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1. I dwell in possibility : a memoir [2016]
- McNaron, Toni.
- New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2016.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
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"Represents a new generation of women's writing, one in which personal histories and maternal legacies are reclaimed in the context of a feminist consciousness of the effects of class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality on the individual life ... 'cNaron creates a vivid, moving, and memorable account of life and a person developing in, with, and against the times."'Nancy Porter, CALYX.
2. Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 [1937]
- Thorp, Margaret Farrand, 1891-1970.
- Princeton, Princeton University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1937.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (vii pages, 1 leaf, 212 pages) plates, 2 portrait (including frontispiece)
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- I.A Bugle Strung Sable; XIV. ""A Sanguinary Book""
3. Henry James : autobiography [2014]
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 author.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 622 pages)) : illustrations
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- *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Introduction, pg. vii*A Small Boy and Others, pg. 1*Notes of a Son and Brother, pg. 237*The Middle Years, pg. 545*Notes, pg. 601*Index, pg. 611.
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4. Henry James : autobiography [2014]
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 author.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 622 pages)) : illustrations
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- *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Introduction, pg. vii*A Small Boy and Others, pg. 1*Notes of a Son and Brother, pg. 237*The Middle Years, pg. 545*Notes, pg. 601*Index, pg. 611.
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5. Dictionary of Missouri biography [1999]
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1999.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (viii, 832 pages) : 1 map Digital: data file.
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- Preface
- Contributors
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Index.
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6. Dictionary of Manitoba biography [1999]
- Bumsted, J. M., 1938-
- Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, ©1999.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : map Digital: data file.
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- Cover
- DICTIONARY OF MANITOBA BIOGRAPHY
- INTRODUCTION
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- EDITORIAL NOTES
- A REQUEST TO READERS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- Mc
- N
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- Q-R
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- U-V
- W-X
- Y-Z
- Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong Libraries, 2009.
- Description
- Video — 1 online resource
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- Preface; PART 1;
- 1. Siberian Childhood;
- 2. Manchurian Adolescence;
- 3. Eton in China;
- 4. Mr Healey;
- 5. Hong Kong's Epidemics and Typhoons;
- 6. Myself a Reluctant Midwife;
- 7. The Battle For Hong Kong, December 1941;
- 8. Behind Barbed Wire: Life in a Japanese Prisoner-of- War Camp; PART 2;
- 9. The Post- War Years;
- 10. Miracle at St. Francis;
- 11. Sino-British Club of Hong Kong and Its Legacy;
- 12. Eric Coates;
- 13. Hong Kong Volunteers after the War: from the Notes of a Regimental Medical Officer;
- 14. Maria Callas at Epidauros; PART 3;
- 15. Incas of Peru;
- 16. Beauty Pageant in South Dakota.
- 17. Easter Island/ Rapa Nui18. Old Chinese Fort Rediscovered;
- 19. Trafalgar Night in Hong Kong;
- 20. Working with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra;
- 21. My Family; INDEX.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxxiii, 483 pages) : maps.
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- IN ADDITION TO USUAL OWC APPARATUS: 3 MAPS, APPENDIX ON MEASURES OF MONEY, WEIGHT, CAPACITY, LENGTH, INDEX OF LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOURCES CITED BY PLUTARCH, INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (vii, 300 pages)
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This volume of 456 entries marks the completion of the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography , the most comprehensive state project of its kind. Taken together, the six volumes provide information on more than three thousand notable North Carolinians--native and adopted--whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. A planned supplementary volume will include an index to all the volumes. Also available Dictionary of North Carolina Biography Volume 1, A-C ISBN 0-8078-1329-X, $49.95 Volume 2, D-G ISBN 0-8078-1656-6, $49.95 Volume 3, H-K ISBN 0-8078-1806-2, $49.95 Volume 4, L-O ISBN 0-8078-1918-2, $49.95 Volume 5, P-S ISBN 0-8078-2100-4, $49.95 North Carolina/Biography.
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (vii, 494 pages)
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The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (415 pages)
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The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1979-©1996.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (384 pages)
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The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (vii, 389 pages).
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The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1979.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (ix, 477 pages).
