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A desire to recreate Minoan palaces, villas, and houses of the Late Bronze Age inspired the author of this book to undertake an eight year research program that has radically modified our conception of the appearance of Cretan dwellings. He not only interprets the use of the rooms that partially survive but reconstructs the guest suites and banquet halls of the vanished upper storeys. Written both as a preparation for a visit to Crete and as a...

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bTitle:/b Poems on various subjects ... To which are added, observations on gardening, with receipts for pickling, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prin...

Excerpt from Notes for Young Writers This little book Of notes was prepared for the purpose of helping young writers to see immediately, and thus avoid or remedy at the beginning of their work, the most common faults. It will answer many questions which sooner or later occur, but are too often either omitted from text-books on rhetoric or lost in the systematic treatment of more obvious matters. The experience of several teach ers of English ...

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Excerpt from Amelia Sherwood, or Bloody Scenes at the California Gold Mines: With a Narrative of the Tragic Incidents on a Voyage to San Francisco The Sherwood Family - A Separation A Catastrophe. A Quarter of a mile off the post-road to Saratoga, and scarcely halfway up the hill which overlooks the town of C, in Washington county. New York, the attention of the traveler is attracted to a handsome two-story frame house, indicating from its s...

Excerpt from Kelantan Kelantan, the largest of the Malay States subordinate to Siam, and of an area about equal to half that of Belgium, is a country almost entirely unknown, not only in far-away Europe, but also in those parts, Siam, the Straits Settle ments, and even the other States of the Malay Peninsula which lie nearest to it. Persons (if such there be) seeking knowledge concerning Kelantan in the neighbouring cities of Bangkok or Sing...

Excerpt from Tory Criticism in the Quarterly Review, 1809-1853 This essay is an abstract of a more extended study pre sented as a dissertation at Columbia University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...