Cytogenetic studies of the species hybrid Allium fistulosum x Allium ascalonicum and its backcross progenies (Louisiana State University studies)

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Cytogenetic studies of the species hybrid Allium fistulosum x Allium ascalonicum and its backcross progenies (Louisiana State University studies)
Fred Derward Cochran
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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ASIN: B0007ES588

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Informative, well written, good photos

Grenada: Isle of Spice (Macmillan Caribbean Guides)
Norma Sinclair
Manufacturer: Interlink Publishing Group
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Binding: Paperback

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Memories to Die for: An American Family's Terror Filled Adventures on the Island of Grenada

ASIN: 0333968069

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Grenada is known worldwide for its nutmeg and other spices. This beautiful eastern Caribbean island is now visited by thousands of tourists each year. Grenada: Island of Spice is agreat guide that will give visitors an introduction to the culture and history of this wonderful island.

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Informative, well written, good photos.......2006-03-23

This book was everything I expected. It's very good as a preview for visiting the island. The history gets a little dry after awhile; otherwise, a pretty good book.

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Tales from the Isle of Spice
Richardo Keens-Douglas
Manufacturer: Annick Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 155037866X

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Three magical tales from a legendary storyteller.

Enter the richly magical world of Tales from the Isle of Spice and visit a bottomless lake where an enchanted princess lives. Try your luck against the sinister woman who walks in moonlight stalking souls. Catch a glimpse of the mysterious boy with an angelic face whose scarred body hides beneath the waves.

Tales from the Isle of Spice features three beloved stories retold for middle readers: The Nutmeg Princess, La Diablesse and the Baby and Freedom Child of the Sea.

Complete with luscious new illustrations, and alive with charm, Tales from the Isle of Spice is a journey to the heart of a child's imagination.

The Grenada document: The bitter, epic struggle for the Isle of Spice

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The Grenada document: The bitter, epic struggle for the Isle of Spice
Mary Greaves
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Grenada, a unique experience: A spice isle mas

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Grenada, a unique experience: A spice isle mas
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Spice Isle cricket: The history and development of cricket in Grenada, 1830-1999

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Spice Isle cricket: The history and development of cricket in Grenada, 1830-1999
Stephenson M Worme
Manufacturer: Kreol Publications
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ASIN: 9769502146

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Fifty years of social change through cartoons.......2004-08-01

The New Yorker is considered by many, including some outside New York City, to be the best literary magazine in the world. The quality of the articles is first rate and it is the place to go if your interest is in current intellectual thought. Even the cartoons have an intellectual bent, although they often poke fun at the arrogance of intellectualism and the snobbishness of the privileged class.
Over the fifty years covered in this volume, you can see many changes in the social fabric of the country. The style of dress and the dialog change dramatically from the start to the end, but the cartoons remain entertaining throughout. While most of them can be understood by anyone, a bit of historical knowledge is necessary if you are to understand some of those from the earlier years. For example, the cartoon where a young boy sees an Indian wearing a feathered bonnet and cries, "Quick mama - look! President Coolidge!" makes little sense to anyone unfamiliar with the classic picture of Coolidge wearing that headgear.
Sometimes we read books for knowledge, other times we do it for fun. In this case, you can have a lot of fun looking through these cartoons.

The New Yorker Album Of Drawings 1925-1975 -

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The New Yorker Album Of Drawings 1925-1975 -
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The New Yorker Album of Drawings, 1925 - 1975
NEW YORKER
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The New Yorker Album of Drawings, 1925-1975
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The New Yorker Album of Drawings, 1925-1975.

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THE NEW YORKER ALBUM OF DRAWINGS: 1925 - 1975
Author Unknown
Manufacturer: Viking
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J3N9YC

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The New Yorker: Album of Drawings (1925-1975)

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The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925 - 1975
New Yorker Magazine
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The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975
New Yorker magazine
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The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975
The New Yorker
Manufacturer: Penguin, 1982
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SAC13G

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A book to keep on your night stand..........2005-10-01

Whoever chose the photographs for this delightful book has managed to capture the essence of the intimate relationship between women and our feline companions. If you love cats, it will be impossible to frown while paging through this book; it will coax a smile out of you on your worst day. The well-chosen quotes that accompany each cat and woman friend are food for the soul. Best read it with your cat on your lap and a hot cup of tea at hand.

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How to Profit in Contract Design
Andrew Loebelson
Manufacturer: Interior Design Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NYF5LM

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How to Profit in Contract Design
Andrew Loebelson
Manufacturer: Interior Design Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0943370027

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How to Profit in Contract Design
Andrew Loebelson
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NSIRWW

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Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures.

His personal struggles--as well as his many personal triumphs--are vividly chronicled in The Life of Isamu Noguchi, the first full-length biography of this remarkable artist. Published in connection with the centennial of the artist's birth, the book draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminiscences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast new light on his youth, his creativity, and his relationships.

