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Against time
Johannes Hoeber left Nazi Germany for America on Nov. 12, 1938. His wife Elfriede & their 9-year-old daughter Susanne were unable to leave until Sept. 1939. Fifty years, later Johannes & Elfriede’s son found an old folder containing the long letters they exchanged during the many months t...
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Elements of vision
The mathematical, medical, and physical-philosophical traditions of medieval visual theory provide important insights and arguments in response to very specific questions defined by the respective interests of these traditions. Each of these three traditions also appears to have a larger framewor...
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Paleocene pantodonta
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Academica
Contents: Part I: (I) Plato and the Authorship of the “Epinomis”; (II) Platonic “topoi” and the Structure of the “Epinomis”; (III) Philip of Opus; (IV) The “Epinomis,” Aristotle, and the Early Academy; and (V) The Influence of the “Epinomis” on the Formation of a Platonic Dogma; Part II: The Manu...
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Mammalia of the duchesne river oligocene
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Systematics and evolution of the moinidae
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Francisco jose de caldas
A study of Francisco Jose de Caldas y Tenorio, who was born in 1768 in the Spanish colony Nueva Reino de Granada. In the first half of the 18th century France sent an expedition to the equator to learn the true figure of the Earth. However, Spain maintained strict control over the colonies’ acces...
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Spreading the word
A disproportionate number of the great publishing houses of the English-speaking world - -Blackie, Blackwood, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Millar, Murray, Nelson, Smith and Elder, Strahan -- were founded after the Treaty of Union in 1707, by men, often of humble origin, from “north of the borde...
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Beyond combat
Contents: Emancipation, Black Troops, & Hard War, by J. Paradis; A Reinterpretation of Sherman’s Generalship during the 1864 March to Atlanta in Light of the Logistic Strategy, by J. Britt McCarley; The U.S. Navy & the Genesis of Maritime Education, by J. Speelman; U.S. Military Attaches ...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, old series, vol 3, 1793
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809
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Continuations of the old french perceval of chrétien de troyes. 2
Between 1949 and 1983, William Roach produced the sole modern ed. of the First, Second, and Manessier Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes, based on all the manuscripts. Most vol. are out of print, but the popularity of King Arthur and the Grail legend keeps interest in ...
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Medieval arabic toxicology. the book on poisons of ibn washiya and its relation to early indian and greek texts
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Architecture and urbanization in colonial chiapas, mexico
Covers colonial architecture in the two westernmost provinces of the Reino de Guatemala: Audiencia & Capitania General -- a region largely isolated from the rest of Central America & Mexico until recent times. The buildings of this region (known as Chiapas) reflect the soc. that produced ...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 1, 1818
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Ideology and politics on the eve of restoration
Among the Clarendon papers held by the Bodleian Library and the Portland Manuscripts appear copies of a long and detailed letter of advice written to Charles II on the eve of the Restoration. The “Advice” was atributed to Edwad Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor during the early years of...
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“to do justice to him and myself”
This translated Dutch account book of the fur trade with Indians yields essential data for understanding the workings of the intercultural fur trade in colonial North Amer. It contains accounts of hundreds of Indians, many listed with their own names, who purchased merchandise on credit from Ever...
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Alhacen on image-formation and distortion in mirrors
Ch. 1; Ch. 2; Ch. 3: Analysis of Plane Mirrors: Proposition 1; Ch. 4: Analysis of Convex Spherical Mirrors: Propositions 2-15; Ch. 5: Analysis of Convex Cylindrical Mirrors: Propositions 16-19; Ch. 6: Analysis of Convex Conical Mirrors: Propositions 20-22; Ch. 7: Analysis of Concave Spherical Mir...
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Mycenae tablets iii. with contributions from emmett bennett, jr., elizabeth french, william taylour, nicholas verdelis, charles williams
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Florence nightingale in rome
In 1847-48 Florence Nightingale, at that time a young women of 27 & unknown to the world, accompanied Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bracebridge, who were wintering in Rome for health reasons. During that time she wrote over 50 letters to her family & friends describing the sights she had seen, t...
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Essays by benjamin franklin
Collected to honor the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society, this illustrated assortment explores varied topics and correspondences of Benjamin Franklin. As founder of the American Philosophical Society in 1743, Franklin was engaged in intellectual pursuits, the fruits of which...
