Cactaceae, with illustrated keys of all tribes, sub-tribes and genera

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Cactaceae, with illustrated keys of all tribes, sub-tribes and genera
W. Taylor Marshall
Manufacturer: Theophrastus Publishers
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0913728241

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Cactaceae: With Illustrated Keys of All Tribes, Sub-Tribes and Genera
W. Taylor; Bock, Thor Methven Marshall
Manufacturer: Abbey Garden Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K0AEPQ

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This beautifully illustrated book explores and reconstructs the places referred to in the Bible. La tierra de la Biblia draws on texts, traditions, archaeological research, and photographs and drawings of the sites as they are today. Some of the sites include the Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, and Mountain Sinai.

Antigua China: Ancient China, Spanish-Language Edition (Grandes civilizaciones)

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Antigua's best china

Antigua China: Ancient China, Spanish-Language Edition (Grandes civilizaciones)
Maurizio Scarpari
Manufacturer: Silver Dolphin en Espanol
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Antigua's best china.......2001-11-25

A very well written book, a most for every household, what more can you get from a book like this.

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Antigua Grecia - Grandes Civilizaciones
Christopher Fagg
Manufacturer: Sigmar
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Arte Del Antiguo Egipto/ the Art of Ancient Egypt (Arte Y Las Grandes Civilizaciones)

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Arte Del Antiguo Egipto/ the Art of Ancient Egypt (Arte Y Las Grandes Civilizaciones)
K. Michalowski
Manufacturer: Akal Ediciones
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Binding: Paperback

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China (Grandes Civilizaciones)
Parramon , and Dolores Gassos
Manufacturer: Parramon
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Binding: Hardcover

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Civilizacion cristiana primitiva (Grandes civilizaciones desaparecidas)

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Civilizacion cristiana primitiva (Grandes civilizaciones desaparecidas)
Mercedes Santos
Manufacturer: Circulo de Amigos de la Historia
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Egipto (Grandes Civilizaciones)
Parramon , and Eva Bargallo I Chaves
Manufacturer: Parramon
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Binding: Hardcover

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Egipto desde el aire: Egypt from the Air, Spanish-Language Edition (Grandes civilizaciones)

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Egipto desde el aire: Egypt from the Air, Spanish-Language Edition (Grandes civilizaciones)
Marcello Bertinetti
Manufacturer: Numen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 970718079X

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Marcello Bertinetti's insightful text and gorgeous images—- including satellite photography — cover everything from Egypt's seemingly limitless dunes, to the coral reefs of the Red Sea, to the stark wadis and red mountains of central Sinai. This book offers a spectacular aerial trip through a country whose history stretches back 6,000 years.

El arte precolombino (El Arte y las grandes civilizaciones)

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El arte precolombino (El Arte y las grandes civilizaciones)
Jose Alcina Franch
Manufacturer: Akal
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Paper Money'88-20ed
House Of Collectibles
Manufacturer: House of Collectibles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0876377428
Release Date: 1987-07-12

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Mike Magnuson's Lummox: The Evolution of a Man is a highly entertaining memoir of a bright twentysomething guy floating through life in small-town Wisconsin. The character Mike Magnuson (the book is written in the third person) sees light at the end of the tunnel but is in no hurry to get there. And why not? He has no worries so long as he has a job, beer, drinking buddies, and women to help pass the time. Magnuson climbs the dwelling-space ladder (if only a few rungs) from living at home, to crashing in a closed school's music room that he rents to practice drumming (but mostly holds parties for underage girls), to renting a basement space from the main lesbian power base at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, to shacking up with a long-term girlfriend. In addition to changes in his living situation, Magnuson changes menial jobs, friends, and--after an amusing incident lands him in jail for a holiday weekend--his philosophy and outlook on life, at least for a short while. Magnuson writes an easygoing memoir with wit, hilarity, a liberal dose of scatology, and self-deprecation that never turns to self-pity. You can't help but like this Lummox. --Michael Ferch

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In the slapstick tradition of A Confederacy of Dunces comes Lummox -- part farce, part treatise on what it mean to be a man in America, part true-life tale of a twenty-something man stumbling through the Reagan years, all of it funny in a way that will warm your heart.

The lummox is Mike Magnuson, your friendly neighborhood big guy with a foul mouth, a spare tire around his midsection, and a tender heart, and these are his years working in factories, hanging out in taverns, befriending reprobates, going to college, having troubles with the law, and living with crazy jazz musicians and with lesbian separatists. When a mysterious phantom enters his life, he sets himself on a quest to discover the true meaning of lummoxness, and what he learns along the way is both shocking and hilarious.

Written with honesty and selfeffacing wry humor, Lummox is an exceptional story of manhood at a time of its redefinition, a book that will leave you laughing out loud in recognition and cheering for lummoxes everywhere.

