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The 'Three Tall Tales' in this book comprise one short story and two 'story poems'. The story, 'The Thing with Harry', is an interior monologue in which the character recollects his first youthful love affair. It is a self-pitying tragicomedy. The poem, 'The Artists Who Burned a Million Quid' tells the story of the two artists who burned �000, 000-worth of � notes on the Scottish island of Jura in 1994. 'Two Versions' tells, in two ways, the s...

The Deathbed Poet' is a collection of sixteen poems about death, deathbeds, funerals, graveyards, memories and memorials and poetry itself. 'Other Poems' includes pieces about otters, seagulls, a long-distance love affair, lockdowns and isolation, a drunk poet, as well as translations of two of Horace's Odes.

This book, first published in 1979, examines the economic lives of municipal governments. Local government provides a great deal of services, all of which must be paid for. The sources of these revenues are analysed here, in three sections: bonding and debt, taxation, and other, miscellaneous sources of revenue.

The book is about my life on what I went through things I've done and also seen. It shows you my thoughts growing up on how I really felt

High School Graduation Day, 1997.That shifting of tassels had sparked a subtle realization in me which would grow more lucid as time came to pass:Things had been excluded from our public school curriculum.The inner workings of the real world had yet to be unveiled, and soon a batch of harsh lessons would serve as a slap to the face...Cultures clashed all around us, former classmates and I fell into debt, our health suffered, and acts of discri...

High School Graduation Day, 1997.That shifting of tassels had sparked a subtle realization in me which would grow more lucid as time came to pass: Things had been excluded from our public school curriculum.The inner workings of the real world had yet to be unveiled, and soon a batch of harsh lessons would serve as a slap to the face...Cultures clashed all around us, former classmates and I fell into debt, our health suffered, and acts of discr...

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Anthony White has been writing and performing miserable love poems for several years. His reflections navigate matters of the heart and the complex emotions we all experience when we fall in and out of love and feel heartbroken and lost. This is his first collection.

There's always been that one quiet kid in the back of the class. Perhaps they're a little shy, branded a misfit - maybe they dress a little funny... but they're always watching, always listening. That's me. I'm that kid. I've learned much by playing the role of an avid observer, and feel I must break my silence if only for a spell. Sitcoms have thrived on the silly subject matter of telephone support for decades, exposing the most despicable...

This book examines the work of several avant-garde artists, including Giorgio de Chirico, Fortunato Depero, Scipione and Mario Radice, working in Italy during Benito Mussolini's rise and fall.

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There's always been that one quiet kid in the back of the class. Perhaps they're a little shy, branded a misfit - maybe they dress a little funny... but they're always watching, always listening.That's me. I'm that kid. I've learned much by playing the role of an avid observer, and feel I must break my silence if only for a spell.Sitcoms have thrived on the silly subject matter of telephone support for decades, exposing the most despicable act...

Its Maxwells 10th birthday, and he is finally allowed to choose the present he has been dreaming of. Little does Maxwell know, this one decision is going to bring love and adventure to his life, like he never could have imagined.

Title: The military system for the New-Jersey Cavalry.Author: Anthony Walton WhitePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneerin...

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The Greek text Epistle of Aristeas is a Jewish work of the late Hellenistic period that recounts the origins of the Septuagint. Long recognized as a literary fiction, the Epistle of Aristeas has been variously dated from the third century BCE to the first century CE. As a result of the work's uncertain provenance, its epistolary features, and especially those in which the putative author, Aristeas, addresses his brother and correspondent, Phil...

The Greek text Epistle of Aristeas is a Jewish work of the late Hellenistic period that recounts the origins of the Septuagint. Long recognized as a literary fiction, the Epistle of Aristeas has been variously dated from the third century BCE to the first century CE. As a result of the work's uncertain provenance, its epistolary features, and especially those in which the putative author, Aristeas, addresses his brother and correspondent, Phil...

Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Proximate Cause of Gout and Its Rational TreatmentI have for some time been engaged in preparing a work on Diet, wherein I purpose, among other things, to trace out the connection between sundry constitu tional disorders, and the habitual abuses of the diges tive organs in childhood as well as in the adult age. I had intended to embody in that work certain theoreti cal and practical views, which long experience...

Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Proximate Cause of Gout and Its Rational TreatmentI have for some time been engaged in preparing a work on Diet, wherein I purpose, among other things, to trace out the connection between sundry constitu tional disorders, and the habitual abuses of the diges tive organs in childhood as well as in the adult age. I had intended to embody in that work certain theoreti cal and practical views, which long experience...