Ziggy, A Rumor In His Own Time

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The one resource a creative professional must have -- and the only national resource for the fashion, advertising and creative industry. Includes vital information for any stage of a print production or marketing campaign including: * advertising agencies * animal agencies * client brand names * companies -- with contact names * fashion houses * locations/location finders * magazines -- with contact names * modeling agencies * photographers * photo and stylists respresentatives * stock photo houses * stylists

Fashion & Print 2001 : Image Makers Source of the Madison Avenue Handbook

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Fashion & Print 2001 : Image Makers Source of the Madison Avenue Handbook
Tricia Blount
Manufacturer: Peter Glenn Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0873142519

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Fashion & Print 2000 is a resource directory for all individuals in the fashion and print industries. This directory lists all agencies internationally, and also contacts at each agency. Long considered the "bible" or "Yellow Pages" of the modeling industry, Fashion & Print 2000 provides an all-inclusive directory with information relevant to anyone interested in producing a fashion and print campaign or beginning a career in fashion and print. Fashion & Print 2000 contains listings for: Worldwide model and talent agencies; Modeling schools; Casting directors; Personal managers; Modeling associations/conventions; Scouting companies; Composite companies; Computer software companies for the industry Fashion & Print 2000 is the unrivaled "directory of record" for everyone from aspiring models in search of agency representation to power bookers at the world's top agencies, along with international modeling schools, conventions, scouting organizations and support services.

The Image Makers Source - Madison Avenue Handbook

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The Image Makers Source

The Image Makers Source - Madison Avenue Handbook
Peter Glenn
Manufacturer: Peter Glenn Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0873142500

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This national resource covers the Fashion and Print Industries including ad agencies, fashion firms, modeling agencies, photographers, stylists & graphic designers.

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The Image Makers Source.......2004-02-23

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The first and only collection of leading works by major publishers of graphic novels, comics and manga Called maybe the most interesting fiction in America today, by the New York Times, graphic novels, comics and manga have recently been soaring in popularity. The medium maintains one of the most diverse readerships and more significantly, graphic novels and manga have garnered critical acclaim from every major national publication for such works as Blankets, Persepolis and Trigun. Now, for the first time ever, The Years Best Graphic Novels, Comics and Manga will feature the best of this genre published between June 2003 and December 2004. With selections and excerpts from leading works by commercial and independent publishers and separate sections for graphic novels, comics and manga, The Years Best Graphic Novels, Comics and Manga will provide insight and entertainment to the casual and passionate comics reader alike.

Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga

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Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga
Byron and Zimmerman, Howard (editors) Preiss
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Manga | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000OTFZDO

The Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics,and Manga

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The Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics,and Manga
Byron/ Zimmerman, Howard/ Gaiman Preiss
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000OTFZG6

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If you love the idea of throwing parties, but stress out when it's time to make the dip and chill the champagne, this handy little spiral-bound compendium of terrific tips will get you revved up again. As the authors, identical twins Mary Corpening Barber and Sara Corpening, say reassuringly, "Emily Post isn't coming to your party." Mary and Sara tell how to throw everything from a modest business party in a restaurant to a big dinner party in the garden, with the keynote being simplicity. You won't find hints on formal wedding receptions here, but plenty of help with 99 percent of the kind of entertaining that most of us do. It's even got tips on getting the kids to help, removing inevitable carpet and upholstery stains, and minimizing post-party cleanup.

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Hundreds of practical, simple solutions for creating the perfect party that will save you time and money and let you enjoy yourself in the process. This book is filled with many ideas and techniques to orchestrate a successful gathering-large or small, formal or casual.

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This is a great book for learning how to entertain simply........1999-06-27

I love this book it has great pictures and tons of ideas. Not a lot of pictures but enough to help you to use and create more ideas. It is simply written, very organized. It also has a step by step "Checklists and Resources" in the last chapter for you to fill in. Thanks Ladies for this book.

