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The art Primers of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art are designed to furnish, in a compact form, for the use of collectors, students and artisans, the most reliable information, based on the latest discoveries, relating to the various industrial arts. Each monograph, complete in itself, contains a historical sketch, a review of processes, descriptions of characteristic examples of the best productions, and all available data that...
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Ladies, Why are we still having dealing with bias when all we want to do is provide outstanding work on our jobs? Bias has become like a song that is played over and over again until you are sick of hearing it! Women, the time has come for us to stop being silent and speak up regarding the biases that we face working in male-dominated environments. 'SILENCE IS NOT A STRATEGY' tells of how one woman overcame the challenges she faced working with men...
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Armed with this chapter book from Ultimate Secrets from The Garage Sale Millionaire, you will be able to answer the question of what is worth collecting. Go in depth into the items you want to look for when collecting, as well as the ones you want to avoid. The knowledge contained in this eBook will set you up to be a savvy and efficient collector that doesn't waste their money on items that don't sell well!
48) Earl of Rosebery
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It can be said that the Earl of Rosebery lived 10 years longer than the generation after him, and lived more than 20 years longer than the previous generation. His future was bright until he became Prime Minister in 1894, but this evaporated before the collapse of his government and the Liberal Party's defeat in 1895. Four years later, he supported the South African War (the Second Boer War) as an expansionist and patriot, a role that broke the respect...
49) La trama Schäfer
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La trama Schäfer es una novela negra cargada de suspense que sumerge al lector en la corrupción del sofisticado mundo del arte. Con un ritmo
trepidante, personajes carismáticos, el manejo del diálogo y la recreación detallada de diferentes ambientes, seguimos los pasos de Maximillian Herbert Kokoshka, director del semanario digital ArtWatching. A partir de la publicación de varios artículos periodísticos, el protagonista iniciará una investigación...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The silver ore deposits in southeast Attica, which were abundant and of exceptionally high purity, were the main source of silver for the central and eastern Mediterranean world from the late sixth century through most of the fourth century BC.
#2 The city of Athens began minting silver coins around the middle of the sixth century. The coins were simple in design,...
51) The Reacher Guy
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An exquisitely written and nuanced biography of an exceptional individual and writer who has created the # 1 international bestselling hero Jack Reacher, revered by dedicated and loyal readers worldwide.
Lee Child has a great public persona: he is gracious and generous with readers and fans. But, Jim Grant is a reticent and very private man. This rags-to-riches literary and social biography is based principally on disarmingly frank personal conversations...
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Miss Brooks, an Afro American woman, inherits $3 billion from her husband, Gerry, who passed away with a massive heart attack at a very early age before his daughter was born. He made his first billion at age thirty. He was a well-known architect and real-estate broker known in many different countries for his beautiful work. He taught his wife all about the businesses. She and her family moved from Chicago to California where two of the banks she...
53) The Big House
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The warden tells all! "The Big House" is a frightening insiders look at life in a world-famous, maximum-security prison and the first to be told from the wardens perspective. Let Warden James H. Bruton lead you beyond the massive coils of razor ribbon and into the cell blocks of some of Americas most dangerous prisoners. Experience the shocking reality of working everyday with murderers, robbers, rapists, and thieves. Meet the inmates who have killed...
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A clever, thoughtful, and funny history that reveals how our the Union of states was built on a much more personal union of people.
What could the relationships of homesteaders in 19th century New England possible have in common with the iphones and millennials today? At once heartbreaking and heartwarming, Matrimony Inc. reveals the common thread that wends its way through not just marriages and relationships throughout the centuries, but American...
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From Lowney Handy's scandalous small-town open marriage to author James Jones's extraordinary apprenticeship with Maxwell Perkins (legendary editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald), Star-Crossed Lovers illuminates an unforgettable love story. She was an eccentric small-town self-taught rebel, driven by creative zeal and a non-conformist streak. He was a distressed ex-GI (flat broke, without prospects, damaged by war), 17 years younger than she, consumed...
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Sumptuous treasury of 320 lavish examples of architectural ornamentation from the 1920s and '30s by Paul Kiss, Raymond Subes, Edgar Brandt and other artisans. Meticulously reproduced photographs from three rare portfolios depict magnificent designs for doors, grilles, gates, lamps, balustrades, chandeliers, screens, mirrors, and other objects.
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In this ebook, you will learn about all kinds of strategies for finding items on the cheap at yard sales, estate sales, thrift stores, etc., and reselling them for much more money. You will also see many examples of such finds and see them compared to similar sales prices in their niche. We've been doing the "Flip of the Week" contest at Yard Salers for several years now, and it's become one of the most popular features of the newsletter. I thought...
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This classic, historical book provides instruction on the facts necessary to enable the reader to identify any typical specimen of the better known classes of Oriental rugs. It gives diverse direction on classification with regard to their type, their age and their value. Despite its age this book contains much information that is still practical and useful today.
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Living on the banks of the Withlacoochee River in Crackertown, Florida was a great place to live. I was either in the river or on the river as much as possible with my friends. That was our playground. I attended elementary school in Yankeetown. Then high school in Crystal River. Good old Crystal River high school. I will never forget you. After graduation I married my boyfriend and moved to Atlanta. He was a student at Georgia Tech. We had 3 children...
60) Blood Royal
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The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d'Artagnan and his three loyal friends.
The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth's acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas's greatest adventures is Blood Royal, the second half of what Dumas originally published as Twenty Years After. In this volume all the plots and schemes set up in the previous novel come...
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