Author: Frank C. Pellett
Publisher: Lancour Press
Keywords: rearing, queen, practical
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1443752045
ISBN-13: 9781443752046

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Author: Howard Pitcher Okie
Publisher: Lancour Press
Keywords: old, plate, silver, sheffield
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $32.45
ISBN-10: 1406741817
ISBN-13: 9781406741810

OLD SILVER and OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE A history of the silversmiths art in Great Britain and Ireland, with reproductions in facsimile of about thirteen thousand - marks. c Tables of date letters and other marks, c c American silversmiths and their marks. Paris marks and Paris date letters toith a description of the methods of marking employed by the Paris Guild of Sil c Ders 2. iths. Hallmarks, and date letters when used, of nearly all the countries of Continental Europe, reproduced in. facsimile, c o A history of Old Sheffield Plate and a description of the method of its production, with the nam

Author: Harold Lancour
Publisher: Lancour Press
Keywords: catalogues, auction, art, american
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1406750875
ISBN-13: 9781406750874

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Author: Stuart Chase
Publisher: Lancour Press
Keywords: americas, study, mexico
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $30.45
ISBN-10: 1406737151
ISBN-13: 9781406737158

MEXICO A STUDY OF TfTO AMERICAS BY STUART CHASE IN COLLABORATION WITH MARIAN TYLER ILLUSTRATED BY DIEGO RIVERA NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1935 COPYRIGHT, 1931, BY STUART CHASE. All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced 2 any form without permission in writing 1 from the publisher except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written, for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Set up and electrotyped. Published August, 193 Reprinted August, 1931. Twice. Reprinted October, 1931. Reprinted November, 1931. Reprinted December,, 1931. Reprinted

Author: Oscar Adolph Leutwiler
Publisher: Lancour Press
Keywords: design, machine, elements
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2008-05-16
List price: $35.45
ISBN-10: 1409718085
ISBN-13: 9781409718086

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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