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Siwalik mammals in the american museum of natural history
This is a print on demand publication. The American Museum of Natural History collection of fossil vertebrates from the Siwalik beds of northern India was made during the year of 1922 by Dr. Barnum Brown. Contents of this vol.: (I) Introduction: Previous Publications Dealing with American Museum ...
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The house of barnes
The life and times of extraordinary Philadelphia art collector Albert C. BarnesPhiladelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951) is renowned today for collecting many of the world’s most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, and displaying them alongside African...
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Apocalyptic politics of richard price and joseph priestley
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Price, Priestley, & the English Millennialist Tradition; The Political Millennialism of Price & Priestley; The Modes & Language of Republican Millennialism; The Country Program & Millennial Expectations; Revolution, the Millennium, ...
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Copepodologist's cabinet
Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volum...
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Study of the brains of six eminent scientists and scholars belonging to the amer. anthropometric soc., together with a description of the skull of prof. e. d. cope
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American history as interpreted by german historians from 1770-1815
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Crowner’s request
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Surface survey of the northern valley of mexico
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 2, 1825
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Jane colden's "botanic manuscript"
A richly illustrated account of the life and work of Jane Colden, America’s first woman botanistJane Colden (1724–1760) was America’s first woman botanist, yet her contributions to the field of early American botany remain little-known and her writings are mostly unpublished. Looking at Colden’s ...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 9, 1845-1846
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Michelangelo's medici chapel
There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo’s complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist’s original conception. Here, Balas contends that the artist deliberately veiled his meaning in...
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House of lords and ideological politics
This study of ideological politics in Victorian and Edwardian England centers on a referendal theory promoted by the great Lord Salisbury when he opposed William Gladstone’s Liberal gov’ts. It was subsequently carried forward in the form of the referendum by Salisbury’s son-in-law and ideological...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 15, part 1, 1873
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 17, part 3, 1893
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Visual mechanic knowledge
Markham’s 60 drawings are the earliest-known set of textile machine maker’s workshop drawings in the U.S. prepared primarily for cotton machinery but also for wool carding and spinning equipment. Prepared between 1814 and 1825, this book includes an examination of its provenance, a biography of t...
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Iohannis philoponi
To anyone who has ever examined in any of its printed forms the little work on Greek words which differ in meaning according to difference in accent, which is attributed to John Philoponus, it must be evident that this text is of interest to the historian of lexicography or of pedagogy rather tha...
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Old babylonian inscriptions chiefly from nippur. part ii
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The feeding habits of pseudomyrmine and other ants
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Hydrography of monterey bay, california.thermal conditions, 1929-1933
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 8, 1843
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Aleut dialects of atka and attu
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Gladstone-gordon correspondence, 1851-1896. selections from the private correspondence of a british prime minister and a colonial governor
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Community library
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Toleration and diplomacy
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Venice, austria, and the turks in the 17th century
This book is in many ways a sequel to the 4 vols. of Setton’s “Papacy & the Levant (1204-1571),” although the emphasis has shifted northward from the Holy See to Venice & Austria. Includes such topics as: Austrians & Turks in the Long War (1592-1606); the Bohemian Succession, & th...
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Beth shean studies
Scythopolis, or Nysa-Scythopolis, as Beth Shean was called during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, is located on the western bank of the Jordan River. Ancient historians Pliny and Solinus record that the site was founded by Dionysos when he stopped there to bury his nursemaid, the nymph Nysa. A...
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King of the alley
The first full-scale study of the entire career of William Duer (nicknamed “King of the Alley” by Thomas Jefferson), this publication traces the significant role he played in the original organization of the federal government. Duer, as a member of the New York State Convention and the Continenta...
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Never-ceasing search
Frank Schmitt has for two thirds of a century been searching for -- and in many cases finding -- explanations of major biomedical importance. His is a very human story -- of a youth in high school doing experiments in a make-shift chemical laboratory in the attic of the family home; of a young un...
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Planetary diagrams for roman astronomy in medieval europe, ca 800-1500
Early medieval astronomy, esp. in the era of Charlemagne & his successors, consisted of texts that went far beyond the boundaries of computus, which modern scholars have long believed to be the only significant context for astronomical studies of that time. The texts contained innovative diag...
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Pottery of marajo island, brazil
This study represents the culmination of some 15 years of research in the field of Amazonian archeology. Ilha de Marajo, as the Brazilians call it, has been described as resting in the mouth of the Amazon like an egg in that of a serpent. In reality, Marajo is part of an archipelago. Contents of ...
