 | Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz
Publication Date: October 1, 2009Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular “Not My Job” segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show.Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s dumbest news against some of the best and brightest—panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and radio anomaly Tom Bodett, syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson (“Ask Amy”), Atlantic Monthly journalist P.J. O’Rourke, Washington Post columnist R...
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 | Miss Wayne & The Queens of DC (The Cartel Publications Presents)
Publication Date: May 31, 2010Miss Wayne from the Essence Best Selling novel Black and Ugly and Black & Ugly as Ever returns in this standalone spin-off! When Miss Daffany s mothers risky lifestyle finally catches up with her, they all come back from LA, to Washington DC for her funeral. Once in town, Miss Wayne hooks up with his fabulous male friends and decides he misses home.Both Parade and Daffany fear he might want to stay in DC and their suspicions are correct when he doesn t come back with them. With the Queens of DC, he can wear flashy clothes, live the glamorous and be around peop...
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 | A Wonderful Little Girl: Starving for Fame: How Sarah Jacobs Bewitched the World
Publication Date: June 1, 2004On a winter's day in 1869, two surgeons performed an autopsy on the body of a 12-year-old Welsh girl who had died in strange circumstances. Though very beautiful, there were signs that she had suffered greatly towards the end. This is the true story of a remarkable child, who enchanted everyone, but who, at the age of 10, suddenly took to her bed. During the last 2 years of her life she allegedly had nothing to eat or drink at all, and yet mysteriously survived. Sarah Jacob's family claimed she was a miracle, and as her fame grew, thousands flocked to her b...
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 | Heart of Darkness (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Publication Date: December 27, 2010| ISBN-10: 0312457537 | ISBN-13: 978-0312457532| Edition: Third Edition This volume presents the text of the 1921 Heinemann edition of Conrad's classic short novel along with documents that place the work in historical context and critical essays that read Heart of Darkness from several contemporary critical perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. In this third edition, the section of cultural documents and illustrations is enti...
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 | Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia OfReligion, Folklore and Popular Culture
Publication Date: December 1, 2001This nonsensationalist encyclopedia examines contemporary images of the devil and sorts out the many different forms these images take. Although much of the myths relating to Satan derive directly or indirectly from the Christian tradition, the key sources of diabolical images today are horror movies, heavy metal music, and conservative Christian literature.This encyclopedia gives a brief overview depicting the history and transformation of the meaning of the Prince of Darkness, and 300 entries cover subjects like the angel of death, backward masking (messag...
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 | The Good Soul of Szechuan (Modern Plays)
Release Date: December 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1408109654 | ISBN-13: 978-1408109656A program text edition of Brecht's famous parable, this new translation by David Harrower was published to accompany the production at the Young Vic, London, in May 2008 and is based on a previously unpublished version of Brecht's play.Three Gods are on a journey to find out if there are any good people left on earth. Only Shen Te, a good-hearted prostitute, offers them shelter. With the money they give her she opens a tobacco shop. At once everyone needs her help. Her livelihood is in danger. Worse, she is fall...
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 | Laches, or Courage (A Dialogue): The Works of Plato
Publication Date: October 6, 2010In the discussion of the main thesis of the Dialogue-'What is Courage?' the antagonism of the two characters is still more clearly brought out; and in this, as in the preliminary question, the truth is parted between them. Gradually, and not without difficulty, Laches is made to pass on from the more popular to the more philosophical; it has never occurred to him that there was any other courage than that of the soldier; and only by an effort of the mind can he frame a general notion at all. No sooner has this general notion been formed than it evanesces befo...
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 | The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (African Writers)
Publication Date: January 1981| ISBN-10: 0435901915 | ISBN-13: 978-0435901912Ngugi and Micere Mugo have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the trial of one of the celebrated leaders of the Mau Mau revolution. ...
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 | Studies In Jewish Bibliography and Medieval Hebrew Poetry
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Among the articles included in this Hebrew-English anthology are: . The Hebrew Manuscript as Source for the Study of History and Literature . A Fifteenth Century Hebrew Book List . Rashi's Commentary on the Pentateuch and on the Five Scrolls (Venice, 1538) . One Hundred Years of the Genizah Discovery and Research in the United States . Building a Great Judaica Library - At What Price? . The Liturgy of the Rothschild Mahzor . Two Philosophical Passages in the Liturgical Poetry of Rabbi Isaac Ibn Giat . The New Jewish Theological Seminary Library Prof. Menahem ...
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 | El silencio de la luna (Biblioteca Era) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 15, 1994| Series: Biblioteca Era Hay en cada poema de José Emilio Pacheco una clara voluntad de imaginar el lenguaje y el mundo por medio de una reflexión moral sobre nuestra condición: sus textos consiguen levantar mecanismos cristalinos a través de los cuales podemos ver, sentir y pensar la realidad circundante. En El silencio de la luna (1994) vemos a uno de nuestros mayores poetas en plena madurez creativa. ...
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 | Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence (The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture)
Publication Date: April 19, 1997| Series: The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture This collection of commissioned essays re-evaluates the role of medieval women as readers, authors, and subjects of books, and the depiction of the relationships between women and books in medieval art.The fourteen essays cover such diverse topics as the development of a female audience for books, examinations of illuminations of and for women in books of hours, and how female authors viewed themselves, as well as the manufacture and collection of books and images by women.Dealing specifically with the ...
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 | Among My Books
Publication Date: January 28, 2009This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
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 | Delicious (The Buchanans)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010| Series: The Buchanans Cal Buchanan needs a top-flight chef to take over his failing Seattle restaurant, The Waterfront. He can afford to hire the best in town—the only problem is that the best happens to be his ex-wife, Penny Jackson.Penny really needs this opportunity, but she doesn't need the distraction of working with her ex. She's sworn off romance—she's even having a baby on her own. But before she knows it, the heat is on…and the attraction between her and Cal moves from a low simmer to a full boil!The rest should be easy as pie, ...
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 | Wolf Run
Publication Date: September 1992His lover Laura's death sends former undercover agent Gordon Gallagher back undercover--from France to London to Zaire--to search for the mastermind behind the murder. Reprint. PW....
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 | Phineas and Ferb Chapter Book Box Set (Books 1-3)
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up This box set contains the first three chapter books in the best-selling Phineas and Ferb chapter book series: Speed Demons, Runaway Hit, and Wild Surprise. Each chapter book features black-and-white screen grabs straight from the show. Also included is a sheet of stickers, perfect for fans of the the hilarious hit show! ...
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 | No Hugs Till Saturday
Publication Date: June 16, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When Felix gets in trouble for playing ball in the house, his mother takes the ball away for the rest of the day. So Felix decides to take something away from his mother—hugs. “No hugs till Saturday!” he declares. But then Felix finds out Saturday is a whole week away, and both he and Mama soon realize that just one day without a hug can be a very long time.This is a terrific way to introduce young children to the names and order of the days of the week, and Julie Downing’s wonderfully expressi...
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 | The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories
Publication Date: November 1, 2009Let yourself be drawn into the fascinating world of dance with these exciting and accessible tales from the world s most famous ballets, including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. This beautiful anthology is the ideal way to introduce youngsters to one of the most intriguing and graceful forms of dance that exists today. ...
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 | Cat on Ice (Step-Into-Reading, Step 2)
Release Date: January 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Raggedy Ann & Andy: Hooray for Reading!
Release Date: July 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up...
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