The vvomans champion; or, The strange wonder being a true relation of the mad pranks, merry conceits, politick figaries, and most unheard of stratagems of Mrs....

“…Strange wonder being a true relation of the mad pranks, merry conceits, politick figaries, and most unheard of stratagems of Mrs. …”
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Hayek : a collaborative biography /

Table of Contents: “…Eugenics, cultural evolution, and the fatal conceit.…”

The notorious "Bull" Nelson, murdered Civil War general / by Clark, Donald A., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The Road to Calamity; 10. Fatal Conceit; 11. A Martyr to Political Expediency; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover.…”
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Between the Eagle and the Sun : traces of Japan / by Hassan, Ihab, 1925-2015

Table of Contents: “…Through the Literary Glass. Texts and Conceits. Kojin Karatani -- pt. III. "Them" Primary Differences (Space, Time, People). …”
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Between the Eagle and the Sun : Traces of Japan / by Hassan, Ihab, 1925-2015

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I: Previews; Appearances; Iwao Iwamoto; Bewilderments: 1974; Suki; Part II: Through the Literary Glass; Texts and Conceits; Kojin Karatani; Part III: "Them"; Primary Differences (Space, Time, People); Seiji Tsutsumi (Takashi Tsujii); Exceptionalism; Shuichi Kato; Stereotypes and Paradoxes (Coolness, Courtesy, Conformity); Kiyomi and Kumiko Mikuni; Internationalism or Change?…”
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Selected essays on George Gascoigne /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / by Arthur Kinney -- Gascoigne, Piccolomini, and the demilitarisation of the siege of Troy / Robert Maslen -- Ficta sub imagine texta : John Skelton and George Gascoigne / Jane Griffiths -- George Gascoigne and female complaint / Mike Pincombe -- Gascoigne's poses and supposes / Richard McCoy -- 'Certain decayed men' : Gascoigne's Catholic maske / Stephen Hamrick -- Spenser and Gascoigne / Elizabeth Heale -- Gascoigne's Lute, Gascoigne's Sparrow and Gascoigne's Goodnight : imitatio and the "verie sweete notes adapted / Chris Goodwin -- Gascoigne, miscellaneity, and aesthetic satisfaction / Michael Hetherington -- Gascoigne the soldier-poet : rhetoric, representation and reality / David Trim -- 'Pretty conceits as pleased her peevish fantasy' : the 'Manling' secretary in The adventures of Master F.J. / Susan C Staub -- Not forgetting Frances : 'adventures' in Elizabethan fiction / Katharine Wilson -- 'The very chefe of our late rymers' : George Gascoigne and literary fame / Gillian Austen.…”
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The young Leonardo : art and life in fifteenth-century Florence / by Feinberg, Larry J.

Table of Contents: “…Leonardo and allegorical conceits for the Medici court -- 23. Early ideas for the Last Supper -- 24. …”
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The young Leonardo : art and life in fifteenth-century Florence / by Feinberg, Larry J.

Table of Contents: “…Leonardo and allegorical conceits for the Medici court -- 23. Early ideas for the Last Supper -- 24. …”
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Mathematicians are people, too : stories from the lives of great mathematicians / by Reimer, Luetta

Table of Contents: “…/ Evariste Galois -- Life on an obstacle course / Emmy Noether -- Numbers were his greatest treasure / Srinivasa Ramanujan -- Resource list -- Vol.2: Introduction and suggestions for teachers -- Introduction for students -- There's only one road / Euclid -- Fortune shared / Omar Khayyam -- Lean on the blockhead / Leonard of Pisa (Fibonacci) -- Conceited hypochondriac / Girolamo Cardano -- Stay-in-bed scholar / Rene Descartes -- Amateur becomes a prince / Pierre de Fermat -- Gift of sympathy / Maria Agnesi -- Shy sky watcher / Benjamin Banneker -- Computer's grandfather / Charles Babbage -- Mystery of X and Y / Mary Somerville -- Overlooked genius / Neils Abel -- Conducting the computer symphony / Ada Lovelace -- Lessons on the wall / Sonya Kovalevsky -- Compass points the way / Albert Einstein -- Master problem solver / George Polya -- Resource list.…”

Camille Saint-Saëns and his world /

Table of Contents: “…Puri -- Saint-Saëns and silent film, sound film and Saint-Saëns / Martin Marks -- Beyond the conceits of the avant-garde : Saint-Saëns, Romain Rolland, and the musical culture of the nineteenth century / Leon Botstein.…”
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William Shakespeare : a documentary volume /

Table of Contents: “…Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele --…”

Still on the road : the songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2006 / by Heylin, Clinton

Table of Contents: “…-- 508: Dignity -- 509: Handle with care -- 510: Dirty world -- 511: End of the line -- 512: Heading for the light -- 513: Last night -- 514: Margarita -- 515: Not alone anymore -- 516: Rattled -- 517: Tweeter and the monkey man -- 518: Born in time -- 519: God knows -- 520: Disease of conceit -- 521: What was it you wanted -- 522: Broken days (=everything is broken) -- 523: Ring them bells -- 524: Series of dreams -- 525: Most of the time -- 526: Three of us -- 527: TV talkin' song -- 528: Where teardrops fall -- 529: Shooting star -- 530: Man in the long black coat -- 1990-5 -- 531: Handy dandy -- 532: Cat's in the well -- 533: 10,000 men -- 534: Night of the living dead.…”
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