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The Bark Tanning Process contains information on the methods and equipment used in leather production. It is intended to illustrate the main aspects of bark tanning and serves as a guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject and understand the field in its historical context.
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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected...
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"As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might," writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. "It's the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are." The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously...
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From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for TheBest American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears-of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but...
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Wo steht noch heute eine alte Grenztafel des Kaisertums Österreich? Wo liegen fünf Brocken Mondgestein? Und wo wird ein edler Pinot Noir kredenzt? Die Mitglieder des liechtensteinischen Autorenverbandes IG Wort verraten es ihren Lesern und präsentieren ihre persönlichen Lieblingsplätze. Das Fürstentum hat viel zu bieten. Jenseits aller Klischees von Bankenplatz und Steueroase entpuppt sich das Land als kunterbunt, liebenswert und originell.
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This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subject of leather. The titles in this range include "Currying Leather" "Tools for Leatherwork" "The Vegetable Tanning Process" and many more. Each publication...
10) A Guide to Making a Leather Purse: A Collection of Historical Articles on Designs and Methods fo
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This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subject of leather. The titles in this range include "A Guide to the Decoration of Leather" "Tools for Leatherwork" "The Vegetable Tanning Process" and...
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More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fiction
Each year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A....
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The American West. Just as America attracted millions to her shores by building upon a foundation of freedom, democracy, and a new start, the lands beyond the Mississippi would also attract people from all over the world with visions of opportunity and wide open spaces and provide America with legends and myths that have yet to die.
In Westward, the history of the Old American West unfolds in twenty-eight original stories written especially for this...
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For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection. Some notable stories include:
"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula...
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A COLLECTION OF INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED SCIENTISTS AND ECONOMISTS IN DIALOGUE WITH HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA, ADDRESSING THE NEED FOR A MORE ALTRUISTIC ECONOMY
Can the hyperambitious, bottom-line-driven practices of the global economy incorporate compassion into the pursuit of wealth? Or is economics driven solely by materialism and self-interest? In Caring Economics, experts consider these questions alongside the Dalai Lama in a wide-ranging,...
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13 Autorinnen und Autoren aus 3 Generationen machen sich Gedanken über die Wiener Seele. Wie z.B.: Zdenka Becker, Franzobel, Peter Henisch, Andreas Pittler, Klemens Renoldner, Cornelia Travnicek.
Herausgeber Gerhard Loibelsberger hat sie so ausgewählt, dass Ur-Wiener, „Zugereiste" und wieder „Fortgereiste" zu Wort kommen. Entstanden sind dreizehn spannende, liebenswerte und skurrile Texte über Wien, die ein einzigartiges Portrait der lebenswertesten...
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In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America‚Äs literary powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most exciting work being done in, or about, Minneapolis and the Twin Cities area, with narrative threads that stretch back not just to Scandinavia, but across the world. Edited by Frank Bures (The Geography of Madness), the writers included here have won, or been shortlisted...
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With audio clips included, this "revealing" transcription captures a dark and dramatic year in presidential history-and the words of Richard Nixon himself (The New York Times Book Review).
Between 1971 and 1973, President Richard Nixon's voice-activated tape recorders captured 3,700 hours of conversations. Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter's intrepid two-volume transcription and annotation of the highlights of this essential archive provides...
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"Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity." -Maria Popova
"An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today." -P. D. Smith, Guardian
"[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful to read." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
A renowned scientist and the best-selling author of Lab Girl, Hope Jahren selects the year's top science and nature...
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"Lively, eclectic and surprising." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the enormously popular young adult series A Series of Unfortunate Events, takes over as editor for this volume. He will work with the students of 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs to compile new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and other category-defying gems, ensuring that "if you need to fall in love with reading again -...