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Product Description: Personal letters written to Edgar Allen Poe.

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9781499601442 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 20, 2014, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Personal letters written to Edgar Allen Poe.

Hardcover:

9781477125571 | Xlibris Corp, June 30, 2012, cover price $29.99

Paperback:

9781477125564 | Xlibris Corp, June 30, 2012, cover price $19.99

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Product Description: Vernacular architecture, by its very nature, is built from local materials that are readily to hand and is thus defined by the geology and ecology of the region and by local climatic conditions. Constructed by the community using traditional tools, these structures are highly practical, energy-efficient, and blend with the landscape...read more

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9780500342589 | Gardners Books, May 24, 2010, cover price $24.10 | About this edition: Vernacular architecture, by its very nature, is built from local materials that are readily to hand and is thus defined by the geology and ecology of the region and by local climatic conditions.

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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9780548308929 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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A richly textured historical novel set in pre-Civil War New York presents a fictionalized account of a possible 1845 love affair between Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Frances 'Fanny' Sargent Osgood. A first novel. Reprint.

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9781565124271 | Algonquin Books, January 4, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents a fictionalized account of a possible love affair between Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Fanny Osgood.

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9780452286016 | Reprint edition (Plume, June 28, 2005), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A richly textured historical novel set in pre-Civil War New York presents a fictionalized account of a possible 1845 love affair between Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Frances 'Fanny' Sargent Osgood.

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Product Description: The Peninsula War was notable for several sieges and stormings, most famously those of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. Both these actions are discussed in this rare and concise book by an officer of the Royal Horse Artillery. May attributes the rapid fall of both fortresses to British artillery tactics, which carefully concentrated on battering a breach in the defences, and the superiority of British iron cannon to their brass equivalents...read more

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9781843429425 | Naval & Military Pr, March 31, 2004, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The Peninsula War was notable for several sieges and stormings, most famously those of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz.

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9780595203802 | Writers Showcase Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

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An insider's business guide explains how entrepreneurs can find and make deals with angel investors who can provide financial backing for promising start-up companies. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780609607787 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, September 1, 2001), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Explains how entrepreneurs can find and make deals with angel investors who can provide financial backing for promising start-up companies.

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Product Description: This book is a blackjack nuclear bomb. There is information in it that has never appeared anywhere except in the secret world inhabited by a handful of elite professional blackjack players. Learn real strategies that not only the casinos don't want you to know, but that many of the greatest blackjack players would prefer to keep all to themselves...read more
By John May and Frank Scoblete (foreword by)

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9781566251518 | Taylor Pub, November 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This book is a blackjack nuclear bomb.

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Product Description: A collection of essays born in Ireland, marking the 50th anniversary of the Irish School of Ecumenics. In Ireland and elsewhere, people live in a world of many religions, in which religion is often a source of conflict. However, reconciliation and peace are part of the theology of all major religions...read more
By John May (editor)

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9780304702589 | Cassell, March 1, 1998, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays born in Ireland, marking the 50th anniversary of the Irish School of Ecumenics.

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9780304702596 | Cassell, December 1, 1998, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays born in Ireland, marking the 50th anniversary of the Irish School of Ecumenics.

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Briefly traces the history of baccarat, explains the rules, and suggests strategies for winning

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9780818406041 | Lyle Stuart, September 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Briefly traces the history of baccarat, explains the rules, and suggests strategies for winning

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9780708312346 | Univ of Wales Pr, December 9, 1994, cover price $15.00

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Traces the growth of the environmental pressure group from a small anti-nuclear protest group in 1970 to an international network dedicated to the protection of the Earth and its natural resources

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9781879431027 | Dk Pub, October 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Traces the growth of the environmental pressure group from a small anti-nuclear protest group in 1970 to an international network dedicated to the protection of the Earth and its natural resources

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Describes the characteristics and behaviour of dolphins, and explains how many are threatened by pollution and improper commercial fishing techniques
By John May (editor)

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9780806974842 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, December 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the characteristics and behaviour of dolphins, and explains how many are threatened by pollution and improper commercial fishing techniques

Paperback:

9780806974859 | Reprint edition (Sterling Pub Co Inc, August 1, 1991), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Describes the characteristics and behaviour of dolphins, and explains how many are threatened by pollution and improper commercial fishing techniques

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Exposes nuclear accidents around the world since the 1940s--from well-known catastrophes like Chernobyl to unreported incidents at home

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9780394585536 | Pantheon Books, April 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Exposes nuclear accidents around the world since the 1940s--from well-known catastrophes like Chernobyl to unreported incidents at home

Paperback:

9780679729631 | Pantheon Books, April 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Exposes nuclear accidents around the world since the 1940s--from well-known catastrophes like Chernobyl to unreported incidents at home

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Describes the geography, climate, and wildlife of Antarctica, discusses ice sheets, ice shelves and glaciers, and looks at research being conducted on the continent

Hardcover:

9780385262804 | Reprint edition (Doubleday, October 1, 1989), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes the geography, climate, and wildlife of Antarctica, discusses ice sheets, ice shelves and glaciers, and looks at research being conducted on the continent
9780771596483 | Macmillan of Canada, June 1, 1989, cover price $29.95

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Describes and illustrates some of the most obscure, underrated, weird, scary, overlooked, and controversial members of the animal kingdom and explains their places in nature and links with humans

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9780670179152 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Describes and illustrates some of the most obscure, underrated, weird, scary, overlooked, and controversial members of the animal kingdom and explains their places in nature and links with humans

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A guide for the unemployed in the planning of personal finances discusses the evaluation of financial resources, preserving credit ratings, budgeting, job hunting, and bankruptcy

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9780960575022 | Tilden Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A guide for the unemployed in the planning of personal finances discusses the evaluation of financial resources, preserving credit ratings, budgeting, job hunting, and bankruptcy

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Divided into more than three hundred categories, the hundreds of entries presented here relate odd facts an unusual information, revealing such little-known facts as that fish don't dream and that the safety pin was invented in 1849

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9780030467769 | Henry Holt & Co, December 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Divided into more than three hundred categories, the hundreds of entries presented here relate odd facts an unusual information, revealing such little-known facts as that fish don't dream and that the safety pin was invented in 1849

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9780030467714 | Henry Holt & Co, December 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Divided into more than three hundred categories, the hundreds of entries presented here relate odd facts an unusual information, revealing such little-known facts as that fish don't dream and that the safety pin was invented in 1849

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