The twentieth century
In the same year he published his Systematic arrangement of the Australian fungi. This was not a descriptive guide to the Australian species and at first glance it looks to be a dry and boring list of species. But it is an annotated list of the ... [... more]
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Winston S. Churchill
"In this absorbing volume . . . the greatest Englishman of the twentieth century paints with surpassing elegance his portrait of American history and American character. This is a good book to read-and a book to savor." "This excellent [... more]
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James Doolittle
General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all. As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist, he pioneered the development of modern aviation technology. I Could Never Be So Lucky ... [... more]
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Robert Dole
Bob Dole is recognized as one of the nation's most prominent political figures of the twentieth century. Known for his effectiveness as a consensus builder in his thirty-five years in Congress, Senator Dole was the longest-serving Republican ... [... more]
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T.S. Eliot
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and ... [... more]
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William Boyd
William Boyd's masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart-writer, lover, art dealer, spy-as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century. Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly ... [... more]
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Lara Everly
Peewee idolizes Jake, a big brother whose dream of auto mechanic glory are fueled by the hard road coming to link their Indiana town and futures with the twentieth century. And motoring down the road comes Irene Ridpath, a young librarian with ... [... more]
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Clarence Brown
Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a ... [... more]
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Before the twentieth century
The stinkhorn Aseroe rubra was the first species of fungus to be collected and described from Australia. Jacques Labillardière (1755-1834), a member of the D'Entrecasteaux expedition, collected the specimen on 1 May 1792 at Recherche Bay in ... [... more]
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What is the state of knowledge today?
The twentieth century saw resident mycologists studying Australian fungi and making major contributions to our knowledge, so taking steps towards fulfilling McAlpine's 1895 wish, but progress has been slow and erratic and there is still a very ... [... more]
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Kimberly Williams
One of the most influential American interior designers of the twentieth century, Naomi Leff is best known as the creator of the flagship Ralph Lauren store in Manhattan. There she established the brand image, combining a distinctive ... [... more]
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Jonathan Tucker
In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present. At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of ... [... more]
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