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Accounting 1-13 and Target Report and CD Package, Fifth Edition
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Profiting from Multiple Intelligences in the Workplace
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Economic competitiveness depends on having the smartest workforce possible. Organizations who want to survive and grow need to be open to new ways of uncovering and developing their employee's abilities. This book turns Howard Gardner's revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences into user-friendly tools for understanding and assessing success in everyone from CEOs to cleaners. The results not only allow the identification of individual abilities but also uncover the mosaic of abilities needed for multi-skilling, multi-tasking and efficient teamwork.
No other book provides a method of translating the theory of M. I. into workplace practice.
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With this guide you can learn everything you need to know to choose and enjoy wines of all kinds. You can be confident about buying, trying, and talking about wine. The book provides solid information about the most important types of wines, friendly advice in an easy-to-understand format, and tips, definitions, and warnings to help you along the way.
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With this guide you can learn everything you need to know to choose and enjoy wines of all kinds. You can be confident about buying, trying, and talking about wine. The book provides solid information about the most important types of wines, friendly advice in an easy-to-understand format, and tips, definitions, and warnings to help you along the way.
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Perfect Gift.......2007-01-12
I bought this book for a wonderful friend who is starting to learn about wines. Even though the book was used, I was surprised at the truly wonderful condition it arrived in. I would order from this retailer again. Prompt delivery.
A brief comment.......2005-09-29
Because of all the snobbery surrounding wine I found the idea of an "Idiot's Guide" sort of funny, what with all the pretention and slender or even false erudition masquerading as the final word in the area. But Seldon's book peels back the highly polished surface but ultimately thin facade of the wine world to give you the basic, unbiased, and unvarnished truth and information that you need.
Every aspect of wine and wine appreciation is discussed, from how to open a bottle to understanding the many different varietals, wine growing, wine making, the effect of climate and terrain, and of course wine tasting and appreciation as well. The well written, clear and concise text make the book easy and enjoyable to read. I've read a number of other books on wine and I still learned a lot from this book. It would be a great choice for a beginner to start with, and even if you're more of an intermediate and advanced wine afficianado, you'll probably still learn something from this book.
Begin your journey..........2001-05-28
with a book about wine that unravels and decodes all the language that goes with wine. Philip Seldon takes you step by step through the wine world, without all the fancy words and snobbish attitude that the wine world is stereotyped with. He guides you through wine in a way that allows you to form your own opinions. This book sits on my coffee table and it has a been a useful tool in my journey with wine.
The Best Introductory Wine Book.......1999-12-07
This book is simply wonderful - it tells you everything you need to know about wine without being cute or condescending like Wine for Dummies. Robert Mondavi says that this is the best introductory book on wine and it certainly is. It has more information than Wine for Dummies including specific wine recommendations. While it is an Idiot's Guide it does not treat you like an idiot. I recommend it for everybody who wants to learn about wine.
It's OK even if you're not a dummy.......1997-02-12
I have a hard time warming up to the marketing concept of addressing readers as "idiots" or "dummies," but in fairness, this introductory book does a good job of demystifying the world of wine. It's a good starting point for a new wine lover who wants a quick, digestible overview
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The Day the Sun Went Out: The Sun's Energy (Raintree Fusion)
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Waste Disposal in Academic Institutions
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This book will prove useful not only for both large and small academic institutions, but for small businesses as well. As small quantity generators and conditionally excluded small quantity generators, secondary schools, colleges, universities, and small businesses will identify with the problems-and solutions-presented here. The approaches in this book can save many chemistry departments thousands of dollars. In addition, they significantly clarify the often complicated legal requirements placed on both secondary and post-secondary institutions by state and federal government. This informative book offers specific, practical, and cost-effective solutions to the problems of waste disposal, from a description of a successful program to conduct a one-time cleanout of secondary schools, to the identification of chemicals that have no identity. Approaches to waste disposal taken around the country, including in-house treatment, lab packing, and the benefits of recycling through waste exchange programs are covered.
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This book provides a detailed examination of the central assertions of measure theory in n-dimensional Euclidean space and emphasizes the roles of Hausdorff measure and the capacity in characterizing the fine properties of sets and functions. Topics covered include a quick review of abstract measure theory, theorems and differentiation in Mn, lower Hausdorff measures, area and coarea formulas for Lipschitz mappings and related change-of-variable formulas, and Sobolev functions and functions of bounded variation. The text provides complete proofs of many key results omitted from other books, including Besicovitch's Covering Theorem, Rademacher's Theorem (on the differentiability a.e. of Lipschitz functions), the Area and Coarea Formulas, the precise structure of Sobolev and BV functions, the precise structure of sets of finite perimeter, and Alexandro's Theorem (on the twice differentiability a.e. of convex functions). Topics are carefully selected and the proofs succinct, but complete, which makes this book ideal reading for applied mathematicians and graduate students in applied mathematics.
