Jules Verne 1828-1905 was born in the Breton river town of Nantes, and had a lifelong passion for the sea. First as a Paris stockbroker, later as a celebrated author and yachtsman, he went on frequent voyages-to Britain, America, the Mediterranean. But the specific stimulus for the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas was an 1865 fan letter from a fellow writer, Madame George Sand. She praised

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This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing economic nationalism as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic \'nation-building\', and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic nationness--from national economic symbols and memories, to the banal world of product communication. The editors seeks to highlight the importance of

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Suitable for an introductory course in the theory and application of functions of a complex variable, this title is designed to develop the theory that is prominent in applications of the subject. It helps you find a special emphasis given to the application of residues and conformal mappings.

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

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Passions and greed mingle with bravery and treachery, and run as deep as the cold Yukon River through frontier gold rush days in Alaska. A classic tale of the Old Far North.

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