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David S. Kidder
Now updated to reflect current events, this daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, ex... (Description from external book data)
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Arthur Plotnik
More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or t... (Description from external book data)
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General Ed White
The Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connectic... (Description from external book data)
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Lorraine Cook White
Volume 19 of the Barbour Collection, which was transcribed by Wilma Moore, deals solely with the town of Hartford and names approximately 45... (Description from external book data)
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Eric Donald Hirsch
Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pherom... (Description from external book data)
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Jessie Carney Smith
Provides brief biographies of business executives, writers, journalists, lawyers, physicians, actresses, singers, musicians, artists, educat... (Description from external book data)
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Douglas A. Foster
"Over ten years in the making, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement offers for the first time a sweeping historical and theologic... (Description from external book data)
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Michael R. Collings
Michael R. Collings examines the life and work of American science fiction author Piers Anthony. Starmont Reader's Guide 20. (Description from external book data)
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James M. Henslin
A new edition of a popular college reference features thirty percent new articles addressing current issues of contemporary sociology, from ... (Description from external book data)
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Miranda C. Herbert
Comprehensive index to current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and who's whos. Includes biographies on over 3 million people fro... (Description from external book data)
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Louise Gagne
Gale's Publishers Directory is your one-stop resource for exhaustive coverage of approximately 30,000 U.S. and Canadian publishers, distribu... (Description from external book data)
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Paul A. Tenkotte
The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky is the authoritative reference on the people, places, history, and rich heritage of the Northern Kentu... (Description from external book data)
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Lois Swan Jones
In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet... (Description from external book data)
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Thomas Jay Kemp
Provides application forms and ordering information for birth, marriage, and death certificates from every state in the United States, the p... (Description from external book data)
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Nancy Bercaw
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 13: Gender (Description from external book data)
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James C. Brandow
"Many of the early settlers of Barbados eventually moved to the mainland of North America and settled in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, a... (Description from external book data)
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Snaffle
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
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Jonathan Pearson
In the preparation of materials for this work, the compiler drew on the baptism and marriage registers of the First Reformed Church of Alban... (Description from external book data)
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Mark Jacob
A compendium of outrageous, hilarious or just plain shocking trivia about everything from history and politics to arts, religion, technology... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Burgess
A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King... (Description from external book data)
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Worth Stickley Ray
"This mainstay of Tennessee genealogy has an immense amount of genealogical data, which is not confined to Tennessee but reaches out to the ... (Description from external book data)
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Joseph M. Flora
This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the Ame... (Description from external book data)
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Roberto Radice
The first author in which the traditions of Judaic thought and Greek philosophy flow together in a significant way is Philo of Alexandria. T... (Description from external book data)
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Eva Eubank Wilkerson
Information abstracted from records of deeds, wills, court orders, land trials, marriage register, and marriage bonds. (Description from external book data)
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Loretto Dennis Szucs
Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible.... (Description from external book data)
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Jack De Bellis
This definitive guide to materials by and about this prolific American author consists of a printed first volume and a second volume on CD-R... (Description from external book data)
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Oladele Ogunseitan
Green Health: An A-to-Z Guide examines the green movement within the contexts of personal health and the healthcare industry, focusing on co... (Description from external book data)
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Pasquale F. Finelli
Diagnostic Reference Index of Clinical Neurology aims to give the busy clinician a fast, easy-to-use guide to the core neurological literatu... (Description from external book data)
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Thomas Jay Kemp
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geogr... (Description from external book data)
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Anne H. Soukhanov
A dictionary incorporating the latest vocabulary based on the information revolution contains more than five thousand new words, comprehensi... (Description from external book data)
