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The poet assassinated / by Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918

“…Poète assassiné.…”

Heroic poets, poetic heroes : the ethnography of performance in an Arabic oral epic tradition / by Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The ethnography of a poetic tradition -- 1. The village -- 2. Poets inside and outside the epic -- 3 . The economy of poetic style -- part 2: Textual and performance strategies in the sahra -- 4. …”
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Yokohama ukiyoe by Tanba, Tsuneo, b. 1883

“…Reflection of the cultures of Yokohama in days of the port opening…”

The Battery : the story of the adventurers, artists, statesmen, grafters, songsters, mariners, pirates, guzzlers, Indians, thieves, stuffed-shirts, turn-coats, millionaires, inventors, poets, heroes, soldiers, harlots, bootlicks, nobles, nonentities, burghers, martyrs, and murderers who played their parts during full four centuries on Manhattan island's tip / by Gilder, Rodman, b. 1877

Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant tirées sur les tableaux peints d'après nature en 1707. et 1708. by Vanmour, Jean-Baptiste, 1671-1737

Forgotten towns of southern New Jersey. by Beck, Henry Charlton, 1902-1965

Table of Contents: “…Ong's Hat -- Batsto -- The Doctor of the Pines -- Speedwell -- Prospertown, Archer's Corner, Collier's Mill -- Loveladies and Peahala -- New Egypt -- The Tuckerton Road -- The Hermit of La-Ha-Way -- Calico -- Rattlesnake Ace's Town -- President and Princess -- Pasadena, not California -- Smithville : high-bicycle town -- Waretown and the Quaker Baptists -- Brindle Town -- End of the world : Cranberry Hall -- Sweetwater -- Old Half Way -- Port Elizabeth : a woman's town -- Forgotten Little Pine Mill -- Joe Mulliner : the man they hanged -- Harrisia or Harrisville -- Skeletons and glass : Upper Mill -- Fairfield : Fairton : New England crossroads -- The murder at Bamber -- Gloucester Furnace -- Catawba and Etna -- Slabtown and Copany -- Forsaken Mount Misery -- Indians and the Wizard -- Hanover Furnace -- Red Lion -- The cough that named a town : Hockamick -- Hogless Hog Wallow -- Double Trouble and Dover -- Atsion : Atsayunk of the Atsiyonks.…”

The guardian of mercy : how an extraordinary painting by Caravaggio changed an ordinary life today by Ward, Terence

Table of Contents: “…Martin ; Goya and lion masks ; Touched by light ; The god Vesuvius ; Poet of hope ; Samson's roar ; Honor and vendetta ; The comedy is over ; Beyond the threshold ; A dream and a promise ; The prayer of Caravaggio ; Blessings from fallen angels ; Mirror of the world -- The reward. …”
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Kastom, property and ideology : Land transformations in Melanesia.

Table of Contents: “…Powers of exclusion in Melanesia -- Urban Melanesia: the challenges of managing land, modernity and tradition -- Urban land in Solomon Islands: powers of exclusion and counter-exclusion -- "There's nothing better than land": a migrant group's strategies for accessing informal settlement land in Port Moresby -- Inform land markets in Papua New Guinea -- The formation of a land grab policy network in Papua New Guinea -- Oil palm development and large-scale land acquisitions in Papua New Guinea -- The political ramifications of Papua New Guinea's commission of inquiry -- Urban land grabbing by political elites: exploring the political economy of land and the challenges of regulation -- Making the invisible seen: putting women's rights on Vanuatu's land reform agenda -- From colonial intrusions to "intimate exclusions": contesting legal title and 'chiefly title' to land to Epi, Vanuatu -- Landownership as exclusion -- The politics of property: gender, land and political authority in Solomon Islands -- Afterword: land transformations and exclusion across regions.…”
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The splendid century by Lewis, W. H. (Warren Hamilton), 1895-

The diary of Harriet Manigault, 1813-1816. by Manigault, Harriet, 1793-1835

The story of the White House, by Singleton, Esther, d. 1930

The Dutch country: folks and treasures in the red hills of Pennsylvania, by Weygandt, Cornelius, 1871-1957

Pioneer America : its first three centuries. by Drepperd, Carl William, 1898-1956

Colonial Virginia : its people and customs by Stanard, Mary Newton, 1865-1929

Le XVIIIe siècle. by Salomon, Henry, b. 1861

Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy,1860-1920 by Welch, Rhiannon Noel

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The romance of old Philadelphia by Faris, John Thomson, 1871-1949

Dress in eighteenth century Europe, 1715-1789 by Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944-

Life in America. by Davidson, Marshall B.

Pages from the past of rural New Jersey by Sim, Robert J., 1880-1955