Simplify Entertaining: How to Make a Party Fun for You and Your Guests

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Simplify Entertaining: How to Make a Party Fun for You and Your Guests
Mary; Corpening, Sara Barber
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Asociation, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MHPCJ0

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Unlike any previous volume on a film studio, this in-depth history is told from a corporate viewpoint, covering the trends that influenced film-making, profit-making incentives, and the creative policies resulting in films like The Grapes of Wrath, The Snake Pit, The Robe, Cleopatra, The Towering Inferno, and Star Wars. The book spans the birth of the movies; the rise of the studio system; the coming of sound; the Consent Decrees; the development of CinemaScope; the growth of independent production; and the video revolution. Available in paperback 2001.

Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History

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Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History
Aubrey Solomon
Manufacturer: Scarecrow Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8TVNK

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The first book aimed at a popular audience to explain non-Western music to the untrained ear

Interest in world music is at its peak. Listening to non-Western music in concerts and on radio, television, and CDs has become an important part of our musical experience, yet the general tendency is still one of passive acceptance. The aim of this book is to offer a detailed and informative introduction to the underlying principles that give non-Western music its marked coherence and characteristic profile and to encourage the reader to explore rich and fascin-ating sounds from around the world.

Traditional African and Oriental Music focuses on five distinct cultures: sub-Saharan Africa, the Islamic world, the Indian subcontinent, China and Tibet, and the Far East (Japan, Java, and Bali). Each chapter examines the rhythm, melody, harmony, and instruments of each region's music, plus elements of the culture that contribute toward an appreciation of the music, such as religion, poetry, drama, dance, and social structure. World-music scholar Otto Karolyi provides readers with insight into what is going on, and why, when they hear music of non-Western cultures, allowing them to grasp each culture's intricate musical traditions. For music lovers, students of anthropology, and anyone interested in the important contributions of these storied cultures, this is an indispensable resource.

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missed opportunity.......2005-05-23

This is a truly poor book, which shows little sign of familiarity with the music it claims to present and presents the people of Africa and the East in stereotypical categories. It could be useful as an example of how Westerners continue to misunderstand and misrepresent other musics and, through that, other peoples. That's probably about all.

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Traditional African and Oriental Music

Manufacturer: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HB4MG0

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Traditional African and Oriental Music
Otto Karolyi
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIXOZ6

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UPS AND DOWNS.......2000-07-14

The fourth book in "The Chronicles of Athas" DarkSun series, this novel by Lynn Abbey painted a great picture of the burnt wastes of the land of Athas. The character development was good but the plot could have profited from a few more twists. Occasionally a bit predictable, but overall a good story for anyone who likes the DarkSun genre.

Cinnabar and the Island of Shadows (The Fairy Chronicles, Book 7)

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Cinnabar and the Island of Shadows (The Fairy Chronicles, Book 7)
J.H. Sweet
Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Trade
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1402211619
Release Date: 2007-12-01

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Striving to answer that question more than 60 years ago sparked the development of the most powerful training methodology that has impacted U.S. industry -- Training Within Industry (TWI). During World War II, major production increases were demanded by the U.S. military - TWI, which trains supervisors, was developed comprising three separate programs:

Job Instruction -- how to instruct employees so they can quickly remember to do a job, correctly, safely, and conscientiously. Job Methods -- how to improve methods for producing greater quantities of quality products in less time by effectively using available workforce, machines, and materials. Job relations -- how to lead employees so that problems are prevented and analytical methods are used to effectively resolve problems. Toyota was the earliest company to adopt TWI after World War II, and this methodology planted the seeds for the development of the Toyota Production System -- the gold standard of manufacturing excellence.

In The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors, Patrick Graupp and Robert Wrona teach supervisors how to apply a four-step method for each of the three respective programs with numerous examples and exercises. In these exercises, supervisors will participate in hands-on application of the four-step method to actual jobs and employee problems from their own worksites. In addition, a CD companion includes blank forms needed to complete the exercises and implementation case studies.

