Posts Tagged ‘university’
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The Baldpate Inn has the key to success. It also has the key to Fort Knox and the key to Westminster Abbey.

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Baldpate Inn's vast collection unlocks doors to the rare and unusual
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The problem with writing about children, Alison Gopnik admits in The Philosophical Baby (Picador, $16), is that "practically everything you say turns out to sound like a greeting card." But that hasn't stopped Gopnik, a philosopher and a professor of psychology at the University of California,...

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New and noteworthy paperbacks
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
The sign said "Be the envy of your neighborhood." It was affixed to a green-and-white ice resurfacer - think Zamboni without the trademark - a machine that once crisscrossed the rink at Munn Arena and was now up for sale. Larry Barnum and his grandson couldn't help but dream a little.

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Rare treasures, unique finds to be had at MSU Surplus Store
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Plaster model of Villa Rotunda. Model by Timothy Richards, Bath, England. WASHINGTON, DC.- Late Italian Renaissance master Andrea Palladio (15081580) is considered one of the most influential architects in the Western world.

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Exhibition of Rare Architectural Drawings by Andrea Palladio Announced
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
A UNIVERSITY has appealed for the return of six historic books and manuscripts which have been missing for more than a decade.

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University appeals for return of books
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Not only is 'This time is different', this place is also different. In the land of free and the home of the brave, one can "...spent years investigating wreckage scattered across documents from nearly a millennium of economic crises and collapses. They have wandered the basements of rare-book libraries, riffled through monks yellowed journals and begged central banks worldwide for centuries-old ...

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Comment on Reinhart and Rogoff: This Time Is Different by aiD_kamikuP
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
TUSCALOOSA -- In the dawning of the era of digital books, the University of Alabama is acquiring an impressive assortment of rare books that gives it the largest special collection in the state.

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UA spends $3.5M on rare book collection
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The University of Great Falls has donated about 360 titles from its collection of rare and historic Montana and Western history books to The History Museum in Great Falls, museum officials announced Tuesday.

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UGF donates rare books to museum
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
The University of Alabama is spending $3.5 million to acquire a rare books collection, Calhoun County has a new prescription drug assistance program, Pepi Foods announces and expansion, officials investigate a Beauregard, Ala.

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Alabama news links: University of Alabama spends $3.5 million for rare books; Beauregard woman's death investigated
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