Author: CHARLES DICKENS
Publisher: Cook Press
Keywords: notes, american
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1408630176
ISBN-13: 9781408630174

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Author: Isaac Goldberg
Publisher: Cook Press
Keywords: tales, brazilian
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $27.45
ISBN-10: 140672601X
ISBN-13: 9781406726015

BRAZILIAN TALES TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ISAAC GOLDBERG Author of Studies in Spanish-American Literature, - CONTENTS PRELIMINARY REMARKS .... 7 V THE ATTENDANTS CONFESSION . BY JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS 43 V THE FORTUNE-TELLER .... 65 BY JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS LIFE . 87 BY JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS THE VENGEANCE OF FELIX ... 107 BY JOSE MEDEIROS E ALBUQUERQUE THE PIGEONS 121 BY COELHO NETTO AUNT ZEZES TEARS 139 BY CARMEN DOLORES TO J. D. M. FORD SMITH PROFESSOR OF THE FRENCH AND SPANISH LANGUAGES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY SOME INFORMAL PRELIMINARY REMA

Author: E. Stuart Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher: Cook Press
Keywords: gates
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1406721123
ISBN-13: 9781406721126

BEYOND THE GATES. I HAD been ill for several weeks with what they called brain fever. The events which I am about to relate happened on the fifteenth day of my illness. Before beginning to tell my story, it may not be out of place to say a few words about myself, in order to clarify to the imagination of the reader points which would otherwise in- volve numerous explanatory digressions, more than commonly misplaced in a tale dealing with the materials of this. I am a woman forty years of age. My father was a clergyman he had been many years dead. I was living, at the time I refer to, in my mot

Author: Tudor Jenks
Publisher: Cook Press
Keywords: sieges, famous, book
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2008-12-17
List price: $30.45
ISBN-10: 1443786608
ISBN-13: 9781443786607

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Author: W.M. Baker
Publisher: Cook Press
Keywords: geometry, elementary, key
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1406727237
ISBN-13: 9781406727234

A KEY TO ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY I5Y W. M. BAKER, MA AND A. A. BOURNE, M. A. LONDON G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. 1917 First published 1904. Second Edition revised, 1906. Third Edition revised, 1900. Fourth Edition revised, 1913. Fifth Edition revised, 1917. GLASGOW. PRINTED AT THB UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLK OSE AN1 JO. LTD. CONTENTS ADDITIONAL EXERCISES xvn. 29-39, xxv. 39-81, LXV. 4-8, 173-174 174-177 178 KEY TO ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY. EXERCISES A, 14. Place a straight ruler with its edge against the two end points of the line. Trace a straight line between these points by means of the ruler. If the

Author: Berkeley
Publisher: Cook Press
Keywords: backgammon, draughts
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2009-09-14
List price: $33.45
ISBN-10: 1444651536
ISBN-13: 9781444651539

Originally published in 1921. In two sections. The interesting and scientific game of draughts contains chapters on: Tactics - Openings - General Directions - Positions - Endings - Laws of the Game - Illustrative Game - Polish Draughts - Losing Game. Section Two. Backgammon, a happy mix of skill and chance contains useful information on Blots - Bearing - Scoring - Average Tables - Tactics - Throws - Back Game - Home Table - Problems - Laws of the Game - Russian Backgammon or Tric Trac. Etc. Many of the earliest gaming books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cook Press
Keywords: island, treasure
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2010-06-03
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1446007731
ISBN-13: 9781446007730

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