The TWI Workbook will teach readers:

A method, which works every time, for teaching people to quickly learn to do jobs correctly, safely and conscientiously. How to break down jobs for instruction so that learners get just the right amount and the right kind of information to master jobs fully in a short amount of time. A method of analyzing jobs for the purpose of improving them which focuses on making the best use of resources currently available. How to discover, develop, and implement improvement ideas through a series of questions and a new-method development and application process. A method for handling "people problems" which ensures that supervisors take decisive and proper actions that achieve their objectives. How to develop sound relations with people that create good performance and prevent problems from arising in the first place.

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TWI workbook.......2006-07-25

I am a Training & Developement coordinator and this book was extremely helpful to myself and I am hoping it will be of help to the people that will be doing the actual training. I had heard the authors speak and decided to purchase the book I was not disappointed.

Detailed, hands-on description of TWI training........2006-07-24

The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors provides a detailed, hands-on description of TWI training. It shows the step by step process in great detail and can be used as a training supplement or refresher. It emphasizes the importance of adhering to the detailed training regimen established over 50 years ago. I stongly recommend it to anyone interested in the details.

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Very witty but at times...depressing

rare treat

Fun with Jane and dicks?

Jane Juska is the bomb!

We Need to Value Ourselves More Than This Woman Values Herself

A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
Jane Juska
Manufacturer: Villard
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Binding: Hardcover

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Unaccompanied Women: Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real Estate

Be an Outrageous Older Woman

Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty

Single Woman of a Certain Age: 29 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife--Romantic Escapades, Empty Nests, Shifting Shapes, and Serene Independence

The Surrender : An Erotic Memoir

ASIN: 1400060117
Release Date: 2003-05-06

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“Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous—someone who nowadays might be called “easy.” It’s a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope to describe herself, but then that’s just the first of many surprises to be found in this poignant, funny, utterly unique memoir. Jane Juska is a smart, energetic divorcée who decided she’d been celibate too long, and placed the following personal ad in her favorite newspaper, The New York Review of Books:

Before I turn 67—next March—I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.

This closing reference was a nod to her favorite author, of course. The response was overwhelming, and Juska took a sabbatical from teaching to meet some of the men who had replied. And since her ad made it clear that she wasn’t expecting just hand-holding, her dates zipped from first base to home plate in record time.

Juska is a totally engaging, perceptive writer, funny and frank about her exploits. It’s high time someone revealed the fact that older single people are as eager for sex and intimacy as their younger counterparts. Jane Juska’s brave, honest memoir will probably raise eyebrows and blood pressure, but it will undoubtedly appeal to the very large audience of grown-up readers who will be fascinated and inspired by her daring adventure.

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Very witty but at times...depressing.......2007-09-24

I enjoyed reading Jane Juska's book - love her wit and as a former teacher, I laughed at some of the antics in her classroom.

BUT - what I found ironic was that as much as she was so apt to help the "greater good" i.e. volunteering at Planned Parenthood and at the prison, she overlooked the well-being of her SELF (dealing with alcoholism & weight issues) and her OWN SON. Typical of those who claim "world peace" and "helping others" - they neglect to find peace within themselves and in their households.

The other ironic thing from the book is that the most mature of all the men she encountered was Graham - the 33 year old. So much for the "maturity" and "wisdom" of older men!

At the very least she had some adventures in New York - THAT was the most valuable part of the book.

rare treat.......2007-08-20

A rare treat, there isn't much I can say that other reviewers haven't already...Save read it.(And buy a copy; she says the royalties help immensely.) Jane Juska's an inspiring find. Her courage, wit and warmth will stay with you long after the book's finished.

Fun with Jane and dicks?.......2007-01-10

So older women are sexy too? Thank goodness! What a great read from and of a fabulous dame. I guess others would call her a lady (yes, she is certainly that), but she is a lot more than a prim grandma type. And she writes beautifully. Thanks, Jane, for letting us come along for the ride. Great read.

Jane Juska is the bomb!.......2006-12-12

You may not know her name, but you have probably heard of Jane Juska, the 66-year-old retired teacher from California who placed the following ad in the personals column of The New York Review of Books:

"Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me."

This book is her report. It is one surprise after another.

The sex, for one. (I start there only because you expect me to, because you want me to.) Yes, it is explicit. Jane Juska's no prude. She's got a powerful libido and a vocabulary to match. To read her is to think --- if you're a man --- that she talks like a guy. If you're female, I suspect you'll come to another conclusion: This is how women talk with one another when there are no men around.