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Inspiring and Useful.......2000-06-13
I was turned on to this book by a friend of mine who is an expert in geometric measure theory. He recommended the book as a very nice exposition of some of the material found in Federer's "Geometric Measure Theory" as well as other material. I found the book to be beautifully designed to help the reader learn its contents. There was enough between the lines so that one needed to WORK through the book, but in contrast to parts of Federer's book, enough detail so that reasonably fast progress could be made. Unfortunately, I was interupted in my race through the book and so I have yet to work through the latter part of the book. But given the large part I did cover and my experience doing that, I am certain to finish the monograph, most likely when I start using functions of bounded variation with any frequency.
There are no explicit exercises. But as already alluded to above, there are implicit exercises that are encountered in working through the book. I found that the lack of separate exercises is actually not bad at all since the implicit exercises encountered are automatically motivated by their necessity for the understanding of the text - and are therefore relevant!
A prerequisite for the book is a course in analysis that includes measure theory and integration as well as an exposure to elementary functional analysis. The functional analysis is not actually necessary, but the added maturity that such an exposure would impart would be useful.
Very briefly, the contents via the 6 chapter titles are 1) General Measure Theory, 2) Hausdorff Measure, 3) Area and Coarea Formulas, 4) Sobolev Functions, 5) BV Functions and Sets of Finite Perimeter, and 6) Differentiability and Approximation by C^1 Functions.
I found the contents very interesting ... quoting the authors "... we packed into these notes all sorts of interesting topics that working mathematical analysts need to know, but are mostly not taught." And indeed this was the case in my experience ... both the "interesting" part and the "not taught" part.
I am disappointed in the price, but if any book is worth it, this one certainly is.
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This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe and North Africa during World War II. He saw a great deal of combat on Sicily, at Salerno, on Anzio Beach, in Holland during Operation Market Garden, and during the drive into Germany. This book portrays World War II as seen vividly through the eyes of the young American citizen-soldier.
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Strike and Hold-Excellent Memoir By an excellant Citizen.......2005-03-27
This is an outstanding memoir written by a true citizen soldier concerning his involvement in the 82nd PIR during WWII. The prose is straight to the point and gives a first hand account of the battles of Anzio, Market Garden, and the Bulge. The description of the crossing of the Waal River is outstanding . Any WWII buff wil enjoy this book. It shows again why Mr. Burriss and his generation are truly the greatest.
"ALL THE WAY".......2004-01-30
This book is about the missions of the 82d though out Operation Market Garden and other battles of the war. It follows a Plt. Leader, Burris on his accounts. The book had a very different feel than other war books. Burris gives accounts that he remembers and he also gives accounts of what other parratoopers saw, giving a true and honest approach. The book covers a small part of Operation Market, remember it is just following a plt. leader and his men.
The letters he puts in the book shed a new light on things. I like the fact that the letters where not cut down and where printed in their true form.
I liked the book very much and have great respect for Mr. Burris. The book is very easy to read it is not full of all that military jargon like other books.
Quick Read, not much information.......2003-05-26
This book is a nice quick read for those looking for a glimpse at what airborne operations were like in World War Two from the point of view of small units. This book lacks adequate maps and information, and sources to be taken seriously as a piece of historical literature. Most of the book's theme seems to be that the British weren't aggressive enough and that they really messed up the Waal River crossing. Almost half of the book is memoirs, in the form of statements from other soldiers in the 504th, none of whom we know or how they relate to the author's experience. There are spelling and grammar mistakes throughout the book and the author contradicts himself several times. The part of the book that becomes really interesting is when the author starts to give his opinion of strategic decisions that were made six or seven ranks above his head. This is a nice book as a memoir by a man who felt the need to put his experiences down on paper, but it is not a good book from a literary or historical viewpoint.
A great combat history of the 3rd Bn. 504th.......2002-01-13
This is a no frills history of the Third Battalion 504th. Written by a contributor to Cornelius Ryan's "A Bridge Too Far". T. Moffatt Burriss took part in every major campaign the 504th was in from Sicily,Salerno,Volturno River,Anzio,Holland,Belgium and finally Germany. If you are interested in the history of one of the premier battalions in one of the best airborne regiments in WWII I recommend this book. This is a nice tribute to "Those Devils in Baggy Pants".
