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In The Cause Millar Against Taylor, For Printing Thomson’s Seasons. To Which Are Added Explanatory Notes, And An Appendix Containing A Short State Of Literary Property. ... Read more

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A practical guide which aims to provide immediate help in decision-making. It offers specific advice on management of each condition, when to use ointments or creams, how much to prescribe, what active constituents should be used, and what to do if treatment fails or patients return. There is a formulary of dermatological products, examples of patient information sheets and a list of adverse drug reactions. ... Read more

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Overall, a good book with good ideas for getaways. Provides 2-3 day excursions, usually themed according to either environment or activities. For instance, there's the predictable Zoo/Wild Animal Park adventure, but it also gives good ideas for trips into the mountains or desert, or even a horseback themed trip. I think the ideal couple who would enjoy this is those who are near enough to make frequent trips to San Diego, but don't necessarily live here (i.e. LA). Even though I live here, I think it will be good to get away for a few of these.

I try to make the most of this city (easy to do since we love it so much!), and this book has some good items that I wasn't aware of, particularly outside the typical San Diego/Coronado/Carlsbad descriptions found in many travel books.

For an overall sightseeing guide, one would do better with Fodor's or Fromme's, but this book has some good expanded-area info, as well as some "preassembled" trips, complete with lodging recommendations. ... Read more

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This large volume comprises forty-two essays written in honour of the late Martin Jessop Price, a leading authority on Greekcoinage, and an active member of the Royal Numismatic Societyand the British Academy's Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum project. The essays cover a broad range of subjects and issues includingcoins from Phrygia, Pergamon, Samos, Athens, Syracuse, Lydia,Cyprus, the Black Sea and Poseidonia-Paestum, addressingquestions of history, iconography, subject matter, links topolitical and social change and economic values. Contributorsinclude: John Barron, Andrew Burnett, Nicholas Hardwick, AnnJohnston, Georges Le Rider, John Morcom, N K Rutter, JeffreySpier and Ute Wartenberg. Includes a bibliography of MartinJessop Price. Essays in English and French. ... Read more

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Nothing About Me, Without Me is a riveting and informative self-help manual that can be referred to over and over again. Everyday we are bombarded with news of disastrous medical errors. Often, these errors could have been avoided by effective medical professional process. Medical professionals are working hard to understand and prevent errors; but, we, as consumers of medical care, have a responsibility to ourselves and our loved ones to understand the medical system. We have a responsibility to do what we can to avoid errors, confusion or neglect regarding our own medical needs. Nothing About Me, Without Me addresses this need with an easy to understand approach to our everyday medical care experiences. ... Read more

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This Book Is A Life Saver

My husband was diagnosed as terminally ill, he has lung cancer, copd, and a very weak heart. I received this book as a gift shortly after he was diagnosed, and I will be forever grateful. This book taught me how to take an active part in my husbands medical care, to not be afraid to ask questions, and one of the questions I became brave enough to ask, was about putting my husband on an oral chemo, that I had read about. The dr. patiently explained to me that this drug might help, but it also had relatively serious long term side effects. Considering my husband was only given six months to live, I felt this was a pretty good gamble. This drug has had my husband in remission for almost five years. Without this book, I would have never been brave enough to ask this question.

Nothing About Me, Without Me, is a very easy to read and understand. I would highly recommend this book. Remember, your dr is only human, and can make mistakes, with this book, you will know what kind of questions to ask, and many things to watch for. Recommend this book to all of the medical personnel that you deal with, and also all of your friends and family.

