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  • OLIVER ELLIS, OR, THE FUSILIERS
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    OLIVER ELLIS, OR, THE FUSILIERS
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: ""In regard to prefaces," says the author of "Curiosities of Literature,"—"ladies consider them so much space for a love story lost, though the Italians call them la salsa del libra,—the spice of the book." Be this as it may, I must mention that many of the men whose names occur in these pages, bore the part ascribed to them during the operations of Sir Charles Grey's ...

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  • PHILIP ROLLO, VOL. 1 AND VOL. 2
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    PHILIP ROLLO, VOL. 1 AND VOL. 2
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: "I was born in the year after King James VI. acquired the dominion of England, at my father's tower of Craigrollo, which overlooks the great bay of Cromartie. The youngest of four sons, I was (God knows why) a child of ill-omen from my birth; for, before that event came to pass, my mother had various remarkable dreams, which were darkly and mysteriously construed by ce...

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  • DERVAL HAMPTON, A STORY OF THE SEA, VOLUME 1 AND VOL 2 COMPLETE
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    DERVAL HAMPTON, A STORY OF THE SEA, VOLUME 1 AND VOL 2 COMPLETE
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: “There was an air of great refinement in both husband and wife, an air that contrasted strongly and strangely with their plain attire and circumscribed dwelling. Greville Hampton's face was dark in complexion, aquiline in feature, a very handsome face, one quite warranted to claim the unmistakable admiration his wife had for it, and yet it was not a pleasing one. His b...

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  • THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD
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    THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: “On the evening of the 22nd November, 1440, the report of a brass carthoun, or cannon-royale, as it pealed from the castle of Edinburgh, made all who were in the thoroughfares below raise their eyes to the grey ramparts, where the white smoke was seen floating away from the summit of King David's Tower, and then people were seen hastening towards the southern side of t...

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  • ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED
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    ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: "Regimental Orders.—Head-quarters, Maidstone, December 31st. "As the regiment is to be held in readiness for foreign service in spring, captains of troops will report to Lieutenant and Adjutant Studhome, for the information of the commanding officer, on the state of the saddlery, the holsters and lance-buckets; and the horses must be all re-shod under the immediate ins...

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  • ADVENTURES OF AN AIDE-DE-CAMP, OR, A CAMPAIGN IN CALABRIA, VOLUME 1, 2, 3
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    ADVENTURES OF AN AIDE-DE-CAMP, OR, A CAMPAIGN IN CALABRIA, VOLUME 1, 2, 3
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: “On the evening of the last day of June 1806, the transports which had brought our troops from Sicily anchored off the Italian coast, in the Bay of St. Eufemio, a little to the southward of a town of that name. The British forces consisted of H. M. 27th, 58th, 78th, and 81st Regiments of the Line, the Provisional Light Infantry and Grenadier Battalions, the Corsican Ra...

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  • MORLEY ASHTON, A STORY OF THE SEA VOLUME 1, 2, 3
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    MORLEY ASHTON, A STORY OF THE SEA VOLUME 1, 2, 3
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: "It was the evening of one of the last days of spring, when that delightful season is blending with the approaching summer, and when the sun was setting on one of those green and fertile landscapes which we find nowhere but in England, that a young man paused upon the crest of the eminence which overlooks, from the southward, the beautiful little vale and sequestered v...

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  • THE ROMANCE OF WAR, OR,THE HIGHLANDERS IN SPAIN
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    THE ROMANCE OF WAR, OR,THE HIGHLANDERS IN SPAIN
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: “In the Highlands of Perthshire a deadly feud had existed, from time immemorial, between the Lisles of Inchavon and the Stuarts of Lochisla. In the days when the arm of the law was weak, the proprietors had often headed their kinsmen and followers in encounters with the sword, and for the last time during the memorable civil war of 1745-6. But between the heads of the ...

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  • THE SECRET DISPATCH, OR, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BALGONIE
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    THE SECRET DISPATCH, OR, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BALGONIE
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: ""Heaven aid me! here am I now—which way shall I turn—advance or retire?" exclaimed Balgonie, as his horse came plunging down almost on its knees, amid wild gorse and matted jungle. A cold day in the middle of April had passed away; a pale and cheerless sun, that had cast no heat on the leafless scenery and the half-frozen marshes that border the Louga in Western Russi...

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  • LEGENDS OF THE BLACK WATCH, OR, FORTY-SECOND HIGHLANDERS
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    LEGENDS OF THE BLACK WATCH, OR, FORTY-SECOND HIGHLANDERS
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: "This soldier, whose name, from the circumstances connected with his remarkable story, daring courage, and terrible fate, is still remembered in the regiment, in the early history of which he bears so prominent a part, was one of the first who enlisted in Captain Campbell of Finab's independent band of the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch, when the six separate companies c...

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  • JANE SETON, OR, THE KING'S ADVOCAT
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    JANE SETON, OR, THE KING'S ADVOCAT
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: "On the 19th of May, 1537, the bells of Edinburgh rang joyously. It was a day of loyalty and merriment such as never more may gladden Scotland's ancient capital. After a nine months' absence, James V.—"the good king James, the commons' king, the father of the poor," the patron of the infant arts and sciences, the mirror of chivalry and romance, as he was affectionately...

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  • THE YELLOW FRIGATE
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    THE YELLOW FRIGATE
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: “By the fragment of a log-book, which was found among the MSS. just referred to, we are informed that on Beltane day, in the year of Grace 1488, two Scottish ships of war, the Yellow Frigate and the Queen Margaret, were lying becalmed off the mouth of the Tay, about seven miles from the Gaa Sands, and three from the Inchcape Rock, the large bell of which was heard at t...

