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Author : Shoe and Leather Mercantile Agency, Inc. (Boston, Mass.)
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Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Footwear industry
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Author : Shoe and Leather Mercantile Agency, Inc. (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher :
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Footwear industry
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Author : Alan Bradley
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Fathers
ISBN : 0553840762
It is the summer of 1950 - and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds an man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begings in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195168747
The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite, the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the gramophone, cars, aluminum production, air-filled rubber tires, and prestressed concrete. And its post-1900 period saw the first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line production. This book is a systematic interdisciplinary account of the history of this outpouring of European and American intellect and of its truly epochal consequences. It takes a close look at four fundamental classes of these epoch-making innovations: formation, diffusion, and standardization of electric systems; invention and rapid adoption of internal combustion engines; the unprecedented pace of new chemical syntheses and material substitutions; and the birth of a new information age. These chapters are followed by an evaluation of the lasting impact these advances had on the 20th century, that is, the creation of high-energy societies engaged in mass production aimed at improving standards of living.
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Airplanes
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Author : Matt Haig
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2021-01-27
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ISBN : 9781432883614
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Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780879516284
A doomed lord, an emergent hero, an array of bizarre creatures, and an ancient royal family plagued by madness and intrigue--these are the denizens of ancient, sprawling, tumbledown Gormenghast Castle. Within its vast halls and serpentine corridors, the members of the Groan dynasty and their master Lord Sepulchrave grow increasingly out of touch with a changing world as they pass their days in unending devotion to meaningless rituals and arcane traditions. Meanwhile, an ambitious kitchen boy named Steerpike rises by devious means to the post of Master of the Ritual while he maneuvers to bring down the Groans.In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream: lush, fantastical, vivid; a symbol of dark struggle. Accompanying the text are Peake's own drawings, illustrating the whole assembly of strange creatures that inhibit Gormenghast.Breathtaking in its power and drenched in dark atmosphere, humor and intrigue, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a classic, one of the great works of 20th century British literature.
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Airplanes
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Instrument flying
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Assessment
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Author : Clarence Overby Hanes
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Card system in business
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