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First published in 1924, this volume presents critical editions of three short Anglo-Norman texts.

This 1922 book proposes an alternative theory of relativity deducing that 'our experience requires and exhibits a basis in uniformity'.

The text focuses on the factors leading towards the varied geographical distribution of mammals.

Dr Blackall's 1959 book cuts across the usual distinction between 'literature' and 'linguistics' in the study of modern languages.

This 1939 text examines whether the formation of a cohesive ethnology of Polynesia could be possible.

This 1939 volume provides a rich and detailed description of traditional agricultural husbandry and the rural crafts inseparable from it.

Part of the Provincial Geography of India series, this 1913 volume, concentrates on Madras, Mysore, Coorg, and other associated states.

This 1900 volume gathers modern Greek songs designed for both classical scholars and lovers of folklore in general.

This volume, first published in 1905, focuses on the information gathered by medieval Arab, Persian and Turkish geographers, who described in detail the Mesopotamia, Persia and the nearer parts of central Asia. Written with the general reader in mind, this is a highly readable book and contains numerous maps of the area during different periods.

After a career of more than 30 years with a top Fortune 500 company using that very same technique to convert an environmental program from a cost center to a revenue generator, Dr. Randall is openly sharing that technique. As organizations face greater challenges to control spending while meeting more dramatic demands to go "green" this simple, comprehensive guide will help any organization attain the greatest economic efficiency by making ra...

The book is the first in-depth study that aims to identify the conceptual rules and regularities underlying the (un)conventionality of figurative ways of speaking and reasoning. Using a combination of corpus-linguistic and cognitive-linguistic methods it investigates a large number of metonymies as well as metaphors, focusing on the former, less studied phenomenon. It provides an overview of their relative frequencies of occurrence in natural ...

World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing around eleven thousand torpedoes, sinking Japanese men-of-war and more than one thousand merchant ships. But the anonymity and simplicity of the stealthy torpedo attack hid the savagery of warfar...

For practitioners and enthusiasts of Indian Classical Music, compositions for string instruments - Sitar, Sarod and Vichitra Veena - are hard to find. For the first time, 8 raga-s have been documented and presented in an easy to read and play notation system: Ome Swarlipi. A treasure trove of compositions, tana-s and toda-s for raga-s such as Yaman, Des, Khamaja, Bihaga, and Kafi, this book brings Misrabani style, one especially suited to stri...

A detailed 1991 synthesis of the two fields of fish spermatology and fish systematics.

This second volume of renowned English botanist Alfred Barton Rendle's The Classification of Flowering Plants was published in 1925.

This 1999 book provides information on the complex interrelations between medicines, medical devices and the law.

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Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of a number of Everyman anthologies including Love Stories, Christmas Stories, Stories of the Sea and Dog Stories.

George Orwell was a novelist unlike any other, fiercely devoted to presenting the truth as he saw it. Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a sort of comedy in which minor poet Gordon Comstock engages briefly with romantic dreams before realizing that salvation is to be found, not in escape from his life but engagement with it.

The latest brand new collection of Simpsons comic stories is here! Featuring all the much loved characters, including Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa and Maggie, their side-splitting adventures will have readers rolling on the floor laughing in no time!