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50 year anthology of E B White's sustained contributions to the growth and development of THE NEW YORKER magazine.

A History of the Plantagenets, four volume hardcover book series, by Thomas B. Costain. This set includes The Conquering Family, The Magnificent Century, The Three Edwards, and The Last Plantagenets. The series begins with the conquest of England by William the Conquerer in 1066 to the final period between from 1377 to 1485 during a period of civil war and confusion. All four books are clean unsoiled and unmarked.As this is a set of books, an adjustment will need to be made in the shipping charges.

Thoroughgoing corporate story of the famous Colt 45 revolver with portrait of its inventor. Includes a gift inscription by the author.

Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales… Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate readers with their delightful illustrations and fun lift-up flaps which really add to the action. The 'flip-up' flaps encourage prediction and discussion, and well-known stories will give young readers confidence. - See more at: http://www.childs-play.com/bookshop/9781846433252.html#sthash.hQgFYjqm.dpuf

Account of the early history of Pelham NY and three modern villages called the Pelhams.

Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy.[1]

During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honorsThis collection of over 550 cartoons (and 30,00 words) covers the 1960s.

Here, for the first time in mixed company, age-old secrets of men are unveiled. Drawing upon extensive research among both men and women, Roy Blount, Jr., lays bare such long-suppressed matters as The Performance Anxiety Hoax; Why Women Button Their Shirts Backwards; The Unspoken Crux of the Toilet-Seat Issue; and Why Men Can't Confess Fidelity.

Perhaps the most influential work of the English mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) was his An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, published in 1854. In this book Boole extended Aristotle's logic and attempted to give it a mathematical foundation.

Dion Boucicault was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. This book includes LONDON ASSURANCE, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS, THE OCTOROON, THE COLLEEN BAWN, THE SHAUGHRAWN & ROBERT EMMETT.

Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault ; 26 December 1820[2] – 18 September 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatreIncludes FORBIDDEN FRUIT, LOUIS XI, DOT, FLYING SCUD, MERCY DODD, ROBERT EMMETT

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English: Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt) is a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance. It is one of the best known Arthurian
stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs, the beheading game and the exchange of winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel,[1] it draws on Welsh, Irish and English stories, as well as the French chivalric tradition. It is an important example of a chivalric romance, which typically involves a hero who goes on a quest which tests his prowess.

A cornerstone of Latin American literature: a work of creative non-fiction that helped to define the parameters for thinking about the region's development, modernization, power, and culture. Subtitled Civilization and Barbarism, Facundo contrasts civilization and barbarism as seen in early 19th-century Argentina. Literary critic Roberto González Echevarría calls the work "the most important book written by a Latin American in any discipline or genre"This is prepared for use by students of Spanish with a Glossary and introduction in English.

1952 Western novel written by Tom Lea. The book is set in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, and Texas and New Mexico in the United States. Martin Brady, at age 14, flees to Mexico from Texas after he kills the man who murdered his father. Now, 14 years later, in 1880s Mexico, he is called Martin Bredi. He is a hired gun for a rich Mexican rancher and Chihuahuan warlord, Cipriano Castro. Brady starts to feel like he would like to return to Texas. Castro send him north to Puerto, Texas, to guard a load of silver ore, with the intention of smuggling arms. In TIME's review, the magazine called it "...an honest book written with obvious care and even reserved passion... with all its weaknesses 'The Wonderful Country' is still a western plus. What is extra comes in author Lea's fine descriptive writing, a love for the West that is conveyed with grace and dignity, an authentic sense of place."

In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to let a completely unprepared, aquaculture-illiterate food and lifestyle writer work for them for 12 months to learn the business of oysters. SHUCKED is part love letter, part memoir and part documentary about the world's most beloved bivalves. An in-depth look at the work that goes into getting oysters from farm to table, SHUCKED shows Erin's full-circle journey through the modern day oyster farming process and tells a dynamic story about the people who grow our food, and the cutting-edge community of weathered New England oyster farmers who are defying convention and looking ahead. The narrative also interweaves Erin's personal story―the tale of how a technology-obsessed workaholic learns to slow life down a little bit and starts to enjoy getting her hands dirty (and cold). This is a book for oyster lovers… Read More