John Lawrence
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English
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In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg.
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society volume no. 234
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Pub. Date
[1980]
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English
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English
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For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the...
10) Lyra's Oxford
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English
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A short work from the author's "Dark Materials" universe provides a glimpse into Lyra's life following the final scene of "The Amber Spyglass" and is accompanied by an annotated fold-out map of Lyra's beloved Oxford.
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Series
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Preface About this book Two common types of user interfaces in statistical computing are the command line interface (CLI) and the graphical user interface (GUI). The usual CLI consists of a textual console in which the user types a sequence of commands at a prompt, and the output of the commands is printed to the console as text. The R console is an example of a CLI. A GUI is the primary means of interacting with desktop environments, such as Windows...
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Watership Down volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen interconnected stories set in the world of rabbits. In one of them the rabbit hero, El-ahrairah, obtains for his people the sense of smell, in another he saves them from an invasion by rats. A sequel to the 1974 novel, Watership Down.
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Hallmark hall of fame volume LXVIII
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi...