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Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry
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Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern PoetryIn this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. British poets from Wordsworth to Auden attempted to present themselves simultaneously as persons of power and as moral voices in their communities. The modern lyric derives its characteristic complexities—psychological, ethical, formal—from the extraordinary difficulty of this effort.
 
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Organic Chemistry
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Weygand/Hilgetag preparative organic chemistryWeygand/Hilgetag preparative organic chemistry

The very large number of preparatively useful reactions of organic chemistry can be classified systematically and clearly by using the common characteristic of all organic compounds, namely, the carbon skeleton. 

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Deadlock
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Sara Paretsky - Deadlock

When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin, the intrepid V.I. Warshawski, questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith & Wesson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry.

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National Geographic - January 2009
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National Geographic - January 2009The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow frame that surrounds its front cover.

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Get a Load of This
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Get a Load of ThisGet a Load of This

"Get A Load of This" A collection of  short stories,  written by Chase, while he was still in the Royal Air Force, was  first published in early autumn 1941, and  subsequently reprinted in 1988. None of the stories had  the characteristic Chase touch, although all were violent, and could be classified as tragedies.

 
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