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Eighty-eight lavishly illustrated pages of stepby-step coloured drawings and photographs teaches you how to grow orchids confidently, successfully and professionally. Written for the amateur and the professional without access to sophisticated laboratory equipment and chemicals, this contains all you need to know to become an expert.

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Originally published in 1911, this book was formed from an essay which was awarded the Prince Consort Prize for 1910. The text presents a discussion regarding the development of religious tolerance during the late Stuart period. A bibliography is included.

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Imagine you have never seen a football game except once or twice on TV or in a movie. Imagine further that without warning, the person you are talking to pulls a football out of his bag and throws it at you. Chances are, you won't catch the ball. After a few minutes of conversation, the person throws another football at you. Again, a fifty-fifty chance you will catch the ball. After a few minutes more, he throws at you again. This time, you're...

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Excerpt from The Seaton Family: With Genealogy and Biographies The work of preparing this book has been done almost entirely in the idle moments. Rainy days, and other odd spells of a busy man's working hours in his grain office, when there was no other regular work unperformed. The typewriter stood on its desk, capable, ready and convenient, and was made use of as opportunity offered, the work being dropped, even in the middle of a word, to...

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Starr Owen's Fedora is an elegiac portrait, a hyperreal tableau vivant in which the letters are people and the fedora is a timeless incident. With short van Gogh strokes Owen paints a small encyclopedia of sisterhood, a still life throbbing like a heart, broken, open. Fedora traces the outline of a loved one, skirting the brim of the impossible familiar, an America embalmed by its expectations. Just twelve pages long, a myth has never been so ...

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Excerpt from The Land of Promise, or the Bible Land and Its Revelation: Illustrated With Several Engravings of Some of the Most Important Places in Palestine and Syria Land - Samaritans Rejected - The Jews Return from Captivity - Discord be tween Jews and Samaritans - Services on Mount Gerizim - Nehemiah Rebuild ing the Walls of J erusalem - Ancient Samaritans - Visit to Samaritan Temple - Their Religious Devotions - The People, Their General...

Follows the personal and professional experiences of Ken Hechler, the oldest living person to have served in the US Congress, from his childhood until his marriage at 98 years of age. This biography recounts a century of accomplishments, from Hechler's introduction of innovative teaching methods, to his work as a speechwriter for President Harry Truman, and to his time representing West Virginia in the US House of Representatives.