Life in squares. Episode 1

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Hands-on palaeontology : a practical manual by Donovan, Stephen K.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 41 Publishing I: Persuading you to get involved -- Chapter 42 Publishing II: The hard work of self-editing -- Chapter 43 Publishing III: How to publish a new species -- Fossils in many fields -- Chapter 44 The field guide -- Chapter 45 Field trip: Den Haag, the Netherlands -- Chapter 46 Field trip: The Piltdown Trail -- Chapter 47 Field trip: Overstrand to Cromer, Norfolk -- Chapter 48 Field trip: Cleveleys, Lancashire -- Chapter 49 Field trip: Queen Victoria's bathing beach, Isle of Wight -- Chapter 50 Field trip: Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe -- Chapter 51 Field trip: Hurdlow, Derbyshire -- Chapter 52 Field trip: Antigua -- Chapter 53 Field trip: Aktuo-Paläontologie of Southport Beach, Merseyside -- Glossary -- Index.…”
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V-bombs and weathermaps : reminiscences of World War II by McElheran, Brock

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Europe 1880-1945. by Roberts, J. M.

Table of Contents: “…The United Kingdom: political institutions and ideasParty struggles; Ireland; Social legislation; The labour movement; Queen Victoria dies; The House of Lords struggle; Social unrest and suffragettes; Ireland again; France: social foundations of the Republic; Political institutions; Divisions; Boulanger; The Ralliement; Dreyfus; Church and state; Spain and Italy: their similarities; Contrasts; Spanish politics; The growth of social unrest; Catalonia; Italy's divisions; The problem of the south; Depretis and Crispi; Giolitti; 6 Autocracy and conservatism; Imperial Russia: the peasants.…”
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Collision of Empires : Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945. by Harvey, A. D.

Table of Contents: “…II: The Failure of Forward PlanningIII: The Evolution of the British War Economy; IV: Britain and the Allies; V: Foreign Parallels: Russia and Austria-Hungary; VI: The German War Economy; 9 The War of the Generals; I: Some Images of the Great War; II: New Ideas and the Old Guard; III: Careers Open to Talent; IV: Left-Overs from Queen Victoria's Little Wars: Kitchener and Hamilton; V: Sir John French; VI: The New Professionalism; VII: Sir Douglas Haig; VIII: The New Warfare of the Industrial Era; IX: Learning the Lessons of War; X: The Military Mind Confronts Reality.…”
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Colonial exchanges : Political theory and the agency of the colonized

Table of Contents: “…1 Intellectual foundations2 Moderates, extremists, and terrorists: Krishnavarma and the nationalist constellation; (i) The unknown patriot;; (ii) The nationalist constellation I: moderates; (iii) The nationalist constellation II: extremists and terrorists; 3 A state of violence: Spencer, sociology, and the sentimental foundations of empire; Conclusion; Notes; 3 The other Mahatma's naive monarchism: Phule, Paine, and the appeal to Queen Victoria; Slaveries and conquests; Paine in Phule's Indian context; The British: better invaders?…”
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Selected poems of James K. Baxter by Baxter, James K.

Table of Contents: “…To Any Young Man who Hears my Verses Read in a Lecture RoomAn Ode to the Reigning Monarch on the Occasion of Her Majesty's Visit to Pig Island; The Axe-Blade; Shingle Beach Poem; East Coast Journey; Pig Island Letters; The Waves; Letter to Robert Burns; Tomcat; from The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady; Thoughts of a Remuera Housewife; To a Print of Queen Victoria; Ballad of Nine Jobs; A Bucket of Blood for a Dollar; The Old Earth Closet; The Lion Skin; On Possessing the Burns Fellowship 1966; At Aramoana; The Maori Jesus; Daughter; from Words to Lay a Strong Ghost.…”
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World heritage and urban politics in Melaka, Malaysia : a cityscape below the winds by De Giosa, Pierpaolo

Table of Contents: “…In the background: The Stadthuys, Tan Beng Swee Clock Tower, and Queen Victoria Fountain -- Figure E A view of historical shophouses and townhouses from Bastion Middleburg -- Figure F Kampung Kling Mosque -- Figure G Cheng Hoon Teng Temple -- Figure 1.1 Ruins of Bastion Victoria -- Figure 1.2 Map of Malaysia and 'Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca' -- Figure 1.3 Map of Melaka and the World Heritage site -- Figure 1.4 Elected members of the Melaka State Legislative Assembly in 2008, 2013, and 2018…”
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A biography of loneliness : the history of an emotion by Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971-

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Talks With Great Composers. by Abell, Arthur M.

Table of Contents: “….; Brahms' Interest in My Home Town; Queen Victoria and Sitting Bull; Brahms, Tartini and the Devil; Brahms' Reverence for Shakespeare and Milton; CHAPTER V.; Why Brahms Believed in Immortality; Brahms' and Milton's Invocation of the Muse; Brahms Stresses the Importance of Seclusion; CHAPTER VI.; The Barren Efforts of Most Composers; Brahms Berates Spohr's Shortsightedness; Brahms' Definition of Genius.…”
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Charles Dickens : the critical heritage by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Table of Contents: “…From an unsigned review of Oliver Twist in the Spectator: 24 November 1838, xi, 1114-6; 11. Queen Victoria, from her diaries 1838-9; 12. [W. M. Thackeray], from 'Going to see a man hanged', Fraser's Magazine: August 1840, xxii, 154-5 (Works, iii, 436-7); 13. …”
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Reading the eighteenth-century novel by Richter, David H., 1945-

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