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Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
Author : Jessica Lawson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481419226
Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
Author : John Shapley Gray
Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780130460424
Gray zeroes right in on the key techniques of processes and interprocess communication from primitive communications to the complexities of sockets. The book covers every aspect of UNIX/Linux interprocess communications in sufficient detail to allow experienced programmers to begin writing useful code immediately.
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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Travel
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Author : Kate van Orden
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2013-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520957113
What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books? In this fascinating cultural history of Western music’s adaptation to print, Kate van Orden looks at how musical authorship first developed through the medium of printing. When music printing began in the sixteenth century, publication did not always involve the composer: printers used the names of famous composers to market books that might include little or none of their music. Publishing sacred music could be career-building for a composer, while some types of popular song proved too light to support a reputation in print, no matter how quickly they sold. Van Orden addresses the complexities that arose for music and musicians in the burgeoning cultures of print, concluding that authoring books of polyphony gained only uneven cultural traction across a century in which composers were still first and foremost performers.
Author : Dana Simpson
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144946128X
"Phoebe is a remarkably real little girl, as bright and imaginative as Bill Watterson's Calvin, as touchingly vulnerable as Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown...Simpson is that good, and that original." —Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn It all started when a girl named Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this led to Phoebe being granted one wish, and she used it to make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her obligational best friend. But can a vain mythical beast and a nine-year-old daydreamer really forge a connection? Indeed they can, and that's how Phoebe and Her Unicorn unfolds. Over time, Phoebe and Marigold acknowledge that they had been lonely before they met and come to truly appreciate the bond they now share.
Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300105056
This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country House draws on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the lives the buildings served as well as architectural shapes they took. 275 illustrations.
Author : Terry Theise
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0520271491
This glorious book not only brilliantly showcases one man's love affair with all the beauties that can flow from the bottle, it definitively makes the case for the wines that are the most superbly suited to be served with food.
Author : Doug Underwood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231080491
Writing with anger but with a deep affection for the trade, he examines the growing economic pressures within the industry, the roots of the managerial revolution, and the impact of marketplace journalism on the operation of the newsroom and employee morale.
Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 030017487X
One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.
Author : Marv Rubinstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1442232838
The American English Compendium is a fun way to explore the nuances of the English language—learn that a group of lions is called a pride; a group of whales, a pod; and a group of owls, a parliament. Distinguish between a quack and a shyster. Learn that “tabling a motion” in a U.S. court has an opposite meaning from the same term in England. This book picks up where other language dictionaries leave off: it includes common proverbs, a sampling of American English versus British English, popular American expressions and slang, acronyms, and varied information on everything from wildlife to currency. In this new edition, the staples have been updated and fresh chapters have been added, with information on pronunciation, oddball English words, and even some of the new Internet terminology, including Twitterspeak.