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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : John Stephen Farmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338731776X
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
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Page : 1676 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Banks and banking
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Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
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Author : John Wareing
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0198788908
The first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, who paid for their transportation and keep, and continued to work unpaid for years on their arrival. Often these people were deceived and coerced, despite half-hearted government efforts to curtail the activities of what was, after all, a useful crime for the English state.
Author : Max Décharné
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 168177500X
This rollercoaster ride through the colorful history of slang—from highwaymen to hip-hop—is a fresh and exciting take on the subject: entertaining and authoritative without being patronizing, out-of-touch or voyeuristic. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honor, a sign of identity or a dangerous assault on the values of polite society. Of all the vocabularies available to us, slang is the most alive, constantly evolving and—as it leaks into the mainstream and is taken up by all of us—infusing the language with a healthy dose of vitality. Witty, energetic and informative Vulgar Tongues traces the many routes of slang, beginning with the thieves and prostitutes of Elizabethan London and ending with the present day, where the centuries-old terms rap and hip-hop still survive, though their meanings have changed. On the way we will meet Dr. Johnson, World War II flying aces, pickpockets, schoolchildren, hardboiled private eyes, carnival geeks and the many eccentric characters who have tried to record slang throughout its checkered past. If you’re curious about flapdragons and ale passion, the changing meanings of punk and geek, or how fly originated on the streets of eighteenth-century London and square in Masonic lodges, this is the book for you.
Author : Henry Harrison Suplee
Publisher :
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Engineering
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Building
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Agriculture
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Author : James A. Secord
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400854660
Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises in Darwin's younger day: mapping, ordering, conquering 'taming the chaos" of the strata. All of these of course had social and imperial ramifications; and Secord mentions geology's moral appeal (in supporting a divinely-stratified Creation) to a beleaguered elite intent on subduing the lower orders. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Page : 948 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Aeronautics
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