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William Saunders (7 de diciembre de 1822 – 11 de septiembre de 1900) fue un botánico y paisajista estadounidense-escocés. Nace en Saint Andrews, Escocia, sirviendo como el primer Master (presidente) del National Grange, y luego el primer botánico y paisajista del Ministerio de Agricultura de EE. UU.. Saunders diseña el sistema de parques de Washington D. C., supervisando la plantación de 80.000 árboles en la urbe. Fue cofundador de la Grange ("Patrones de Agricultura, Orden de Patrones Agricultores"). Como agrónomo, ayudó a la introducción de la variedad de naranja "Navel orange" a la fruticultura de California. (Harding, T. Swann, Two Blades of Grass, 1947). Aún se mantienen dos plantas originales, en la "Posada de la Misión" en Riverside. Como ardiente botánico, diseña el Cementerio Nacional de Gettysburg, en donde al inaugurarlo el presidente A. Lincoln pronunció su más famosa arenga: el discurso de Gettysburg, donde halaba a Saunders. Saunders había previamente oposicionado y ganado el cargo de Superintendente de Propagación de Jardines en el Departamento de Agricultura, donde desarrollaría centenares de híbridos de arbustos, árboles para todo EE. UU. La abreviatura «W.Saunders» se emplea para indicar a William Saunders como autoridad en la descripción y clasificación científica de los vegetales.[1] Fuentes The Founders of the Grange Notas «William Saunders». Índice Internacional de Nombres de las Plantas (IPNI). Real Jardín Botánico de Kew, Herbario de la Universidad de Harvard y Herbario nacional Australiano (eds.). Enlaces externos Wikispecies tiene un artículo sobre William Saunders.. Descubre los libros populares de William Saunders. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de William Saunders
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Death in Spring
Mercè Rodoreda & Martha Tennent'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Tóibín, from the introduction'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Sprin...
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They Shall Not Grow Old (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlThey Shall Not Grow Old is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In They Shall Not Grow Old, Roald Dahl, one of the world's fa...
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Forty Stories
Dave Eggers & Donald BarthelmeThis collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, som...
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Cue for Treason
Geoffrey TreaseFleeing from the evil Sir Philip Morton, Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law. On the run to London he meets Kit and the two decide to stick together. But a c...
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Poison (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlPoison is a short, sharp, frightening story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking taleIn Poison, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story abou...
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Swan Song
Kelleigh Greenberg-JephcottWINNER OF THE McKITTERICK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARDAS SEEN ON RYAN MURPHY'S FEUD SEASON 2'Sparkling...
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I Love Dollars
Zhu WenAn immediate sensation upon publication in China, I Love Dollars makes high comedy out of modern everyday life in China. In the title story, a young man, acutely aware of his filia...
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Lost and Wanted
Nell Freudenberger'A novel of female friendship . . . startling and moving' New York Times 'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently . . .'When Helen...
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Unsafe Attachments
Caroline OultonUnsafe Attachments explores the relationships of a loosely interlinked group of Londoners. Caught off guard at key points, they face moments of sudden temptation in their busy, est...
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When I Was Mortal
Javier MaríasIn the dark narratives that make up When I Was Mortal by Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, a dapper Paris doctor dispe...
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Numbers in the Dark
Italo CalvinoNumbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. T...
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Architect / The Crossing (Storycuts)
Rachel SeiffertIn 'Architect', an architect of rare charm and vision encounters an emotional crisis that threatens his career. When the ensuing strain starts to affect his family relationships, h...
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Myth / The Astronomical Scarf / Walter's Leg (Storycuts)
Ruth RendellIn 'Myth' the shame of being made redundant seems to have robbed David Meacher of vitality. Then, on a trip abroad, he becomes fascinated with an ancient map of the Garden of Eden....
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The Bridegroom
Ha JinThis new collection of short stories by the awardwinning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Brideg...
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Little Infamies
Panos KarnezisPanos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there the priest, the barber, the whore, the doctor, ...
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Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped
Saki'Three weeks later the world was advised of the coming of a new breakfast food, heralded under the resounding name of 'Filboid Studge''H.H. Munro, better known by his pen name, Sak...
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The Early Stories
John UpdikeA grand collection of John Updike's inimitable early stories.Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens...
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Is This The Way You Said?
Adam ThorpeCelebrated as a novelist of breathtaking historical range and depth, Adam Thorpe is also an accomplished and celebrated writer of short fiction, and the stories collected here show...
