The Telltale Alphabet


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This work offers a system of handwriting which is not graphology. It is based on the energy which, when you write, is translated into letters as you form them. You can learn almost everything there is to know about someone's suitability for a job, as a lover, as a colleague or a confidante.




The Early Greek Alphabets


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The Early Greek Alphabets brings a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting the legacy of Anne Jeffrey's work on archaic Greek scripts. The research extends the scope of Jeffrey's research, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.




The Tell-Tale Horse


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It’s February, prime foxhunting season for the members of Virginia’s Jefferson Hunt Club, when a shocking event alarms the community. A woman is found brutally murdered, stripped naked, and meticulously placed atop a horse statue outside a tack shop. The theft of a treasured foxhunting prize inside the store may be linked to the grisly scene, and everyone is on edge. With few clues to go on, “Sister” Jane Arnold, master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, uses her fine-tuned horse sense to try to solve the mystery of this “Lady Godiva” murder. But Sister isn’t the only one equipped to sniff out the trail. The local foxes, horses, and hounds have their own theories on the whodunit. If only these peculiar humans could just listen to them, they’d see that the killer might be right under their oblivious noses–and that Sister could become the killer’s next victim. Praise for The Tell-Tale Horse: SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER “[A] charming and engrossing series . . . Sister Jane Arnold is Master of the Foxhounds as well as one of the most entertaining amateur sleuths since those of Agatha Christie.” –Booklist “Intriguing . . . Fans of the series will be fascinated with Jane’s evolution under Brown’s hand. With each book, Jane becomes more real–and more human–in the reader’s imagination.” –Richmond Times-Dispatch “Grabs readers from the opening scene and gallops through to the very surprising end.” –Horse Illustrated




A B C Et Cetera


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This is a book about the Roman alphabet and the people who used it as a medium for the transmission of their civilization. Primarily, this means the Romans and their Italic subjects, speakers of Latin who disseminated the language, and the culture of which it was an expression, throughout Europe and the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. As speakers, readers, and writers of English, we are greatly indebted to the long line of purveyors of Latin in its various forms. When words are borrowed, concepts come with them. So, if we have borrowed a wide variety of Latin words, it follows that we have also borrowed a great deal of the cultural stuff that they encase. This book takes a look at what the authors consider to be some of the more intriguing cultural/linguistic goodies that have crept willy-nilly into the English language over the ages from the Latin cornucopia. - Preamble.




Learning Theory


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2004, held in Banff, Canada in July 2004. The 46 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 113 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on economics and game theory, online learning, inductive inference, probabilistic models, Boolean function learning, empirical processes, MDL, generalisation, clustering and distributed learning, boosting, kernels and probabilities, kernels and kernel matrices, and open problems.




The Dictionary of Distinctions, in Three Alphabets, Containing: I. Words the Same in Sound, But of Different Spelling and Signification. II. Words that Vary in Pronunciation and Meaning as Accentuated ... III. The Changes ... Produced by the Addition of the Letter E ... With Appendix Comprising the Proper Names of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha


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Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)


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One of the greatest adventure story writers of all time, H. Rider Haggard was a prolific novelist, whose exciting tales have entertained readers for over a hundred years. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the collected works, with the usual Delphi bonus texts. (Version 3) Allan Quatermain Series Ayesha Series The Umslopogaas Series The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Series The Novels Dawn (1884) The Witch’s Head (1884) King Solomon’s Mines (1885) She (1886) Jess (1887) Allan Quatermain (1887) Mr Meeson’s Will (1888) Maiwa’s Revenge (1888) Colonel Quaritch, V.C. (1889) Cleopatra (1889) Allan’s Wife (1889) Beatrice (1890) The World’s Desire (1890) Eric Brighteyes (1890) Nada the Lily (1892) Montezuma’s Daughter (1893) The People of the Mist (1893) Joan Haste (1895) Heart of the World (1895) The Wizard (1896) Dr Therne (1898) Swallow (1899) Elissa (1900) Black Heart and White Heart (1900) Lysbeth (1901) Pearl-Maiden (1903) Stella Fregelius (1904) The Brethren (1904) Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) The Way of the Spirit (1906) Benita (1906) Fair Margaret (1907) The Ghost Kings (1908) The Yellow God (1908) The Lady of Blossholme (1909) Morning Star (1910) Queen Sheba’s Ring (1910) Red Eve (1911) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) The Wanderer’s Necklace (1914) The Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) Love Eternal (1918) Moon of Israel (1918) When the World Shook (1919) The Ancient Allan (1920) She and Allan (1921) The Virgin of the Sun (1922) Wisdom’s Daughter (1923) Heu-Heu (1924) Queen of the Dawn (1925) The Treasure of the Lake (1926) Allan and the Ice Gods (1927) Mary of Marion Isle (1929) Belshazzar (1930) The Shorter Fiction Allan the Hunter (1890) Allan’s Wife and Other Tales (1899) The Mahatma and the Hare (1911) Smith and the Pharaohs and Other Tales (1913) The Non-Fiction Cetywayo and His White Neighbors (1882) The Last Boer War (1899) A Winter Pilgrimage (1901) The Autobiography The Days of My Life (1926)




The Meriwether Murder


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In a decaying plantation graveyard, Alan Graham finds a clue to a great American mystery The headstone reads Louis, and when Pepper Courtney finds it, she assumes it belonged to a slave. But when the old woman who owns the crumbling plantation house gives her an ancestor’s diary, Courtney discovers that Louis was a white man whose drifter’s appearance concealed a gentleman’s manners. Who was this stranger, and why did he die with the president’s name on his lips? Courtney’s boss, contract archaeologist Alan Graham, has a radical theory—and there are those who would kill to keep it quiet. Based on the diary, the dig, and the scant historical records, Graham believes the headstone may have belonged to explorer Meriwether Lewis, who was said to have died in Tennessee but may have survived to make a new life in Louisiana. To solve this centuries-old mystery, he will have to catch a modern-day killer.




Robert Morris


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In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington’s armies and the American Revolution. Morris started life in the colonies as an apprentice in a counting house. By the time of the Revolution he was a rich man, a commercial and social leader in Philadelphia. He organized a clandestine trading network to arm the American rebels, joined the Second Continental Congress, and financed George Washington’s two crucial victories—Valley Forge and the culminating battle at Yorktown that defeated Cornwallis and ended the war. The leader of a faction that included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Washington, Morris ran the executive branches of the revolutionary government for years. He was a man of prodigious energy and adroit management skills and was the most successful businessman on the continent. He laid the foundation for public credit and free capital markets that helped make America a global economic leader. But he incurred powerful enemies who considered his wealth and influence a danger to public "virtue" in a democratic society. After public service, he gambled on land speculations that went bad, and landed in debtors prison, where George Washington, his loyal friend, visited him. This once wealthy and powerful man ended his life in modest circumstances, but Rappleye restores his place as a patriot and an immensely important founding father.