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Byron's Letters and Journals
George Gordon Byron
Harvard University Press, 1982
Library of Congress PR4381.A3M35 1973, vol. 12 | Dewey Decimal 821.7

George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron’s known letters supersedes Prothero’s incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero’s edition included 1,198 letters. This edition has more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.

The final volume of this splendid edition contains a comprehensive index to the contents of the preceding volumes—the several thousand letters, the journals, the notes and biographical sketches. The index is prefaced by a generous selection of Byron’s aphorisms, bons mots, and memorable statements, culled by Leslie Marchand from the letters and journals and arranged under subject headings.

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The Collected Works of John Dewey, Index: 1882 - 1953
John Dewey. Edited by Jo Ann Boydston
Southern Illinois University Press, 1991
Library of Congress B945.D43Z94 1991 | Dewey Decimal 016.191

This cumulative index to the thirty-seven volumes of The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882–1953, is an invaluable guide to The Collected Works.

The Collected Works Contents incorporates all the tables of contents of Dewey’s individual volumes, providing a chronological, volume-by-volume overview of every item in The Early Works, The Middle Works, and The Later Works.

The Title Index lists alphabetically by shortened titles and by key words all items in The Collected Works. Articles republished in the collections listed above are also grouped under the titles of those books.

The Subject Index, which includes all information in the original volume indexes, expands that information by adding the authors of introductions to each volume, authors and titles of books Dewey reviewed or introduced, authors of appendix items, and relevant details from the source notes.

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A Comprehensive Index to Black Mask, 1920-1951
E. R. Hagemann
University of Wisconsin Press, 1982
Library of Congress Z1231.F4H29 1982 | Dewey Decimal 016.813087208

Professor Hagemann, for many years interested in the hard-boiled, tough-guy writers, has completed this comprehensive index to Black Mask magazine. A task that took many years as a labor of love, this study is a thorough and accurate index to a magazine that furnished a publishing place for many of the writers of hard-boiled detective fiction.

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A Concordance to the French Poetry and Prose of John Gower
R. F. Yeager
Michigan State University Press, 1997
Library of Congress PQ1463.G98Z459 1997 | Dewey Decimal 841.1

That the poet John Gower was a major literary figure in England at the close of the fourteenth century is no longer in question. Scholarly attention paid to him and to his work over the past twenty- five years has redeemed him from an undeserved obscurity imposed by the preceding two hundred. The facts of his life and career are now documented, and recent critical assessment has placed his achievement most accurately alongside Chaucer's, Langland's, and the Gawain- poet's.
Unique among his contemporaries, all of whom undoubtedly read and used French in some measure, Gower alone has left us a significant body of verse and prose in Anglo-Norman; chiefly, the twelve-stanza poem Mirour de l-Omme, the Cinkante Balades, and the Traitié pour les amantz marietz. We are offered in this concordance of his Anglo- Norman work a unique opportunity to view a poetic language as it was written and read in England until Gower's death in 1408 and beyond.

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Dime Novel Roundup: Annotated Index, 1931–1981
Michael L. Cook
University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
Library of Congress PS374.D5D48 Suppl. | Dewey Decimal 016.8134

This book includes a chronological listing of issues of the Dime Novel Roundup, which was published for over fifty years. It also features an index to the contents of the Dime Novel Roundup.

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Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review, 1956–1975
Stanley R. Ross and Wilber Chaffee, eds.
Duke University Press, 1980
Library of Congress F1401.H664 Suppl. | Dewey Decimal 980.005

The Hibernensis: Book 2: Translation, Commentary, and Indexes
Roy Flechner
Catholic University of America Press, 2019
Library of Congress KBR1240.H5313 2019 | Dewey Decimal 262.9

The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. Compiled in Ireland in the late seventh or early eighth century, it exerted a strong and long-lasting influence on the development of European canon law. The present edition offers—for the first time—a complete text of the Hibernensis combining the two main branches of its manuscript transmission. This is accompanied by an English translation and a commentary that is both historical and philological. The Hibernensis is an invaluable source for those interested in church history, the history of canon law, social-economic history, as well as intellectual history, and the history of the book.

Widely recognized as the single most important source for the history of the church in early medieval Ireland, the Hibernensis is also our best index for knowing what books were available in Ireland at the time of its compilation: it consists of excerpted material from the Bible, Church Fathers and doctors, hagiography, church histories, chronicles, wisdom texts, and insular normative material unattested elsewhere. This in addition to the staple sources of canonical collections, comprising the acta of church councils and papal letters. Altogether there are forty-two cited authors and 135 cited texts. But unlike previous canonical collections, the contents of the Hibernensis are not simply derivative: they have been modified and systematically organised, offering an important insight into the manner in which contemporary clerical scholars attempted to define, interpret, and codify law for the use of a growing Christian society.