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  • THE CAVALIERS OF FORTUNE, OR, BRITISH HEROES IN FOREIGN WARS
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    THE CAVALIERS OF FORTUNE, OR, BRITISH HEROES IN FOREIGN WARS
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: "Among the many gallant Irishmen, and those descended from the Irish race, who served in the armies of France, and sought there those honours and distinctions which political misfortune and studied misrule denied them at home, I know of none more distinguished, and of none whose name is more worthy of being rescued from oblivion, than General the Count de Lally, the il...

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  • ONLY AN ENSIGN VOLUME 1, 2, 3
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    ONLY AN ENSIGN VOLUME 1, 2, 3
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: ""Le jour viendra—it is the motto of our family—given to us by Henry VI. 'The day will come,'" said old Lord Lamorna, proudly, as he lay back in his easy chair, with his elbows resting on the arms thereof, and the tips of his upraised fingers placed together, as if he was about to pray; "and most applicable is that motto to you, nephew Richard, for I am sure that when ...

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  • JACK MANLY, HIS ADVENTURES BY SEA AND LAND
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    JACK MANLY, HIS ADVENTURES BY SEA AND LAND
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: "It was the evening of the sixteenth of March. Exactly six months had elapsed since I left my father's snug villa at Peckham, with its walls shrouded by roses and honeysuckle; and now I found myself two thousand three hundred miles distant from it, in his agent's counting-room, in the dreary little town of St. John, in Newfoundland, writing in a huge ledger, and blowin...

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  • NEW TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIOLOGY
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    NEW TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIOLOGY
    GRANT BLANK / JAMES L. MCCARTNEY / EDWARD BRENT
    When technology has been applied in business environments, its justification has usually been cast in terms of saving time or saving money. In the social sciences, the justification must be different; the viability of sociology as a profession, for example, will not be enhanced by cost reductions. The focus in this volume is on a different bottom l ...

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  • GRANT AND TEMPERLEY'S EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1905-1970
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    GRANT AND TEMPERLEY'S EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1905-1970
    ARTHUR JAMES GRANT / H.W.V. TEMPERLEY / AGATHA RAMM
    This introductory survey covers all aspects of the period when Britain was transformed into an industrial, urban society, with political power in the hands of the middle class. ...

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  • WEST MEETS EAST
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    WEST MEETS EAST
    LESLIE GRANT / JAMES STRONGE / XIANXUAN XU / PATRICIA POPP / YALING SUN
    The United States and China: two nations drastically different in demographics, history, political structures, and education systems. Despite these differences, educators in each country have discovered they have much to learn from one another. The United States looks east and is captivated by the high assessment scores that many Chinese students achieve. China looks west and i...

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  • GRANT AND TEMPERLEY'S EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1789-1905
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    GRANT AND TEMPERLEY'S EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1789-1905
    ARTHUR JAMES GRANT / H.W.V. TEMPERLEY / AGATHA RAMM
    This seventh edition of 'Grant and Temperley' has been comprehensively revised and rewritten by the distinguished historian Agatha Ramm. Its coverage has been greatly extended , and it now appears in two volume. This, volume one, covers the nineteenth century 1789-1905 and the second the period 1905-1970. ...

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  • STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GOAL SETTING
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    STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GOAL SETTING
    LESLIE GRANT / JAMES STRONGE
    The first book in the James H. Stronge Research-to-Practice series focuses on improving student achievement through academic goal setting. It offers the tools and plan of action to use performance data to improve instructional practice and increase student achievement. ...

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  • PLANNING, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENT
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    PLANNING, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENT
    LESLIE GRANT / JENNIFER HINDMAN / JAMES STRONGE
    This entry in the James H. Stronge Research-to-Practice Series focuses on specific strategies teachers can use to improve the quality of their instruction. Studies have shown teacher quality to be the top indicator of student achievement, with the effects of good teachers apparent even as students move on to successive grades. In this book, Grant, Hindman, and Stronge explore t...

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  • SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, THE
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    SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, THE
    JENNIFER HINDMAN / LESLIE GRANT / JAMES STRONGE
    This entry in the James H. Stronge Research-to-Practice Series focuses on the characteristics of teachers who create supportive learning environments for their students. By conveying a sense of immediacy, credibility, and caring, they communicate to students in both verbal and nonverbal ways that are essential to cultivating a positive and productive learning community. In thi...

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  • WAIS-IV, WMS-IV, AND ACS: ADVANCED CLINICAL INTERPRETATION
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    WAIS-IV, WMS-IV, AND ACS: ADVANCED CLINICAL INTERPRETATION
    HOLDNACK, JAMES A. / DROZDICK, LISA / WEISS, LAWRENCE G. / IVERSON, GRANT L.
    This book provides users of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) with information on applying the WAIS-IV, including additional indexes and information regarding use in special populations for advanced clinical use and interpretation. The book offers sophisticated users of the WAIS-IV and Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS-IV) guidelines on how to enhance the clinical applic...

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  • WEST MEETS EAST
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    WEST MEETS EAST
    LESLIE GRANT / JAMES STRONGE / XIANXUAN XU / PATRICIA POPP / YALING SUN
    The United States and China: two nations drastically different in demographics, history, political structures, and education systems. Despite these differences, educators in each country have discovered they have much to learn from one another. The United States looks east and is captivated by the high assessment scores that many Chinese students achieve. China looks west and i...

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