A Warrior from the Greatest Generation.......2002-01-02
In his personal memoir, Strike and Hold, L. Moffatt Burriss relates an account of his World War II experiences as a platoon leader, then company commander in the 504th PIR of the 82nd AD. After a brief introduction describing his training and shipment oversees, Capt. Burriss describes three important engagements, which he participated in. The first was a drop into Sicily, the second was the struggle to maintain the beachhead at Anzio, and the third was the drop into Grave, Holland as part of the Market-Garden operation. Of the three, the operation at Grave, the crossing of the Waal River, and the subsequent capture of the Nijmegen bridge strikes me as the most traumatic of Burriss' combat experiences. The Waal crossing and attack were sheer hell and Burriss' account describes it in agonizing detail. Especially distressing to this reader was the account of the stalled British armored column, under General Horrocks. As their paratrooper comrades were being slaughtered at Arnhem, Captain Carrington (subsequently Lord Carrington) was brewing tea and waiting for orders to advance. This after the 504th had fought and died to gain the bridgehead to allow the Brits to advance.
Capt. Burriss was also present at Cheneux, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. Unfortunately for this reviewer, he says little about it. The reason is unknown. Either he had little recollection of the event, or there wasn't a great deal to tell. In any case, Capt. Burriss has written a moving and poignant remembrance of the Second World War, and his reasons for fighting the war, and his speculation on whether today's generation could make such a sacrifice make this book a "should read" for any reader interested in why we fought.
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Discovering the Center: A Surgeon's Spiritual Journey
Edward Gray
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The author, eminent Harvard and Tufts professor, surgeon, chairman of the National Cancer Commission approvals committee, Dr. Edward Gray, tells of the conversion experience, the profound, inexpressibly joyous and mystical awareness of God's presence, that deepened his faith and transformed him in the process.
Recounting his life as husband, father, friend and surgeon, Dr. Gray finds that, after the conversion experience, he is more patient and peaceful with family and friends, and miraculously resolute and confident in his surgical practice. Recounting his patients' lives, he finds many patients who were considered hopeless, but who miraculously recovered or extended their lives through their strong faith and serene acceptance of God's will. Dr. Gray describes how he practices God's presence through private prayer, meditation, Centering Prayer, the prayer of "consenting to the Holy Spirit," attendance of daily Mass, and reception of Holy Communion.
This work adds to the growing body of evidence that attests to a connection, however mysterious and beyond intellectual understanding, between science and religion. It is written with sensitivity and great depth of feeling in the tradition of Kübler-Ross, Benson, Keating, and McGinn, and should comfort and encourage physicians and patients alike.
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This excitingly readable biography will be remembered...a complete page-turner.-- Publishers Weekly
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The ruthless pursuit of an objective at any cost........2001-12-21
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower (a democrat and republican president respectively) both hated McCarthy more than any other person in the world. According to their respective biographers (D. McCullough and S. Ambrose), Truman hated only three men during his lifetime: Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower and McCarthy. On the other hand, Eisenhower hated only two men during his lifetime: Adolf Hitler and McCarthy.
After reading these two biographies, I wanted to get a glimpse at McCarthy's "side" and thus bought this book. The surprise is that even after reading "his" side you don't feel any better for the man. It is difficult to find any other person in the 20th century history of the USA that created so much division, generated so much hatred, ruined so many lives and careers, diverted so much attention from the real issues and thus ironically, at the end of the day probably helped more the cause of communism than even Stalin. "Were the junior senator from Wisconsin in the pay of the Communists, he could not have done a better job for them."
The terror he created in the USA was comparable to that of any dictator (even Eisenhower was afraid of him and did his best to prevent an open confrontation: "I won't get into a pissing contest with that skunk"). "It seemed that the Eisenhower administration would never summon the courage to stand up to the powerful Wisconsin senator".
In the middle of this fear, unwillingness to take action and even cowardice, there was at least one extremely brave man that committed himself to defeating McCarthy: Senator William Benton. He confided to a magazine editor that many of the professional politicians "think I am making a mistake in terms of my own political future; but I can only reply that I would rather be right than be a senator." If only Eisenhower had had half the guts of Benton history would have been much different, for the better.
The other person well worth mentioning is Jean Fraser Kerr, McCarthy's wife. She seems to have been an exceptional woman: very intelligent (more so than McCarthy), completely loyal to her husband, very hard working, etc. Her "first love" was politics and she contributed greatly to McCarthys career (first as his assistant and then as his wife).