During his sixty-year career, there was hardly a genre that Noguchi failed to explore. He produced more than 2,500 works of sculpture, designed furniture, lamps, and stage sets, created dramatic public gardens all over the world, and pioneered the development of environmental art. After studying in Paris, where he befriended Alexander Calder and worked as an assistant to Constantin Brancusi, he became an ardent advocate for abstract sculpture.

Noguchi's private life was no less passionate than his artistic career. The book describes his romances with many women, among them the dancer Ruth Page, the painter Frida Kahlo, and the writer Anaïs Nin.

Despite his fame, Noguchi always felt himself an outsider. "With my double nationality and my double upbringing, where was my home?" he once wrote. "Where were my affections? Where my identity?" Never entirely comfortable in the New York art world, he inevitably returned to his father's homeland, where he had spent a troubled childhood. This prize-winning biography, first published in Japanese, traces Isamu Noguchi's lifelong journey across these artistic and cultural borders in search of his personal identity.

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sculptor, heartlander, world traveler, aka .......2004-10-19

"Sam" Gilmour, heartlander, great sculptor, world traveler, free spirit, aka "Noguchi"--
The sadly neglected tale of a shy 13 year-old boy traveling alone to LaPorte, Indiana for early schooling "as a true American" and known there as "Sam" Gilmour, was later to become widely known as one of the world's greatest sculptors -- Isamu Noguchi (a future Jeopardy question?). A new biography "The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders" includes revealing details and childhood snapshots for the first time from the archives of Lilly Library at Indiana University. This biography, only recently published in English, unfolds like a panoramic tapestry of life ... colorful, insightful, personal. It includes his stressful adaptations to cultural duality, personal relationships with notable companions, and his bonding with the idea of "mound builders" of native Americans.

After traveling alone across the ocean and the country, he began his new, Midwestern experience by hiking down the remote dirt road for the first time past the farms, fields, and woods to the Interlaken boarding school, feeling overwhelmed by the "vastness, the sweep, the panorama of that open Indiana countryside." Soon, when fateful WW I events abruptly closed the boarding school, he lived alone on the abandoned premises for a month "like Daniel Boone". Finally good fortune had him transferring to the public LaPorte High School and living with a locally prominent family in town, he graduated four years later in 1922. Typically, he had a newspaper route. Aspiring to be an "all-American boy", the yearbook included his illustrations and classmates elected him "Biggest Bull-Head."

And so goes the first 100 pages. The next 340 pages of this epic follow his footprints through the Sands of Time, continuing 'Sam's Splendid Adventure' to the peaks of artistic expression in dance theatre, architecture, and sculpture. Along the way, this "Hoosier" sojourns with many of the greatest artistic spirits this world has ever seen.

On a very personal note, I met with Noguchi a couple of times ('70s) in my New York work, and had once played a basketball game ('50s) at his Indiana high school (big deal there, then). Regrettably, I didn't realize at the time that our paths had previously crossed, albeit if only in space-time. Somewhere, sometime, "somewhat" dedicated individuals must necessarily put out a wake-up call to the Arts in Indiana patrons at colleges, museums, and libraries on this wholly unusual and neglected chapter of American cultural history at the turn of the 20th Century with its demographic changes of nation building immigration, new industrialization, and new urbanism. Fittingly, the Noguchi Foundation has an extensive curriculum guide available. His centennial birth date is November 17, 2004.

Noguchi's multiform modernism.(The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders)(Book review): An article from: Art Journal

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Noguchi's multiform modernism.(The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders)(Book review): An article from: Art Journal
Amy Lyford
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000N4SD4S
Release Date: 2007-02-01

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This digital document is an article from Art Journal, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1930 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: Noguchi's multiform modernism.(The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders)(Book review)
Author: Amy Lyford
Publication: Art Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 65 Issue: 4 Page: 121(3)

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Excellent Documentation of Anglo-Irish War.......2007-09-17

Most certainly one of the best books pertaining to the troubles from 1916-1922 to have survived over the years.
Dan Breen in great detail describes his ascendancy to the top rung of the organization then known as the Irish volunteers (Later the IRA) in his native county Tipperary and the ensuing life on the run, the inevitable price to be paid for his part in the Soloheadbed Ambush in 1919, which arguably launched the Anglo-Irish War. His description of some of the leading characters of the day, most notably Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera, are as valuable as his tragic insights into the Civil War following the Peace Treaty of 1921, including his tireless efforts to bring peace between both the Free State and the Republicans.
I have an extensive library that includes masterpieces by Ernie O'Malley, Tom Barry, and Pat Deasy, among others, but I still believe this might be the best account yet, always worth re-reading.

Beats Micheal Collin's story.......1999-03-19

This is a good book and helps you understand much of how the Irish war for independence was gotten off the ground. For those interested in this period in Irish history it offers a unique insight from a hero of epic proportions. Some scenes from the book sound like they belong in a Hollywood script more than a true historic account and yet, that is what this book truly is. A must read for those interested in the struggle for Irish freedom.

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My Fight For Irish Freedom
Breen Dan
Manufacturer: The Talbot Press Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UIGIQC

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