 | Color of Money, Sea of Love, Night and the City: Three Screenplays
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 |  | Los idus de marzo / The Ides Of March (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 11, 2010«¡Guárdate de los idus de marzo!» Esta fue la célebre advertencia que hizo un adivino a Julio César, infausto presagio de lo que iba a suceder. El complot ya estaba urdido y los conspiradores decididos a dar el golpe fatal. Tampoco las palabras de aviso del adivino fueron las únicas que escuchó César en los días previos al asesinato, pero era tan grande su confianza que las rechazó. En muchos aspectos la de César fue una muerte anunciada.Esta obra de Valerio Massimo Manfredi es la crónica impl...
|  | The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism
Publication Date: October 1, 1998The Curse of Cain confronts the inherent ambiguities of biblical stories on many levels and, in the end, offers an alternative, inspiring reading of the Bible that is attentive to visions of plenitude rather than scarcity, and to an ethics based on generosity rather than violence."[A] provocative and timely examination of the interrelationship of monotheism and violence. . . . This is a refreshing alternative to criticism-biblical and otherwise-that so often confuses interpretation with closure; it is an invitation to an ethic of possibility, plenitude, and g...
|  | Sand and Other Poems
Publication Date: May 15, 2001For the Western observer, the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination may seem to be characterized only by violence and sadness. The words of Mahmoud Darweesh show us something beyond: that this conflict, like all others, has inspired its own cultural and artistic response. Here is the only available English edition of perhaps the most important of contemporary Arab poets, whose poems embody the passionate fusion of political awareness and lyrical intensity so fundamental to the Arab consciousness. ...
|  | A Gift of Words
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|  | Shape of Water
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|  | The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine
Publication Date: September 22, 2001Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyzes the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week, Wynne highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period. ...
|  | The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
Release Date: February 13, 2001From the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth comes a fascinating new book on the imminent global chaos that is as brilliant as it is necessary, as original as it is controversial.The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated.Environmental degradation is causing the rampant spread of famine and disease, and a rising number of nations are being torn by violent wars of fierce tribalism and trenchant regionalism.Our newest democracies, such as Russia and Venezuela, are bloody maelstrom...
|  | Illustrated Letters: Artists and Writers Correspond
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|  | Written on Your Skin
Release Date: July 28, 2009 From the exciting new historical author Meredith Duran comes two back-to-back dark and sexy Regency historical novels that follow her thrilling debut The Duke of Shadows.In Written on Your Skin, Mina Morehouse flees to America from England, wishing to escape the consequences of a mistake she made that may have cost hundreds of British lives. Now her actions have come back to haunt her in the form of her childhood love. Once a raffish explorer, Justin Ashmore has acquired a taste for vengeance. He will stop at nothing to uncover the truth of that terrible night f...
|  | Duchess By Night
Release Date: June 24, 2008 A Mischievous Charade . . . Harriet, Duchess of Berrow, is tired of her title and the responsibilities that come along with it. Enough with proper tea parties and elegant balls; what Harriet really wants is to attend an outrageous soiree where she can unleash her wildest whims and desires. But to attend such an event—especially if the event in question is Lord Justinian Strange's rollicking fete, filled with noble rogues and rotters, risqué ladies and illicit lovers—would be certain scandal. That's why she must disguise herself . . . Looking f...
|  | The Honey Well
Release Date: August 1, 2005Money has put Arnell Rayford's mother, Esther,exactly where she's always to be---comfortably ensconced in the 16-room Victorian mansion where her own mother had worked as a housekeeper. Now Esther is running a thriving business that's surely making the previous owner turn in her grave.For Esther, money is the root of all happiness and nothing and no one will stand in the way of her making it however she wants to make it---not even her only child, Arnell.There are laws against pimping one's own underage daugher, which is exactly what Esther did to Arnell when she w...
|  | The Closers/The Ladies of Garrison Gardens/Heartbreak Hotel/Julie and Romeo Get Lucky (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 5: 2005)
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| | Football's Super Bowl Champions, I-VIII (Sports Heroes Library)
Publication Date: October 1982| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art
Release Date: December 26, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up These are just some of the works of art you will find in this stunning collection that pairs twenty poems by distinglushed African-American poets with twenty works of art by acclaimed African-American artists.Alice Walker's poem "Women" -- about women who "battered down/Doors/And ironed/Starched white/Shirts" so their children would get a good education -- is paired with the breathtaking portrait Harriet Tubman, by William H. Johnson. The tender "Little Brown Baby" by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and artist Romare Bea...
|  | Old Town in the Green Groves (Little House)
Release Date: January 2, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Muti's Necklace: The Oldest Story in the World
Publication Date: June 26, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up Thousands of years ago in Egypt, a girl named Muti receives a beautiful necklace from her father. He has carved it himself—from “turquoise as blue as a dragonfly’s wing, and carnelian, as red as the inside of a pomegranate.” Muti wears it every day as she grows from a small child into an independent young woman.When at the age of thirteen she is sent to work for King Snefru, the mighty Pharaoh of Egypt, Muti finds out just how precious her necklace really is. And in the process, she learns the ...
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|  | Stories and Rhymes (Themes for Early Years)
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|  | Joseph Campbell Audio Collection Volume 1: Mythology and the Individual
Release Date: November 7, 2002| Series: Joseph Campbell Audio Collection From the Star Wars trilogy to the lyrics of the Grateful Dead, Joseph Campbell has had a profound impact on our culture, our beliefs, and the way we view ourselves and the world. Provocative and exhilarating, full of wit and wisdom, these lectures are windows into one of the great minds of our time. 5 cassettes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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