Horse Trading in the Age of Cars

Horse Trading in the Age of Cars
Author: Steven M. Gelber
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0801889979

Gelber's highly readable and lively prose makes clear how this unique economic ritual survived into the industrial twentieth century, in the process adding a colorful and interesting chapter to the history of the automobile.

Spock on Spock

Spock on Spock
Author: Benjamin Spock
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780394578132

Spock describes events that span two world wars, two marriages, two sons and one stepdaughter, and all the trappings of a celebrity.

Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé
Author: James E. Frazier
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781580462273

Drawing on the accounts of those who knew Duruflé personally as well as on Frazier's own detailed research, this new biography offers a broad sketch of this modest and elusive man, widely recognized today for having created some of the greatest works in the organ repertory - and the masterful Requiem. Frazier also examines the career and contributions of Duruflé's wife, the formidable organist Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier.

Canadian Stories of the Sea

Canadian Stories of the Sea
Author: Victor Suthren
Publisher: Burnaby, B.C. : Library Services Branch
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1993
Genre: Sea stories, Canadian
ISBN:

With its thousands of miles of coastline fronting on three oceans and the world's largest freshwater lake system, Canada has had a long and exciting history of human endeavour on those waters. In Canadian Sea Stories, Canadian sea novelist Victor Suthren has gathered together a collection ofbedside readings from that rich and intriguing history. The collection is by no means a thorough survey of all of Canada's maritime history, but rather a selection of tales, brief or not so (U306095FMM300 |H SOCIAL SCIENCES306 |H Culture and Institutions: Social AnthropologyMain306.09 |HGeographical TreatmentThe Bajau Laut|H AsiaOXINT |D 2003 11 061998/01/20 |j Anthropologie et Societes |n Mikhael Elbaz |c 7 |y R |r Vol. 22, No. 3, 1998|c SEASSM |t South-East Asian Social Science Monographs |n9835600155983-56-0015-57BAJAU LAUT CLTitleJBK |T AnthropologyScholars and students ofanthropology in South-east Asia.Sather |f Clifford |i C. |s au |t Adjunct Professor, Depar tment of Anthropology |a University of OregonSATHER C.NR0000031007c |d 20 pp halftones, tables, figures, maps378Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of South-easternSabah30/04/1999JELLIM |D 1999 11 15 |T 15:48:14LYNN |D 2006 10 24LYNN |D 2006 10 2474.00OUP15.65SATHER:BAJAU LAUT:S.E. BABH SEASSM CMain26/06/1997TO00/000093.500.78001UAWorldAJ30CS19/08/1996PUBLEARN97 |t 1997 Learned Societies Conference (Anthropology - on price list)

Broad Bay Pioneers

Broad Bay Pioneers
Author: Wilford Woodruff Whitaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 779
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780897252102

The Architect

The Architect
Author: Asher Benjamin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1844
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Architect : Or, Practical House Carpenter by Asher Benjamin, first published in 1843, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.