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His books, mostly collections of humorous pieces that were originally published in newspapers and magazines, included Constantly in Pursuit, Come Here Till I Tell You, Life in Thin Slices ( 1951 ), An Irishman's Diary, Patrick Campbell's Omnibus ( 1954 ), A Short Trot with a Cultured Mind, A Long Drink of Cold Water, How to Become a Scratch Golfer ( 1963 ), The P-P-Penguin Patrick Campbell ( 1965 ), Brewing Up in the Basement, Rough Husbandry, All Ways on Sundays ( 1966 ), A Bunch of New Roses, The Coarse of Events, Gullible Travels, The High Speed Gasworks, Waving All Excuses, Patrick Campbell's Golfing Book, Fat Tuesday Tails ( 1972 ), 35 Years on the Job ( 1973 ), The Campbell Companion ( 1987 ) and an autobiography, My Life and Easy Times.
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Like the Christian libraries, they mostly contained books which were made of paper, and took a codex or modern form instead of scrolls ; they could be found in mosques, private homes, and universities, from Timbuktu to Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan.
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The Library of Alexandria collected Sappho's poetry into nine books, mostly based on their meter:
They derive from biblical chronology, mostly from the ancient genealogies in the books, Genesis to Second Kings, spanning the creation of the universe as the ancients understood it to the fall of Jerusalem with the destruction of its Temple in year 586 BC.
Nevertheless, most books of Ketuvim ( with the exceptions of Daniel and Ezra-Nehemiah, which both contain Aramaic portions ) have targumim, whose origin is mostly western ( Land of Israel ) rather than eastern ( Babylonia ).
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His books earned mostly positive reviews, and were popular enough to go through several printings, including an omnibus edition in 1941.
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Though it is mostly unknown to laypeople, Simpson's Paradox is well known to statisticians, and it is described in a few introductory statistics books.
Both these categories were mostly handled by London, while Oxford ( in practice the Secretary ) looked after the Clarendon Press books.
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Evening and her next four books were mostly lyric miniatures on the theme of love, shot through with sadness.
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One of the more substantial collections of Aldine Press books and Aldine imitations in North America is at the Harold B. Lee library on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.
Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.
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" The early libraries located in monastic cloisters and associated with scriptoria were collections of lecterns with books chained to them.
They contributed their own collections of books, conducted lengthy fund raising campaigns for buildings, and lobbied within their communities for financial support for libraries, as well as with legislatures and the Carnegie Library Endowment founded in the 20th century.
Children's libraries are special collections of books intended for juvenile readers and usually kept in separate rooms of general public libraries.
Special libraries are distinguished from special collections, which are branches or parts of a library intended for rare books, manuscripts, and other special materials.
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Biblical scholars note the early organization into five collections, paralleling the Torah or Pentateuch ( the first 5 books of the Bible ).
Guralnick's first two books, Almost Grown ( 1964 ) and Mister Downchild ( 1967 ), were short story collections published by Larry Stark, whose small press in Cambridge, Larry Stark Press, was devoted to stories and poems.
The library and archives at Kew are one of the world's largest botanical collections, with over half a million items, including books, botanical illustrations, photographs, letters and manuscripts, periodicals, and maps.
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It is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of early medieval books in the German-speaking part of Europe.
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Between two and three million books were destroyed from private library collections.
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It used both the Codex Theodosianus and the fourth-century collections embodied in the Codex Gregorianus and Codex Hermogenianus, which provided the model for division into books that were themselves divided into titles.
Digitised collections can include books, artworks, photography, journals, newspapers, music, sound recordings, film, maps, diaries and letters, and archived websites as well as the descriptive metadata associated with each type of cultural work.
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