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Coriander the Contrary Hen (tumblebook)
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Coriander the Contrary Hen (tumblebook)Coriander the Contrary Hen (tumblebook)

Coriander is a contrary, stubborn hen, with a mind of her own. When she decides to plant herself in the middle of the road causing a chaotic traffic jam of cars, trucks, and buses, Farmer Bucket and Mrs. Bucket can't get Coriander to budge. Little Fanny Bucket finally uses a bit of reverse psychology to get her way. But will Coriander have the last laugh?       
 
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Tags: Coriander, Bucket, Fanny, Little, budge, tumblebook, Contrary
Methuselah's Children
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Methuselah's ChildrenMethuselah's Children

Robert Heinlein - Methuselah's Children

The Howard Families were the product of a genetic experiment, an interbreeding programme which had produced one hundred thousand people with an average life expectancy of a century and a half. Now, at last, their existence was known on earth, and the entire world demanded to share the "secret" of eternal youth. "It is contrary to our customs to permit scientific knowledge to be held as a monopoly for the few" was what the expert said and it wasn't long before members of the Howard Families were the victims of vicious crime.

REUPLOAD NEEDED

 
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Tags: Families, Children, Howard, Methuselah, expert, contrary
Novelists And Novels
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Novelists And NovelsNovelists And Novels

Harold Blomm's "Novelists and Novels" is an in-between kind of book about books. The cynic may at once think that this is the kind of book that neither the novice nor mature reader will bother with. On the contrary, the book is a beautiful bridge that crosses from the basic to the sublime.
 
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Tags: Novels, Novelists, contrary, bother, reader
Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog
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Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in TagalogPhrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog

Kroeger examines the history of the subjecthood debate and uses data from Tagalog to test the theories that have been put forth. His conclusions entail consequences for certain linguistic concepts and theories, and lead Kroeger to assert that grammatical relations are not defined in terms od surface phrase structure configurations, contrary to the assumptions of many approaches to syntax including the Government-Binding theory.
 
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Tags: Tagalog, theories, Kroeger, approaches, contrary, theories, Phrase, Relations, Tagalog, Grammatical