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Pre-Owned The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder Insanity and the Making of the Oxford (Hardcover 9780060175962) by Simon Winchester

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Pre-Owned Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder Insanity Making Oxford English Dictionary Paperback Simon Winchester

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The Professor and the Madman (Hardcover)

The compilation of the OxfordEnglish Dictionary was one of the most ambitious and challenging language projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected the vast over-seeing committee led by professor James Murray discovered that more than 10 000... more

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Pre-Owned The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder Insanity and the Making of the Oxford (Paperback 9780060839789) by Simon Winchester

9780060839789. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Unspecified. Hailed by the New York Times as a fascinating spicy learned tale this runaway national... more

Pre-owned Professor and the Madman : A Tale Of Murder Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Paperback by Winchester Simon ISBN 0060839783 ISBN-13 9780060839789

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Pre-Owned The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder Insanity and the Making of the Oxford (Paperback 9780060994860) by Simon Winchester

9780060994860. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 272. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Hailed by the New York Times as a fascinating spicy learned tale this runaway national... more

Pre-owned - The Stranger and the Statesman : James Smithson John Quincy Adams and the Making of America s Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian (Hardcover)

Combining the charming eccentricity of The Professor and the Madman with the brilliant insight of Founding Brothers this is a riveting biography of James Smithson a little-known scientist and his incomparable legacy: the Smithsonian. In her... more

Pre-Owned The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.) (Paperback)

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Pre-Owned The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans (Paperback 9780060954949) by Simon Winchester

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Pre-Owned Mediating Two Worlds (Paperback 9780851703343) by Professor John King Professor Ana Lopez Professor Manuel Alvarado

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Pre-Owned We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback 9780813549705) by Professor Samuel Totten Professor Rafiki Ubaldo

9780813549705. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. None ed. Language: English. Pages: 224. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white Maps. Genocide Political Violence Human Rights. During a... more

Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account (Paperback) by Bartolome Las Casas Professor Bill Donovan Professor Herma Briffault

9780801844300. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 152. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 152 p. Five hundred years after Columbus s first voyage to the New World the debate over the European impact on Native American... more

The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley ed. by Professor Sir Michael Foster and Professor E. Ray Lankester Volume suppl. (1902) [Leatherbound]

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Pre-Owned Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages (Hardcover 9781843845553) by Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton Professor Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis John... Van Engen

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Pre-Owned In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic (Hardcover 9780670022564) by Professor X Professor

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The professor and the Prime Minister;: The official life of Professor F.A. Lindemann viscount Cherwell BWB16373142 Used / Pre-owned

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The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley ed. by Professor Sir Michael Foster and Professor E. Ray Lankester Volume 2 (1902) [Leatherbound]

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A nineteenth-century teacher John Henry Bridges ... by his niece Susan Liveing; with a preface by Professor L.T. Hobhouse and an introduction by Professor Patrick Geddes ... 192

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A Correspondence between an Amateur and a Professor of Political Economy : Two Letters from the Amateur Urging a Professor in the University of California to Study Progress and (1898) [Leather Bound]

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The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley ed. by Professor Sir Michael Foster and Professor E. Ray Lankester Volume 4 (1902) [Leatherbound]

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The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley ed. by Professor Sir Michael Foster and Professor E. Ray Lankester Volume supp.1 (1902) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: supp.1 Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1902 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint.... more

Pre-Owned A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ... Paperback

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Pre-Owned A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ... Hardcover

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Pre-Owned A Madman s Will: John Randolph Four Hundred Slaves and the Mirage of Freedom Hardcover

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Pre-Owned A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made (Paperback) by Peter Nichols

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The Madman in the White House (Hardcover)

The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud s couch in 1926 and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of President Woodrow Wilson. --Wall Street Journal The... more

Pre-Owned Letters to a Young Madman: A Memoir (Paperback) 0985397233 9780985397234

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The Madman s Tale (Paperback)

It s been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum after his erratic behavior culminated in a... more

Pre-Owned Moguls Monsters and Madmen : An Uncensored Life in Show Business Paperback

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Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber -- Jamie Gehring

A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski the Unabomber As a child in Lincoln Montana Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land their home and their dinner table... more

Pre-Owned Madman Adventures Collection (Paperback 9780878163144) by Mike Allred Michael D Allred Phil D Amara

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The Professor Who Broke the Mould (Paperback)

The Professor Who Broke the Mould is an autobiography by Dr. Parag Diwan an edupreneur who became the youngest Vice-Chancellor of any university at that time. His thoughts eureka moments and life lessons of building academic institutions are narrated... more

Pre-Owned Veritas: A Harvard Professor a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus s Wife Paperback

From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard. In 2012 Dr. Karen King a star religion professor at Harvard announced a breathtaking... more

The life of Professor John Stuart Blackie the most distinguished Scotsman of the day. By various eminent writers; ed. by Rev. John G. Duncan (1895) [Leatherbound]

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University Of Virginia. /Npavilion Designed To House Professors At The University Of Virginia. Drawing By Cornelia Jefferson Randolph Early 19Th Century. Poster Print by Granger Collection

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christopher North A Memoir Of John Wilson Late Professor Of Moral Philosophy In The University Of Edinburgh Compiled From Family Papers And Other Sources By His Daughter Mrs. Mary Gordon; Volume 2

A memoir of the life of John Wilson a prominent 19th century Scottish author and philosopher written by his daughter Mary Gordon. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as... more