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Product Description: What better way to while away your time than to whittle? Peter Benson, author of Whittling Handbook, gives the first-timer the perfect introduction to the simple, yet pleasurable woodcarving pastime. Colorful photographs show each step in the process of making a host of items with nothing more than a knife and a piece of timber...read more

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9781784940751, titled "Whittling Handbook" | Guild of Master Craftsman Pubns ltd, July 5, 2016, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: What better way to while away your time than to whittle?

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Product Description: A slick gothic novel in the English tradition, a murdery mystery, a tour of Edwardian England, and a work of inhuman unease and suspenseDavid Morris lives the quiet life of a book-valuer for a London auction house, traveling every day by bus to his office in the Strand...read more

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9781846882067 | Alma Books, September 1, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A slick gothic tale, a murder mystery, a reflection on the works of the masters of the French Enlightenment, a tour of Edwardian England, and a work of atmosphere, unease, and suspenseDavid Morris lives the quiet life of a book-valuer for a London auction house, traveling every day by omnibus to his office in the Strand.

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9781846882951 | Alma Books, April 1, 2014, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A slick gothic novel in the English tradition, a murdery mystery, a tour of Edwardian England, and a work of inhuman unease and suspenseDavid Morris lives the quiet life of a book-valuer for a London auction house, traveling every day by bus to his office in the Strand.

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Product Description: A tale of adventure and a celebration of the English countryside—full of magic, history, and superstition—where smoke is in the air, and where all is not as it seemsWhen young Elliot gets a laborer's job at Mr. Evans's after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks he'll have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields...read more

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9781846881770 | Alma Books, September 1, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A tale of adventure and a celebration of the English countryside—full of magic, history, and superstition—where smoke is in the air, and where all is not as it seemsWhen young Elliot gets a laborer's job at Mr.
9781846881367 | Alma Books, June 20, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A tale of adventure with as many twists and turns as the enchanting Somerset landscape that forms its backdrop, Two Cows and a Van Full of Smoke is, above all, a celebration of the English countryside—full of magic, history and superstition—where smoke is in the air, and where not all is what it seems.

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Product Description: LA HABILIDAD PARA CREAR UNA VISIÓN SE ENCUENTRA ENTRE LOS DONES MÁS HERMOSOS E IMPREVISTOS DE LA VIDA Y, EN ESTE PEQUEÑO VOLUMEN DE INSPIRACIÓN PRÁCTICA, LLEVA A LOS LECTORES A UN ESTIMULANTE ANÁLISIS DE ESTE PODEROSO CONCEPTO.

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9786074523874 | Panorama Editorial S.A. De C.V., June 30, 2012, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: LA HABILIDAD PARA CREAR UNA VISIÓN SE ENCUENTRA ENTRE LOS DONES MÁS HERMOSOS E IMPREVISTOS DE LA VIDA Y, EN ESTE PEQUEÑO VOLUMEN DE INSPIRACIÓN PRÁCTICA, LLEVA A LOS LECTORES A UN ESTIMULANTE ANÁLISIS DE ESTE PODEROSO CONCEPTO.

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Product Description: Greg is thirty-three, without a job or a place to live. Hiding from painful memories, he only half-exists, his lethargy a protection against the world. Alice, his Leninist aunt, disturbed by his apathy, sends him to Dorset to help out a friend...read more

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9781846881930 | Alma Books, June 1, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Greg is thirty-three, without a job or a place to live.

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Product Description: After a lifetime at sea, Captain Michael Blaine has retired to an abandoned, remote Cornish village. He is the only inhabitant until Elizabeth Green, American movie star and one-hit-wonder, comes to see her mother's birthplace, just for a couple of hours...read more

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9781846881978 | Alma Books, June 1, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: After a lifetime at sea, Captain Michael Blaine has retired to an abandoned, remote Cornish village.

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9781846881923 | Alma Books, June 1, 2012, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: Drove House has always loomed large over village life. Boarded-up for years, it is reputed to be brimming with ghosts, and is shunned by the locals - all except Billy, for whom it has been the site of childhood dens and secret adolescent adventures...read more

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9781846881916 | Alma Books, June 1, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Drove House has always loomed large over village life.

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Product Description: Bishop Odo, half-brother of William l, commissions a hanging to commemorate the King's conquest of England. The man he chooses to design this tribute, Turold, a Norman renowned for his skill but not his temper, reluctantly travels to the convent in Winchester where nuns will implement his sketches...read more

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9781846881947 | Alma Books, June 1, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Bishop Odo, half-brother of William l, commissions a hanging to commemorate the King's conquest of England.

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Product Description: Frank, a private eye in Brighton, is the perfect lodger: neat, quiet and solitary, a decent man leading an uneventful life. Then his neighbour announces she's pregnant, his landlady's budgie is strangled, his boss retires to a sauna, his client's wife is murdered, the client himself drowns, and his client's sister dies in a fall from a high cliff path...read more

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9781846881961 | Alma Books, June 1, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Frank, a private eye in Brighton, is the perfect lodger: neat, quiet and solitary, a decent man leading an uneventful life.

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Product Description: On his nineteenth birthday in an English seaside town, Duncan Blaine gets a clue to the whereabouts of his mother, Diana, who, nine years earlier, left him to be raised by relatives when a tragic accident took the life of her husband...read more

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9780340606599 | Hodder & Stoughton, April 1, 1994, cover price $25.00

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9781846881954 | Alma Books, June 1, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: On his nineteenth birthday in an English seaside town, Duncan Blaine gets a clue to the whereabouts of his mother, Diana, who, nine years earlier, left him to be raised by relatives when a tragic accident took the life of her husband.

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Hardcover:

9780691149196 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 31, 2011, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9780691149202 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 31, 2011, cover price $31.95

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By Michael A. Arbib (contributor), Sophie Bava (contributor), Peter Benson (contributor), Donald Brenneis (editor) and Peter T. Ellison (editor)

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9780824319403 | Annual Reviews, October 31, 2011, cover price $202.00

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Product Description: Although the law of contract is largely settled, there is at present no widely-accepted comprehensive theory of its main principles and doctrines or of its normative basis. This collection of six full-length and original essays, written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, explores the general theory of contract law from a variety of theoretical perspectives...read more
By Peter Benson (editor)

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9780521640381 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $124.99 | About this edition: Although the law of contract is largely settled, there is at present no widely-accepted comprehensive theory of its main principles and doctrines or of its normative basis.

Paperback:

9780521041324 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 10, 2007), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Although the law of contract is largely settled, there is at present no widely-accepted comprehensive theory of its main principles and doctrines or of its normative basis.

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Product Description: Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway...read more

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9781557288165 | 1 edition (Univ of Arkansas Pr, November 1, 2006), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: An in-depth biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing follows the life and career of boxer Siki, from his youth in Senegal, to his World War I service, his remarkable boxing career, and the high-living that led to his shooting death in New York City in 1925 at the age of twenty-eight.

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9781557288882 | New edition (Univ of Arkansas Pr, July 1, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway.

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Hardcover:

9780804754040 | 1 edition (Stanford Univ Pr, July 5, 2006), cover price $55.00

Paperback:

9780804754842 | 1 edition (Stanford Univ Pr, July 5, 2006), cover price $22.95

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Product Description: The Cat's Ankle is a series of observations on life, from the ridiculous to the mundane to the sublime. Young love, old love, frustration, friendship, failure and success all are touched upon. It is a reverie and a dissertation: sometimes respectful, sometimes irreverent...read more

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9781413733730 | Publishamerica Inc, December 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Cat's Ankle is a series of observations on life, from the ridiculous to the mundane to the sublime.

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