Added by: bionicboy | Karma: 29.53 | Grammar, Other | 29 October 2010
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Personal Pronouns - B/W Wall Posters
A collection of illustrated wall posters containing personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they) and basic positive and negative sentences with "to be" and "have got". Good for beginning learners of English.
Added by: alexa19 | Karma: 4030.49 | Science literature, Other | 28 October 2010
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Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope
Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope has been written for the many amateur astronomers who already own, or are intending to purchase, a refracting telescope – perhaps to complement their existing arsenal of larger reflecting telescopes – or for the specialist who requires a particular refractor for serious astronomical applications or nature studies.
Amateur Telescope Making in the Internet Age: Finding Parts, Getting Help, and More
Added by: alexa19 | Karma: 4030.49 | Non-Fiction, Other | 25 October 2010
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Amateur Telescope Making in the Internet Age: Finding Parts, Getting Help, and More
Building an astronomical telescope offers the amateur astronomer an exciting challenge, with the possibility of ending up with a far bigger and better telescope than could have been afforded otherwise. In the past, the starting point has always been the grinding and polishing of at least the primary mirror, a difficult and immensely time-consuming process. But now that the Internet has brought us together in a global village, purchasing off-the-shelf goods such as parabolic mirrors, eyepieces, lenses, and telescope tubes, is possible.
Added by: Nemini | Karma: 405.93 | Non-Fiction, Other | 20 October 2010
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Locating Privacy in Tudor London asks new questions about where private life was lived in the early modern period, about where evidence of it has been preserved, and about how progressive and coherent its history can be said to have been. The Renaissance and the Reformation are generally taken to have produced significant advances in individuality, subjectivity, and interiority, especially among the elite, but this study of middling-sort culture shows privacy to have been an object of suspicion, of competing priorities, and of compulsory betrayals.