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Presents lectures on the history of language.

"This volume traces the history of the region which became Indonesia from early times to the present day in over three hundred specially drawn full-colour maps with a detailed accompanying text. In so doing, the Atlas brings fresh life to the fascinating and tangled history of this immense archipelago. Beginning with the geological and ecological forces which have shaped the physical form of the archipelago, the Historical Atlas of Indonesia goes...

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Location Within the United States and in Relation to Mexico Texas, situated in the south central region of the United States, became the twentieth-eighth state in the Union on December 29, 1845. Distance and Texas are almost synonymous. The longest straight-line distance in a north-south direction from the northwest corner of the Panhandle to the estuary of the Rio Grande is 801 miles. El Paso is closer to Los Angeles, California, than it is to Texarkana....

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In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.