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Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The Use of Literature as ...

Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The Use of Literature as ...

Tone Sundt Urstad

To the Tune of, Chevy Chase: or God Prosper Long our Noble King, &c.. London: printed in the year 1741. Greene, Kenneth Myron. "Sir Robert Walpole and Literary Patronage." Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1964. Robert L. Haig.
Wolfe Tone

Wolfe Tone

Marianne Elliott

This book is the definitive scholarly biography. A major contribution to Irish historiography...one which will have important public influence in challenging many of the simplistic public notions of Wolfe Tone.
Wolfe Tone: Second edition

Wolfe Tone: Second edition

Marianne Elliott

Kenneth R. Rossman, Thomas Mifflin and the Politics of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, N. Car., 1952); entry in DAB, XII. 606–8; Rowan, Autobiography, 283 –4; TCD, MS 868/2/13–15, Tone [under pseudo William Penn] to Russell, ...
Belmont Castle, Or, Suffering Sensibility

Belmont Castle, Or, Suffering Sensibility

Theobald Wolfe Tone

This gothic, epistolary novel has lain in obscurity since its first publication in 1790, with only three known copies in existence today. Written primarily by Theobald Wolfe Tone, it parodies the popular sentimental fiction of the time.
Twelve-tone Writing in the Piano Music of Ben Weber ...

Twelve-tone Writing in the Piano Music of Ben Weber ...

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The purpose of this research is to find out through detailed analytical studies, Ben Weber's twelve-tone language and his individual style.
Voices of the Women's Health Movement

Voices of the Women's Health Movement

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In the Matter of Rosemarie Lewis: Women and the Corporatization of Contraception ANDREA TONE Andrea Tone, excerpt from Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America, New York: Hill & Wang, 2001. Reprinted by ...
Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac

Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac

David Herzberg

Andrea Tone, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, Nicolas Rasmussen, and David Healy address the commercial development and dissemination of medicines and medical devices. See, e.g., Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires: A History of ...
The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair ...

The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair ...

Andrea Tone

In The Age of Anxiety, Andrea Tone draws on a broad array of original sources--manufacturers’ files, FDA reports, letters, government investigations, and interviews with inventors, physicians, patients, and activists--to provide the first ...
Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

Peter Van der Linden

The tone and style of this text should make this a popular book with professional programmers. However, the tone of this book will make it very popular with undergraduates. Appendix A alone would make the purchase of this book a must.
Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone

Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone

Margaret L. Hunter

This is the first book to explore this well-known, yet rarely discussed phenomenon.
Meetings of the Mind

Meetings of the Mind

David Damrosch

Comic in tone and serious in intent, this book gives a vivid portrait of academic life in the nineties.
Essential Study Strategies

Essential Study Strategies

Walter Pauk

This unique, concise book uses a conversational tone to encourage readers and students to immediately improve their learning experience.
The Decameron

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

This new translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety and tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece.
I is for Innocent

I is for Innocent

Sue Grafton

What I experienced was a little voice piping up in an outraged tone: “Oh come on. You’re not serious. This is really it?” It was a Monday early in December when Kinsey Millhone first got involved in the Isabelle Barney murder case.
Dark harbor: a poem

Dark harbor: a poem

Mark Strand

A new collection of poetry by the author of The Continuous Life presents interconnected poems that reflect a wide range of moods and changes of tone.
The Last Days of Horse-Shy Halloran

The Last Days of Horse-Shy Halloran

Bill Pronzini

Will you send that wire yourself?” “Yes, I . . . I suppose so . . .” “Promise me you will. Right away.” “All right,” she said in a voice so small that it sounded more like Amy Prendergast's than her own. “Right away.” “Good,” he said in a relieved tone .
The History and Topography of Ireland

The History and Topography of Ireland

Giraldus Cambrensis

The tone is colored by the circumstances in which Giraldus wrote, but his credulity is delightful and his gift for storytelling matchless.
The Twelve-tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

The Twelve-tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

Brian Alegant

Reveals the great twentieth-century Italian composer's innovative handling of harmony, form, and text setting.
7 Weeks to 50 Pull-ups: Strengthen and Sculpt Your Arms, ...

7 Weeks to 50 Pull-ups: Strengthen and Sculpt Your Arms, ...

Brett Stewart

Offers a program to increase strength, muscle tone, and overall fitness in seven weeks.
The Old Man's Birthday

The Old Man's Birthday

Richmal Crompton

Mrs Dalloway with a dash of dry humour, Mapp and Lucia with a slightly melancholy tone, this is the perfect heritage read for fans of 1930s fiction at its best.
Brain Train: Studying for success

Brain Train: Studying for success

Dr Richard Palmer

The lively and enthusiastic tone, and the practical advice on everything from planning revision to designing CVs gives this book enormous appeal to all, from A-level to mature students.
Tone It Up: 28 Days to Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous

Tone It Up: 28 Days to Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous

Karena Dawn

This is the fun stuff: beauty, sparkle, friendship, inspiration, joy, and all the things that give readers that unmistakable glow so they radiate from the inside out!
Training with the Midas Touch: Developing Your ...

Training with the Midas Touch: Developing Your ...

Richard Palmer

While highly practical in tone and approach the book also provides a sound theoretical framework for staff development and includes a detailed academic reading list.
Reformed and Catholic: Essays in Honor of Peter Toon

Reformed and Catholic: Essays in Honor of Peter Toon

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GILLISJ. HARP “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone,“it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice,“whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.
Losing Weight: 21 Practical Ways to Look and Feel Better

Losing Weight: 21 Practical Ways to Look and Feel Better

Max Davis

The tone of the book is encouraging and helpful and readers will immediately begin to gain peace of mind-and action plans for their new healthy lifestyle.

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