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Frommer's Italy 2006
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Frommer's Italy 2006Frommer's Italy 2006

Completely updated every year Frommer's Italy features a completely redesigned section of gorgeous color photos and maps of the most of the ancient and modern cities, classical architecture and ruins, vineyards, villages, and gorgeous countryside vistas that await you. Much more detailed and comprehensive than the major competition, this is simply the most reliable and in-depth guide you can buy. It's personally researched and full of candid opinions. 
 
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Tags: Italy, Frommer, gorgeous, comprehensive, major, detailed
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1: Overviews
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Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1: OverviewsWomen in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1: Overviews

Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume offers survey essays on major topics, such as sexual identities, fandom, women's writing groups, and feminist spirituality.
 
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Tags: women, fiction, fantasy, science, major, Fiction, Women, Science
The City Who Fought by Anne McCaffrey
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The City Who Fought by Anne McCaffreyThe City Who Fought by Anne McCaffrey

This space adventure further develops McCaffrey's vivid future universe of diversified cultures, technological wonders and twisted, sometimes corrupt, politics. Space Station SSS-900C, a profitable but out-of-the-way trading and mining center, is attacked by Kolnari, pirates from a planet of sociopathic exiles. While awaiting the arrival of the Central Worlds' Navy, the inhabitants play for time with a major deception planned by Simeon, the shellperson operating the station, whose hobby is the study of early warfare, including guerrilla tactics.
 
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The History of English: A Student's Guide
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The History of English: A Student's GuideThe History of English: A Student's Guide

The History of English provides an accessible introduction to the changes that English has undergone from its Indo-European beginnings to the present day. The text looks at the major periods in the history of English, and provides for each a socio-historical context and an overview of the relevant major linguistic changes. This text is especially useful for students of literature as well as linguistics.
 
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The Italian Renaissance
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The Italian RenaissanceThe Renaissance was a turning point in the development of civilization. The great flowering of art, architecture, politics, and especially the study of literature began in Italy the late 14th century and spread throughout Europe and the Western world.- A comprehensive view of the major literary movements in Western history
- An introduction by Harold Bloom and a selection of critical essays provides scholarly analysis on the major writers and works that defined each literary period
- Features a chronology of important cultural, literary, and political events that helped shape each literary period
 
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