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Old provencal versification
The major portion of this study is devoted to the lyric poems of the 12th & 13th century which constitute Southern France’s greatest contribution to world literature. Nevertheless, chronology requires that this study begins by glancing briefly at two narrative pieces, the oldest Provencal poe...
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What ever happened to the u.s. congress’s portraits of louis xvi and marie-antoinette?
A great unsolved mystery in American political culture is what became of the U.S. Congress’s state portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette during the British invasion of the Capitol, Wash., D.C., on the night of 24-25 August 1814. These were official full length images of the French monarchs ...
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Library of lewis henry morgan and mary elizabeth morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was America’s leading ethnologist in his day, & his scholarship played a role of exceptional importance during the critical period of the 1860s-1880s when anthropology was beginning to crystalize as a specialized field of research. Contents of this vol.: Lewis H...
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Isidore of seville on the pagan gods (origines viii. 11)
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Climate crises in human history
This volume considers the response of selected cultures to climate events that have been documented from the archaeological and geological records. It includes articles by participants in a 2008 conference at the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as well as other...
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Comedie francaise
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Sixteenth-century spanish bookstore
An article pub. in 1952 on early foreign printers in Burgos mentioned the existence in that city’s archives of a 1556 document concerning the shop of the printer-bookseller, Juan de Junta, an Italian by birth, son of the famous Florentine publisher Filippo di Giunta. The document is a legal contr...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 13, part 3, 1869
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Naskapi law
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Petroglyphs of western colorado and the northern ute indian reservation as interpreted by clifford duncan
Clifford Duncan, a Northern Ute elder, believed in educating the public to know and understand the meaning of Ute petroglyphs. By doing this, he believed it would help to preserve and protect them. Over the course of eight years, Clifford and the author visited and revisited all of these sites, d...
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Treason on trial in revolutionary pennsylvania
In the fall of 1778 John Roberts, a prosperous Quaker miller who owned valuable property located about 10 miles from Phila., stood trial before a jury that found him guilty of having committed treason. If not entirely innocent, did Roberts nevertheless deserve a trip to the gallows a month after ...
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Juntura basin
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18th century climate of jamaica derived from the journals of thomas thistlewood, 1750-1786
Thomas Thistlewood is known for his daily records of life on a slave plantation in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Thistlewood's previously unexamined weather journal is shown here to be the most important written record from the Earth's tropical regions available. His observation methods are superi...
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Beyond price
Man has been intrigued by the origin of pearls, sensitive to their beauty, and convinced of their medicinal value for at least 5 cent. A mixture of folklore and observation preceded the earliest scientific inquiries. Fishing and trade commenced in S. Asia, between India and Sri Lanka and around t...
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Cristobal rojas y spinola, cameralist and irenicist 1626-1695
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Royal taxation in fourteenth-century france
A history of the development of French royal finance in the 14th century. An earlier work studied the crown’s finances between 1322 and 1356 when France was still in the “age of the war subsidy” and taxes were temporary wartime expedients. This book, a sequel to that study, shows how the capture ...
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Antikythera shipwreck reconsidered
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Johannes klenkok
An account of the life and circumstances of a little known Augustinian friar with an interesting career, Johannes Klenkok. Author Christopher Ocker attempts to reconstruct his biography more accurately than has been achieved up to now, but in so doing he considers as much as possible the organiza...
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Origins of calvin’s theology of music
This is a print on demand publication. The singing of psalms was one of the incontestably distinguishing marks of Calvinist culture in Europe & America in the 16th & 17th centuries. Contents of this study: Introduction; The Point of Origin; The “Institution” of 1536; The “Articles” of 153...
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Essays and reviews in history and history of science
A collection of essays of enduring interest in the history of science by Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He founded the undergraduate program in the History of Science at Princeton in 1956 and continues to work with s...
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John beale bordley’s “necessaries”
John Beale Bordley (1727-1804) first had “Necessaries” printed in 1776 as a 17-page pamphlet. In 1799, he revised his work and reprinted it as a chapter in “Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs.” “Necessaries” published a 3rd time in 1801, when “Essays and Notes” saw a corrected and ex...
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Art, science, invention
Charles Willson Peale was the owner of the nation’s first successful natural history museum. The Peale-Sellers Family Collection, held at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS) Library, is the world’s largest archival collection related to the Peales. Two recent APS Museum exhibitions included select...
