Wheeler: 743 books

Systematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history of systematic thinking and fundamental concepts in the...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Introductory. The Story of the Needle I. Beginnings in the New World II. The Crewelwork of Our Puritan Mothers III. Samplers and a Word About Quilts IV. Moravian Work, Portraiture, French Embroidery and Lacework V....

From Aaron’s Tomb in Arabia Petraea to the Zwinger building in Dresden, this charming 1881 handbook brims with the names of celebrated statues, paintings, ruins, churches, ships, streets, clubs, natural curiosities, and more. Utterly addictive and entertaining, Familiar Allusions is so informative that it’s sure to enlighten any history buff.

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

The 2016 referendum resulted in a vote for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union. This has led to frenzied political debate across the whole spectrum of policy, and agriculture is no exception. For the first time in a generation, the future of agriculture is unclear and unfettered...

This book is your ultimate Marvin Gaye resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Marvin Gaye's whole picture right away. Get countless Marvin...

Tahoe Heritage is a lively chronicle of four generations of the pioneering Bliss family, beginning with Duane L. Bliss, a visionary who built an impressive lumbering business and later the renowned Glenbrook Inn. The inn was completed in 1907 and quickly became a destination for the elite of San Francisco....

Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers an obscured...

This little book is written under a deep sense of obligation to the womanhood of the world, but more especially under a sense of duty to God. A group of women of the British aristocracy have lifted their voices in advocacy of licensed vice; and their sycophants and admirers in England and America are...

Journeys, Generations, and Cracked Eggs tells the true story of a couple who faced a life-and-death crisis and how they experienced the clear and undeniably miraculous presence of God. For anyone who needs the assurance that there truly is a God who can and does involve Himself on a personal level...

MY MANIACAL MUSE is compiled of brevity, the macabre, confessional, fantasy, sonnets and more. Some of her poems are based on real life situations and others purely fictitious. If it touches you on any level, you were meant to read it!

John Stuart Mill in his “Autobiography” declares with truth that “the world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue are complete sceptics in religion.” Many of these, as Mill...

The World War II Burma Campaign was an “economy of force” theater where competition for scarce resources presented unique challenges to operational planners. The Campaign is analyzed using the Principles of War and other operational concepts. Its study shows the close, overlapping relationship...

Huddersfield at War takes us through the years between the announcement on 3 September 1939 that England was at War with Germany, to the VE celebrations on 8 May 1945. Though Huddersfield suffered nothing as spectacular as The Blitz witnessed by larger cities, and events like the bombing of Pat Martin's...