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Lucien X. Polastron
The Great Digitization and the Quest to Know Everything

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Examines the pitfalls, perils, and promises offered by the digitization of books • Reveals the danger digitized books pose to the very idea of “free” reading • Poses the questions society should be asking itself before heedlessly embracing this brave new world The digitization of books is an immense blessing for the exchange and diffusion of knowledge, enabling access in even the most remote locations. Yet this new technology has awakened perils as dangerous as those that reduced libraries to ashes in ancient Alexandria and modern Nazi Germany. The very force that makes it possible for books to reach a global audience also has the power to hold them hostage and even destroy their integrity in a manner that is unprecedented. Books on Fire author Lucien Polastron points out that the dematerialization of knowledge raises new legal challenges about the quality and authenticity of information. Attempts to create a virtual library are changing the very nature of reading, which has been… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1594772436
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Gerald D. Feldman
The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924

— y.
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Description: This acclaimed work presents a comprehensive study of the most famous and spectacular instance of inflation in modern industrial society--that in Germany during and following World War I. Feldman sets the German inflation in the context of broader issuesof maintaining economic stability, social peace, and democracy and thus contributes to the general history of the twentieth century. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0195101146
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Kenneth Pomeranz
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.

— y.
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Description: The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade. Pomeranz argues that Europe`s nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe`s failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691090106
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C. S. Lewis
The Great Divorce

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis`s revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. In Lewis`s own words, `If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.` [detailed...]

ISBN: 0061774197
Book size: —; Page extent: 160.

 

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Jean-Louis Lamaison, Jean Marie Polese
The Great Encyclopedia of Mushrooms

2008 y.
Publisher: h. f. ullmann
Description: This indispensable reference work describes all the important mushrooms and their distinguishing characteristics. More than 1,000 color photographs and a detailed indentification key depict almost 500 varieties and their most important characteristics. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0841602697
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Robert P. Crease
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Great innovations in science and the people behind them. Philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history. Was Nobel laureate Richard Feynman really joking when he called Maxwell`s electromagnetic equations the most significant event of the nineteenth century? How did Newton`s law of gravitation influence young revolutionaries? Why has Euler`s formula been called `God`s equation,` and why did a mysterious ecoterrorist make it his calling card? What role do betrayal, insanity, and suicide play in the second law of thermodynamics? The Great Equations tells the stories of how these equations were discovered, revealing the personal struggles of their ingenious originators. From `1… [detailed...]

ISBN: 039306204X
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Natalie Goldberg
The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth

2004 y.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Description: Goldberg is renowned for Writing Down the Bones (1989), a book that inspired millions of people to express themselves through writing. Also known for her study and practice of Zen Buddhism, described in Long Quiet Highway (1993), Goldberg has taken readers time and again into her world of raw feeling, real experience, and broad awareness. In her new memoir, Goldberg seeks to reconcile misconceptions about her long-time Zen teacher and entangled feelings of love and anger for her father with truths she has discovered. Readers looking for writing advice, even by example, may be disappointed. Goldberg`s writing is straightforward and utilitarian, and her mission is personal as she tries to come to grips with two influential figures in her life. What readers are most likely to appreciate and to learn from is her dogged determination to get at the truth and to come clean about personal failings. This is the path toward better understanding, a road Goldberg has unwaveringly navigated… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060733993
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Dan Fox, Dick Weissman
The Great Family Songbook: A Treasury of Favorite Folk Songs, Popular Tunes, Children`s Melodies, International Songs, Hymns, Holiday Jingles and More for Piano and Guitar.

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1579127584
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Jacques Roubaud
The Great Fire of London: (A Story with interpolations and bifurcations) (French Literature Series)

2006 y.
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ISBN: 1564783960
Book size: —; Page extent: 328.

