What Kids Need Most in a Dad

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Basic Advice for Dad's

What Kids Need Most in a Dad
Tim Hansel
Manufacturer: Fleming H. Revell Company
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You Gotta Keep Dancin': In the Midst of Life's Hurts, You Can Choose Joy!

Dancin' Toward the Dawn: Discovering Joy in the Darkness of Loneliness

Holy Sweat

ASIN: 0800713907

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A parenting bestseller. Along with plenty of encouragement, Hansel stocks a toolbox of ideas, activities, and strategies for excelling at fatherhood.

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Basic Advice for Dad's.......1999-12-29

Easy reading, encouraging advice for Dad's everywhere. Thought provoking. If you Like Tim Hansel, you'll like this book.

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Jolly old Grog..........2005-12-30

I agree with the previous review. This is a wonderful book.

The research is very methodical and James Pack doesn't go on any rants here. So allow me...

Long before the RAF held back the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, 1940, the British Royal Navy stood as the UK's first line of defense. The Royal Navy is the main reason that the Brits still speak English and various forms of Gaelic.

No, you can't have sloshed sailors handling sub-launched ICBM's, but equally, to remove the entire ration of aptly named Nelson's Blood is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Like when they got rid of the full-sized aircraft carriers and their only AEW aircraft, the Fairey Gannet. Goodness knows the lives and equipment this plane could have saved in The Falklands War.

Sometimes the responsible use of alcohol can steady combat nerves and actually reduce the fear factor, which on it's dark side, can lead to panic-initiated mistakes.

A great book.

Wonderful discussion of rum and its place in the Royal Navy........1996-08-09

Even though most of us are familiar with the association between rum and the sea. "Nelson's Blood" sets the record straight about both this reverred spirit and the men who drunk it as part of their daily ration for 300 years. I have never met anyone who served in the Royal Navy that didn't think this was the finest book on the subject.

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Nelson's Blood: Story of Naval Rum
A. J. Pack
Manufacturer: Naval Inst Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Nelson's Blood The Story of Naval Rum
Pack A.J.
Manufacturer: Kenneth Mason
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UINPAE

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6 x 9, softbound, 120 pages, second edition.

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A Unique Book on a Neglected Subject.......2002-04-21

The subject of Irish titles and stylings has been neglected
for centuries. Actually worse than neglected. It has been
totally rejected by the British writers who themselves had no
comprehension of Gaelic laws and procedures; and who saw
everything in the light of their own British system. They
in effect 'forced' the Gaelic system into their own, or rejected
it as 'tribal' when it didn't fit. Truth was the loser.
This work, the first ever serious effort on the subject, is a
goldmine of truth. While not perfect, it gives the correct
overview of the Gaelic/Irish system and puts the historical
perspective in proper focus. Not scholarly (and some scholars
will object to the lack of bibliography and footnotes), it was
designed for the general reader and is clear and to the point. Nevertheless, the scholarly
basis is referenced and the work provides a steppingstone to more
serious study if one is so inclined. It is as the author says,
another step out of the Celtic mist.
I am delighted with this little work, and refer to it time and
time again. It does an Irish nationalist and republican proud,
as it captures our own traditions in history without arguing for
any nobiliary agenda.

Gaelic Titles and Forms of Address : A Guide in the English Language

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Gaelic Titles and Forms of Address : A Guide in the English Language
The Lord of Duhallow
Manufacturer: Irish Genealogical Foundation
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0940134284

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Titles and Forms of Address
Armiger
Manufacturer: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0713626941

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Your reference shelf is naked without it

Titles and Forms of Address

Manufacturer: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Your reference shelf is naked without it

.......1997-10-08

Are Lady John Smith and Lady Smith the same? Is the eldest son of a duke automatically a marquess? Confused by details like these as you're writing that next great English novel? Three words: Buy this book. Titles And Forms Of Address is well respected and constantly used to answer questions on my writer's mailing list, and several of us have admitted to keeping our library's copy--regardless of edition--on perpetual loan. Titles And Forms of Address covers not only titles of nobility, but also of religious and knightly orders.

It's said of many books, but in this case it's true. This is a must-have on the reference shelf of anyone who uses English titles in his/her writing or is simply an Anglophile of the first order.

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1885. With illustrations. A volume by Darwin the British naturalist who became famous for his theories of evolution and natural selection. In 1861, Darwin took a break from writing his book on animal domestication and went on holiday with his daughter, Henrietta, to Torquay on the Devon coast. While there he spent many an hour examining the way insects pollinate orchids in the fields around the town. He noticed that only certain insects pollinate one particular orchid variety. When he returned to Down House he immediately switched from breeding pigeons to raising orchids. During the Victorian era, orchids were all the rage, and as soon as word got out that Darwin was raising them he found himself being flooded with specimens from all over the country. What he set out to do was study how orchids used intricate petal designs to attract bees and moths to their pollen. How did such a relationship evolve? The subject fascinated him and the results are to be found in this work.