We all make mistakes.
I understand that everybody makes mistakes sometimes, but I am not going to let my DOCTOR make a mistake with me! He doesn't know me like I do. "Nothing About Me, Without me" told me how to be an active part of my medical experience in order to ensure that these mistakes don't happen to me. There were also great tips on things like how to find a good doctor and how to make sure my kids are getting good care. It's also enjoyable reading! I definitely recommend refering to this book each time you go to the doctor or the hospital! ... Read more

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This fully-illustrated catalogue publishes 1601 ancient Greek coins issued by cities stretching from the modern Crimea to the area of Aeolis on the west coast of modern Turkey. This is a most welcome addition to the SNG's cataloguing of the Ashmolean Museum's rich holdings, the first since Part IV appeared in 1981. It will be of interest to numismatists, coin collectors, and scholars and students of the archaeology and history of the Greek world. ... Read more

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Horror Classics is the tenth volume, and the first multi-author anthology in the Graphic Classics series. It features "Some Words with a Mummy", a comedy by Edgar Allan Poe, W.W. Jacobs' famed "The Monkey's Paw", and one of H.P. Lovecraft's best, "The Thing on the Doorstep", adapted by Michael Manning. Also "Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant" by Onsmith Jeremi and Clark Ashton Smith's "The Beast of Averoigne", adapted by Rod Lott and Richard Jenkins. Plus seven more horrifying stories and features. ... Read more

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black and white
not a very good comic. All in black and white and not much diolog. might as well read the book.

Could Have Been Better
Well, I read Eureka Productions' Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels)), and I have to admit it - I was consequently a little disappointed in this sequel volume. While the stories in this volume were uniformly interesting (more or less), I didn't feel the artwork was up to same level as the Poe volume. (A notable exception: Michael Manning's excellent adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing On The Doorstep". I'll definitely keep an eye out for his (Manning's) work in the future.) Probably worth a look if you're a fan of any of the original writers, but I wouldn't go out of my way to read this one unless you're a complete horror comics nut.

Great stories and wonderful illustration work
This fun little graphic novel is a collection of some twelve short stories and poems that were all written by the greats of modern horror literature - H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki (pen name of Hector Hugh Munro), Jack London, and others. Just as heterogeneous as the authors are the illustrators. Each of the stories was illustrated by a different artist, who drew the story as he or she saw fit, each different from the others and each excellent.

Overall, I thought that this was an excellent book, with great stories and wonderful illustration work. I think that my favorites were Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep, W.W. Jacobs' Monkey's Paw, and Clark Ashton Smith's The Beast of Averoigne, with Bret Harte's Selina Sedilia being too funny to miss. Yep, this is a great book, one that my fourteen-year-old daughter and I both enjoyed and both highly recommend!

Mummies, Murder and Monkey's Paws
Horror has done well for the modern incarnation of the Graphic Classics, whose series has seen such luminaries as Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft brought to life by some extremely talented cartoonists. Whether it is the short-story nature, or the ready-made visually splendid imagery, there is something in the classic horror tales thats makes them well suited to the Graphic Classics treatment.Here, in the 10th volume, they have wisely continued this tradition, and assembled an anthology of classic horror stories to chill and delight.

"Horror Classics" brings together 12 authors, some of which, like HP Lovecraft , Jack London and Ambrose Bierce, have been previously honored with their own Graphic Classics collections. Others, like Clark Ashton Smith and Honre de Balzac, appear for the first time.All of the stories are well-chosen, and the artists's styles are well-matched.

This collection contains:

"The Mummy" - Ambrose Bierce - A short and witty poem, with a sharp illustration to match it.

"The Thing at the Doorstep" - HP Lovecraft - A brilliant take on one of my favorite Lovecraft stories.The artist manages to capture the "Innsmouth look" perfectly, and uses the author's original text combined with illustrations to great effect."glub..glub...glub-glub..."You know what I mean.

"Some Words with a Mummy" - Edgar Allan Poe - A clever and light adaptation of a resurrected mummy bantering with a few scientists over which has the superior society.

"In a Far Off World" - Oliver Schreiner - An excellent, melancholy tale.One I have never read before, but am glad to be introduced to.

"The Thing at Ghent" - Honre de Balzac - Entirely dialog free, I am at a bit of a loss as to the actual story.Unfortunately, it is not such a familiar tale as to be able to divine the story from illustrations alone.The only disappointment in the lot.

"The Monkey's Paw" - WW Jacobs - Any fan of "The Simpsons" will recognize this one, although they may have never seen the original.The artist JW Pierard maintains the full weight of the original cautionary tale.Be careful what you wish for, and don't mess with unfamiliar magiks.

