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    This vintage book contains a detailed guide to general clock maintenance. It was designed to furnish practical information and comprehensive instructions to those wishing to clean, repair and make all kinds of clocks. As well as detailed and precise descriptions, there are illustrations that deal with everything from the workings of chimes to the complete construction of clocks. Contents include: ... Read more

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    This vintage book contains a complete guide to watch repair and maintenance, with information on the materials and tools used and directions for repairing, cleaning, altering, and adjusting all kinds of English and foreign watches, repeaters, chronographs, and marine chronometers. Written in plain language and full of invaluable tips, this timeless volume will be of considerable utility to the ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    In 1910 famous explorer Robert Falcon Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. The expedition was part scientific and part adventure: Scott wanted to be the first to reach the pole.The expedition was beset by hardship from the beginning, and after realizing that they had been beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian Expedition, the party suffered a final tragedy: the loss of ... Read more

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  • Twin Cities across Five Continents

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    Series series Global Urban Studies
    This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances – from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain.With examples from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and the Caribbean, the volume sees twin cities as ... Read more

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  • Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail

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  • Twin Cities

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    Series series Global Urban Studies
    This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, it documents constant and changing features of twinned communities over time.The chapters explore a variety of urban formations including independent cities located side-by-side; cities that have merged ... Read more

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  • The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

    "A definitive treatment of one of the Soviet Union's most significant writers."—The Russian ReviewVasily Grossman (1905–64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka," was the first eyewitness ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913

    This volume is a narrative of Scott's Last Expedition from its departure from England in 1910 to its return to New Zealand in 1913. It does not, however, include the story of subsidiary parties except where their adventures touch the history of the Main Party. It is hoped later to publish an appendix volume with an account of the two Geological Journeys, and such Other information concerning the ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    Only twenty-four when he joined the Scott expedition, an intellectual Englishman desirous of feeding his passion for knowledge with first-hand discovery in Antarctica, Apsley Cherry-Garrard ultimately learned and endured enough to begin questioning everything he had ever known. From 1910 to 1913, this young man was a part of an expedition for penguin eggs that went fatally wrong. Cherry-Garrard ... Read more

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  • Independent Praxis ESOL 5362 Study Guide

    The Deep Review Advantage with 1200 Practice Questions Across 10 Full-Length Tests, Answer Explanations and Comprehensive Coverage of All Domains

    Another dense textbook? No. This one makes you ready.The Praxis ESOL 5362 is a beast: 120 questions across six domains, and you need deep knowledge, not just familiarity. This guide is built to close that gap, with a full content review, 1200 practice questions, and answer explanations that teach the reasoning.Why this guide is your smartest prepMost books give you a few tests and thin ... Read more

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