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Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed (Life of the Past)

Indiana University Press, 2005

Dinosaur Provincial Park, located in Alberta, Canada, is one of the grand natural locales in the world. It has also produced an abundance of dinosaur fossils, including specimens from every known group of dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period. This book, published in celebration of the site's 50th anniversary, is the first scientific overview of the park, its flora and fauna, its major fossil discoveries, and its ecology. Philip J. Currie and ...

Diary of a Provincial Lady

10 reviews
E. M. Delafield

Academy Chicago Publishers, 1991

Terribly, awfully, wonderful book of life between the wars
This charming book was written in the period between the wars, and tells of the daily trials and tribulations of the Provincial Lady - dealing with the servants, nosy neighbours, the horribly snobbish local 'upper class', the husband who hides behind the paper. Always told with style and wit, we observe life for the lady in question as she tries to balance the accounts (never a success - where ...

Frommer's Algonquin Provincial Park

1 review
Michelle N. Jones, Jeff Warren

Frommers, 2004

Great read
I am busy researching a future trip to Algonquin Park and was pleasantly surprised by this book. Normally these types of books read in a very dry manner, devoid of any genuine personable traits. However, Frommer's Algonquin Provincial Park, 2nd Edition is easy to read and less fussy than the normal guide books. Perhaps it's the writers style which makes the difference, but I found this book to be ...

The Provincial Letters

2 reviews
Blaise Pascal

Kessinger Publishing, 2004

Excellent Read; Humorous and Insightful
This series of letters by Blaise Pascal has it all; humor, a good guy (Pascal) and bad guys (Jesuits), and a moral. Pascal wrote these letters in defense of his Jansenist friends who were being branded as heretics by the Jesuits. At the time, the Jesuits were a powerful religious order who basically taught Christianity all over the world. In the Provincial Letters, Pascal exposes and ridicules ...

The Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. I

17 reviews
Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy

Bloomsbury USA, 2006

One Affected to another
Wonderful, witty and a perfect guide for any young or young at heart Dandy. A welcome protection from the crass and dreary world of "reality tv", Paris,Britany and Nicole. An elysium

The Provincial Lady in America

2 reviews
E. M. Delafield

Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005

The Trials Of A Provincial Lady
Elisabeth just longs for the time and space to write something other than laundry lists and read anything other than household accounts. It is apparent that the earnings from her writing and speaking tours are the only thing keeping the wolf or the bailiff from the door. Robert her husband is not supportive, preferring to see these things as a distraction from the real business of the day which ...

From Colonials to Provincials : American Thought and Culture, 1680-1760 (Cornell Paperbacks)
Ned C. Landsman

Cornell University Press, 2000

Series Editor: Lewis Perry, Vanderbilt University This series examines major figures and movements that have influenced the development of American culture from the 16th century to the present. Each volume provides: A chronology of influential ideas and cultural trends, and associated historic events Lucid interpretation of intellectual activity at the time Illustrations accenting key concepts A bibliographic essay ...

The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South (With Photographs and a New Introduction by the ...

6 reviews
Eli N. Evans

The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

A great book about the Jewish South!
"The Provincials" proved to be especially meaningful to me. First, my wife gave it to me for our anniversary; I am researching the Jewish Confederacy, and I had included it on my reading list. Second, we went to Vicksburg, Miss., for our anniversary, and I began reading the book there. I have family roots in Vicksburg, where we met a number of wonderful people at the synagogue who knew my ...

Parks Directory of the United States & Canada : A Guide to Nearly 5,000 National, State, Provincial, and ...

1 review

Omnigraphics, 2001

An excellent reference
The price tag may limit this reference to the most dedicated reference library; but this new 2001 edition updates a reference which has not seen a new edition in seven years: there are many changes to contact information and details on facilities, activities, and special features have also changed. This edition of Parks Directory Of The United States also enjoys web site and e-mail addresses ...

FRENCH PROVINCIAL COOKING

16 reviews
Elizabeth David

Grub Street Cookery, 2008

A Fountainhead of Modern American Cuisine
Elizabeth David is one of foremost writers on food in the latter half of the 20th century and this book has her most celebrated writing. For this reason, I was inspired to write this modest review when I saw Amazon feature the volume as an offering, 43 years after it's first publication in England. It is a coincidence of no small meaning that this book appeared within two years before the ...

Recipes: The Cooking of Provincial France (Foods of the World)

Time-Life Books, 1968

Spiral-bound book of recipes of Provincial France. Contents include Hors d'Oeuvre, Soups, Fish, Poultry, Meat, Vegetables, Desserts, and Index.

Scenes From Provincial Life
William Cooper

PENGUIN, 1961

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

102 reviews
George Eliot

Broadview Press, 2004

If you are getting married
Everyone should read this book before they get married. George Eliot is a master at rendering human character. She is a true sympathizer with the human condition, and merciless at the same time. Beautiful.

Muster Rolls Of New York Provincial Troops 1755-1764
New-York Historical Society

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

Chinese Provincial Furniture: Selections from the Late Qing Dynasty (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

1 review
Kimberly R. Hessler

Schiffer Publishing, 2007

Great Book on the Subject.
I value art and always looking for books or guide to make my job easy to do. I see alot of Chinese Provincial pieces and going online to find it takes time. I open this book and got a great example and price. This is worth the price, for not other reason it a great references.

State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834 (Cambridge Studies in Islamic ...

1 review
Dina Rizk Khoury

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Center and the periphery in late Ottoman Empire
The economical history of the late Ottoman history is hardly studied in the relation of the periphery and the center. Is the empire so weak that it left the economical and political power to te local powers ? Is this so simply ? I believe Khoury is placing the relationhip, which is yet to be studied well. I hope this book will inspire more studies on the economiacl side of the late empire. ...

Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life

14 reviews
J. M. Coetzee

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998

Twice-born
In this youth memories, J.M. Coetzee defines himself as `twice-born: `born from woman and born from the farm'. He is, first of all, a mother's son (`he clings to her as his only protector'), but `the farm is his secret fate'. Growing up in a rude and unsocialized family with eccentric characters, with a father who becomes an alcoholic and a mother, for whom `studying is just nonsense' and ...

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