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The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
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15. Mauprat [1902]
- Mauprat. English
- Sand, George, 1804-1876.
- Chicago : Cassandra Editions, 1977.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxii, 415 pages)
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A drama of loyalty and passion set against a Gothic background. This novel is said to have inspired Wuthering Heights.
16. Mayakovsky : a poet in the revolution [1973]
- Brown, Edward J. (Edward James), 1909-1991, author.
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1973.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (401 pages).
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- *Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*A Note on Transliteration, pg. vi*Table of Contents, pg. viii*Introductory Remarks, pg. 1*Chapter One. Prelude: April 9, 1930, pg. 12*Chapter Two. The Revolution: Politics, pg. 27*Chapter Three. The Revolution: Art, pg. 40*Chapter Four. Mayakovsky in the Futurist Collections, pg. 72*Chapter Five.
- 1915: The Cloud and the Flute, pg. 108*Chapter Six.
- 1916: "In My Head, War and the Universe, in My Heart, Man", pg. 145*Chapter Seven. Form, Image, and Idea in the Early Poems, pg. 171*Chapter Eight. The Poet Engaged, pg. 190*Chapter Nine. About That, and About Some Other Things, pg. 219*Chapter Ten. A Commercial Artist Discovers America, pg. 261*Chapter Eleven. Contemporaries, pg. 303*Chapter Twelve. The Cinema and the Stage, pg. 318*Chapter Thirteen. A Girl from a Different World, pg. 336*Chapter Fourteen. The Heart Yearns for a Bullet, pg. 352*Epilogue-Not in Heaven, pg. 369*Bibliographical Essay, pg. 371*Index of Names, pg. 379*Index of Titles of Mayakovsky's Works, pg. 384.
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17. Daniel Morgan Revolutionary rifleman [1961]
- Higginbotham, Don.
- Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina Press [1961]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (239 pages) illustrations Digital: data file.
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- Cover; Contents; Preface; I. The Frontiersman; II. Appeal to Arms; III. Maine Wilderness; IV. Defeat and Imprisonment; V. Saratoga Campaign; VI. Service in the Middle States; VII. Morgan Joins the Southern Army; VIII. An Independent Command; IX. Cowpens and Its Consequences; X. Defending the Old Dominion; XI. Peacetime Pursuits; XII. Upholding the Constitution; XIII. Reckoning; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z.
18. Ex-prodigy: my childhood and youth [1953]
- Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964.
- Pbk. ed., 3rd printing, 1972. - Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, 1972, 1953.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations
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These two volumes (I Am Mathematician and Ex-Prodigy) comprise Norbert Wiener's autobiography. Sometimes with humor and sometimes with sadness, they render an account, without sentiment, of the life of the world-renowned mathematician and scientist. An unusual life story, Norbert Wiener's penetrating observations accompany the fascinating details describing the maturation of a major world scientist.
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- Ignoffo, Mary Jo, 1955-
- Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 2010.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxiii, 252 pages) : illustrations, portrait
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- Author's Note; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
- Chapter 1: New Haven's Daughter;
- Chapter 2: Marrying into the Winchester Family;
- Chapter 3: "The Gun That Won the West";
- Chapter 4: The Winchester Fortune;
- Chapter 5: A California Dream;
- Chapter 6: Labyrinth;
- Chapter 7: Daydream or Nightmare;
- Chapter 8: Guns, Guilt, and Ghosts: The First Commentaries on Sarah Winchester's Odd House ;
- Chapter 9: Health and Welfare;
- Chapter 10: Changing Fortunes;
- Chapter 11: Trapped in a Mistaken Legacy;
- Chapter 12: Capitalizing on Spirits: The Mystery House; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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20. Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt [1999]
- Goldschmidt, Arthur, 1938-
- Boulder, CO : L. Rienner, 1999.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (x, 299 pages)
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Provides biographical sketches and source material for about 400 men and women who have played a major role in Egypt's national life. Entries range in length from half a page to two pages, and describe the contributions of politicians, writers, diplomats, religious leaders, and scholars, as well as founders of newspapers, department stores, theatrical troupes, and innovative techniques of visual representation. Earliest figures profiled are from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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