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From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has eliciteddramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Draytonexalted the land as "earth's onely paradise, " while John Smith, in his reports toEngland, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, ahell."Drawing upon both familiar history and lesser-known materialfrom deep geological time through the end of the seventeenth century, Stephen...

A first full-length history of the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell System.

More than 250 alphabetically arranged entries by roughly 100 expert contributors detail the life and career of one of America's most prolific, influential, and controversial poets.

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Adams' indispensable guide to life, the universe and everything, this contains short stories and 11 chapters of the novel Adams was working on at the time of his death. Reissue. 'Magical... read this book' "Sunday Express

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Four Young Reapers is inspired by true stories of life early in Hitler?s Germany, which were told to author Stephen W. Adams by a friend who was very young when her family and friends lived them. Fritz and Val are good friends. Sigi and Trina are sisters. With their love of family, country, freedom, common sense human rights, and Christian values, these young people (ages sixteen to twenty-one) soon find that they have opened the door to myste...

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The intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent begin in the first volume of the 'trilogy of five', Douglas Adams' comedy sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry.On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his ...

There are two things you need to know about Susie. She is a young girl who is always interested in everything, and she always wears a ribbon in her hair. When she is thinking, she twiddles and pulls at the ribbon, until she works out what she has to do. At the moment, Susie is very interested in what Mr Green, the teacher, is saying about things going missing at school. Susie is also interested in a new girl who has been seen hanging about nea...

There are two things you need to know about Susie. She is a young girl who is always interested in everything, and she always wears a ribbon in her hair. When she is thinking, she twiddles and pulls at the ribbon, until she works out what she has to do. At the moment Susie is very interested in the old wooden hut, where the children can go to get lots of games and toys to play with. But some strangers have been hanging around the hut, and Susi...

Susie has been told by her brother Alan that there is a new boy in his class. This boy is very quiet, and doesn't talk to anyone. He just sits by himself, reading his books. He doesn't try to make friends, and no-one tries to make friends with him. But that is going to change. Join Susie as she looks into The Mystery of the Shy Boy.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon."-The Washington Post Book WorldNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSeconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifte...

Whether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and professional collaboration, or view pornography and incite terror, the Internet provides myriad opportunities for people who share common interests to find each other. The contributors to this book argue that these self-selected online groups are best understood as tribes, with many of the same ramifications, both positive and negative, that tribalism has in ...

New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century is about the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. The book presents the substantial body of knowledge about the entrepreneurial process in a pragmatic way - through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises - to help readers compress their learning curves, reduce their ultimate risk and pain, and allow them to ...

Adam traces the development of Schafer's music from his early works in a mild neo-classical vein to his experimentation with various modernist procedures.

Adams provides a full treatment of tradition topics, from the iambic pentameter line through other accentual-syllabic rhythms and covering also other types of rhythm, stanza structure, the sonnet and other standard forms. He also includes a variety of other topics, including form in free verse, an extensive treatment of rhyme and literary figures.

Often celebrated as the Literary State of the South, and quoted to have more writers per capita, Mississippi remains famous for its fiction writers. Relatively unsung are those who dedicate themselves to the older craft of poetry. This book seeks to alleviate that absence and collects the best poetry written in contemporary Mississippi.