But the sex is the least of the surprises. Reading her ad, I assumed that Jane Juska is supremely confident --- one of those women who's like a film director in bed. A taker, not a giver. The facts are otherwise. Jane is long divorced. Her son has chosen to live on the streets of Berkeley. She hasn't had a date in three decades. (Which isn't surprising --- for many of those years, this 5'3" woman weighed more than 200 pounds.) Her social life, such as it is, occurs at San Quentin Prison, where she teaches writing to hard-core inmates.

But now, in a year, she has lost 100 pounds and can pound out the cardio in the front row of her aerobics class. She has had a productive psychoanalysis. She's read a ton and remembers it all, but isn't the least bit bookish --- she sounds tart and witty and fun.

And, also, tragic. Tucked in this book is Jane's life story, which is one personal disaster after another. Her mother worries that she'll never marry; her father, a doctor, is chilly even by the standards of his profession. Jane was, she belatedly realizes, abused by a handyman, whose secrets she has kept. Her first lovers were damaged and insensitive; she convinced herself to love the man who became her husband when she learned she was pregnant.

So although she insists she's looking for a sexual hookup, you can't read this book without seeing how much more she wants --- and why the immensity of her real desire is more than she can acknowledge. Because she wants what women half her age want: She wants it all. A sexy man, to be sure. But also a caring one. A whole man. A man to love.

Now, a man --- even a lout --- can get a date on his deathbed. For a single woman, so my friends say, it takes a career effort to find a man worth taking your clothes off for. And so it is for Jane. Her lovers are old, and their emotional resources are generally smaller than their fantasies; they don't love Jane, and they bluntly tell her so.

And still she persists. She's seen the shadow --- she knows death is out there, she feels her body decay even as she exercises to stay in shape. So although she weeps often, she plunges ahead.

Jane is spirited and spunky and, despite her bruisings, ever hopeful of a happy ending. And so will you. That is, you'll stop flipping pages looking for the Good Stuff --- "What? He told you to put your breasts on the table, and you did?"--- and, with Jane, you'll start looking for a man who knows what to do with her.

Does she find one? I'm not spoiling the ending. But I'll give you this much: Come for the sex, stay for the triumph --- the triumphant woman, that is.

We Need to Value Ourselves More Than This Woman Values Herself.......2006-11-30

I heard Jane Juska speak at an Author's Luncheon. She was fresh, funny and had great comedic timing. She was the hit of the event. So I bought her book with anticipation of more of the same. What a surprise! Yes, the comedic talent was still there but in small doses. What predominated was the portrait of a woman of little self-esteem, often of self-loathing, whose graphic descriptions of sex had little in the way of sex appeal. My mother who is 89 wants to read the book but I will warn her that, in the end, it is not an illuminating experience. And all of the men Jane has sex with are also having or recently have had sex with other women. What about the possiblity of STD's? No mention is made of taking precautions or of "safe sex." I hope all of us can move into our late-life years enjoying rewarding sexual relationships. But not at the risk of disease or damage to our self-worth or a suspension of our hard won values.

A Round-Heeled Woman...my Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance

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A Round-Heeled Woman...my Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance
Jane Juska
Manufacturer: Villard
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0965787095

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In the summer of 1642 the First Civil War between king and parliament had broken out in England. Initially both sides were confident of victory, but after the first campaigns ended in stalemate they began looking for allies. The meddling of the Stuart Kings with Scotland's religious traditions provoked the National Covenant, and later the Solemn League and Covenant. Yet many Scots continued to support the King, and after his execution, his exiled son.This fine text by Stuart Reid examines the Scots armies who fought in the English Civil Wars, and features numerous illustrations and photographs, including full page colour plates by Graham Turner.

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Well done.......2006-01-18

I convene a Clan tent at various Scottish Games, and this is always displayed on my table. Great illustrations and historical notes, you can't go wrong for the price.