 

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Shirley Hazzard
The Great Fire: A Novel

2003 y.
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Description: Book Description A Great Writer`s Sweeping Story of Men and Women Struggling to Reclaim Their Lives in The Aftermath of World Conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard`s first novel since The Transit of Venus , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia`s coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0374166447
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Thomas Hine
The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0374148392
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Rebecca Mccarthy
The Great Galactic Marble Kit: Includes 32 Meteor Marbles for an Out-of-this-world Gaming Adventure!

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0762430621
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby &, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (подарочное издание)

2005 y.
Publisher: CRW Publishing Limited
Description: Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. In these two novels, F.Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America`s Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn`t heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman he has waited for all his life. Little does he know that his infatuation will lead to tragedy and end in murder. The Diamond as Big as the Ritx is a dark fairytale. A young man accompanies a school friend to his home for a vacation and encounters riches beyond his wildest dreams… but there is a price for such luxuries. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-904919-48-3
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Kathleen Parkinson
The Great Gatsby (Penguin Critical Studies Guide)

2003 y.
Publisher: Penguin Global
Description: Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald`s life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colur, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. She devotes a perceptive chapter to Fitzgerald`s controversial portrayal of women and goes on to discuss how the central characters, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, emody and confront the dualism inherent in the American dream. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0140771972
Book size: —; Page extent: 144.

 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (York Notes)

2004 y.
Publisher: Longman Group United Kingdom
Description: York Notes are designed to give you a broader perspective on works of literature studied at GCSE and equivalent levels. With examination requirements changing in the twenty-first century, a number of significant changes have been made to this new series. tudents are helped to reach their own interpretations of the text but York Notes now have important extra-value new features. York Notes are genuinely interactive. The new Checkpoint features make sure that students can test their knowledge and broaden thir understanding. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0582823102
Book size: —; Page extent: 119.

 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island`s North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922. The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the `Jazz Age.` Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the `roaring` 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1595475265
Book size: —; Page extent: 148.

 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

1994 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and champagne waiters, their host would appear oddly aloof. For there was only one person Jay Gatsby sought to impress. She was Daisy Buchanan: married, elegant, seducing men with a silken charisma and `a voice … full of money`. As Gatsby pursues shady deals and his doomed obsession with Daisy, F. Scott Fitzgerald distills the essence of the Jazz Age, and probes to the empty heart of the American Dream. Формат: 11 см x 18 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-14062-323-9
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Simhananda B.
The Great Golden Garland of Gampopa`s Sublime Considerations on the Supreme Path: Contemplative Contemporary Commentaries of Gampopa`s Root Text

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0968704875
Book size: —; Page extent: 516.

 

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Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt

2008 y.
Publisher: Orbit
Description: There is a world of light and shadow, where good and evil wage eternal war. It is the world of the wheel of time, the greatest fantasy epic ever written. The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled - but Rand al`Thor, the shepherd the Aes Sedai have proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn, desperately seeks to escape his destiny. But Rand cannot run forever. With every passing day the Dark One grows in strength and strives to shatter his ancient prison, to break the Wheel, to bring an end to Time and sunder the weave of the Pattern. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-85723-027-7
Book size: 110x180; Page extent: 736.

 

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim
The Great Impersonation

2007 y.
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Description: The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1426427891
Book size: —; Page extent: 228.

 

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M. C. Strong
The Great Indie Discography

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionIn The Great Indie Discography, Martin C. Strong has chronicled the careers of musicians who have positioned themselves outside the mainstream. Over five decades, the musicians included have followed their own creative impulses rather than commercial success. In the process, they have often forged new musical styles, influencing future artists and birthing whole movements. Organized alphabetically, each entry includes complete discographies, band histories, catalog numbers, chart listings, and recommended listening. This new edition brings each existing entry completely up-to-date and includes a massive 250 new artists, almost doubling the number of pages. In his selections, Strong draws equally from the American and British scenes. From the Velvet Underground and Captain Beefheart, who offered something different for the flower power movement of the 1960s, to the filth and fury of punk and its revival in the form of The White Stripes and The Strokes, to Primal Scream,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1841953350
Book size: —; Page extent: 1024.

