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Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century

Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century


Philip Rawlings



How do American citizens become ambassadors, and how do they serve as U.S. representatives overseas during such troubled times?...
Plutarch Lives, II: Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus (Loeb Classical Library®)

Plutarch Lives, II: Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus (Loeb Classical Library®)


Bernadotte Perrin, Plutarch



Plutarch Lives, II: Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus (Loeb Classical Library®)...
British Writers: Supplement (British Writers Supplements)

British Writers: Supplement (British Writers Supplements)


Jay Parini



British Writers: Supplement (British Writers Supplements)...
The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851

The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851


Charles Richmond, Paul Smith



The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851...
Visual Writing

Visual Writing


Learningexpress Editors



Visual Writing...
Microbe Hunters

Microbe Hunters


Paul De Kruif



Microbe Hunters...
A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine

A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine


Francis Leroy



From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up--This eye-catching resource profiles no fewer than 450 scientists. The volume is arranged...
Business Leader Profiles for Students

Business Leader Profiles for Students


Gale Group, Sheila M. Dow



From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-This resource provides information on past and present giants of business and industry. Each a...
Better Writing Right Now!

Better Writing Right Now!


Francine Galko



Providing the skills students need to conquer any school writing assignment, Better Writing Right Now is a complete walk-through o...
Lives of the laureates. Eighteen Nobel economists

Lives of the laureates. Eighteen Nobel economists


Barry T. Hirsch, William Breit



Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought, as told through autobiographical essays by e...
Noam Chomsky (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)

Noam Chomsky (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)


Wolfgang B. Sperlich



“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself....
A to Z of Computer Scientists

A to Z of Computer Scientists


Harry Henderson



From Facts On File has issued another in the Notable Scientists series. The purpose of the series is to provide students...
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche


Bernd Magnus, Kathleen Higgins



The opening essay of this Companion provides a chronologically organized introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published work...
Mountain of Fame

Mountain of Fame


John E., Wills



From Library Journal Although intended for the inspired tourist or casual reader who wants a quick introduction to Chinese histo...
Notable British Novelists Richard Adams - Virginia Woolf 3 Volume set

Notable British Novelists Richard Adams - Virginia Woolf 3 Volume set


Carl E. Rollyson



From Library Journal This three-volume work is a clever and serviceable repackaging of the eight-volume Critical Survey of Long...
A to Z of Biologists

A to Z of Biologists


Lisa Yount



From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up-An introduction to 184 scientists from 500 B.C.E. to the present. The selected individual...
African American Pioneers of Baseball: A Biographical Encyclopedia

African American Pioneers of Baseball: A Biographical Encyclopedia


Lew Freedman



Review "This excellent and readable book tells the stories of 20 African-American baseball players, both old-timers excluded from ...
Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion

Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion


Helen Rappaport



From School Library Journal Grade 10 Up-These alphabetically arranged entries include not only the Russian leader and other impo...
Who's Who in World War Two

Who's Who in World War Two


John Keegan



Noted historian John Keegan masterfully brings together more than 300 of the most important characters from all over the world to ...
How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation, Revised Edition

How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation, Revised Edition


Rosalie Maggio



The best-selling How to Say It® is now better than ever. The second edition of this one-of-a-kind book has been updated with...
A to Z of Sts Scientists

A to Z of Sts Scientists


Elizabeth H. Oakes



From This source's title shares a difficulty with some other Facts On File books. Online catalogs use A as a stop word, so the ...
American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries

American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries


Charles W. Carey



From More than 280 individuals from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries who helped change the American economy are prof...
Encyclopedia of World Cultures: North America

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: North America


David Levinson



From School Library Journal YA-- This is the first of ten projected volumes on the cultures of the world, published with the assis...
Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics


Ronald Darby



A textbook and reference aiming to show the underlying principles in the behavior of fluids in chemical engineering. Provides a re...