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Neolithic age in eastern siberia
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Lord lothian and anglo-american relations, 1939-1940
This is a print on demand publication. Of all the British “amateur ambassadors” none was more distinguished than Philip Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian (1882-1940). His tenure of office was brief -- Aug. 1939 to Dec. 1940 -- but it coincided with a crucial period in British & U.S. history. Rece...
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On calculating the factor of chance in language comparison
While all human languages are likely to be genetically related, the remoter relationships cannot be demonstrated by reliable linguistic methods because the languages in question have diverged too much. Any demonstration of a relationship between languages depends on finding words & grammatica...
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Nature's enigma
Two striking discoveries made 1740 a turning point in the history of 18th-century biology. Charles Bonnet established that aphids could reproduce without male fertilization. Shortly afterwards Abraham Trembley proved that a tiny aquatic animal, the fresh water polyp, or hydra, could regenerate fr...
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Some architects’ portraits in nineteenth-century america
This is the first study devoted to the portraits of nineteenth-century American architects. It is an examination of the way the iconography of such images changed over time to reflect the changing social status of the architect as the profession evolved during the century. Portraits in oil on can...
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Chindali and english dictionary with an index to proto-bantu roots
Chindali is a Bantu language of eastern Africa, spoken in the southwest Mbeya region of Tanzania and in the northern Chitipa District of Malawi. There are about 70,000 speakers in Malawi and 150,000 in Tanzania. In Malawi, not only are there varieties known as Chindali, but also the closely relat...
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The past, present, and future of libraries
In October 2018, the Amer, Philosophical Soc. (APS) gathered a group of scholars, library professionals, & thought leaders to discuss the past, present, & future of the library. This also marked the 275th ann’y. of the APS, founded by Benjamin Franklin & several friends. Topics includ...
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Joseph hume
When Scotsman Joseph Hume died in 1855 his contemporaries assumed he would be remembered as one of the most important politicians of his time. He was a champion of free-trade principles & radical reform. Though Hume never held office, he was in the forefront of nearly every major reform endea...
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Search for a new voltaire
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Franklin's father josiah
Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler and soapmaker, remains a marginal figure in most biographies of his well-known son, Benjamin Franklin, due largely to a lack of written documentation. Biographers of Franklin included him mainly from a genealogical viewpoint, and few of them gave him further att...
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Autobiographical ana of robley dunglison, m.d.
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Pictograph to alphabet -- and back
The Xajil chronicle of the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala is topically the most diverse, lengthy, and organizationally complex of the surviving highland-Maya historical texts that were first recorded alphabetically in the colonial period. In this monograph, the author demonstrates that much of the C...
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France and the arab middle east
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Political correspondence of the gladstone era
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Clarence luther herrick
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Yearbook, american philosophical society (2002-2003)
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 11, 1860
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Chromosomes in the spermatogenesis of the hemiptera heteroptera
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Mechanical universe
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The mammalian fauna of the white river oligocene: part iii. lagomorpha
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In the shade of an acacia tree
When Frank Lambrecht arrived in Africa in 1945 he came with a 3 years’ contract with the Congo Red Cross. What he found in the Belgian Congo was an old colonial system steeped in its traditions right down to the garb colonials wore & the separate class structure for Europeans & natives. W...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 12, part 1, 1862
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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A more perfect union
Contents: Conjugating the Constitution -- From Noun to Verb; & Bicentennial Blues: To Praise the Constitution or to Bury It?, both by Laurence Tribe. Essays: The Dr. Richard Penrose Memorial Lecture: Remarks on the Constitutional Celebration, by Lord Scarman. Sympos. on the U.S. Constitution:...
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“real expedicion maritima de la vacuna” in new spain and guatemala
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Francis bacon and scientific poetry
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Poetry, Knowledge, & Scientific Poetry; Epistemology vs. Poetics in Bacon; Bacon & the Presocratic Poet-philosophers; Bacon & Lucretius; Bacon’s Science & Virgil’s Poetry; & Conclusion: Poetic Language & Scientific Discourse.
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A new marsupial saber-tooth from the pliocene of argentina and its relationships to other south american predacious marsupials
This publication pulls directly from the 1926 Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition conducted in the province of Catamarca, Argentina. This expedition made extensive collections of mammal fossils from the Araucanian formation in the region, totaling some 200 specimens, including carnivorous m...
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