... more information

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New York: Palgrave (St. Martin's Press; Macmillan Press), 1996 xix, 236 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. This book explores the role that towns played in the transformation of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through overseas exploration and exploitation and the manipulation of the world economy. It argues that towns were the focal point for most of the critical struggles in the period, from religion to politics, and that they were increasingly the places in which educated and wealthy ... more information

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St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1980. xvii, 127 pp. Illustration. A wholly fictional, somewhat pornographic novel which parodies academic criticism. Moderately light overall handling wear (no creasing). Text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 22 x 14 cm. ... more information

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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995 xxi, 1350 pp. 2nd printing. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, index. A massive, well-illustrated, comprehensive reference source for New York City, containing more than 4300 entries by over 650 contributors. Dense text printed in small type, three columns per page. CONDITION: Very minor handling wear only; virtually new. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 29 x 23 cm. ... more information

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Dunedin, New Zealand: John McIndoe, 1985. 71 pp. Dedicated to the memory of the author's wife, Pauline. Sewn binding. Very light handling wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 22 x 14 cm. ... more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 342 pp. Notes, bibliography, filmography, index. A collection of critical and historical essays by scholars on the films adapted from, and inspired by, William Shakespeare's plays. CONDITION: Minor overall shelving wear (virtually like new); text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 23 x 16 cm. ... more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966 ix, 753 p. ; 22 cm. Contents: The bird's nest.--Life among the savages--Raising demons--11 short stories. Bound in light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; in original dust-wrapper. With a trace of offsetting to endpapers, two small unobtrusive spots to bottom edge, dustjacket with toning to spine area, slight edge wear and one small chip to bottom of front panel which also has one small abraded area.. First Printing 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972 viii, 344 p. illus. 24 cm. Bibliography; P. [328]-331. Hint of wear to spine tips, otherwise NF in VG dustjacket with vertical, shallow cut to front panel.. Cloth. ... more information

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Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993 x, 348 p. ; 22 cm. Series: Princeton science library. Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1973. Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-[337]) and index. In "The Logic of Life" Francois Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes ... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995 x, 318 p. : b/w illustr. throughout. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-302) and index. NF condition in like dustjacket.. Hard Cover. NF/NF. ... more information

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Zionsville, Ind: Guild Press of Indiana,, 2000 xxxix, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Index. NF in dustjacket. Cloth. ... more information

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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1950 208 pp. + plates. Maps, illustration plates, footnotes, bibliography, index. This study of gifts to the Indians in eastern North America illuminates an obscure factor in the colonial westward movement. These presents, comprising such eighteenth-century items as fabrics, hardware, munitions, food, toys, jewelry, clothing, wampum, and liquors, were a decisive factor in the complex diplomatic history of Indian politics along the old Ohio and Northwest frontiers. Th... more information

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Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1977 xii, 266 pp. Illustrations, appendix, translator's notes, glossary of place names, bibliography, index. This is the somewhat condensed, translated English text of a book apparently ghostwritten in 1884 by Adrian Woldt and based on an account (also published in 1884) of Johan Adrian Jacobsen's ethnological voyage to the Northwest Coast in 1881-1883 to collect examples of the material culture of the Northwest Coast Native Americans. CONDITION: An ex-libra... more information

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Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996 NOTE: This is vol. 2 (of 2) only: pp. 641-1307. Bibliography, general Index Locorum. One of the earliest and most important works of biblical interpretation is the Latin text commonly known as the "Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum" (LAB). It was written in the first second century C.E. and is thus a great source of illumination for the period and milieu out of which arose various Jewish sects and Christianity. Volume 2 contains the continuation of the author's commentary... more information

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Bloomington, IN: Department of Germanic Languages, Indiana University, 1968. 201 pp. Frontispiece, footnotes, list of publications by Hans Jaeger. A collection of reprinted articles and reviews in German and English published by Prof. Hans Jaeger from 1935-1962, including some of his seminal work on Goethe and existentialism. CONTENTS: Die Lebensgestaltung im Werk Ina Seidels. Review: Hermann Pongs, "Schillers Urbilder." Review: G. Ramming, "Existentialismus und Wertphilosophie." The pro... more information

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New York: PAJ Publications, 1988 141 p. ; 23 cm.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. ... more information

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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007 xii, 391 pp. Notes, bibliography. CONDITION: Light bump to top of spine and "Examination copy" stamp to bottom of book block; unused.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 22 x 14 cm. ... more information

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Bielefeld und Leipzig, Germany: Verlag von Velhagen und Klasing, 1887 This is a complete first edition set of 4 volumes, published 1887-1889. Quarter leather bindings with marbled boards. Illustrations, plates (many in color, some folding), bibliographical footnotes, indexes. Text in German (fraktur). Vol. 1: "Geschichte des Altertums" (vi, 564 pp., 1887). Vol. 2: "Geschichte des Mittelalters" (vi, 561 pp., 1887). Vol. 3: "Geschichte der neueren Zeit, 1517-1789" (vii, 652 pp., ... more information

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Paris: Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1946. 171 pp. Footnotes, bibliography. Text in French. CONDITION: Text unopened (i.e., pages uncut). Minor overall shelving wear. Moderate age-toning to paper and card covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 25 x 17 cm. ... more information

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Nairobi, Kenya: Heinemann Educational Books, 1977 xi, 92 pp. A delightful anthology of modern and classical Swahili poetry with parallel English translations. Divided into three sections: 1) Selections from the poetry of the late Shaaban Robert of Tanzania; 2) Classical poetry; and 3) Miscellaneous poems. CONDITION: Light handling wear. Text clean and free of all marks.. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 19 x 13 cm. ... more information

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