"The Open Window" - Saki - Another familiar tale, one that I have heard told but never knew the origin of.A clever almost-ghost story, well adapted in a simple Victorian style.

"A Day Dream" - Fitz-James O-Brien - Cartoonish musings on murder, and the high class going slumming in the Five Points.

"Keesh Son of Keesh" - Jack London - A dark and powerful tale of barbarian culture and blood-rights amongst the Native American tribes.Ryan Inzana's heavy woodblock illustrations perfectly compliment this heavy story.

"Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant" - Howard R. Garis - "Feed me, Seymour!" Another comedic adaptation, featuring a foolish professor and his frightening child.

"The Beast of Averoigne" - Clark Ashton Smith - A contemporary of Lovecraft, this tale of a wild comet, a haunted abbey, and the Ring of Eibon, is adapted with appropriate style.

"Selina Sedilia" - Bret Harte - A humorous look at love ever-after between two base villains.And of course, there is only one way to achieve love "ever-after."

Each story is skillfully rendered into comic book format
Horror Classics is a graphic novel anthology that brings to vivid life those great tales of terror by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and others. Each individual story is skillfully rendered into comic book format by a different artist, who uses black-and-white imagery to perfectly capture moments of terror. An engrossing introduction to the classics of horror for those new to the literary experience, and an exciting fresh take on great stories for those who have read them a hundred times before.
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Wagner's Collected Writings, Volume 8
Late in life, Wagner published his complete writings: Gesammelte Schriften (GS). In the 1890's, William Ashton Ellis translated them and they were published in English in 8 volumes. They were originally published by London:Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. as "Richard Wagner's Prose Works". In 1995, they were reprinted in this country.Title not withstanding, this is volume 8 of that set. This volume contains various bits and pieces that were not a part of the original GS, and is more like an appendix to the original series. There are some important pieces, but in the end it is not that much more valuable than the other 7 volumes in the series.

1)The first piece is the complete, original prose poem for Siegfried's Tod (50 pages). It has the happy ending where Siegfried and Brunnhilde enter Valhalla together rather than Ragnarok.
2)The next section (200 pages) is labled by Ellis as "Discarded". These are not really discards, but were not included by Wagner probably because he did not have access to them while preparing GS. These works are essays, letters, and articles of little importance (you can probably skip every other sentence while reading them and not miss anything of importance).
3)The next section contains sketches for potential operas: "Die Sarazenin" (25 pages) whose plot bears a striking similarity to Rienzi, "Das Liebesmahl der Apostel" (5 pages) which Wagner composed as an independent choral piece, and "Jesus of Nazareth" (60 pages), Wagner's risible attempt to rewrite the New Testament.
4)The last section (60 pages) is a mish mash of unpublished fragments found in various manuscripts. It begins with "Kunstlerthum der Zukunft" - Artisthood of the Future (20 pages). In spite of its incomplete state, I found this essay to be more decipherable than most of Wagner's other pieces, but only because it contains his main points without the usual rhetorical conflations. You will also find a brief, one page prose sketch for "Die Sieger", another potential opera but this time about Ananda, Prakriti, and Buddha (here, the theme is unrequited love, and the plot is similar to Tristan).

For those who are interested in the other 7 volumes of this series, here are the titles: The Art-Work of the Future (volume 1), Opera and Drama (volume 2), Judaism in Music (volume 3), Art and Politics (volume 4), Actors and Singers (volume 5), Religion and Art (volume 6), and Pilgrimage to Beethoven (volume 7). Note that the book titles were assigned by the American publishers (Bison Books), and are merely the name of just one of the essays in the book and do not constitute the entire book's contents.The exception is Opera and Drama, which is a book-length essay constituting the entirety of volume 2.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO...RICHARD WAGNER?
More than just a dry run for his liturgical Christian music drama PARSIFAL, the German composer's personal look at the life of Christ merges the traditional Passion story with his own brand of revolutionary politics,proving true novelist Reynolds Price's words that "virtually allpost-Gospel lives of Jesus [have] told us far more about their authors thantheir subject."Yet for a man so often identified with anti-Semitism,readers will be surprised that Wagner's mystery play is remarkably free ofracial bias or slurs.Not only are the Jews not scapegoated as theChrist-killers of Medieval lore, but the portrayal of Judas as a heroicfreedom fighter echoes the portrait in Nikos Kazantzakis' THE LASTTEMPTATION OF CHRIST.(One wonders if this interpretation tricked down toKazantzakis during his intensive studies of Wagner friend-turned-foeFriedrich Nietzsche.)

