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The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921
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The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921
The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921 is a collection of documents and sources reviewing the ever-changing debate on the nature of the Russian Revolution. Such events as the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, that had indeed grown from the Revolution, have provided fresh perspectives from which to view it. The collection provides excerpts from newspapers, memoirs and literature, complete with commentary and background information on sources.

 


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Tags: Revolution, Russian, collection, 19171921, excerpts
In the Nursery Volume 1 (part 1 and 2)
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In the Nursery Volume 1 (part 1 and 2)Edited by Olive Beaupré Miller; published in 1920 by The Bookhouse for Children. A collection of well-known and not so well-known rhymes, poems, stories and tales from Mother Goose, William Shakespeare and more!
In the Nursery  is a beautiful collection of nursery rhymes with nice illustrations
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Tags: nursery rhymes children, house, Miller, illustrations, collection, illustrationsIn, Nursery, rhymes, nursery, beautiful, wellknown, William, Goose, collection, Nursery 
Ink Sandwiches, Electric Worms, and 37 Other Experiments for Saturday Science
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Ink Sandwiches, Electric Worms, and 37 Other Experiments for Saturday ScienceHow do you make a clock out of an ice cube? Send messages using bubbles? Make money using a tube that waltzes? This collection of curious and offbeat science experiments provides the answers to these and thirty-six other fascinating questions. Accomplished physicist and science writer Neil A. Downie covers a range of phenomena, from the rocking and rolling that drives a waltzing tube; to the fluid mechanics of a coffee-cup rev counter and biceps made from balloons; to the simple chemistry of red–hot batteries and wet solar cells. For each experiment, he provides historical anecdotes about the relevant phenomena, a list of equipment, detailed instructions, and a full explanation—requiring only high-school mathematics—of the science behind the procedure. For those intrigued by any experiment, he includes follow-up suggestions, which describe ways to tinker with the initial "recipe."

This collection of lively experiments, with complete explanations and simple mathematics, will appeal to high–school science teachers, inveterate tinkerers, amateur scientists, or anyone looking for a project for the next science fair.

 
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Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
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Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire FictionIn Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf gathers thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt. From Lafcadio Hearn, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, Edith Wharton, August Derleth, and Ray Bradbury to such contemporary masters as Anne Rice, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, and Woody Allen, and in settings as diverse as rural New England and outer space, this collection offers readers a blood-curling compendium of the best vampire fiction since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Organized into six categories--The Classic Adventure Tale, The Psychic Vampire, The Science Fiction Vampire, The Non-Human Vampire, The Comic Vampire, and The Heroic Vampire--the collection illustrates how the vampire's ability to draw into itself such a richness of symbolic meanings may account for the enduring appeal of the literature written about it. Here, then, is the definitive collection for aficionados and novices alike to sink their teeth into.

 
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"Horror Story" and Other Horror Stories
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"Horror Story" and Other Horror StoriesLove and loss are the two prevailing themes in this gripping short story collection, featuring 19 of the author's tales-five of which are original to this collection: "When Fat Men Love Thin Women," "The Death Artist," "The Uncertainty Principle," "Monster," and "The Love Clinic." The rest of the stories appeared in such publications as On Spec, TransVersions, Prairie Fire, Northern Frights, Dark Planet, Descant, ChiZine, and the Tesseracts and Queer Fear anthology series.
 
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