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Product Description: An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature...read more
By Jonathan Davis (narrator), George R. Stewart and Connie Willis (introduced by)
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9781441806154 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 15, 2009), cover price $99.97 | About this edition: An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature.
9781441806178 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 15, 2009), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature.

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Product Description: George R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life...read more
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9781590172735 | New York Review of Books, July 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: George R.
9780938530022 | Don''t Call It Frisco Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: George R.

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Product Description: A violent storm sweeps through California, taking on a life of her own. Making her way from the Pacific Coast, she gains momentum as she approaches the Sierra and transforms into a blizzard of great strength, covering mountain ranges and roads with twenty feet of snow...read more
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9781890771744 | Great Valley Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A violent storm sweeps through California, taking on a life of her own.
9780803291355 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 1983), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A violent storm sweeps through California, taking on a life of her own.

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Hardcover:

9780459558604 | Lslf edition (Carswell Legal Pubns, April 1, 2000), cover price $175.00

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Hardcover:

9780848806361 | Amereon Ltd, December 1, 1994, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780671494148 | Reissue edition (Pocket Books, September 1, 1983), cover price $3.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786109968 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $62.95

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Seventeen-year-old Moses Schallenberger and fifty other people become the first pioneers to cross the Sierra Nevadas by wagon after surviving a year-long journey through treacherous mountains and wild rivers to reach their final destination. Reissue.
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9780394891804 | Reissue edition (Random House Childrens Books, July 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Describes the difficulties, hardships, and dangers faced by the pioneers during their trek westward from Missouri to California, in the eyewitness account of a teenaged boy

Library:

9780394903422 | Reprint edition (Random House Childrens Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Describes the difficulties, hardships, and dangers faced by the pioneers during their trek westward from Missouri to California, in the eyewitness account of a teenaged boy

Reinforced:

9780606130172 | Reissue edition (Demco Media, July 1, 1997), cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Describes the difficulties, hardships, and dangers faced by the pioneers during their trek westward from Missouri to California, in the eyewitness account of a teenaged boy

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Product Description: An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature...read more
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9780899683706 | Lightyear Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race.
9780910720007 | 3 edition (Archive Pr, June 1, 1974), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race.

Paperback:

9780345487131 | Reprint edition (Del Rey, March 28, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Returning from a field trip, Isherwood Williams discovers that a mysterious plague has destroyed human civilization during his absence and makes his way to San Francisco, where he finds a few survivors who build a small community, living like their pioneer ancestors.
9780449213018 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, May 1, 1989), cover price $7.50 | About this edition: A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race.
9780449203903 | Fawcett Books, May 12, 1983, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441806147 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 15, 2009), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature.
9781441806161 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 15, 2009), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature.

Prebinding:

9781417617869 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $15.70 | About this edition: A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race.

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Product Description: Canadian, American and Mexican scholars reassess the effects of intellectual property rights on international trade in the light of the GATT and NAFTA agreements. They consider trade and intellectual property policies and practices, between and within North America and Europe, US trade policy toward enforcing intellectual property rights, the dramatic changes in Mexican law, and other key issues regarding intellectual property and world trade...read more
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9780813321608 | Westview Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $65.50 | About this edition: Canadian, American and Mexican scholars reassess the effects of intellectual property rights on international trade in the light of the GATT and NAFTA agreements.

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Product Description: The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people -- men, women, and children -- set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms...read more
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9780781250924 | Reprint edition (Reprint Services Corp, January 1, 1994), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West.

Paperback:

9780395611593 | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, January 30, 1992), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An account of the ill-fated overland journey of a group of pioneers who set out for California in 1846
9780803291713 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, October 1, 1986), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An account of the ill-fated overland journey of a group of pioneers who set out for California in 1846

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Product Description: This book covers a critical part of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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9780844667300 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This book covers a critical part of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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9780395597729 | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, October 18, 1991), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of the decisive battle at Gettysburg based on military and personal accounts.

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Places all the more common American given names in their historical and linguistic context, discussing their etymology and usage, emergence in America, and degree of use today
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9780195024654 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Places all the more common American given names in their historical and linguistic context, discussing their etymology and usage, emergence in America, and degree of use today

Paperback:

9780195040401 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 27, 1986), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Places all the more common American given names in their historical and linguistic context, discussing their etymology and usage, emergence in America, and degree of use today

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Product Description: Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds...read more
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9780803291386 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, February 1, 1984), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries.

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Product Description: In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons. Without reliable maps or guides, they pushed ahead, retreated, detoured, split up, and regrouped, reaching their destination only at great cost of property and life...read more
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9780803291430 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, September 1, 1983), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons.

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Product Description: Morningside Trade Paperback with 354 pages. - Her is Pickett's Charge - "the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history."
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9780890290507 | Houghton Mifflin School, June 1, 1983, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Morningside Trade Paperback with 354 pages.

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9780837166551 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1977, cover price $78.95

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9780306701030 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, May 1, 1971), cover price $36.00

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Reference work provides the linguistic derivation and meaning of over 12,000 names of towns, rivers, and countries throughout the U.S
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9780195001211 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 15, 1970, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Reference work provides the linguistic derivation and meaning of over 12,000 names of towns, rivers, and countries throughout the U.

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9780404152987 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1931, cover price $30.00

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