National Union Catalog


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Includes entries for maps and atlases.




The Film Book


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Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies.




Tristes Tropiques


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"A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."




Betas of Achievement


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A World on the Wane


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This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.




500 Years of New Words


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If you ever use words and find yourself wondering where they came from, who wrote them first, and why they became necessary, then you will savour 500 Years of New Words, a new volume that takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The entries are arranged not alphabetically but in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down.