All in all, fascinating material not only formusicologists, historians, and Wagnerites, but for those interested in theChristology as seen though the eyes of historical personages. ... Read more

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Richard Wagner is a man in a million
What a man to admire.We should all make a pilgrimage to Beyreuth to pay our lifetime respects to this great man. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1893-1899.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Chapters: Kinahan Cornwallis, Richard Ashton Beaumont, Dominic Asquith, Edward Chaplin, List of Ambassadors From the United Kingdom to Iraq, Glencairn Balfour Paul, Torolf Raa, Mette Ravn, Sherif Kamal Shahine. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Kirnahan Cornwallis, GCMG, CBE, DSO (1883 - 3 June 1959) was a British administrator and diplomat best known for being an advisor to King Faisal and for being the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Iraq during the Anglo-Iraqi War. Coronation of Emir (Prince) Faisal I as King of Iraq on 23 August 1921. Emir Faisal has already served as King of Syria from March to July. The event was conducted at six A.M., in the court-yard of the Ottoman built Serai, his temporary headquarters upon arriving in Baghdad. On the extreme Lt is Sir Percy Cox, the British High-Commissioner, and to his Lt. is Kinahan Cornwallis, King Faisal is seated, and to his Lt. is Sir Aylmer Haldane, the British Commandig Officer. Behind the King is his ADC Tahsin Qadri and to extreme Lt. is Sayied Hussein Afnan, Secretary of the Council of Ministers. Sir Percy Cox proclaimed that 99% of the Iraqis have voted for the new King's accession to the throne.Kinahan Cornwallis was born in the United States and was the son of British poet, writer, and world traveler Kinahan Cornwallis. From 1916 to 1920, Cornwallis was the Director of the Arab Bureau. He had been Deputy Director of the bureau under David Hogarth, a Naval Intelligence officer. The Arab Bureau was created by the British as a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department during the World War I. The bureau was created on the initiative of Mark Sykes and it was meant to make British decision making with regard to Arab affairs more unified and effective. Other members of the Arab Bu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23835018 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Harold Beeley, John Sawers, Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, Richard Ashton Beaumont, Dominic Asquith, Christopher William Long, Ronald Ian Campbell, Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, Ralph Stevenson, George Humphrey Middleton, Michael Scott Weir, Derek Plumbly, Alan Urwick, Willie Morris, Philip Adams, Graham Boyce, David Blatherwick, James Adams. Excerpt:Sir Alan Bedford Urwick , KCVO , CMG (born 2 May 1930) is a retired British diplomat. He was educated at Dragon School and Rugby School . He served as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Jordan (1979 1984), Egypt (1985 1987), as well as High Commissioner to Canada (1987 1989). In 1989 he left the diplomatic service, which he had joined in 1952. He then served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons until his retirement in 1995. References (URLs online) General Specific Diplomatic posts A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Christopher William Long , CMG (born 9 April 1938) is a former British diplomat . Following his retirement in 1998, Christopher Long served as director of the Oxford University Foreign Service Programme from 1999 to 2003. Diplomatic career Christopher Long joined HM Diplomatic Service as Third Secretary in 1963, and went to study Arabic at MECAS in the Lebanon in 1964. He was posted as Third Secretary later Second Secretary to Jedda in 1965, and two years later was posted as First Secretary to Caracas . He returned to the FCO in London in 1969. He became Head of Chancery in Budapest in 1974 and attended the Belgrade CSCE Meeting in 1977. Long was posted as Counsellor to Damascus in 1978, and to UKMIS Geneva in 1980. He was appointed Head of the FCO's Near East and North Africa Department in 1983. He became Assistant Under-Secretary of State (concurrently Deputy Chief Clerk and Chief Inspector... ... Read more