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The Decibel Penguin Prize Anthology: Volume 1
Penguin Books LtdAnthology of winning entries in The decibel Penguin Prize.
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Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow'I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius' John CheeverFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a lo...
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State Idaho v. Charles William Saunders
Court of Appeals of Idaho No. 20178PERRY, J. Four days prior to his scheduled trial on a charge of lewd conduct with a minor under the age of sixteen, Charles William Saunders filed a motion for a continuance based ...
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Dimitroff (Storycuts)
Rachel SeiffertWhen Jochen left his father behind in East Germany he carried his resentment with him. This lingering antipathy intrigues and confuses his American wife, Hannah. When a tentative r...
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Bournville
Jonathan Coe'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a...
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The Mud Man
William SaundersTen year old Brian Thompson has been forced to stay at his Uncle’s house with his mother and little sister. Cut off, deep in the countryside, the three of them live a miserable exi...
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Indelible Acts
A.L. KennedyThe twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal l...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott FitzgeraldBorn an old man, Benjamin Button lived a very curious life, backwardsWhen Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a wea...
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Atmospheric Pressure (Storycuts)
Su Tong & Howard GoldblattThe train was late, and the wind was blowing Meng's coat open in the snow. With no sign of his cousin, he needed somewhere to stay the night. An old man enticed him to a secondrate...
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Mothering Sunday
William Saunders(from the poem The Summer Fires)What will they remember when they wakeThose children who built this for a thrill?sprawled around it one warm night,spread dusty laughter on the sun ...
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Mr Hoddy (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlMr Hoddy is a short, sharp, amusing story from Roald Dahl, the master of the macabre tale.In Mr Hoddy, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a comic story of huma...
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The Windspinner
Berlie DohertyFirst the fairies took Tam's little sister, Blue. Then they took his GreatGrandpa Toby. Now Tam has to keep a great secret not only is GreatGrandpa still in Faery as King, but the...
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The Dean's December
Saul BellowDean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. A...
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The Beach Butler / The Professional (Storycuts)
Ruth RendellIn 'The Beach Butler' Alison's holiday is proving underwhelming. She has had to take her holiday on her own, and finds the seaside a bore except for the attentions of the remarkab...
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The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland
Frank O'Connor'Father,' I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in a good humour, 'I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother.'Praised as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor ...
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A Vision of the World
John CheeverSelected and Introduced by BookerPrize winner Julian Barnes'Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles: these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around t...
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The Thursdays And The Rain
William SaundersTake a virtual tour of London through the pages of the suspense novel TheThursdays And The Rain. Visit leafy Twickenham, smoky Battersea, the kooky shops of Covent Garden, the glas...
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Nunc Dimittis (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlNunc Dimittis is a short, sharp, thrilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In Nunc Dimittis, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a dark s...
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Arranged Marriage
Chitra DivakaruniThe possibility of change, of starting anew, in this stunning beautiful and poignant collection of short stories, is at once terrifying and filled with promise.For those Indianborn...
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Keep Sharp
Sanjay GuptaAn exciting new sciencedriven guide to protecting your mind from decline.'Fascinating' Daily MailThroughout our lives, we are always looking for ways to keep our mind sharp and eff...
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Help Yourself
Curtis Sittenfeld'Nobody else writes with such precision and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINE 'Recommended for anyone who enjoys short...
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Something Special
Iris MurdochSomething Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for...
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Wild Places
Katherine MansfieldA beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories.Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed th...
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Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata & Edward G. SeidenstickerKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been...
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Through the Wall
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya'There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator'Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been a...
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Lust, Caution
Eileen ChangIn 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things ar...
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Thieves (Storycuts)
Su Tong & Howard GoldblattTan Feng was my one and only friend in Sichuan. He was the same age as me: about eight or nine. Tan Feng's family lived next door to us, and their other kids were all girls, so you...
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The Queen's Necklace
Italo Calvino'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.'I...
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12 Weeks to a Sharper You
Sanjay GuptaKeep your brain young and healthy at any age with this practical workbook, taking you through the 12week program from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Keep Sharp.Chief C...
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'They'
Rudyard Kipling'Of a sudden I realized that he was in the grip of some almost overpowering fear.'Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels and poetry, but his short stories reveal a far more s...
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The Visitor (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlThe Visitor is an amusing and chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the twist in the tale.In The Visitor, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a funny, f...
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The Deportees
Roddy DoyleFor the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on ...