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This books introduces readers to the almost unbelievable creativity of the Kashmir/Jammu/Ladakh region's crafts people in a sophisticated and splendidly illustrated book on the lives of its Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist crafts people. 170 illustrations, all in full-color.

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Source: Purchase, Jan. 22, 1991 (DLC #95125).

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First published in 1885, this was the first Creole cookbook ever printed'a rare collection of recipes from leading New Orleans chefs of the day, as well as from Creole housewives.

This book discusses the failure of sex education to properly inform our youth on the issues concerning premarital sex. It's a must-read for parents, educators, and youth workers.

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One of the great scholars of International Relations, Hedley Bull worked within a tradition of political thought which derives from Hobbes, Hume, Grotius, and the natural lawyers. Bull not only added to this tradition, but he also demonstrated how it could become a foundation for the study of International Relations. In this book, leading scholars offer essays on each of the major aspects of his thought. The authors explore Bull's central ques...

In the sixth century B.C., Pherekydes of Syros, the reputed teacher of Pythagoras and a contemporary of Thales and Anaximander, wrote a book about the birth of the gods and the origin of the cosmos. Considered one of the first prose works of Greek literature, Pherekydes' book survives only in fragments. Drawing on these fragments, as well as the ancient testimonies, Schibli here reconstructs the theo-cosmological schema of Pherekydes. From the...

Odysseus Elytis (1911-96) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979. With Seferis and the 'Generation of the Thirties', he introduced French Surrealism into Greek poetry. Kimon Friar's classic translation The Sovereign Sun begins with his brilliantly sensuous early poems. It has large selections from his master work, Axion Esti (1959), and includes the whole of his Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign...

(E-Z Play Today). His biggest hits, including: The Bottle Let Me Down * From Graceland to the Promised Land * If We Make It Through December * Mama Tried * Okie from Muskogee * and many more.

This book challenges the view that there was a smooth and inevitable progression towards liberalism in early nineteenth-century England. It examines the argument of the high whigs that the landed aristocracy still had a positive contribution to make to the welfare of the people. This argument gained significance as the laissez-faire state met with serious reverses in the 1830s and 1840s, when the bulk of the people proved unwilling to accept t...

The first complete biography of one of the most brilliant 15th century monarchs, who was also a shrewd politician, a merchant prince, and one of the greatest patrons of the early Renaissance.

The federal courts are now heavily involved in the reform of prisons in the US. This collection of analyses by noted criminologists provides a much needed look at the consequences of such judicial intervention. In his introduction and conclusion, John DiIulio discusses the general points to be drawn, proposes an agenda for further research, and offers policy recommendations.

This book serves well as an introduction into the more theoretical aspects of the use of spline models.

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