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Excerpt from The Mirror, 1985Johnny Chillum, Maryland University of Maryland, College Park Psychology Married Three children Gorgas msda Council on Constitution and Bylaws Note Service 3 Poly Proud Good enough for government work Has a certain air about him The King of Flatulence Old man Bausch Future Veterans Administration General Practice Residency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

Excerpt from The Mirror, 1985Johnny Chillum, Maryland University of Maryland, College Park Psychology Married Three children Gorgas msda Council on Constitution and Bylaws Note Service 3 Poly Proud Good enough for government work Has a certain air about him The King of Flatulence Old man Bausch Future Veterans Administration General Practice Residency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

The McCormack family came from Ireland, where they were known as the Cormacks. In 1882, Joseph and Theresa McCormack sailed to Australia. This book presents what occurred to the family in the years following their arrival through primary documents and photographs.

Brings together scholars of Latin American and Peninsular Spanish crime fiction who explore the role of the victim in crime fiction from the Spanish-speaking world. The authors highlight how the definition of "victim", the identification of the body, the nature of the crime, and the treatment of the corpse, reflect societies coping with changing demographics, drug wars, economic crisis, and corruption.

On 23 November 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men vanished. Dr. George Parkman, who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbour but a Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had not left the Medical School building. His shocking discovery engulfed America in one of its mo...

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The fascinating and sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy and a vital call for the reevaluation and reimagination of papal power by one of today's preeminent theologians

Exploring both the theoretical background of stylus phantasticus (or "fantastic style") and its application by composers and performers, Paul Collins surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher's original concept and its influence, and highlights the intriguing relationship between composition and performance, the concept of fantasy, and the understanding of originality and individuality in seventeenth-century culture.

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The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the focus of this book. Exploring the theoretical background to the style and its application by composers and performers, the author surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher's original concept and its influence on music theorists.

In World War I, 35 relatives of the Collins family aged between 18 and 57 volunteered for service - 15 came from the Collins side while 20 were from the Byrne side. Some never passed the enlistment process. Of those who served overseas, many were injured and a saddening percentage died. With interest in the war high due to its centenary, this book honours those who answered the call by detailing their service and lives using primary documents ...

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Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a key figure in the setting up of the Iraqi state and monarchy after the First World War. Arabist, Persian speaker, scholar, and traveller, she was an imperial administrator with a deep concern for the archaeological heritage of Iraq. Her legacy endures both in the shape of the Iraqi state and also in the Iraq Museum.

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A history of Black Country Canals

Jeremiah O'Flynn was a wandering priest par excellence, credited as being one of the founders of the Catholic Church in Australia where historians have treated him as an almost mythical figure. Yet, while essentially well-intentioned, O'Flynn was a very contrary and difficult man who resented all authority figures in church and state. This new biography situates his life against the background of the key political, social and ecclesiastical is...

Ma che idea, lasciare la California per un brumoso paesino della campagna gallese! Se non fosse che il paesino è Hay-on-Wye, "la Mecca dei bibliofili", dove c'è una libreria antiquaria ogni quaranta abitanti, e dove si celebra ogni anno uno dei più noti Festival della Letteratura - e se non fosse che il pellegrino è Paul Collins, instancabile e ardimentoso cacciatore di libri perduti e stravaganti. Ingaggiato nel 2000 da Richard Booth, il libr...

This book takes a route-by-route look at the development, operation and run-down of the tramway system which once linked Dudley to Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Netherton, Cradley Heath, Pensnett, Kingswinford, Wordsley, Kinver, Lye, Wollaston, Old Hill and Blackheath.

In a galaxy of cutthroat companies, shadowy clans and a million agendas, spy agency RIM barely wields enough control to keep order. Maximus Black is RIM's star cadet. But he has a problem. One of RIM's best agents, Anneke Longshadow, knows there's a mole in the organisation. And Maximus has a lot to hide..."...