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An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists
Ellen Johnston Laing
University of Michigan Press, 1998
Library of Congress ND1045.L35 1998 | Dewey Decimal 759.951

In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists and their works. Published between 1956 and 1980, these lists were limited to Imperial China.

The current index covers the period from 1912 to around 1980. It includes the names of approximately 3,500 traditional-style artists along with lists of their works, reproduced in some 264 monographs, books, journals, and catalogs published from the 1920s to around 1980. With a few exceptions, artists working after 1949 outside continental China are excluded.

Revised Edition, 1998; first published by the Asian Studies Program, University of Oregon, 1984.

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Indexes: A Chapter from The Chicago Manual of Style
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press, 1993

Indexes: A Chapter from The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition
University of Chicago Press Staff
University of Chicago Press, 2003
Library of Congress Z695.9.I523 2003 | Dewey Decimal 025.3

For nearly one hundred years, The Chicago Manual of Style has been the authoritative reference for writers, editors, and publishers. Now in its fifteenth edition, the Manual has been thoroughly revised and updated. The chapter on indexing presented here has been reorganized, streamlined, and revised for the electronic age. It provides examples and recommendations on style and method for professionals, authors, and others who prepare indexes for published works.

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Indexes: A Chapter from The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed.
University of Chicago Press Staff
University of Chicago Press, 2010
Library of Congress Z253.U69 2010 | Dewey Decimal 808.0270973

This volume contains all the material from The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition that relates to indexes and the work of indexing. Thoroughly updated to reflect current accepted practices, it is an indispensable guide for anyone preparing an index.

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Indexes: A Chapter from The Chicago Manual of Style, Seventeenth Edition
The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff
University of Chicago Press, 2017

Preparing an index for a book or other type of publication is a specialized skill. This volume presents the chapter from The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition devoted to best practices for preparing and editing indexes as well as current standards for style and format of indexes. Thoroughly updated, it is an indispensable guide for anyone involved in preparing an index.

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Moralia
Plutarch
Harvard University Press, 2004
Library of Congress PA4383.O54 2004 | Dewey Decimal 016.8801

Plutarch's Moralia, Moral Essays reflecting his philosophy about living a good life, is a treasury of information concerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion. But access to the riches of this collection of over seventy essays has long been hindered by lack of any comprehensive index. This problem has at last been solved: the Loeb Classical Library's edition of the Moralia is now brought to completion with an analytical Index volume.

Renowned as a biographer because of his "Parallel Lives," Plutarch (born about 50 CE) was also a teacher of philosophy in Rome, a priest at Delphi, and an engaging essayist with a warm, urbane, and judicious style. Whether advising about marriage and education, discussing prophecy, divine providence, and life after death, setting forth rules for politicians, or commenting on personal virtues and vices, his Moral Essays reveal not just Plutarch's thinking but also the world in which he lived. Edward O'Neil's thorough index provides an invaluable roadmap for tracking the wealth of information and wisdom to be found in them.

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Mystery Fanfare: A Composite Annotated Index to Mystery and Related Fanzines 1963–1981
Michael L. Cook
University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
Library of Congress Z1231.F4C68 1983 | Dewey Decimal 016.813087209

This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.

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Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus: Register and Indexes
Demetrius J. Georgacas and William A. McDonald
University of Minnesota Press, 1969

Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

This work contains listings, in Greek, of nearly 10,000 place names collected in approximately 300 settlements of regions in Peloponnesus, the southern peninsula of Greece. In their introduction the authors point out that the present-day toponyms reflect historical and linguistic developments through the ages and thus provide important source material for scholarly studies. Inhabitants of the region whose language was ancient Greek, Koine Greek, Byzantine Greek, South Slavic, Frankish, Venetian, Albanian, Turkish, or Neo-Greek have all left discernible traces in the local place names. The book will be useful not only to specialists in onomastics and linguistics but also to historians, archaeologists, geographers, and other researchers in Greek and comparative studies.

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Research Guide to People’s Daily Editorials, 1949–1975
Michel Oksenberg and Gail Henderson, Editors
University of Michigan Press, 1982
Library of Congress AI21.J45 Suppl | Dewey Decimal 079.51

An indispensable aid to researching a crucial series of policy statements, the present guide provides access to the only continuous source from China which illuminates high-level policy.

Includes an extensive subject index.

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