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| Total Pages | : 856 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Reference |
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A core reference book for libraries. More than 16,000 facts have been expertly researched and presented in an easy-to-use format. It is a first of-its-kind work, conceived of, researched, and written by a skilled librarian with more than 10 years of experience. A "Notable Last Fact" is any historically significant event, person, place or thing that marks the end of its kind or its era. Lasts carry symbolic demarcations of our advances, failures and changes. Notable Last Facts is a must-have reference for all libraries.
| Author | : William B. Brahms |
| Publisher | : Reference Desk Press, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012-10 |
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| ISBN | : 9780976532583 |
Last Words of Notable People is a comprehensive reference work on "last words," "dying words" or "famous last words". A work of unprecedented scope and study...Covering the final utterances of noted people over the span of thousands of years and the entire globe; each person is presented with a relevant biographical treatment. Each entry is meticulously documented, citing best sources available. Connection or relation of cited sources to entries are presented. Accuracy or veracity of reputed "last words" is often questioned. Conflicting variations of reported "last words" for many entries are presented for the purpose of further research. Contains a detailed selected annotated bibliography of significant "last word" sources. Well indexed.The conclusion of more than a dozen years work and consultation of tens of thousands of sources, Last Words of Notable People is far and away the definitive compilation and treatment of recorded "last words" compiled to date. This is the soft cover book edition of the last words tome featured in John Green's "Dying Declarations" video. Last Words of Notable People was an Amazon Top 100 Bestseller in December 2011. For: Trivia Lovers, Biography and History Buffs, Nerdfighters, Academic and Public Library Reference Collections and Library Circulating collections
| Author | : H. W. Wilson |
| Publisher | : H. W. Wilson |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
| ISBN | : 9781619254688 |
For more than half a century, Famous First Facts has earned the accolades of reviewers and a place on library reference shelves nationwide. This new edition of the reference classic is updated and expanded with new entries reflecting the latest developmen
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| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 1913 |
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| Author | : Randy Pausch |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Cancer |
| ISBN | : 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
| Author | : G. Dabney Wootton |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2017-07-13 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780259825364 |
Excerpt from Mysterious Eternal Facts: My Two Dreams, the First During the Late War; The Second on 5th March, 1877; With an Address to the Deity, by an Unknown Author, in Connection With the Last One; Concluding With Stranger, Remarkable Bible Facts I have been and am so often called on, at home and abroad, by so many, to relate it to them and give them a copy of it, that I have concluded to publish it thus wise, with another one (dream) that I had about the sth of March, 1817, and let the public take them for what they are worth, and form any Opinion they choose pertaining to them 5 for my opinion is that, generally, dreams are delusions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : Samuel Arbesman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2013-08-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 159184651X |
New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can have a powerful impact on our lives. He takes us through a wide variety of fields, including those that change quickly, over the course of a few years, or over the span of centuries.
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| Total Pages | : 1016 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Almanacs, American |
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| Total Pages | : 900 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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| Author | : Raymond W. Barber |
| Publisher | : H. W. Wilson |
| Total Pages | : 1514 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Features annotations for more than 6,200 works in the main volume (2007), and more than 2,400 new titles in three annual supplements published 2008 through 2010. New coverage of biographies, art, sports, Islam, the Middle East, cultural diversity, and other contemporary topics keeps your library's collection as current as today's headlines.
