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Andypediaby Andy Griffiths; Terry Denton
Pan Macmillan Australia 2012; US$ 4.72It's an encyclopedia ... all about Andy! The Andypedia is a complete guide to every book, every story and every character in the world of Andy Griffiths? books. It?s also a complete guide to everything you ever wanted to know about Andy himself ? including the answers to questions people are always asking him, like "How old were you when you started writing?" and "How many books have you actually written?" and "Where do you get your ideas from?" and "Did all that stuff really happen to you?" and "Was Danny Pickett really your best friend?" and "Were you really in love with Lisa Mackney?" and "Did your bum really grow arms and legs and run away?" more...
Contract Lawby Adam Kramer
Hart 2010; US$ 63.60This is a new type of book. It provides an index of the most useful and important academic and other writings on contract law, whether published in articles or journal chapters, or as books. These writings, with their full citation, are gathered under familiar contract law subject-headings, and the most significant half of them are digested in a summary of a few lines each. The book aims to cover all writings published in the English language about the Common Law of contracts, and includes sections on contract theory and the history of contract law, as well as sections for the more traditional substantive topics (such as the interpretation of contracts, penalty clauses, remoteness of damage and anticipatory breach).This work should prove an... more...
The Oxford Guide to British Women Writersby Joanne Shattock
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 40.00This introduction to British women's writing, from the earliest times to the present day, ranges across novelists, poets, playwrights, historians, scientists and translators. It covers, in an A-Z sequence, the lives and works of 400 writers in detail. more...
Colloquial Arabic (Levantine)by Leslie McLoughlin
Routledge 1982; US$ 31.95Colloquial Arabic is easy to use and completely accomplishable. Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Arabic. more...
Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministersby Robert Eccleshall; Graham Walker
Routledge 1998; US$ 69.95Written by some of the leading authorities on British politics, this dictionary is a wide-ranging, comprehensive guide to the lives of Britain's prime ministers from Sir Robert Walpole to Tony Blair. more...
Women Writers of the First World Warby Sharon Ouditt
Routledge 1999; US$ 165.00This bibliography lists and annotates hundreds of published books, articles, memoirs, diaries and letters written by women during the First World War. more...
Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by: Expanded Editionby Hamilton Holt
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95This is a collection of touching autobiographies of ordinary people. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition is expanded to include lives not included originally. more...
Operaby Edward O.D. Downes; Guy A. Marco
Routledge 2001; US$ 175.00Covering over 320 composers and 43 countries, this book will be invaluable to opera scholars, researchers and serious listeners throughout the world. more...
Gabriel Fauréby Edward R. Phillips
Routledge 1999; US$ 125.00This work is part of a series which presents information on composers. Each volume offers annotated lists of all writings in major languages plus lists of works by the composers, biographical sketches and guides to library resources, organizations more...
It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientistby John Malone
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 24.95Did you know. . . . . . that the woman who discovered the largest and most complete T. rex fossil on record was a high-school dropout who became one of the world's greatest fossil hunters? . . . that the great British scientist Michael Faraday was the son of a blacksmith and had very little formal education? . . . that Gregor Mendel had time to study inherited traits in garden peas because he failed the test to qualify as a high school science teacher? This is just a small sampling of the many surprises you'll find in this enlightening survey of the mavericks, misfits, and unschooled investigators who have been responsible for some of the greatest scientific discoveries in history. It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist explains the achievements... more...