Something that came as a surprise to me was that McCarthy was a very good friend of the Kennedy's and he even hired Robert Kennedy to his staff. What is more, Joseph Kennedy (JFK father) contributed thousands of dollars to McCarthy's political career. "After Wheeling, Joseph P. Kennedy was to become one of McCarthy's most loyal defenders and financial supporters, and the senator would give Bobby Kennedy his first job."
All the destruction, hatred, and enemies he created were finally too much and his political career was finally destroyed. On the personal level he had a wonderful wife and a new baby daughter (Tierney) but he technically committed suicide because his life was politics and here he had lost it all. (His doctor had told him "one more glass of alcohol and you die." He kept drinking heavily).
His epitaph should probably have been: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
A Masterful Portrait.......2000-08-19
Despite the "review" claiming this book is tedious, it is actually a quick read for more than 800 pages. It may be the only thorough and truly fair account of McCarthy's life. Not among the band of writers who do nothing but demonize McCarthy, Reeves looks deeper, at the other sides of the senator, and presents an insightful portrait. No one will finish this book loving Joe McCarthy, but they will certainly understand him and the times that helped create him. This is an excellent scholarly book that is also easy to read. I highly recommend it.
This is a book to be studied, not read........1998-04-28
In hopes of saying everything Dr. Reeves has made this book a tedious read. However, if one is looking for all there posibly is to know on the subject its in there. In short this is a book to be studied, not read.
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Pivotal events and not for the better.......2007-02-02
A thorough, disturbing account of the man and the era. The first section gives biographical details about McCarthy, including his tarnished record as a supposed war hero and his zealous advocacy of some highly dubious causes. The author then spends more than 300 pages detailing the career of McCarthy the Red-Baiter, at times giving the reader the sensation of a descent into some nightmarish Wonderland -- very much the way the era felt to those still around to describe it. The final section describes the many ways McCarthy actually undermined the security of the United States: by intimidating people who were politically incorrect but insightful about our futile support of strongmen like Thieu and Chiang; by making our leaders afraid to act on their best judgment for fear of being accused of being too weak; and by inflaming all the worst sentiments of people so that a nation that was unchallenged from without began tearing itself apart from within. You will not sleep better after reading this book, but you will sleep wiser.
Cook knew corruption.......2006-01-08
Cook's book The FBI Nobody Knew was the impetus for Rex Stout's The Doorbell Rang. This means that Cook knows valuable things about freedom and democracy. The author of the other review of this book worships Anne Coulter, and for her brain, no less! Nuff said.
A Larf Disturbance.......2002-06-27
I cannot call this a laugh riot, as Mr. Cook is humorless. Yet there are laughs to be culled here by those who believe in a single standard of conduct. The author deplores the very IDEA of innuendo, guilt by aquaintance, and "wild charges"--then proceeds for several hundred pages to list every nutty and outrageous claim about McCarthy and to damn just about anyone who ever thought Stalin belonged in the nogoodnick file. He does not, however, mention Paul Hughes, who sold a false story to leading liberals that McCarthy was stashing guns in the Senate basement, and that the New York Post food editor was a right-wing agent. No, Mr. Cook is selective--and an ink blot test of what liberals WANT to believe. For a non-emotional view--and better history--pick up "McCarthy and His Enemies" by Buckley and Bozell or "McCarthy" by Arthur Herman. The only thing worthwhile here is a snicker.
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Stand-Off At Standing Rock
Patricia Calvert
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Standing Up to the Rock
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There is a ranch that runs for several miles along the last free-flowing stretch of the Snake River. A beautiful but harsh environment, hellishly hot in the summer and cut off from the outside world for much of the winter, the area is also in the middle of two equally harsh controversies: one over the breaching of the dams on the lower Snake and the other concerning new land management plans in Hells Canyon. T. Louise Freeman-Toole, a sixth-generation Californian, moves to a small Idaho town, little suspecting how profoundly she will be affected by her new life and surroundings. Her frequent visits to the last homestead ranch on the middle Snake River and her friendship with the eighty-year-old ranch owner and his daughter lead her to discover the spirit of the West and her own place there.
With deft and evocative prose, Freeman-Toole takes us along as she and her son round up cattle, fix fences, hike, kayak, meet bears, elk, and sturgeon, and encounter rural traditions and values that force her to reexamine her own views on environmentalism, the treatment of animals, property rights, child rearing, and death. Whether investigating her family's roots in Los Angeles, exploring the threats that tourism, recreation, population growth, and sprawl pose for Hells Canyon, or chronicling her ten-year romance with the rugged and spectacular landscape, Freeman-Toole is an able guide to the fraught territory where old ways and new realities, fierce loyalties and political passions, and memory and longing uneasily meet.
