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| Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2002, Bk. 2, July 1-December 31, 2002 Best Price: $59.99 Public Papers of the Presidents, George W. Bush, 2002, by the Office of the Federal Register,... | The Cannon Centenary Conference: The Changing Nature of the House Speakership, Cannon House Office Building, Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Best Price: $7.00 This official publication contains papers on the nature of the House Speaker under Speakers... | Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander Best Price: $35.50 This book represents an unfiltered look at the experience of war as witnessed by a company... | The Life of John Milton Best Price: $25.35 A paperback edition of a biography of seventeenth century poet John Milton, first published by... | Balfour: Intellectual Statesman Best Price: $37.95 |
| A Day in Our Life The island of the Great Blasket lies three miles off the Kerry coast of Ireland, at the... | Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life Volume II: The After-War World Best Price: $82.78 The second volume of Saunder's biography takes up the story in 1916, when Ford enlisted in... | Life by Other Means: Essays on D. J. Enright Best Price: $10.25 Published to coincide with Enright's seventieth birthday in March 1990, these twenty-two... | El Cid This is the first version of El Cid for children, retold in a vivid and poetic style by the... | |
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