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The British Library is home to an unparalleled collection of original manuscripts of great English literature, from the tenth-century manuscript of Beowulf to the work of such twentieth-century authors as T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Angela Carter. With 1000 Years of English Literature, Chris Fletcher shares some of the gems from the collection. Originally published in 2003, this updated and expanded paperback edition chronicles the life and work of...
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Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. But this time around, the cataclysm is us ... In The Sixth Extinction, two-time National Magazine award winner and New...
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From the romance of its evolution to the splendor of its design, the wedding dress is unlike any other garment, a talisman from a fantasy world, the manifestation of dreams coming true. This book draws on wedding garments in the V & A's renowned collection along with photographs, letters, memoirs, and newspaper accounts to explore the history of the white wedding dress and the traditions that have developed around it from 1700 to today, when designers...
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Add depth or drama to your school papers, news articles, or political speeches with a few well-chosen words from Aristotle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Martin Luther King, Mao Zedong, Gloria Steinem, and more than 4,000 other famous politicians and world leaders. The political statements range in subject from bureaucracy and liberalism to revolution and taxation--arranged by date under each subject heading to let you see the development of thinking over the...
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This book utilizes both philosophical and biological approaches to address the various attitudes in the debate over animal rights. Rodd justifies ethical concern within a framework that is firmly grounded on evolutionary theory, and provides detailed discussion of practical situations in which ethical decisions have to be made. For moral philosophers, the book offers a biological background to the ethical questions involved. Biologists will find that...
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In this provocative treatment of the American legal profession, Abel synthesizes a large volume of literature on lawyers and their profession and brings a wealth of data to bear on a variety of topics concerning the profession's development. Among other things, he focuses on the bar's control of entry into the profession, demographic characteristics of lawyers, ethical rules and practices, legal aid for the poor, law school socialization, and professional...
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"The present edition is a facsimile of the particelle of the 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' of Claude Debussy. It is the definitive draft from which the orchestration was made, and the comparison of it with the printed orchestral score will render much insight into Debussy's technique of orchestration. The composer presented the manuscript to his 'chère et très bonne petite Gaby . . .' This is the same 'Mme. G. Lhéry' (her real name was...
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