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Regional Appeal.......2002-07-29
This book will be of interest to natives of the Northwest, as an outsider assesses what it is about their culture that is worth embracing. It will be interesting to city folk to watch one of their own forsake the freeways and the smog of California for a green and peaceful place. During her ten-year indoctrination into the ways of the West, Freeman-Toole faces physical and emotional hardships with heroism and common sense. A first book by the author.
Moving, honest, well written book.......2002-07-04
Many of the current books written about the West are by natives of the area that have typically lived on a family farm or ranch. They provide intimate details about working the land and lament the daily changes occurring in what many consider the last, best place to live in the United States.
Freemna-Toole is different. She is a sixth-generation Californian and comes to the last free-flowing stretch of the Snake River in Idaho not knowing the impact it would have on her life.
In lyrical, poignant prose she provides an intimate portrait into her search for her own place in the world. It has a profound effect on her life when she finds it in the new, and old, West. Little did she know that her friendship with the owner of the last homestead ranch on the middle Snake River would lead her to encounter the dilemmas facing both natives and newcomers alike in the West.
Her account of having to re-examine her views on environmentalism in light of rural traditions and values is worthy not only for its sensitivity but for its examination of an issue that is at the heart of one of the monunmental changes taking place in the West.
The unavoidable impact of tourism and recreation growth in a pristime and spectacular landscape is noted along with a recognition that is rarely seen in print from a lover of the area, namely that it may be than such tourism will serve to preserve some of the landscape that otherwise might be sacrificed on the altar of economic development.
I heard such an argument made by river guides on a recent trip down the Grand Canyon. They argued that while increased tourism unquestionably places great stresses on the environment, the same tourists, once exposed to such grandeur, are more likely to oppose proposals to develop, dam or clear cut such treasures. Thus, tourists may be the lesser of evils and easier to contain than the alternatives.
There are also chapters on the author's struggle between leaving her family roots in Los Angeles, with all the guilt and uncertainty that predictably creates, and struggling to understand the almost magical pull of the rural West. She writes about her introduction to traditions and a culture that view private property rights, politics, animal treatment, family loyalties and death in a manner that is radically different than the ones with which she is familiar.
Throughout the book are wonderful scenes and descriptions of her young son's introduction to a rural environment and the impact it has on his life.
The book is an excellent memoir about one woman's journey into an enviroment that is harsh, controversial, spectacular and, for an increasing number of people, the end of a long search for a special place that is as much about spirit as geography. A moving, honest, well-written book.
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Housing and the Democratic Ideal
A. Scott. Henderson
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Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. He uniquely combined in one person the often divergent roles of "public" and "policy" intellectual. As a "public intellectual," Abrams's voice reached the American public through the pages of The Nation, The New Leader, and The New York Times, with accessible explanations of civil rights legislation, mortgage financing, government policies, and urban renewal. As a "policy intellectual," he helped to create the New York Housing Authority, lobbied President Kennedy to issue an executive order barring discrimination in federally subsidized housing projects, and combated the growing threat of a federally initiated "business welfare state."
Housing and the Democratic Ideal is the only comprehensive work on Charles Abrams to date. Though structured as a narrative biography, this book also uses Abrams's experiences as a lens through which we can better understand the development of American social policy and state expansion during the twentieth century. In his left-leaning critique of centrist liberalism, Abrams took aim at the use of fiscal and monetary policies to achieve social objectives -- a practice that allowed business interests to maximize private profits at the expense of public benefits. His growing concern over racial discrimination prefigured its emergence as a highly contested aspect of the American state.
A. Scott Henderson not only provides clear insight into Abrams's role in American policymaking and his individual achievements as a pioneering civil rights lawyer, scholar, and urban reformer, but also offers an in-depth analysis of modern state-building and the government-private sector relations ushered in by the New Deal.
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Song of the Unsung.......2000-12-07
First, let the record reflect that Professor Henderson is a beautiful writer. This biography of a quietly insistent policymaker is painstakingly researched; more importantly, it's thoughtfully analyzed in a way that makes the New Deal relevant to today's issues.
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- A study of 19th century literature and related illustration
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The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism
Richard C. Sha
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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A study of 19th century literature and related illustration.......1998-12-11
If you are a fan of 19th Century novels, e.g. Austen, Bronte, Edgeworth et.al. you will especially enjoy the chapter, "Sketching, courtship and women's novels." A readable exposition of a specialized topic.
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This digital document is an article from Studies in Romanticism, published by Boston University on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1564 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism.(Review) (book review)
Author: Elizabeth Fay
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Studies in Romanticism (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: Boston University
Volume: 39
Issue: 2
Page: 333
Article Type: Book Review
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