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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Searching In Science (1965)
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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