Author: VARIOUS
Publisher: Kosta Press
Keywords: stories, short, zealand, new
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1408631482
ISBN-13: 9781408631485

NEW ZEALAND SHORT STORIES Selected with an Introduction by D. M. DAVIN -- CONTENTS - INTRODUCTION - ALFRED A. GRACE 1867-1942 The Ngarara . From Tales of a Dying Race 1901 by permission of Chatto and Windus LADY BARKER 1831-191 I Christmas Day in New Zealand . From A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters 1872 by permission of Macmillan and Co. ALFRED A. GRACE 1867-1942 Te Wirias Potatoes . From Tales of a Dying Race 1901 by permission of Chatto and Windus A Member of the Force . From We Four, and the Stories We Told 1880 WILLIAM BAUCKE 1848-1931 A Quaint Friendship . From Where the White Man Treads

Author: Alexandria Vodarsky-Shiraeff
Publisher: Kosta Press
Keywords: musicians, composers, russian
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 140676812X
ISBN-13: 9781406768121

Russian Composers and Musicians , Preface This dictionary contains brief biographies of the most out standing figures of the Russian musical world gathered for the first time into a single volume and in one language. In the past the material has been scattered through a number of reference works written in many languages, the information found being sometimes contradictory. The volume includes not only composers but also performers, teachers and writers who have contributed to Russias rich musi cal store, past and present. A careful checking of musical pub lications of the Soviet Union has bro

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Kosta Press
Keywords: novel, willing
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1409790711
ISBN-13: 9781409790716

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Henry. Dennison
Publisher: Kosta Press
Keywords: business, modern, ethics
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1406703893
ISBN-13: 9781406703894

ETHICS AND MODERN BUSINESS BY HENRY S. DENNISON BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 3 e XUbettfibe re tf Cambribsc 1932 COPYRIGHT, IQ33. BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ALL, RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BARBARA WEINSTOCK LECTURES ON THE MORALS OF TRADE This series will contain essays by representative scholars and men of affairs dealing with the various phases of the moral law in its bearing on business life under the new economic order, first delivered at the Un

Author: Herbert Kendall Haye
Publisher: Kosta Pre
Keywords: breeding, plant, methods
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $32.45
ISBN-10: 1406737062
ISBN-13: 9781406737066

METHODS of PLANT BREEDING BY HERBERT KENDALL HAYES Professor and Chief of Division of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota AND FORREST RHINEHART IMMER Professor of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota FIRST EDITION FIFTH IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON METHODS OF PLANT BREEDING COPYRIGHT, 1942, BY THE McGRAW-HiLL BOOK COMPANY, INC. PB1NTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMEK1CA All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publis

Authors:Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, world, developing, ground, innovations, discontinuities, cities, governance
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801878519
ISBN-13: 9780801878510

Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment.This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, in

Authors:Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, america, wilson, center, press, latin, century, reading, communities, writing, nation, nineteenth, imagined
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801878527
ISBN-13: 9780801878527

"Every Latin Americanist will welcome the insight provided by this book into Latin America’s complex heterogeneity."—Mario J. Valdés, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto How did the nationalisms of Latin America’s many countries—elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery—arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answ