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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in ... - Eric Jay Dolin - Google Books
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Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our…
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Fibonacci Numbers - Nicolai N. Vorobiev - Google Books
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Since their discovery hundreds of years ago, people have been fascinated by the wondrous properties of Fibonacci numbers. Being of mathematical significance in their own right, Fibonacci numbers have had an impact on areas like art and architecture, and…
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Primate Communities - Google Books
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Although the behavior and ecology of primates has been more thoroughly studied than that of any other group of mammals, there have been very few attempts to compare the communities of living primates found in different parts of the world. In Primate…
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Marguerite Long: A Life in French Music, 1874-1966 - Cecilia Dunoyer - Google Books
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Cecilia Dunoyer has written a thoughtful and carefully researched work. Not only is her book crammed with information on French music, performers, and composers, it also is highly readable."--Piano & Keyboard Cecilia Dunoyer's new book presents an engaging…
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History of the Eastern Empire from the Fall of Irene to the Accession of ... - J. B. Bury - Google Books
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This classic history of the Eastern Roman Empire-first published in 1912 and a companion to Bury's two-volume History of the Later Roman Empire-remains one of the most readable works on the era, and is highly recommended for students of Roman culture. This…
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time - Joseph Frank - Google Books
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Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully…
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Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures - Google Books
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To look upon a mummy is to come face to face with our past. This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved by use of a variety of complex techniques (as with…
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The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750 ... - Richard D. P. Jones - Google Books
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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects…
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The Riverside Dictionary of Biography - Google Books
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The Riverside Dictionary of Biography includes more than 10,000 people from around the globe and from all periods of history. All continents, fields of endeavor, and historical eras are richly represented: the likes of Plato, Sappho, and Michelangelo rub…