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Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed.: An Illustrated ...
Paul DicksonIn this treasury of more than 5,000 quotations, noted baseball writer and observer Paul Dickson has captured the flavor of the game, in the words of its most important participants and onlookers.
Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration
Paul DicksonPaul Dickson's Rising to the Occasion is the ideal pocket reference for any moment when one might need to raise a glass.
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)
Paul DicksonThis edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey
Robert J. SharpeEngaging and incisive, Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey traces Dickson's life from a Depression-era boyhood in Saskatchewan, to the battlefields of Normandy, the boardrooms of corporate Canada and high judicial office, and provides an ...
The Best of Gordon R. Dickson, Volume 1:
Gordon R. Dickson“Love Story” was created by Gordon R. Dickson specifically for inclusion in The Last Dangerous Visions, meant to be the second sequel to Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking, skybreaking, mindbreaking anthology of original ...
The Outposter
Gordon R DicksonGordon R Dickson. THE OUTPOSTER Gordon R. Dickson www.sfgateway.com Enter the SF Gateway ... In the last years of.
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
Newton BatemanSome of the early settlers of Milan were William Dickson, Frank Young, William Young, N. D. Bradley, Garry David, John Dickson, James Johnson, James Dickson, William Hefiin, Ira L. Whitehead, F. M. Young, and Daniel Pinkley. Joshua ...
And So to Murder
John Dickson CarrAnd So to Murder by John Dickson Carr (as Carter Dickson), a Sir Henry Merrivale mystery. “A first-class murder mystery [and] also a ribald satire of the motion picture industry.”—The Vancouver Sun DEATH RIDES THE TUBE.
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Washington
Paul ElliottDouglas E. Evelyn and Paul Dickson's richly illustrated On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C.; Gail Spilsbury's homage to the Olmsteds, Rock Creek Park; and Benjamin Franklin Cooling III and Walton H. Owen II's definitive Mr.
Secret Under the Caribbean: Under the Sea
Gordon R Dickson. . Gordon R. Dickson's Robby Hoenig adventures are timeless young adult stories in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke's Dolphin Island.
Dickson and Leslie Family History
Rosaleen DicksonR.J. Leslie was continually cheering the party with the assurance that help would come from the shore, but it was not to be. One by one, the men dropped off. One of the last to drop was R.J. In the end there was only the captain left, who had ...
Unit Pride
John J. McAleerMcAleer encouraged Dickson to write about his Korean War experiences, and thus began a 1,200-letter correspondence between McAleer and Dickson that developed into this novel.
The Witch of the Low Tide
John Dickson Carr'John Dickson Carr's flair for the impossible crime shows through at its very best in this historical puzzler' The Times
Hearing Her Voice: A Case for Women Giving Sermons
John DicksonThis original digital short by scholar and cultural commentator John Dickson presents an entirely new and convincing biblical argument for allowing women to preach freely in churches.
John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study
S. T. JoshiJohn Dickson Carr is known as the master of the “locked-room” mystery—the “impossible crime.” But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews.
Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
David DicksonAs rich and diverse as its subject, Dickson’s magisterial history brings 1,400 years of Dublin vividly to life: from its medieval incarnation through the neoclassical eighteenth century, the Easter Rising that convulsed the city in 1916, ...
Tactics of Mistake: The Childe Cycle
Gordon R DicksonThe Childe Cycle Gordon R Dickson. you all a week ago that I planned to get through this battle with as few men killed as possible?' 'Yes, sir. ..' said Marc, grudgingly, and obviously still bewildered. 'Then do as I tell you,' said Cletus. ' Don't ...
A Naval Biographical Dictionary: Comprising the Life and ...
William R. O'ByrneDAvid JoHN DIckson, born 24 Oct. 1790, at Sydenham House, near Kelso, is eldest son of the late Wm. Dickson, Esq., Admiral of the Blue, who died in 1803, by his second wife, Miss Elizabeth Charteris; and half-uncle of the present Sir Wm.
Way of the Pilgrim
Gordon R DicksonGordon R Dickson. Ehon's orders and running the Aalaag end of the office. Mela Ky, as senior officer and the commanding officer's direct assistant, took the main, daytime shift with Laa Ehon. The other two took, respectively, the evening and ...
Once Upon Dickson: An Illustrated History, 1868-2000
Anthony J. WappelBorn in 1862 Lina Xantha Reed was the daughter of George and Mary Jane Reed and the sister of John A. Reed, who lived on the northeast corner of College and Dickson. She obtained her formal education from Arkansas Industrial ...
Journalese: A Dictionary for Deciphering the News
Paul DicksonA go-to resource for journalists, students, and word lovers, this book is a vanguard for identifying the misled word-based methods employed by modern media outlets.
Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe
Paul DicksonLabels for Locals provides guidance on the preferred, and sometimes disdained, names for selected locales, cities, regions, countries, and ethnic groups worldwide.
Tales of San Francisco
Samuel DicksonSeventy-two colorful stories about the men and women, the places and events that have contributed to San Francisco's flamboyant history are included in this one-volume edition of Samuel Dickson's three popular books, San Francisco Is Your ...
Family Words: A Dictionary of the Secret Language of Families
Paul DicksonProviding a vast collection of words developed in households across the country and through the decades, this creative reference book defines crafty words created within specific families.
John Dickson Carr: The Man who Explained Miracles
Douglas G. GreeneGoing behind the scenes of the theatrical, ingenious productions of the master of "impossible crime" and "locked room" mysteries, a look at the world and adventures of John Dickson Carr shows how the man and his work were one.
Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life ...
David C. M. DicksonThis must-have manual provides detailed solutions to all of the 200+ exercises in Dickson, Hardy and Waters' Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, Second Edition.
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