 

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Richard Peck
The Great Interactive Dream Machine: Another Adventure in Cyberspace

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Publisher: —
Description: Josh Lewis`s best friend, Aaron Zimmer, has turned his computer into a wish-granting machine. Unfortunately, there are a few bugs in the system. Nobody knows when the computer will interactivate next! When a mysterious spy called The Watcher starts monitoring the boys` every move in cyberspace, the trouble begins…. `Humor, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery all cleverly combine to make this book guaranteed fun.`-- School Library Journal [detailed...]

ISBN: 014038264X
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T. D. Jakes
The Great Investment: Faith, Family and Finance

— y.
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Description: In The Great Investment , Bishop T.D. Jakes gives readers the blueprint for balanced and successful living. He explains how the triad of faith, family and finance work as the cornerstone in a life of moral success. By discussing the importance of each-and their connection to one another-Bishop Jakes gives us the tools to accomplish everything that God has promised. `[Jakes] demonstrates an unusual ability to inspire, uplift, teach, and comfort. An eloquent wordsmith.` ( Publishers Weekly ) [detailed...]

ISBN: 0425183459
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Cormac O Grada
The Great Irish Famine (New Studies in Economic and Social History)

— y.
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ISBN: 0521552664
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James S. Donnelly
The Great Irish Potato Famine

2008 y.
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Description: This is an account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s, a famine which resulted in the death of about one million people and was also largely responsible, in conjunction with British government policies, for one of the great international human migrations of British history—the mass exodus of some two million people from Ireland, mostly to North America, in the years 1845–1855. This book combines narrative, analysis, historiography, and scores of contemporary illustrations. This work aims to provide an insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0750929286
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Joseph A. Amato
The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream

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ISBN: 0816623449
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Pierre Berton
The Great Klondike Gold Rush (History for Young Canadians)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1897252056
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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Peter Annin
The Great Lakes Water Wars

2006 y.
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Description: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia`s Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1559630876
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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Wayne Grady
The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1553651979
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Robert Sullivan
The Great Life Photographers

2007 y.
Publisher: Bulfinch
Description: The Life photographer, trusted and intrepid like no other, went to the beachhead, behind closed doors, backstage, into the corridors of power. And so, in this book, are Robert Capa`s imagery from the D-Day landing, Carl Mydans`s of MacArthur striding ashore, Margaret Bourke-White`s evidence of the Holocaust, David Douglas Duncan`s Korea, Larry Burrows`s Vietnam. Here are Ralph Morse`s account of the Mercury Seven astronauts and Joe McNally`s memorable work done in the aftermath of September 11. Here, quieter but no less compelling, is W. Eugene Smith`s `Country Doctor.` Here is Bill Eppridge`s `Panic in Needle Park,` as well as his poignant, painful picture of Bobby Kennedy, slain. Here are the delightful photos: Alfred Eisenstaedt`s children at a puppet show, George Silk`s trick-or-treaters. Here are intimate, defining - and revealing - portraits of celebrities, from Pablo Picasso, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe to the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Michael Jordan, Barbra… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-8212-2892-0
Book size: 205x260; Page extent: 608.

 

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Naomi R. Lamoreaux
The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904

— y.
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Description: Between 1895 and 1904 a great wave of mergers swept through the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. More than 1,800 firms disappeared into horizontal combinations, at least a third of which controlled more than 70 percent of the markets in which they operated. In The Great Merger Movement in American Business, Naomi Lamoreaux explores the causes of the mergers, concluding that there was nothing natural or inevitable about turn-of-the-century combinations. With the aid of a formal model, Lamoureaux demonstrates that the merger wave was the product of a particular historical combination of circumstances: the development if capital-intensive production techniques, a spurt of rapid growth in a number of heavy industries in the late 1880s and early 1890s, and the panic and depression of 1883. Together, this sequence of events produced an episode of abnormally severe price competition that manufacturers finally turned to consolidation to alleviate. Despite her conclusion that the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521357659
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