Author: Bill Gutman
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: duke, ellington, musical, life
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0759297703
ISBN-13: 9780759297708
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was one of jazz’s greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy-five. Interviewing Duke’s friends, fans and fellow musicians, Gutman documents the progress of a man who dedicated his life to crafting the ever-changing sound of jazz. Gutman plunges into the history of jazz from its origin in the black America honky-tonk sounds of the Ragtime Era to the serious form enjoyed by those of every age, color, and musical taste. Jazz has evo
Author: James A. Duke
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: latin, america, plants, medicinal, handbook, duke
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2008-10-24
List price: $125.95
ISBN-10: 1420043161
ISBN-13: 9781420043167
Finalist for 2009 The Council on Botanical & Horticultural Libraries Literature Award! A Comprehensive Guide Addressing Safety, Efficacy, and Suitability About a quarter of all the medicines we use come from rainforest plants and more than 1,400 varieties of tropical plants are being investigated as potential cures for cancer. Curare comes from a tropical vine and quinine from the cinchona tree. A comprehensive guide to safety, efficacy, and suitability, Duke’s Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America responds to continuing interest in medicinal plants and the potential remedies they c
Authors:William Duke and Yuri Tschinkel, William Duke, Yuri
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematics, proceedings, clay, theory, number, analytic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-07-31
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0821843079
ISBN-13: 9780821843079
Articles in this volume are based on talks given at the Gauss-Dirichlet Conference held in Göttingen on June 20-24, 2005. The conference commemorated the 150th anniversary of the death of C.-F. Gauss and the 200th anniversary of the birth of J.-L. Dirichlet. The volume begins with a definitive summary of the life and work of Dirichlet and continues with thirteen papers by leading experts on research topics of current interest in number theory that were directly influenced by Gauss and Dirichlet. Among the topics are the distribution of primes (long arithmetic progressions of primes and s
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Publisher: BookSurge Classic
Keywords: duke, little
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1594560722
ISBN-13: 9781594560729
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output. She was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced by John Keble, a near neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Her novels reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chiefly novels. Her first commercial success, The Heir of Redclyffe (1854), provided the funding to enable the schooner Southern Cross to be put into service on behalf of George Selwyn. Similar charitable works were done with t
Author: Duke Of Argyll
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: law, reign
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2006-05-26
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 1428615083
ISBN-13: 9781428615083
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. 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 to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Author: Liz Carlyle
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: duke, deceive
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 141652715X
ISBN-13: 9781416527152
They call her the porcelain princess... With her fragile beauty and regal bearing, the Duchess of Warneham knows how to keep her admirers at a distance. Twice wed and twice widowed, Antonia has vowed never again to marry; never again to surrender her freedom. But when her husband’s death is deemed suspicious, and his long-lost heir returns to seize control of the dukedom, she finds that fate has placed her future in yet another man’s hands -- but not just any man. They call him a cold-hearted bastard... Deep in London’s docklands, Gareth Lloyd runs Neville Shippi
Author: Raphael Sabatini
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: duke, justice
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0755115406
ISBN-13: 9780755115402
Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois and Romanga, has been the subject of much study and debate. In The Justice of the Duke, Sabatini paints an enduring picture of Italian life under the duke and reveals the true nature of this much-reviled man. This is a story of passion, revenge and murderous ambition with all the skill and ambition that has earnt Sabatini his masterly reputation.
