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3121.
Embalming Is Not A Sport
by Arlin D. Menager
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Glossy Hardcover (6x9) - £17.00
ISBN: 9780759613133
This is the story of an embalmer. In the course of telling the story the reader is allowed into the never seen embalming room. The reader gets first hand knowledge of what an embalmer has to do and endure in order to prepare...More
3122.
The Phaistos disc-alias the Minoan calendar
by Ole Hagen
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Paperback (6x9) - £9.25
ISBN: 9780759611320
This epigraphic document is a thorough and sober structural and functional analysis of the Phaistos-disc inscription.  It is based primarily on a combination of the characters in its 61 signgroups (the same principle as in...More
3123.
Captain Granville Perry Swift: California Pioneer and Sonoma Bear
by Billie Hobart, Ed.D.
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Paperback (5x8) - £9.25
ISBN: 9780759606333
Read the life of a true man among the men of early California--Captain Granville Perry Swift, trapper, pioneer, grand-nephew of Daniel Boone, and Bear Flagger. A dauntless pioneer of the first class, of noble presence, generous...More
3124.
Redman's Tale: White Man's Truth: White Man's Truth
by Vernon E. Brackett
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Paperback (5x8) - £9.25
ISBN: 9780759609594
On Wednesday, January 4, 1922 Mobile County, Alabama Deputy Sheriff Carl A. Brill along with Ed Sullivan and Special Deputy Ed Everette were coming out of a swamp near Calvert, Ala., forty miles north of Mobile, after raiding...More
3125.
History For Idiots: Papal Trivia
by Michael Wall
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Paperback (5x8) - £11.25
ISBN: 9781587213632
The book is a trivia list of multiple choice questions where the answer is always "d." Mimicking the style of the author - humorist Mr. Dave Barry, it seeks to impart a smattering of knowledge about popes - most...More
3126.
A Christian Knight's Prayer Book and Devotional Guide
by Edgar Poe Symmes, III
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Paperback (6x9) - £9.25
ISBN: 9780759605749
"Surely the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants, the prophets." This text is a message from God and He has given me the courage to deliver that message and the wisdom, truth, and...More
3127.
A Christian Knight's Prayer Book and Devotional Guide
by Edgar Poe Symmes, III
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Glossy Hardcover (6x9) - £14.00
ISBN: 9780759605756
"Surely the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants, the prophets." This text is a message from God and He has given me the courage to deliver that message and the wisdom, truth, and...More
3128.
Faire L'Amour
by Robert M. Taber
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Paperback (6x9) - £11.75
ISBN: 9781588206640
This book is a fictional, historical love story about a rich Cajun from a plantation near Plaquemine, Louisiana and a French Mademoiselle from the Champagne Ardennes Region in France. Captain Louis Forchet, United States...More
3129.
Personalism V. Socialism
by C. W. Conn
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Paperback (8.25x11) - £12.50
ISBN: 9781588204004
Insightful, original and sensible, "Personalism v. Socialism" is about free people living in a democratic community being able to control their governments' actions and the authorities in their governments. The...More
3130.
The Fightin' 589th
by Thomas Paine Kelly, Jr.
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Paperback (6x9) - £11.75
ISBN: 9781588206664
You will read about how young civilian men and boys, in a democracy in time of war, are molded into fighting units and are hardened and inured to the raw brutalities of combat. There will be narratives of personal experiences...More