The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 17: The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects (Second Edition) (Works of Charles Darwin)

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The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 17: The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects (Second Edition) (Works of Charles Darwin)
Charles Darwin , Paul Barrett , and R. B. Freeman
Manufacturer: NYU Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 081471806X
Release Date: 1989-02-01

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Are they needed? To be sure. The Darwinian industry, industrious though it is, has failed to provide texts of more than a handful of Darwin's books. If you want to know what Darwin said about barnacles (still an essential reference to cirripedists, apart from any historical importance) you are forced to search shelves, or wait while someone does it for you; some have been in print for a century; various reprints have appeared and since vanished."
—Eric Korn,Times Literary Supplement

Charles Robert Darwin (1880-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been extended by almost continuous public debate over the last 130 years. New York University Press' edition makes it possible for the first time to review Darwin's public literary output as a whole, plus his scientific journal articles, his private notebooks, and his correspondence.

This is the first complete edition containing all of Darwin's published books, featuring definitive texts recording original paginations with Darwin's indexes retained. All illustrations and plates are presented, inclucing 82 color plates of birds and mammals and several folding maps and plates. The set also features a general introduction and index, and textural introductions in each volume.

THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH ORCHIDS ARE FERTILIZED BY INSECTS

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THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH ORCHIDS ARE FERTILIZED BY INSECTS
Charles Darwin
Manufacturer: D. Appleton and Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MICA6M

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I now know what this girlfriend thing is all about

Best Gift!

Secret marketing ploys and celebrity suck up .......

A gentle Read

The Secret Language of Girlfriends: Talking Loudly, Laughing Wildly, and Making the Most of Our Most Important Friendships
Karen Neuburger , and Nadine Schiff
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1401301630
Release Date: 2005-04-06

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A joyful celebration of female friendship in all its wild, poignant, and inspirational glory aren Neuburger has spent the past ten years collecting stories of love, laughter, and inspiration between girlfriends from the thousands of women she comes in contact with through her work as the founder of an immensely popular lifestyle company. Often funny, sometimes sad, but always enlightening and uplifting, these testimonials show that in a world where women are constantly being pulled in several directions, they can always rely on their girlfriends to be there for them.

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I now know what this girlfriend thing is all about.......2005-04-17

I expected one of those easy, fun, skim-the-surface reads when THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLFRIENDS arrived in my mailbox recently. Before even opening the envelope, I was already imagining something along the lines of those tacky TV "chick shows" about the pitfalls of Internet romance, the miracle of cosmetic makeovers, breathless tell-all forums on perfect love-making, how to shop for shoes, etc. etc.

In other words, I was expecting style, self-absorption and perhaps some cynical wit. But substance? Soul-stirring inspiration? Genuine cosmic insight? After all, we're talking girlfriends here --- you know, the kind of relationships formed in high school washrooms, in shopping malls, over interminable phone calls that drove our parents mad.

But now it's confession and celebration time. I was wrong --- and I was never happier to be wrong.

You see, I couldn't actually reach the mailbox to get Karen Neuberger's wonderful revelation about female friendship. Thanks to some rogue bacterium, a minor leg injury went terribly wrong, leaving me miserably chair-bound, very sore, frustrated at my doctor's orders to choke down those antibiotics, and not a little worried about the long-term effects on my mobility.

It was a visiting girlfriend who cleared my mailbox, made coffee, did my dishes, even fed the cat, and then sat down and kept me company all evening with some of the best conversation I'd had in ages. And of course she told all the other girlfriends. I had become a team project!

A few days later, as I was deeply immersed in the anecdotes and insight of THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLFRIENDS, another brought over dark chocolate, flowers, and an unfinished knitting project. She insisted on doing my laundry while I sorted out her dropped stitches. Then we shared the chocolate, talked, watched a favorite Britcom, talked, laughed ourselves silly, talked.... Several others joined the relay in the following days, knowing exactly what to do, when to do it, and how much.

Finally, I realized that this is what it's all about, the girlfriend thing. We were living what Neuberger has packed so brilliantly --- and substantially --- into every page. I also realized that who we are as befriending and tending women has got to be genetic, uniquely hardwired into every healthy feminine psyche from the dawn of creation.

