Author: Phillip Knightley
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Keywords: profession, oldest, second
Published: 1988
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 078876439X
ISBN-13: 9780788764394
Author: of oldest inhabitants of the District of
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: souvenir
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $15.75
ISBN-10: 1113304081
ISBN-13: 9781113304087
Author: Garth Mundinger-Klow
Publisher: Olympia Press
Keywords: profession, oldest, men, paying
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1596548525
ISBN-13: 9781596548527
Author: Sonny Kleinfield
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: bond, unlikely, story, friend, oldest
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0805080600
ISBN-13: 9780805080605
"A poignant tribute to two friends who, despite the gulf of 73 years, manage to ground each other in their all-too-uncertain worlds."--The New York TimesThey met under the most inauspicious circumstances. He was a teenage volunteer at a nursing home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was a wheelchair-bound resident in her nineties. He was a poor Hispanic, living in a rented room in the barrio, separated from his family. Her life, at least before arthritis hobbled her, was comfortable, with regular visits from her daughters and grandchildren. But when Margaret Oliver’s daughter hire
Author: Jean Bottero
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: mesopotamia, cooking, world, cuisine, oldest
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0226067351
ISBN-13: 9780226067353
In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottéro presents the first extensive look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. Bottéro’s broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and taboos, and even the detailed preparation techniques involving food and drink in Mesopotamian high culture during the second and third millennia BCE, as the Mesopotamians recorded them. Offering everything from translated recipes for pigeon and gazelle stews, the contents of medicinal teas and broths, and the origins of ingredients native
Author: Allan Gurganus
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: tells, novel, widow, confederate, living, oldest
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2001-10-16
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0375726632
ISBN-13: 9780375726637
Allan Gurganus’s Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heoines in American literature.Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from
Author: Robert W. Messler
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: method, joining, oldest, resurgence, mechanical, attachment, integral
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-06-19
List price: $83.95
ISBN-10: 0750679654
ISBN-13: 9780750679657
Integral Mechanical Attachment, highlights on one of the world’s oldest technologies and makes it new again. Think of buttons and toggles updated to innovative snaps, hooks, and interlocking industrial parts. Mechanical fasteners have been around as long as mankind, but manufacturers of late have been re-discovering their quick, efficient and fail proof advantages when using them as interlocking individual components as compared with such traditional means of joining materials like welding, soldering, gluing and using nuts bolts, rivets and other similar devices. For many years, it ha