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Don't judge a book by its cover.......2004-12-24

In fairness to Magnusson, I picked this up at a store that specializes in remainders and doesn't always have very clear organization. It was in the fiction section, and I was expecting a novel. Yes, endorsement copy on the dust jacket uses the world 'memoir,' but given the rest of the packaging, and the section of the store, my mind glossed over this detail.

Since the author writes of himself in the third person, at first it's curious that he'd cast a character with his own name, and I was well into it when I realzied the intent was a memoir (albeit with some fictionalizaton and composite characters for the sake of pace and to protect the innocent).

The jacket copy, comparing it to 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and David Sedaris is unfair. It sets up an unrealistically high expectation in the reader, to my mind.

What this reminded me of is Chris Offut's 'The Same River Twice,' which is not an unflattering comparison. And 'Lummox' does the two things I think good writing has to do, make you laugh and break your heart. At a couple of points I was ready to put it down and would come to a point that was hilarious, or a moment of unbelievable tragedy.

And a lot of the details that Magnusson has of his childhood (he's a few years older than me, but I grew up in essentially the same environment), are very well chosen. Husky jeans, for instance, which I hadn't thought about for twenty-five years, were such a pure stigma when I went through grade school, just telling us he wore them tells 50 pages worth of childhood trauma. I had a gradeschool chum who wore Huskies, and the only thing that could have been worse would be if K-Mart had sold a 'Kick Me' line of clothing.

Some of the confessions made fall under Gordon Lisch's rule of writing about the worst thing you've ever done. That's probably the best thing about 'Lummox,' we've all done things we shouldn't have, often with terrible consquence, but not all of us will confess it after a pitcher of beer, much less in print.

But if the cover of the book is misleading, maybe that's part of the point. What ultimately emerges is a portrait of a guy who might project an image being uneducated, lethargic, and insensitive -- an image covering someone who is well educated, an avid cyclist, and has, as Magnusson describes it, 'the heart of a pussy.'

You think you're a writer??.......2002-12-15

Let me tell you---I am from Eau Claire and know a lot of the characters in the book----He's got it all wrong. Ask Anyone

Tavern Crawling 101.......2002-07-19

I oughtta love a book whose chapter headings all look like familiar beer bottle labels. And one that says: "He's got that most useless of all college degrees, too: English Literature."

But - and it's a big a Lummox- sized butt, although this had a lot of heart, (a kind of flip of the tired "hooker-with-a heart-of-gold," we have a Lummox with the same golden heart - if one takes the time to look further than the beer-belly) the scatologic preoccupation does grow rank. It is suitable for reading in the bathroom because of short segments & obsession w/ defecation. Still, it does have its moments. The "insight" into the male/female dynamic ain't John Gray, but it ain't bad for a Lummox.

The author/subject/"cover boy" of this biopic wrote in the 3rd person. He says he never figured out the mystery of the repeated "vandalism" to his Pinto. But a reader of many mysteries can do it!

Forget it.......2002-05-22

So, this is where the Miller Beer ads appropriated their writing style! If you like those ads, this is the book for you. Just imagine 5 hours of that narrator talking, and you get the idea.

It is okay to be a man.......2002-05-07

If you liked Thomas McGuane's "Nothing But Blue Skies" you should enjoy this book as well, although there is a whole lot less male angst going on this book. Magnuson makes no pretenses about being a modern, civilized, or politically correct man. He writes unabashedly about the deeds and "misdeeds" of a young man, and in the process lends some degree of comfort to men who have done the same or similar piggish things. The scatological humor had me laughing so hard I cried, and ultimately I came away thankful to know there are other guys who should know better but nevertheless, from time to time, indulge in and enjoy the baser side of masculinity.

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Lummox: The Evolution of Man.
Mike Magnuson
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OERRR6

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In this colorful, detailed account, nineteenth-century Irish patriot and revolutionary Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa describes his life's experiences, tracing his early boyhood growing up on his grandfather's farm in Renascreena, his thirteen-year imprisonment for his involvement in the Fenian movement, and finally his exile to America, where he continued his activities in support of Irish independence.

In this epic memoir he tells of learning the Irish language as a child, of sitting around turf fires and hearing tales of fairies and battles, of landlords seizing the wheat crop for rent when the potato crop failed, and of his family being evicted from their home. Through it a portrait emerges of Ireland in the mid- to late 1800s, revealing what life was truly like for the Irish people.

Rossa's rambling style, with frequent digressions and asides, makes the narrative read like a fireside conversation between friends. He tells his story with frankness and honesty but without bitterness. Although he died six years before his beloved Ireland won its independence, his words no doubt influenced the next generation of revolutionaries.

Rossa's Recollections, 1838-1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary

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Rossa's Recollections, 1838-1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa , and Sean O Luing
Manufacturer: Irish Academic Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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