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The Geographical Journal

The Geographical Journal

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Your Council have decided to invite — and I am glad to say that the candidate has found it possible to accept — Sir Charles Close to occupy the presidential chair. It would be almost impertinent of me to rehearse before you Sir Charles Close's ...
Buckingham Through Time

Buckingham Through Time

Charles Close

Terrace. Bruce Jarvis at his car repair shop in Station Terrace. He explained that the world of business was changing and he had to think of his sons' futures when he accepted the opportunity to close his works and sell up for redevelopment.
Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth

Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth

Alison

Sir Charles Close, Comment, 1927 Proceedings, 95. President of the international Geographical Congress, Close also worked with Raymond Pearl on the iuSiP, especially in its difficult years during the 1930s, when the apparently apolitical ...
The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of ...

The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of ...

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This book, which contains conversations between Close and many of the best known artists of our time, adds another dimension to the portraits for which Close is known, and is an important and intriguing document in its own right.
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark

Charles Maclean

About to close a major deal, Ed Lister is called to the phone.
Winslow Through Time

Winslow Through Time

Charles Close

This book also shows how photography has continually evolved to keep up with an ever-changing society.
Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait

Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait

Martin Friedman

An in-depth study of the life and work of innovative artist Chuck Close foxuses on his portraits and self-portraits, revealing his pioneering concepts of color, scale, and form as revealed in his portraiture, as well as the biographical ...
The Suicide Club

The Suicide Club

Sarah Quigley

Three misfits - close to genius, close to the brink - come together in a desperate love triangle in this compelling novel.
How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett: Lessons from the ...

How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett: Lessons from the ...

Tom Searcy

Take the advice in this hands-on guide and learn How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett. How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett reveals the method behind Buffett's near-mythic deal-making prowess.
Geographical Teacher

Geographical Teacher

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THE retirement of Colonel Sir Charles Close, K.B.E., F.R.S., is an event which moves teachers of geography to express their regret and at the same time their very sincere gratitude for all that the late Director of the Ordnance Survey has done ...
Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson

Jocelyn Harris

This book provides a concise introduction to Richardson, by combining a close reading of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Gerandison with a discussion of their central themes.
Close Out

Close Out

Todd Strasser

Lucas has his career and his reputation on the line. If Kai wins, he might be able to stay in Sun Haven and not have to hit the road again with his sketchy dad. For everyone it's a chance to close out the summer as a champion. Stoked.
The Archaeological Journal

The Archaeological Journal

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G. S. Crawford, and the wise encouragement given by Sir Charles Close to the pioneer-work of the new Officer, all combined to lend the revised ordnance maps an authority and utility which their predecessors had lacked. Terminology which ...
Creation, Nature and Hope in 4 Ezra

Creation, Nature and Hope in 4 Ezra

Jonathan A. Moo

I can mention here only Dr. Charles Anderson, with whom I shared a carrel for a few years at Tyndale and who has not only been a close friend but also read and commented on early portions of my dissertation, and Mr. Daniele Pevarello, an ...
Lee's Aide-de-Camp

Lee's Aide-de-Camp

Charles Marshall

This book?s insights into Robert E. Lee and his military strategy and its close-up report on the Confederacy?s war qualify it as an indispensable part of America?s historical record.
On the knee of the Church. Female training in Romish ...

On the knee of the Church. Female training in Romish ...

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This light was seen by a pupil, whose sleeping place was close to the cell of Sister Margaret Mary. Some days afterwards she saw a figure near her bed. At first it was only in the night that she saw it close to her ; afterwards it remained all day, ...
Aylesbury Through Time

Aylesbury Through Time

Charles Close

Drawing on detailed local knowledge of the community and illustrated with a wealth of black and white photographs, this book recalls what has changed in Aylesbury in terms of buildings, traditions and ways of life.
The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer

The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer

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Sir Charles Close then gives a short account of the old maps or early cartography of this country which still exist, the earliest being a map of Great Britain dated about 1300, which is to be seen at the Bodleian Library, Oxford; he states that this  ...
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia litteraria anglica

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia litteraria anglica

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But she goes even further - being an artist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as Charles Bernheimer explains (qtd. in Celia Marshik), meant selling oneself to the public and that was close to prostitution, especially with respect to ...
Department for Education: Managing the Expansion of the ...

Department for Education: Managing the Expansion of the ...

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts

Rachel Wolf: It depends what you mean by “close”. If it is, “Give them off to potentially new providers and new management in the way that you did with sponsored academies,” yes, I would. You obviously cannot close schools all the time, ...
Proceedings of the British Academy

Proceedings of the British Academy

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Sir Charles Close has done a good deal of work upon the field-name maps which have been traced for us by the scholars of various schools under the Hampshire Education Authority. Miss Turing, acting as executrix for Miss A. D. Greenwood, ...
Surveyor

Surveyor

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In the " Royal Engineers Journal " of December, 1921, there is published an account of a most interesting lecture on the above subject, delivered at Chatham by Colonel Sir Charles Close, k.b.e., &c, the Director-General of the Ordnance ...

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