And so a week-from-hell that had begun with a fearful six-hour ordeal in the local hospital ER, ended in happy tears, gales of laughter, and above all, the indescribable grace of knowing I would never be alone when some dumb luck crisis suddenly strikes. As one of my long-distance "broad squad" members reminded me during a two-hour phone call across three time-zones, it just happened to be my turn to "get the treatment" --- to be spoiled, reassured, affirmed, propped up, accepted unconditionally in my worst moods, and loved into healing.

I'm still spending a lot of time with the inconvenient leg propped up, but I'm beating the blues now by reading my favorite bits of THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLFRIENDS aloud, sometimes for the second or third time, to this wonderful, extravagant herd of women, whose collective power to release healing endorphins never fails to astonish me.

Neuberger may not have invented the "secret" of our intuitive language, but few writers communicate its vocabulary and grammar with such authentic experience and delightful skill. This is one "chick book" that belongs on every mature woman's bookshelf --- if you can actually keep it there.

Be firm, be strong: tell the girlfriends to go buy their own copies.

--- Reviewed by Pauline Finch

Best Gift!.......2005-03-31

A great read! I thoroughly enjoyed every page. In fact, I thought it was so much fun I purchased a book for each of my girlfriends and plan on giving the book as gifts on our annual summer road trip to the coast. It brought up so many memories of my own experiences...I loved it! Cherish your girlfriends...Thank you Karen.

Secret marketing ploys and celebrity suck up ..............2005-03-31

At first glance this book looked like a really fun read. Cute cover and catchy concepts it seemed like it would something right up my alley. I was very wrong. The book talks all about the sort of girlfriends that one may want to have or hope to have over the course of her lifetime. That's all fine and dandy (not to mention obvious) but does anyone really need to read 200+ pages of the author's fond memories of her friends? Is it necessary to suck up to Oprah right in the dedication and then barely mention her in those 200+ pages? I also did not appreciate the cheap marketing ploy that involved the author plugging her stupid pajama line. I don't think that the author imparts any true words of wisdom and I seriously doubt there is much for anyone to gain by reading this book. You could do better things with your time like perhaps watching Thelma & Louise, A League of their Own, Beaches, Steel Magnolias, etc.... Don't waste your time or money on this. Don't even waste a trip to the library - grab a girlfriend and go shopping instead!!!!

A gentle Read.......2005-03-24

I have read half of the book in just two days. It is a great read. I felt like I could relate to a lot of what was being said. The tales are of everyday women in everyday situations. It is comfortable to know that others out there feel as you do during any stage of your life.

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In this collection of previously unpublished essays Jean-Jacques Nattiez applies his theoretical foundations of musical semiotics to theorists such as Levi-Strauss, Hanslick, and Brailoiu; novelists such as Proust; and poets such as Baudelaire. The author treats problems which musicologists
and music lovers alike need to address: the artistic product in music of oral tradition, the nature of musical facts, and questions of fidelity and authenticity in performance practice.

Nattiez tackles these perennial issues with an originality born out of his focus on the status of time in the works considered. This approach allows him to take sides, sometimes in a provocative manner, in the ongoing debates which pit adherents of modernity against apologists of
postmodernism.

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"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.

Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism is a religion—a godless one.

And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county.

Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In Godless, Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (Roe v. Wade), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident).

Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: it is bogus science.

Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is—Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the "evolving" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom?

Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion.

Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, Godless is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices.

"Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious,' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'" —From Godless

From the Hardcover edition.

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A bit inflammatory but still many good points.......2007-10-16

Like many of Ann Coulter's books, this book is rather inflammatory. Maybe that's why a lot of people read them - she says the stuff that the rest of us are afraid to say. Like many of her other books, either you love this book or you hate it. In many ways Ann Coulter is the conservative counterpart of Molly Ivins.

Her basic point is that, contrary to what liberals would have you believe, their position is not religiously neutral. She argues that liberalism has all the characteristics of a religion, a thesis that's sure to get a rise from many supposedly nonreligious liberals.

Regarding teacher pay, I have to admit I was rather shocked by some of the points she brings up; I simply had never heard a lot of that before. I have since seen similar information elsewhere, so I believe her points here are accurate. This section is sure to irritate the teachers' unions by pointing out rather inconvenient facts that go against their standard dogma (such as the fact that teachers are actually paid very well for the amount of work they do). This is sure to challenge what you've always been told about the subject.

Regarding Darwinism, she points out that evolution is bogus science. Sure, this section does contain some errors in it (Coulter is not a scientist), but overall she brings up many valid points that can serve as a foundation for further discussion. I would encourage who would like a more thorough scientific critique of Darwinism to seek out books by the likes of Michael Behe and his associates at the Discovery Institute, or from the likes of Ken Ham and his associates at Answers in Genesis.

