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As in the earlier book The Sherlock Holmes Crossword Puzzle Book, each mystery is told in condensed form. It includes the problem, the action, and the clues-but not the solution. That will be found among the words of the crossword puzzle that follows the story. Solve the puzzle, fill in the spaces below it, and-presto-the solution. Then test your ability as a sleuth by turning to the answer page at the back of the book, there you'll also find ...

The articles in this collection deal mainly with ports in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland and list some 5, 000 17th- and 18th-century arrivals. While about half of the articles deal with English and German immigrants, others are concerned with immigrants of Dutch origin, and some few deal with Huguenots and Jews. As is customary with ships' passenger lists, the data provided consists of a mixture of references to ships, ports ...

This work examines passenger arrival records in their historical and legal framework, and it explains what they contain, where they can be found, and how they can be used. In effect, it is a road map through the mass of records and archival resources documenting immigrant arrivals from the time of the earliest settlements to the passage of the Quota Acts three centuries later.

With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty, " Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and des...

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of causes, diagnoses, and treatments of headaches.

Proposal writing is more than just answering a request. It's a fact-finding mission that offers the proposal writer an opportunity to gain insight into what the writer's company or client really wants. This book offers practical, how-to advice on writing and presenting winning proposals for contracts ranging from $50, 000 to $50 million.

Whether readers are embarking on management careers or looking for new ways to lead effectively, this book can help them think like leaders, gain respect and support, and more. Includes several time-saving worksheets to organize day-to-day activities and set long-range goals.

Under the Stars" is the amazing autobiography of Edward Thomas Whitingham Tepper, Oregon's wizard of the woods. An eighth-grade dropout at 13, Tom and his father came homesteading in Oregon in the early 1900s. He became a buckaroo, rodeo rider, and horse trainer, pioneer aviator and flight instructor in the infant Army Air Corps, crop duster, commercial fisherman, designer and creator of silver jewelry and bridle bits, wood carver and the man ...

Classic fantasy from the amazing Sheri S. Tepper. Women rule in Women's Country. Women live apart from men, sheltering the remains of civilization. They have cut themselves off with walls and by ordinance from marauding males. Waging war is all men are good for. Men are allowed to fight their barbaric battles amongst themselves, garrison against garrison. For the sake of his pride, each boy child ritualistically rejects his mother when he come...

Tepper takes the traditional icons of fantasy, restores their resonance, and makes them her own."-Minneapolis Star Tribune A century ago, a mysterious force wiped out human life on all surrounding worlds, leaving the planet Dinadh untouched. Now the unknown force is back-and this time humanity's only hope lies with a woman who'd give anything not to get involved.Lutha Tallstaff's mission is to locate the famed adventurer Leelson Famber, who ha...

Provides your students with a practical, understandable and realistic approach to the law of contracts and covers all of the important features of common law contracts as well as Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).

A dreadful, awesome killing power is resurrected from the past . . . Powers are invoked and curses are being laid . . . Great waters are rising and changing the world . . . Long ago was the "Big Kill, " horrible, apocalyptic events that destroyed nearly every living thing on earth. Since then the last of humankind has scattered into widespread small kingdoms separated by superstition, war, and fear. And now, while facing a natural catastrophe...