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A Manual of Pyrotechny; or, A Familiar System of Recreative Fire-works The term Pyrotechny is derived from pyr and techny, the two Greek words for Fire and Art; or it is the art of employing fire for purposes of utility or pleasure. The term...

A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber ProductsThe author was asked in 1908 by the Lynn Commission on Industrial Education to make an investigation of European shoe schools and to assist the Commission in preparing a course of study for the proposed shoe...

A Manual of the Antiquity of ManIn lecturing upon the Antiquity of Man I have found the minds of the people prepared to receive the evidences, and ready to believe the conclusions of the geologists. I have felt the need of a popular work...

A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding - Containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper.SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF BOOKBINDING. The earliest records of Bookbinding that exist prove that the art...

A Manual of the Art of FictionThis MANUAL OF THE ART OF FICTION is a revised and amplified edition of Materials and Methods of Fiction, by Clayton Hamilton, which was first published in 1908. The earlier work was immediately recognized as an important piece...

A Manual of the Hand Lathe - Comprising Concise Directions for Working Metals of All Kinds, Ivory, Bone and Precious WoodsI did not write this little book with the intention of apologizing to the prospective reader, so soon as I had done so, but...

A Manual of the Historical Development of Art - Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and OrnamentationAn experience of more than eight years as Lecturer on the Historical Development of Art, at the National Art Training School, South Kensington, has convinced...

A Manual of the Malay language - With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in MalayIf any of these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this...

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior PractitionersHaving been asked, year after year, by the members of my Class for Operative Surgery, to recommend to them some Manual of Surgical Operations which might...

A Manual of Toy Dogs: How to breed, rear, and feed themThis little book, in its earlier editions, met with so uniformly kind and gracious a reception, that I am encouraged to hope it may still make new friends on this, its third appearance....

A Manual of Wood CarvingWOODS, TOOLS, AND SHARPENING. Skill in wood-carving, as in every other art, is to be attained only by thoroughness. Let the pupil therefore bear in mind that he or she must be careful to master the first lessons, and to...

A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing BeesThis general neglect has unquestionably originated from the fact, that the European enemy to the bees, called the moth, has found its way into this country, and has located and naturalized itself here; and has made...

A Mao e A LuvaOs trinta e tantos annos decorridos do apparecimento desta novella reimpresso que ora se faz parece que explicam as differenas de composio e de maneira do autor. Se este no lhe daria agora a mesma feio, certo que lh'a deu...

A Kirkus Best Book of 2024A Booklist Editors Choice 2024A young Palestinian girl living in diaspora struggles to find her homeland on a map in this gentle and heartfelt picture book. At school, Falasteen and her classmates are tasked with finding their families' home...

"Filled with wonder and sorrow and happiness." --Alison McGhee, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Someday A heartfelt story of a young girl seeking beauty and connection in a busy world. As the seasons change, so too does a young Hmong girl's world....

The instant bestseller!- New York Times bestseller- USA Today bestseller- Wall Street Journal bestseller "A Map of Days reveals Ransom Riggs at the peak of his powers, leaving loyal fans ravenous for more." -NY Journal of Books Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly...

"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told--and told ourselves--in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams When and how did migration...

1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter's agoraphobia allows for just short...

"1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter's agoraphobia allows for just short...

Now in its first American edition, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of "being" in the Black Diaspora.Since its first publication in 2001, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking exploration of being...