She brings up a lot of other really interesting points, but I'll leave it to you to read the book yourself. Sure, there's a lot of rhetoric in this point, and sure a lot of it is deliberately inflammatory, but a lot of it's really thought provoking too. The tone of the book apparently makes it difficult for most people to read or discuss it rationally or objectively, but if you do I think you'll find a lot of food for thought, and maybe have some of your pet ideologies challenged. I'm glad someone finally had the courage to say a lot of the stuff she did. Definitely recommended.

So much hatred, so little brains..........2007-10-09

I wonder why some people in this country who claim to be such good Christians have no problem with our government slaughtering thousands of families? If the church of liberalism is godless, then what would you call a government who has done just that? Invaded another country for its own personal gain? I just can't help but wonder what makes Ann Coulter tick, that her vision is so clearly focused in one direction while totally ignoring the sins of her own. I am reminded of the Bible passage that talks about removing the log from one's own eye before attempting to remove the speck from a brothers. These kind of books will do nothing more than to continue to polorize this country, other than making her more money from idiots who cheer her on.

Makes for good educational reading........2007-10-07

Read this and other far right books. Read far left liberalism books. You should realize that both the far right and the far left are necessary evils. As long as the left and right agree not to agree we as a nation will prosper. Much like our government. When both parties agree you best worry! Imagine our nation without the right. Many would join on the dark side. Imagine our nation without the left. We would be how should I say, Talibaned or held to the strict standards of Sharia law, in the Christian sense. Careful how far we lean. We might just fall and not get back up.

Ann is dead on....again!.......2007-10-03

This book is so dead on and rock solid. Everything in this book, footnotes the source, and is packed with information on the whole liberal thought process. The book is also full of analogies like 'liberals freak out if a tree is cut down, but could care less about aborting babies'. This book along with Bill O'Reilly's Culture Warrior, are awesome at exposing a lot of this left wing agenda. Ann Coulter, is/was an attorney and knows her stuff. Of course all the liberals are going to rate this a '1' so no one reads it, but you will not be disappointed in this book.

Angry, intolerant, irrational.......2007-09-30

Miss Coulter is angry and starved for attention. This book is a manifestation of her mean-spirited partisanship, the type that still clings to the failed neocon policies of G. W. Bush. As has been pointed out in previous reviews, her "endnotes" are inaccurate, her allegations are often baseless, and her so-called "facts" are oftentimes nothing more than right-wing talking points.

It's hard to imagine why she is so angry and distraught over America's current condition. After all, her sacred Republican Party has held the White House for all but 12 years since 1968. And since 1994, the congress has been in the hands of the religious right. And yet, here's Coulter, trying to blame all of our nation's social ills on whoever she deems as "liberal." What have the Republicans been doing over that vast span of time, if not addressing the very real social problems we face? What other priorities have taken precedence? Where have they budgeted the trillions in taxpayer dollars that could have gone into improving our schools, rebuilding the infrastructure, and keeping our economy strong and vibrant? Who has driven our country deeply into debt, especially to the Chinese Communists?

Why doesn't Ms Coulter address any of these salient points instead of trying to further divide a population that's growing sick of partisan bickering and no-compromise "leadership."

It would seem to me that any rational individual could see through her smokescreen of indignation and her strawman arguments.

Ann, here's fifty dollars. Please buy a clue.

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A medley of artistic, cartographic, and scientific images intertwine

Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent
William Fox
Manufacturer: Trinity University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1595340157

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How does the human mind transform space into place, or land into landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at empty landscapes and the role of the arts to investigate the way humans make sense of space. In Terra Antarctica, Fox continues this line of inquiry as he travels to the Antarctic, the “largest and most extreme desert on earth.” This contemporary travel narrative interweaves artistic, cartographic, and scientific images with anecdotes from the author's three-month journey in the Antarctic to create an absorbing and readable narrative of the remote continent. Through its images, history, and firsthand experiences—snowmobile trips through whiteouts and his icy solo hikes past the edge of the mapped world—Fox brings to life a place that few have seen and offers us a look into both the nature of landscape and ourselves.

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A medley of artistic, cartographic, and scientific images intertwine.......2007-10-05

Terra Antarctica: Looking Into the Emptiest Continent is the true-life story of award-finalist author William L. Fox's journey to explore the Antarctic, the "largest and most extreme desert on Earth". A medley of artistic, cartographic, and scientific images intertwine in his reflections of the remote and brutally harsh continent. A handful of gorgeous color photographs illustrate this compelling tale tempered with a scientist's respect for and love of nature's glory.

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TERRA ANTARCTICA. Looking into the Emptiest Continent.
William F.: Fox
Manufacturer: Pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W2WLNU

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