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Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questions The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibl...

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Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questionsThe Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly...

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William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century-and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more than five decades, adaptations of his plays, s...

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Norman Calder is still considered a luminary in the field of Islamic law. He was one among a handful of Western scholars who were beginning to engage with the subject. In the intervening years, much has changed, and Islamic law is now understood a...

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Norman Calder is still considered a luminary in the field of Islamic law. He was one among a handful of Western scholars who were beginning to engage with the subject. In the intervening years, much has changed, and Islamic law is now understood a...

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Offers provocative new insights into the war work of more than forty prominent British authors

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Using newly uncovered archival material, Calder offers provocative new insights into the war work of more than forty prominent British authors, focusing particularly on Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward, H.G. Wells, Vera Brittain, and J.B. Priestley. ...

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Latino (or Hispanic) children are one of the fastest-growing groups in U.S. schools today. On average, these students perform worse than Anglo students on measures of academic achievement and other measures of academic success, and their drop-out ...

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Latino (or Hispanic) children are one of the fastest-growing groups in U.S. schools today. On average, these students perform worse than Anglo students on measures of academic achievement and other measures of academic success, and their drop-out ...

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Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege.  He is also a man possessed of ...

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An obsessive love affair provides the pivot of this powerful evocation of a young man's progress to maturity in the years before the First World War.

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The pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century are often "e;politically incorrect"e; by modern standards. However, the "e;Spicy"e; magazines -- Spicy-Adventure Stories, Spicy Mystery, Spicy Western, etc. -- were politically in...

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No fantasy setting is complete without a pantheon of powerful deities for its characters to worship or fear. Whether you're a sneaky rogue asking the god of thievery for a blessing on your next heist or a valorous crusader calling the might of you...

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A selection of titles from the Laurier Poetry series. Customized for each course as requested.

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Laurier Poetry Pack #3 consists of 10 volumes from the series: Laurier Poetry. Laurier Poetry volumes contained in Laurier Poetry Pack #3: 9780889204904 9780889205147 9781554580477 9780889204898 9781771120388 9780889205062 9781554580071 9781554583...

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Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.

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Distributed free in Edinburgh's bars and bookshops the One O'Clock Gun began in 2004 as a thought provoking, ballsy and often irreverent paper that initially appeared with a humble few followers.Today, over fifteen years later, The Gun is an Edinb...

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