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Excerpt from A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Vol. 4: A Supplement to Volumes I, II and IIIBecause this numbering method is used for many separate families, the book was necessarily indexed by page number. The index of military service is not included in the master index, being indexed inherently.Perhaps the most unique part of this book is the untraced lines Because of the nation-wide coverage which was used in updating the Nye Genealogy, almos...

Excerpt from A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Vol. 2This book is a sequel to the original book, A Genealogy of the Nye Family, compiled by George Hyatt Nye and Frank E. Best, published under the auspices of the Nye Family of America Association in 1907. This book is not complete without reference to a copy of the original book, referred to later as Volume I. However, many Nyes who are listed in Volume I are also described here, either where they...

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Beyond the Cradle of mankind, the universe is vast, unknown, dangerous to the unwary…or those caught in the path of intrepid explorers proceeding without forethought.Thirteen authors explore what it is to pioneer the future in tales fraught with danger and remorse, tempered with hope, luck, and serendipity. We face the monsters. We face the truth. We face ourselves.Whether the frontier is that of science or space, there is no doubt that at som...

Nye must know more aboutWilliam Shakespeare and his work than anyone." --Boston...

Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Guardian Fiction PrizeThe most beloved comic figure in English literature decides that history hasn't done him justice—it's time for him to tell the whole unbuttoned story, his way. Irascible and still lecherous at eighty-one, Falstaff spins out these outrageously bawdy memoirs as an antidote to legend, and in the process manages to recreate his own. This splendidly written novel is a feast, opening wide...

Out in the black fen something stirred. It was cruel and slimy and its eyes shone. Even the moon would not look at it. Its claws were red and its breath stank like a drain . . . For years, the evil monster Grendel has wrought havoc on the beautiful hall of King Hrothgar, attacking and eating all who live there and overcoming his bravest warriors. Nothing can stop him. Until news of the monster travels across the sea to the court of King Hyge...

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A beautifully produced monograph devoted to the paintings and drawings of John Altoon, a central figure in the Los Angeles art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Haunting and erotic, Altoon's colorful paintings and intimate drawings capture a magical moment in postwar California, between the Beat Generation and the sexual and psychedelic revolution of the late sixties. His larger-than-life personality and enthusiasm energized the circle of artists ...

Expansive and sprawling - like his stomach - Falstaff's memoirs take the unsuspecting reader into the world of a character so audacious that, apparently, even the Bard himself could not do him justice. Larger-than-life and still lecherous at the age of eighty-one, Falstaff recounts his outrageously bawdy tales as an antidote to popular legend.

Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously o...

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Excerpt from A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Vol. 2This book is a sequel to the original book, A Genealogy of the Nye Family, compiled by George Hyatt Nye and Frank E. Best, published under the auspices of the Nye Family of America Association in 1907. This book is not complete without reference to a copy of the original book, referred to later as Volume I. However, many Nyes who are listed in Volume I are also described here, either where they...

Excerpt from A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Vol. 4: A Supplement to Volumes I, II and IIIBecause this numbering method is used for many separate families, the book was necessarily indexed by page number. The index of military service is not included in the master index, being indexed inherently.Perhaps the most unique part of this book is the untraced lines Because of the nation-wide coverage which was used in updating the Nye Genealogy, almos...

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A retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel.