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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Marie Curie (DVD)
Peter Birrell, Sally Home, Richard Bebb, Jane Lapotaire, James Berwick, …
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R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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BBC mini-series with Jane Lapotaire in the title role. The
programme chronicles the work of scientific pioneer Marie Curie as
she conducts her research into radioactivity, makes the famous
discovery of Radium and wins Nobel Prizes for both Physics and
Chemistry. The programme also looks at key events that affected the
soon-to-be famous revolutionary including the devastating death of
her husband (Nigel Hawthorne) and her subsequent controversial
affairs.
For those men and women who served in Vietnam and are curious as to
what the Navy did there. For Vietnam veteran families and friends.
For the young and old who want to know more about that particularly
turbulent period from 1968-71, both here at home and in Vietnam.
This is a memoir that combines hundreds of stories and memories
into a narrative about a young man who begins his story at the
draft board in Houston, and ends it on his last day of active duty
in Seattle, and all that happened in between. It captures the mood
of the young people of the day, while following the maturation of a
green Naval officer into a confident Vietnam veteran. Essentially a
view of daily life in the Navy of 40 years ago, it is abundant in
characters, places and events that challenge the imagination.
In this novel set in antebellum America, the Garies--a white
southerner, his mulatto slave-turned-wife, and their two
children--have moved to Philadelphia from Georgia.
Originally published in London in 1857, "The Garies and Their
Friends" was the second novel published by an African American and
the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the
pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to
become important in later African American fiction, including
miscegenation and "passing," and tells the story of the Garies and
their friends, the Ellises, a "highly respectable and industrious
coloured family."
"It is remarkable that, even as the study of African American
literature and culture has become central to any number of projects
within American intellectual life, so little attention has been
given a work as significant as Frank J. Webb's "The Garies and
Their Friends.""--from the 1997 introduction by Robert
Reid-Pharr
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