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Product Description: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects...read more

Hardcover:

9780691635200 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $157.50 | About this edition: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects.
9780691029979 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9780691606453 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $63.00
9780691005492 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1999), cover price $37.00

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Product Description: This book includes an assessment for determining your organization's DNA and running examples showing DNA in action. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780891061755 | 1 edition (Davies-Black Pub, January 1, 2003), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This book includes an assessment for determining your organization's DNA and running examples showing DNA in action.

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Product Description: Ali Salem's A Drive to Israel is an engaging account of Israel through Egyptian eyes, and a deliberate challenge to Egypt's intellectual establishment. In 1994, the popular playwright and humorist Ali Salem filled up his old soviet built car, loaded the trunk with copies of his books, and drove from Cairo to Israel...read more

Paperback:

9789652240507 | Syracuse Univ Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Ali Salem's A Drive to Israel is an engaging account of Israel through Egyptian eyes, and a deliberate challenge to Egypt's intellectual establishment.

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