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How can the poor and weak â€~workâ€™ a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the central government to try to fight misconduct by local officials, open up clogged channels of participation, and push back the frontiers of the permissible. This â€~rightful resistanceâ€™ has far-reaching implications for our understanding of contentious politics. As O'Brien and Li explore the origins, dynamics, and consequences of rightful resistance, they highlight similarities between collective action in places as varied as China, the former East Germany, and the United States, while suggesting how Chinese experiences speak to issues such as opportunities to protest, claims radicalization, tactical innovation, and the outcomes of contention.

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Contentious politics in rural China.......2007-03-08

This short book lays out, conceptually, what kind of contentious politics "Rightful Resistance" is and where in the literature its place should be.
Rightful Resistance is somewhere between James Scott's "everyday forms of resistance," on the one hand, and the sustained nature implied in Charles Tilly's notion that social movements are "campaigns." "Unlike rebels in the name of the tsar, rightful resisters stop short of violence...[but] they have learned how to exploit the potent symbolic and material capital made available by modern states. Rightful resistance is thus a product of state building and of opportunities created by the spread of participatory ideologies and patters of rule rooted in notions of equality, rights, and rule of law" (pg. 4). China's agricultural reforms in the late twentieth-century (e.g. Organic Law of Villagers' Committees 1987) have created opportunities for the peasants that did not permeate down to the peasants for those in James Scott's study of Sedaka in "Weapons of the Weak." Instead, in China, "contractual ways of thinking and a growing fluency in rights talk appear to underlie much of rightful resistance present in rural China" (pg. 6). Rights-talk is part of the repertoire that rightful resisters use against the local cadre who cause the problems of practical application of party ideals. Part of why Rightful Resistance is not a social movement is because it lacks sustainability insofar as the goals of these peasant resisters remain only to change some local and practical discrepancy between party promises and cadre implementations. "Rightful resisters know that they exist at the sufferance of higher levels and that the `rights' they act on are conditional. Unlike the rights of discourse employed by some liberal intellectuals, there is little evidence that most of rightful resisters consider rights to be inherent, natural, or inalienable; nor do most of them break with the common Chinese practice of viewing rights as granted by the state mainly for societal purposes rather than to protest an individual's autonomous being...rather that the government's right to loyalty depends on ensuring that its officials [local cadres] fulfill their obligations" (pg. 122). Applying the concept of "cognitive liberation" from Doug McAdam, to rural China: "we should not underestimate the implications of rising rights consciousness and a growing fluency in `rights talk' in a nation where rights have traditionally been weakly protected. Thanks in part to the spread of rightful resistance, terms such as `rights defense' (weiquan) have gained acceptance in reform minded journals and adventurous newspapers and, more gradually, in the mainstream press" (pg. 127).

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Originally published in London by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1939, the first Derrydale edition was published in the same year. Illustrated with twenty color plates featuring watercolors by Philip Rickman of various game birds, the book provides an introduction to 26 British and American game birds, their habitat, coloring, size, shape, and the best methods for hunting them. There are chapters on Canada geese, grouse, partridge, bobwhite, pheasant, turkey, ruffed grouse, woodcock, and eight different species of duck. Novice and experienced hunters alike will find this handsome book full of useful information and practical advice.

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BRITISH AND AMERICAN GAME BIRDS
RICKMAN
Manufacturer: EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SHNN9U

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British and American Game Birds
H. B. C. Pollard; And Eugene V. Connett Phyllis Barclay-Smith; Illustra
Manufacturer: DERRYDALE PRESS, THE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKMHL6

British and American Game Birds, with a Chapter on Shooting in America

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British and American Game Birds, with a Chapter on Shooting in America
Hugh B. C. & Phyllis Barclay-Smith; Eugene V. Connett Pollard
Manufacturer: Eyre & Spottiswoode
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NKNQ1M

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British and American Game Birds.
PHYLLIS. POLLARD H.B.C.& BARCLAY-SMITH
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KFYC8G

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BRITISH & AMERICAN GAME-BIRDS
H. B. C. and Barclay-Smith, Phyllis Pollard
Manufacturer: Derrydale Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SFK1IS

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